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|name               = Organisation of the Communist Left
|native_name        = Organización de Izquierda Comunista
|lang2              = Basque
|name_lang2         = Ezker Komunista Erakundea
|lang3              = Catalan
|name_lang3         = Organització d'Esquerra Comunista
|name_lang4        = Organización de Esquerda Comunista
|lang4              = Galician
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|secretary_general  = Dídac Fàbregas (1974-1978)<br>José V. Villaescusa (1978-1979)<ref>[http://elpais.com/diario/1978/02/01/espana/255135606_850215.html José V. Villaescusa, nuevo secretario general de la OIC.] [[El País]], 01/02/1978.</ref>
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|founded            = {{Start date|1974}}
|dissolved          = {{End date|1979}}
|merger             = Communist Workers Circles<br>Grupos Anticapitalistas de Base<br>Núcleos Obreros Comunistas
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|merged             = [[Communist Movement]]
|headquarters       = C/Boltañá, 60, [[Madrid]]
|newspaper          = ''Octubre Rojo''
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|youth_wing         = [[Juventudes de Izquierda Comunista]] (JIC)
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|ideology           = '''1974-1977''': [[Council communism]]<br>[[Left communism]]<br>'''1977-1979''': [[Marxism–Leninism]]<ref>[http://2014.kaosenlared.net/secciones/30756-organizaci%C3%B3n-de-izquierda-comunista-notas-sobre-la-historia-y-anexo Organización de Izquierda Comunista. Notas sobre la historia y anexo.]</ref>
|position           = [[Far-left politics|Radical left]]
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|colors             = Red {{color box|red}}
|affiliation1_title = Union affiliation
|affiliation1       = [[Comissiones Obreras Anticapitalistas]]
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|state              = Spain
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'''Organization of Communist Left''' (in [[Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''Organización de Izquierda Comunista'', in [[Basque language|Basque]]: ''Ezker Komunista Erakundea'', in [[Catalan language|Catalan]]: ''Organització d'Esquerra Comunista'', in [[Galician language|Galician]]: ''Organización de Esquerda Comunista'', '''OIC''') was a [[Communism|communist]] [[political party]] in [[Spain]] founded in 1974. The OIC was a continuation of the existing Communist Workers Circles (COC), whose roots were in the [[Workers' Front of Catalonia]] (FOC), the Catalan version of the [[Popular Liberation Front (Spain)|People's Liberation Front]] (FLP or FELIPE).
==History==
The organization had presence and influence in the labor movement of [[Vallès Oriental]], [[Tarragona]], [[Almussafes]] and in the construction sector of [[Madrid]], [[Illes Balears]], [[Córdoba, Andalusia|Córdoba]], [[Granada]] and [[Camp de Morvedre]].
The first Secretary General of the OIC was Dídac Fàbregas, who used the "nom de guerre" Jerónimo Hernández. On January 11, 1978 he resigned from his position as Secretary General due to a majority vote in the federal executive in which the fusion with the [[Communist Movement]] (MC) was approved. Four days later in a letter to the Federal Executive Commission Dídac Fàbregas renounced to his membership of the party. In January 1978 he joined the [[Socialist Party of Catalonia-Congress]] (PSC-C), where he was appointed as the head of the National Committee of Municipal and Urban Policy of this party.
In 1979 the OIC was finally absorbed by the [[Communist Movement|MC]], which led to an important part of its former founders and many historical leaders leave the organization, later joining the majority of them the [[Communist Party of Spain|PCE]]-[[PSUC]] or the [[PSOE]]. In [[Mallorca]] the majority of the local OIC joined the [[Socialist Party of Majorca]] (PSM).
==References==
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* Sans Molas, J. (2015). [http://basedadesesquerra.uab.cat/cgi-bin/wxis.exe/iah2/scripts/?IsisScript=iah.xis&lang=ca&base=WPITE&nextAction=lnk&exprSearch=MOLINERO%20RUIZ,%20CARME&indexSearch=AU ''L'Organització D'Esquerra Comunista En El Moviment Obrer: Les Plataformes I Comissions Obreres Anticapitalistes (1971-1977)''].
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[[Category:Political parties established in 1974]]
[[Category:Political parties disestablished in 1979]]
[[Category:Communist parties in Spain]]
[[Category:Council communist organizations]]
[[Category:Anti-Francoism]]
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