The Revolutionary Communist Party (; abbr. PCR-RCP) was a communist party in Canada ostensibly oriented around Marxism–Leninism–Maoism. It was not registered with Elections Canada because the party rejected what it called the "bourgeois electoral system" and did not seek recognition by the government. The party arose following the Revolutionary Communist Conference, which was held in Montreal, Quebec in November 2000 by activists and former members of the labour union movements and youth organizations of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, who felt that the revolutionary situation in Canada warranted the creation of a party dedicated to a communist revolution. The party originated from the Revolutionary Communist Party (Organizing Committees). Conference participants adopted the party's first draft programme. Because of the location of the conference, the majority of the founding members were French-speaking Quebecers, and the party began to reach out to the rest of Canada, starting with the Canadian Revolutionary Congress held in November 2006 in Toronto. The party split in 2017, resulting in two competing factions: the PCR-RCP (Central Committee) and the PCR-RCP (Historical Direction). The former dissolved itself on November 5, 2021. Ideology The Revolutionary Communist Party denounced the traditional electoral system of Canada, claiming that it only furthered the agenda of what it called bourgeois democracy. The party was highly critical of what it called reformist and revisionist electoral communist parties such as the Communist Party of Canada and the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist). They maintained that those parties helped to prop up a system of ruling-class domination of Canadian politics. Instead, the PCR-RCP claimed that a revolutionary movement in Canada should forcibly remove the ruling class from power and replace it with a socialist transitional system, and eventually a communist system, which would dissolve the apparatus of the state. The party believed that this could be done by following the ideology and examples of communist figures such as Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and Mao Zedong. According to the party's programme, Canada must be liberated from oppression through various violent and non-violent means, including civil insurrection and protracted people's war, though they stressed the need for the creation of a strong vanguard party and popular support before this could occur. This differs from the tactics developed by other groups, such as the Cuban 26th of July Movement and the Front de libération du Québec, which believed in propaganda of the deed, which stipulates that a movement only