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Marxist–Leninist Communist Organisation of Réunion

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ6778654 ↗
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Marxist–Leninist Communist Organisation of Réunion' (French: Organisation Communiste Marxiste Léniniste de la Réunion) was a Maoist-oriented communist organisation in Réunion. OCMLR was founded in 1975, by a group that had left the Reunionese Communist Party. OCMLR strongly advocated independence for Réunion. OCMLR was the predecessor of the Reunionese Independence Movement (MIR).

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1975. For this dossier, Marxist, Leninist and Communist is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Marxist–Leninist Communist Organisation of Réunion” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.