Júlio de Melo Fogaça (1907, Cadaval – 1980) was a Portuguese politician and member of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), who had a major role in the resistance against the dictatorial regime that ruled Portugal from 1926 to 1974.
In 1935, Fogaça became a member of the Party's Secretariat, being imprisoned in the same year by the political police, and sent to the Tarrafal concentration camp in the Cape Verde Islands.
At the time, along with several other important Party cadres, such as Álvaro Cunhal and Militão Ribeiro, Fogaça initiated a major reorganization of the PCP.
However, in the 1950s, ideological divergences with Cunhal led him to start conflicting with the PCP leadership.
Meanwhile, in 1961, he was expelled from the PCP, as Cunhal assumed leadership (which he maintained for over 30 years).