The Revolutionary Workers' Party ( es, Partido Obrero Revolucionario, ca, Partit Obrer Revolucionari; POR) is a Spanish

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group. It was founded in 1974 as the radical Anti-Francoist Revolutionary Workers' Party of Spain (''Partido Obrero Revolucionario de España'' (''PORE'')), a name that it kept until 1983. This group was mainly active in the

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area. Since 1998, the ''POR'' is part of '' United Left (IU) through the internal group known as Redes.

History

The party was led by Aníbal Ramos ( Arturo van den Eynde) for thirty years. Its

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phase in

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was characterized by ferocious persecution by the Spanish police and the arrest and torture of many of its members. In order to avoid extensive arrests ''PORE'' organized itself in tight

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. The extremism of this group by did not abate after the

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's death for ''PORE'' steadfastly opposed the

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which it saw as a mere continuation of

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. It also opposed the reformist policies of the government of

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as well as the government crackdown of the

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separatist organisation

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, being one of the first to cry foul during the so-called ''guerra sucia''. ''PORE'' was renamed ''POR'' in 1983, eight years after the beginning of the political transition. This party keeps decentralized sections only in

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, being part of

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(EUiA) as the ''Bastida'' faction. In the Basque Country a sector of ''POR'' that was integrated in Ezker Batua-Berdeak (''EB-B'') through Erabaki abandoned the coalition in 2011 in order to ask the vote for

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;''El colectivo Erabaki de EB pedirá el voto para 'Amaiur' en elecciones y reclama la unidad de "toda la izquierda vasca"''
''Europa Press'', October 1, 2011. meanwhile another sector kept within ''EB-B'' as the ''Sarea/Redes'' faction. Internationally ''POR'' is part of the

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. Its main publications are ''Sin Muro'' in

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and ''L'Aurora'' (Dawn) in the

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References

External links

POR official sitePartit Obrer Revolucionari
(Catalan)
Redes official site
{{Authority control Anti-Francoism Communist parties in Spain Far-left politics in Spain Trotskyist organisations in Spain United Left (Spain)

History

See also

References

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