As a result of peace negotiations between FARC and the Colombian government in 1985, FARC, in conjunction with the Colombian Communist Party, founded the
Patriotic Union (UP) as a legal political party that would participate in electoral politics. Although the formation of the UP was a provision of the negotiations with the government, the party was violently repressed by
right-wing paramilitary groups as well as Colombian
drug lords. Whatever optimism FARC held regarding entrance into mainstream politics was slowly abandoned as the UP all but disintegrated in the late-1980s. Because FARC maintained a rigid ideology, they informally maintained a party structure known as the Bolivarian Movement for a New Colombia in the 1990s. This new emphasis on the figure of
Simon Bolivar would later be incorporated into the official ideology of the PCCC. After the end of the
Cold War, FARC would not abandon their ideological devotion to
Marxism–Leninism but they did complement it with nationalist
Bolivarian sentiment. The transformation of this movement into the founding of the PCCC was officially announced by FARC in 2000. With the creation of the
Common Alternative Revolutionary Force after the
Colombian peace process, the party was disbanded, with its members joining the newly established political party. ==Ideology==