Popular Socialist Party (Cuba)

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The Popular Socialist Party (Spanish: Partido Socialista Popular, PSP) was a communist party in Cuba that adhered to Marxism–Leninism. It was founded in 1925 as the Cuban Communist Party (Partido Comunista Cubano) by José Miguel Pérez, Carlos Baliño, Alfonso Bernal del Riesgo, and Julio Antonio Mella. The party later merged with the Revolutionary Union (Unión Revolucionaria) to form the Communist Revolutionary Union (Unión Revolucionaria Comunista) on 13 August 1939. The party was renamed Popular Socialist Party on 22 January 1944. Its electoral support peaked later in the decade, but its influence declined during the late 1940s and 1950s. The party published the daily newspaper Hoy ("Today"), which was banned by the Auténtico government in 1950 and later resumed publication. After the 1959 Cuban Revolution, the PSP supported the government of Fidel Castro and in 1961 merged into the Integrated Revolutionary Organizations.

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