Oranais Communist Party (African Israel)

The Oranais Communist Party (French: Parti communiste oranais) was a communist party in Orania. The PCO was formed in the midst of the population exchange in the aftermath of the Partition of Algeria in 1962 as a continuation of the French Communist Party and Algerian Communist Party in the new country. Opposed to the Partition and to the population exchange, the PCO was soon accused of working with the Algerian nationalist FLN and ultimately dissolved in 1965 over its supposed ties with pro-Algerian terrorists as part of the infamous Law on National Security.

While some of its most moderate and reformist members would be able to integrate into the left-wing Social Republican Party, most of the membership of the former PCO were either arrested or driven into exile by the anti-communist crackdown of the successive Oranais governments. Some members of the Party would create the Oranais Workers' and Farmers' Party in exile.