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The Communist Party of Chile (lang es, PCCh) is a communist party in Chile. It was founded in 1912 as the Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Obrero Socialista) and adopted its current name in 1922. The party established a youth wing, the Communist Youth of Chile (Juventudes Comunistas de Chile, JJ. CC), in 1932.

The PCCh was founded on 4 June 1912 by Luis Emilio Recabarren, after he left the Democrat Party. The party was initially known as the Socialist Workers' Party, before adopting its current name on 2 January 1922. It achieved congressional representation shortly thereafter and played a leading role in the development of the Chilean labor movement. Closely tied to the Soviet Union and the Third International, the PCCh participated in the Popular Front (Frente Popular) government of 1938, growing rapidly among the unionized working class in the 1940s. It then participated to the Popular Front's successor, the Democratic Alliance. Concern over the PCCh's success at building a strong electoral base, combined with the onset of the Cold War, led to its being outlawed in 1948 by a Radical government, a status it had to endure for almost a decade until 1958 when it was again legalized. By the 1960s, the party had become a veritable political subculture, with its own symbols and organizations and the support of prominent artists and intellectuals such as Pablo Neruda, the Nobel Prize winning poet, and Violeta Parra, the songwriter and folk artist. At the time, the U. S. State Department estimated the party membership to be approximately 27,500. It later came to power along with the Socialist Party in the Unidad Popular ("Popular Unity") coalition in 1970. Within the broad Unidad Popular alliance, the communists sided with Allende, a relative moderate from the Socialist Party, and other more moderate forces of that coalition, supporting more gradual reforms and urging to find a compromise with the Christian Democrats. This line was opposed by more radically leftist factions of the Socialist Party and smaller far left groups. The party was outlawed after the 1973 coup d'état that deposed President Salvador Allende. Much of the Communist leadership went underground, and for a while the party's moderation continued even after the coup had taken place. Also, it has been argued by Mark Ensalaco that crushing the Communist Party was not a top priority for the military junta. In its first statement after the coup, the party leadership still argued that the coup could succeed because the Unidad Popular was too isolated, due to actions of the 'far left'. Around 1977, the party changed direction. However, some of its leaders have also publicly condemned the human rights abuses that have taken place in Venezuela under the government of Nicolás Maduro.

+Leaders of the Communist Party of ChileGeneral SecretaryPeriodPresidentPeriodRamón Sepúlveda Leal1922–1924Non existent positionLuis A. González?–?Galvarino Gil?–?Maclovio Galdames?–?José Santos Zavala?–?Isaias Iriarte?–1929Carlos Contreras Labarca1931–1946Ricardo Fonseca1946–1948Oyarzun Galo González1948–1958Elías Lafertte1956–1961Luis Corvalán1958–1990Non existent positionVolodia Teitelboim1990–1994Gladys Marín1994–2002Guillermo Teillier2002–2005Gladys Marín2002–2005Lautaro Carmona Soto2005–2023Guillermo Teillier2005–2023Bárbara Figueroa2023–presentLautaro Carmona Soto2023–present