Union of Communist Struggles – Reconstructed

The 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'.
The ULC-R supported the revolutionary government of Thomas Sankara. From August 3, 1983 to August 1984, the ULC-R held three ministerial posts. Its support for Sankara's government provoked the ULC-R section in France to split away from the mother organization.
After the break between Sankara and the Patriotic League for Development in August 1984, the position of the ULC-R was somewhat strengthened. The 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 the ULC-R. This was one of the factors that provoked the coup d'état of Blaise Compaoré.
In 1989, the ULC-R resigned from the government, following its refusal to go along with the formation of the Organization for Popular Democracy – Labour Movement. The ULC-R entered a clandestine existence. The government tried to rally dissidents of ULC-R into its new party. On March 1990, it was renamed the Party of Social Democracy.