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Socialist Party (Panama)
The Socialist Party (in Spanish: ''Partido Socialista'', PS) was a Panamanian left-wing political party created in 1933 by intellectuals and labor unionists who split off from the Liberal Party and rejected the Communist Party. The PS was led by Demetrio Augusto Porras, whose father, former President of the Republic Belisario Porras Barahona, had created Panama's first broad-based political movement in the early part of the century, by organizing blacks and urban workers. The PS initially went under the name Partido Socialista Marxista. However, it eventually dropped the "Marxista" label which often provoked its conservative opposition. In 1935 the party was joined by a small group of Trotskyites headed by Diógenes de la Rosa. In the 1930s, Porras had widespread support among the workers of Panama City and the party seemed to have potential for becoming one of the republic's major political forces. The Socialist Party challenged the Communist domination of the labor movemen ...
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