In 1972 the party faced an internal discussion over differences in revolutionary strategy, between those who defended the "people's war" (Maoists) and those who promoted the "mass insurrection" (Marxist-Leninists), causing the party to split into two factions (PCR and PCR-ML, respectively), both disappearing in the early 1980s.

[6] The PCR was led by Jorge Palacios, David Benquis and Luis Bernales.

Although the RCP of Chile would largely cease to exist by the time of the first RIM conference in 1984.

[8] After the disappearance of the party in Chile, in 1979 the group "Acción Proletaria" emerged, made up of a small group of former PCR militants with a pro-Albanian tendency, including Miguel Asenjo, Mauricio Aravena and Eduardo Artés.

This group would be the base that would form the Chilean Communist Party (Proletariat Action) in 1985.