Burkinabè Communist Group (in French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

: Groupe Communiste Burkinabè) was a communist party

Communist party

A political party described as a Communist party includes those that advocate the application of the social principles of communism through a communist form of government...

 in Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso – also known by its short-form name Burkina – is a landlocked country in west Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d'Ivoire to the southwest.Its size is with an estimated...

. GCB surged as a split from the Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party

Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party

Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is a communist party in Burkina Faso. It was founded on 1 October 1978, following a split in the Voltaic Communist Organization . PCRV followed the political line of the Albanian Party of Labour, anti-revisionist Marxism-Leninism...

 in 1983, following the refusal of PCRV to support the revolutionary government of Thomas Sankara

Thomas Sankara

Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara was a Burkinabé military captain, Marxist revolutionary, Pan-Africanist theorist, and President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987...

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In 1986 GCB signed a declaration, together with the Reconstructed Communist Struggle Union, Union of Burkinabè Communists

Union of Burkinabè Communists

Union of Burkinabè Communists was a communist party in Burkina Faso. UCB was founded in August 1984 by the Group for the Unity of Marxists-Leninists , the Marxist-Leninist Group and one other group.In...

 and Revolutionary Military Organization, calling for revolutionary unity. At that time GCB held one minister in the government, Watamou Lamien, Minister of Information and Culture.

In 1989 GCB left the government, following its refusal to join ODP/MT. GCB turned clandestine. In April 1989 it split in two factions, one led by Salif Diallo

Salif Diallo

Salif Diallo is a Burkinabé politician who served as a minister in the government of Burkina Faso during the 1990s and 2000; he has been the Burkinabé Ambassador to Austria since January 2009...

 joined the ODP/MT. The other, led by Jean-Marc Palm became the Movement for Socialist Democracy

Movement for Socialist Democracy

Movement for Socialist Democracy was a political party in Burkina Faso. The MDS surged when the Burkinabè Communist Group split in April 1989. In March 1991 it took the name MDS...

(MDS) in March 1991.