The alliance with the full name Anti-imperialist Artiguist Unitary Commissions for National Liberation and Socialism (Spanish: Comisiones Unitarias Antiimperialistas Artiguistas por la Liberación Nacional y el Socialismo) was founded in 2008 when a number of member parties of the governing Broad Front alliance defected and joined forces with the Oriental Revolutionary Movement (MRO) in order to jointly contest elections.

[2] Among the founding parties were the Movimiento Revolucionario Artiguista (MRA) and the Refundación Comunista (RC) including popular folk musician Yamandú Palacios [es],[3] the latter party however moving on to yet another newly founded alliance, the Popular Assembly.

Finally a recommendation was issued to vote blank, yet support the referendum aiming at abolishing the Law on the Expiration of the Punitive Claims of the State.

[5] With a sufficiently promising alliance out of sight, COMUNA finally decided not to participate in the election at all, again recommending to vote blank instead.

It however urged electors to turn down the referendum aiming at a lowered age of criminal responsibility.