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Senegalese Communist Party

political party in Senegal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ3366245 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Senegalese Communist Party (French: Parti Communiste Sénégalais) was a pro-China communist party in Senegal. It was formed by the then student leader Landing Savané in 1965. The party was short-lived, but Savané continued his political activity through other groups.

See also

List of anti-revisionist groups

References

Zuccarelli, François. La vie politique sénégalaise (1940-1988). Paris: CHEAM, 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “Senegalese Communist Party” 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.