Communist Cells' movement and the recovery of the Communist Party, 1974-1984

Abstract

This paper is focus on a political actor of the pro-soviet trend of the spanish communism on the late Francoism and the transition to democracy. This article works from the birth as an internal trend and Split of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE), until its integration in the Communist Party lead by Ignacio Gallego, also attending to its territorial spread over the whole geography of Spain and its constitution as a political movement. We analyse the causes who motivated the formation of the Communist Cells’ movement, its accidental origin in Canaries islands and its linkage based on the communist and pro-soviet identity as response to the transformations of the PCE since the “pacto para la libertad” tactical approach.