Maoist, Marxist-Leninist party and long-time ally of Albania's Enver Hoxha. Party is a bitter rival of the Portuguese Communist Party, which it dubs "social-Fascist" and CIA-financed. Party emerged from the Reorganization Movement of the Proletariat Party (MRPP) and renamed itself the Communist Party of Portuguese Workers (PCTP/MRPP) in 1970 [Partido Comunista dos Trabalhadores Portugueses (PCTP/MRPP)].