Union of Communist Struggles – Reconstructed


Union of Communist Struggles – Reconstructed was a communist party in Burkina Faso. ULC-R was formed in 1983 as a continuation of the Union of Communist Struggles. Generally ULC-R was simply called 'ULC'. ULC-R promoted 'Popular and Democratic Revolution'.
ULC-R supported the revolutionary government of Thomas Sankara. August 3, 1983-August 1984 ULC-R held three ministerial posts. The support to Sankara's government provoked the ULC-R section in France to split away from the mother organization.
After the break between Sankara and LIPAD in August 1984, the position of ULC-R was somewhat strengthened. ULC-R held four cabinet posts in the new government, Basile Guissou, Adele Ouédrago, Alain Coeffé and Joséphine Ouédraogo.
In 1987 Sankara tried to marginalize a dissident faction of ULC-R. This was one of the factors that provoked the coup d'état of Blaise Compaoré.
In 1989 ULC-R resigns from the government, following its refusal to go along with the formation of ODP/MT. ULC-R enters a clandestine existence. The government tries to rally dissidents of ULC-R into its new party. In March 1990 it was renamed in Party of Social Democracy.