Popular Unity Party (Portugal)

{{Short description|Defunct Portuguese communist political party}}

{{More citations needed|date=January 2021}}

{{Infobox political party

| name = Popular Unity Party

| logo = Pupportugal.png

| colorcode = Red

| foundation = 1974

| ideology = Communism
Marxism-Leninism

| country = Portugal

}}

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Popular Unity Party ({{langx|pt|Partido de Unidade Popular}}) was a political party in Portugal. PUP was founded in December 1974 by the Mendes fraction of the Communist Party of Portugal (Marxist-Leninist).{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}

The PUP published a newspaper called Averdade (The Truth). It rejected parliamentary democracy and sought to create a people's republic of poor workers and peasants.{{cite news |title=Coming to the Aid of the Party |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/66959465/coming-to-the-aid-of-the-party/ |access-date=5 January 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=24 March 1975 |pages=3}}

After the 1975 elections PUP was renamed Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Committee (Comité Marxista-Leninista Português).{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}

In 1976 CMLP merged with the Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Communist Organization and the Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) to form the Portuguese Communist Party (Reconstructed).{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}