The Liberation Party ( es, Partido de la Liberación, abbreviated PL) is a

communist party A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A ...

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. The party has its roots in the

Argentine Socialist Vanguard Party Argentine Socialist Vanguard Party (in Spanish: ''Partido Socialista Argentino de Vanguardia'') was a political party in Argentina. PSAV was founded around 1960 as a leftist split from the Argentine Socialist Party (PSA). The founder of PSAV was ...

(PSAV). It emerged as the Communist Vanguard (''Vanguardia Comunista''), evolving into the Marxist–Leninist Communist Party (''Partido Comunista Marxista-Leninista'') in 1976, before adopting the name PL in 1983.Hilb, Claudia, and Daniel Lutzky.
La nueva izquierda argentina, 1960-1980: política y violencia
'. Buenos Aires: Centro Editor de América Latina, 1984. p. 128 The party publishes ''Liberación''.Vargas, Otto, and Jorge Brega.
¿Ha muerto el comunismo?: el maoísmo en la Argentina : conversaciones con Otto Vargas
'. Buenos Aires: Editorial Agora, 1997. pp. 167–168 After the death of

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, the party approved of the changes of political line implemented by

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