Nahuel Moreno (real name Hugo Miguel Bressano Capacete; April 24, 1924 – January 25, 1987) was a
Trotskyist
Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Ukrainian-Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and some other members of the Left Opposition and Fourth International. Trotsky self-identified as an orthodox Marxist, a ...
leader from
Argentina
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. Moreno was active in the Trotskyist movement from 1942 until his death.
Biography
1950s–1960s
During the 1953–1963 split in the
Fourth International
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he backed the
International Committee faction led by the
Socialist Workers Party (United States). For much of this time he published a journal called ''Palabra Obrera'', and organised a group which sought to act as the left wing of the
Peronist movement.
["Una experiencia de la izquierda en el movimiento obrero"]
(razonyrevolucion.org)
Prior to the reunification of the two factions in 1963, the International Secretariat's best-known leader in
Latin America
Latin America or
* french: Amérique Latine, link=no
* ht, Amerik Latin, link=no
* pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...
,
J. Posadas, left to form his own
Fourth International (Posadist). After Posadas' departure, Moreno became the central leader of the International's Latin American Bureau. When the
Fourth International
The Fourth International (FI) is a revolutionary socialist international organization consisting of followers of Leon Trotsky, also known as Trotskyists, whose declared goal is the overthrowing of global capitalism and the establishment of ...
was reunified in 1963, his current helped to found the Revolutionary Workers Party in Argentina.
1970s–1980s
In the 1970s, when divisions surfaced over guerrilla warfare inside the International, Moreno led the pro-SWP faction of the PRT which eventually established a public faction, the PRT-La Verdad. This group oriented around fighting for union rights and mass based party building. In 1973, it fused with the pro-Trotskyist Socialist Party of Argentina to found the
Socialist Workers Party (PST) of Argentina. The PST sided with the SWP as Moreno had sided with them for several years. As factional differences within the International peaked, the American SWP formed the
Leninist Trotskyist Faction, of which Moreno's PST was a part.
After the LTF was dissolved, The PST helped to form the
Bolshevik Faction which left the International late in 1979, partly in opposition to nature of the USFI's support for the
FSLN's strategy and tactics in the revolution of Nicaragua.
Moreno formed a new international grouping with
Pierre Lambert
:
Pierre Lambert (real name Pierre Boussel; June 9, 1920 – January 16, 2008) was a French Trotskyist leader, who for many years acted as the central leader of the French Courant Communiste Internationaliste (CCI) which founded the Parti d ...
's supporters, but this lasted only until 1981. Moreno and his supporters then formed their own international grouping, the
International Workers' League (IWL), mostly, but not exclusively, based in Latin America. In 1983 they built the Argentine
Movement for Socialism (MAS) and shortly thereafter the Brazilian Socialist Convergence, based in the Metal Workers Confederation and an initial organizer of the
Workers' Party (PT). In response to the undemocratic process and pro-capitalist orientation of the PT, they left and formed the
United Socialist Workers' Party
The United Socialist Workers' Party ( pt, Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores Unificado, PSTU) is a Trotskyist party in Brazil. It is the largest section of the International Workers' League (Fourth International) (LIT), an international body ...
(PSTU) but were also part of the IWL disintegration after Moreno's death.
See also
*
Movement for Socialism (Argentina)
References
External links
Official siteInternational Workers Unity - Fourth International (UIT-CI)Izquierda Socialista - Argentina*
Texts: "Revoluções do Século XX", "A Traição da OCI" and "Carta à direção de Alicerce"International Workers League - Fourth International
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1924 births
1987 deaths
Argentine political writers
Argentine male writers
Argentine people of Italian descent
Marxist writers
People from Buenos Aires Province
Movement for Socialism (Argentina) politicians
Argentine Trotskyists