Tunisian Workers' Communist Party

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.

See also: List of political parties in Tunisia, Politics of Tunisia

External Links

• Document released on PCOT's 11th anniversary
• An interview with Hamma Hammani from PCOT

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