Tunisian Workers' Communist Party
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The Tunisian Workers' Communist Party (French: Parti communiste des ouvriers tunisiens, Arabic: Hizb al-'Ummal al-Shuyu'i) (PCOT) is an illegal Marxist-Leninist political party in Tunisia.
It was founded on January 3 1986 and has a youth wing the Union of Communist Youth of Tunisia (UJCT).
Amnesty International reports that in 1998 five students were charged with belonging to PCOT and given 4 year prison sentences after student demonstrations.
External links
- Document released on PCOT's 11th anniversary (http://www.mltranslations.org/Tunisia/PCOT11anv.htm)
- An interview with Hamma Hammani from PCOT (http://www.mltranslations.org/Tunisia/hammani.htm)