90 years fighting and resisting at the oil port. Brief history of the Partido Comunista Colombiano in Barrancabermeja (1930-2020)

Abstract

This article briefly presents the history of the 90 years (1930-2020) of the Partido Comunista Colombiano (PCC) in the city of Barrancabermeja, Magdalena Medio, including the background in the 1920s, corresponding to the action of the Partido Socialista Revolucionario (PSR) and the formation of the Unión Sindical Obrera (USO). Thereafter, the active involvement of the PCC in the workers' strikes of the oil enclave workers is exposed; the struggle for guarantees for a dignified life, which included actions such as civic strikes for access to public services and the creation of popular neighborhoods in the northeast of the city; unity of action between the workers' and peasants' movement in the Magdalena Medio; and, resistance to the extermination plan executed by paramilitarism as a result of the anti-communist policies of the Colombian State.