Portuguese Workers' Communist Party

The party was founded in 1970 as the Movimento Reorganizativo do Partido do Proletariado (MRPP), led by Arnaldo de Matos.

In 1971, the party began to publish a newspaper called "Luta Popular" (People's Struggle), directed by Saldanha Sanches.

The party was among the most active resistance movements before the Carnation Revolution, especially among students in Lisbon.

[citation needed] The party's youth wing, now extinct, was the Marxist–Leninist Students Federation, to which José Manuel Durão Barroso, a future Prime Minister from the centre-right Social Democratic Party, briefly belonged.

[citation needed] Despite this, the party contested the 2017 local elections, gaining 12,387 votes (0.24%) but losing the two council seats they held.