Popular Unity Party () was a

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. PUP was founded in December 1974 by the Mendes fraction of the Communist Party of Portugal (Marxist-Leninist). The PUP published a newspaper called ''Averdade'' (''The Truth''). It rejected

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and sought to create a people's republic of poor workers and peasants. After the 1975 elections PUP was renamed Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Committee (''Comité Marxista-Leninista Português''). In 1976 CMLP merged with the

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and the Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) to form the

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