Keywords

• Between 1968 and the late 1970's
• the communist parties of Italy
• France
• and Spain converged in an attempt to redefine certain features of their own identity
• adapting their function to a changed society. Due to its size and precarious structure
• the Spanish Communist Party (PCE) was often dismissed by studies to a marginal role
• though at times it had expressed itself more forcefully than other political partnerships interested in the Euro-communist strategy. This article retrace the path to Euro-communism
• propose a new organization in periods
• and describe the PCE's evolution from a typically Third-Internationalist position to one embracing Soviet and other European partnerships (in particular the Italian Communist Party)
• as it welcomed Italy's appreciation for democracy and the national road to socialism as positive values