Socialist Workers Organisation (Senegal)
The Socialist Workers Organisation (french: Organisation Socialiste des Travailleurs) was a Trotskyist organisation in Senegal. It was founded in France by Sally Ndongo and Babacar Doudou in 1973, with the name Grouping of Revolutionary Workers (''Groupement des Ouvriers Révolutionnaires'', GOR). They had previously been members of the first post-war Trotskyist organisation in Senegal, the Workers Avant-Garde, which had collapsed soon after expelling them. The GOR split in 1976, with a minority who had called for class struggle to be placed ahead of national liberation forming the Communist Workers League (Senegal), Communist Workers League (LCT). The majority maintained the GOR, and in 1977 started activities inside Senegal. That year, the GOR and the LCT undertook unity discussions, but foundered after the LCT argued that the Soviet Union did not play a progressive role. The GOR subsequently joined the United Secretariat of the Fourth International. It was registered as a ...
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And-Jëf/African Party For Democracy And Socialism
The And-Jëf/African Party for Democracy and Socialism (''And-Jëf/Parti Africain pour la démocratie et le socialisme'') is a socialist political party in Senegal led by Landing Savané. And-Jëf/PADS was founded in 1991, through the merger of And-Jëf / Revolutionary Movement for New Democracy, Socialist Workers Organisation, Union for People's Democracy and circle of readers of Suxuba. Savané ran as the party's presidential candidate in the 1993 election, taking 2.91% of the vote.Elections in Senegal
African Elections Database. AJ/PADS was the only major opposition group to consistently refuse to participate in the government under President and the