The party was founded in 1925 with the help of
Soviet officials. It immediately became the Cuban representative for the
Comintern and would remain a member until its dissolution in 1943. The party supported the first presidency of
Fulgencio Batista from 1940 to 1944, primarily due to his early advocacy of strengthening
labour laws and
labour unions, as well as his pro-
Allied stance during
World War II. As a result, two of the party's leaders,
Juan Marinello Vidaurreta and
Carlos Rafael Rodríguez, were successively appointed ministers without portfolio. The party formed an alliance with the
Orthodox Party in the
1944 general elections, but was defeated by the
Auténticos-Republican alliance, winning only four seats in the House of Representatives. They went on to win five seats in the
1946 mid-term elections. In the
1948 general election, the party proposed
Juan Marinello as its presidential candidate. While he finished fourth, the party won five seats in the House elections. They later won four in the
1950 mid-term elections. The government under President
Carlos Prío Socarrás banned the party's daily newspaper, '''', in 1950. Following Fulgencio Batista's
1952 coup d'état, the party was banned, but it continued publishing its newspaper. The party was initially critical of
Fidel Castro. In 1961, the party merged into the
Integrated Revolutionary Organizations (ORI), the precursor to the current Communist Party of Cuba. == References ==