Marxist–Leninist Party (Communist Reconstruction)

Between the years 2012–2014, the party increased its work in the international arena, supporting some anti-repressive causes in Iran and Ecuador, as well as the Naxalite Insurgency in India, although over time they broke relations with the Maoist organizations that supported this movement. The PML(RC) would also participate in the general strikes that characterized the 2010–2012 period, and supported the creation of platforms against repression after the considerable increase in police charges and arrests during the peak of the mobilizations.

In 2013 they would hold their Second Congress, in which they would formalize their criticism of Maoism as an anti-Marxist current, as well as their anti-imperialist position regarding the US and China-Russia as 'two reactionary political-economic blocs' and 'contrary to progress' of the peoples'.[4]

On March 8, 2013 they would make public the creation of their youth as a party, the Young Guard (Bolshevik). On March 22 of this same year they would participate in the Marches of Dignity,[5] but forming a 'Combative and class' bloc denouncing the supposed "inter-class" and "reformist" tint that the mobilizations had acquired, a block in which other leftist organizations participated.[6]

During the years 2013 and 2014, the PML(RC) managed to spread to new regions such as Valencia, Castellón, the Basque Country, Cuenca or Jaén, among others.

On April 10, 2015, the III Congress took place, in which they would be refounded as PML(RC), thus formalizing the qualitative change experienced in the organization and its extension to new areas in the rest of Spain, such as Barcelona or Tarragona.

In December 2014, two PML(RC) militants volunteered for the International Liberation Battalion to fight Daesh in the Syrian Civil War. After their return to Spain in July 2015 they were arrested[7] and accused of being part of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), considered a terrorist organization by the European Union. Both they and their party denied these accusations. In their statements they stated that they worked together with the YPG and that the decision was totally individual and voluntary. On January 27, 2016, due to the police collaboration of one of the brigade members, Operation Valle was carried out, ordered by the Investigating Court No. 6 of the National High Court, instructed by Judge Eloy Velasco. Eight PML(RC) militants and a citizen of Kurdish origin were arrested, accused of criminal organization and collaboration with a terrorist group.[8]

In addition to the arrests, the National Court estimated the suspension of PML(RC) activity as a precautionary measure for one year, the closure of all its offices and the entry into prison of the citizen of Kurdish origin and two militants of the party, among them that of the Secretary General, Roberto Vaquero Arribas,[9] who was imprisoned in solitary confinement for nearly two months until, due to lack of evidence, he was released. Currently all the defendants are at liberty, pending the resolution of the appeal to the Supreme Court that requests the acquittal of the defendants.[10]

At the end of the year of precautionary measure and not being extended by the National High Court, the PML(RC) was acquitted of all the charges against it, resuming its public activity by carrying out a parade in commemoration of the Republic, on April 8 of 2017.[11][12]

As of 2018, the PML(RC) becomes the base on which the so-called Frente Obrero (Workers' Front),[13] an organization with quite a few media peaks thanks to exposing political leaders such as Íñigo Errejón,[14] Pablo Iglesias[15] or Irene Montero.[16] They also became known thanks to the Esperanza Obrera (Workers' Hope) initiative in the city of Valencia where, after occupying a building, they gave food to several hundred individuals as well as accommodation and labor advice.[17]