The Revolutionary Workers' Party ( es, Partido Obrero Revolucionario, ca, Partit Obrer Revolucionari; POR) is a Spanish
far-left
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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
Barcelona 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
clandestine phase in
Francoist Spain 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
cells
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.
The extremism of this group by did not abate after the
caudillo's death for ''PORE'' steadfastly opposed the
Spanish transition to democracy
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which it saw as a mere continuation of
Francoism. It also opposed the reformist policies of the government of
Felipe González as well as the government crackdown of the
terrorist separatist organisation
Basque National Liberation Movement, 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
Catalonia, being part of
Esquerra Unida i Alternativa (EUiA) as the ''Bastida'' faction. In the
Basque Country
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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
Amaiur
Amaiur was a left-wing Basque nationalist and separatist political coalition from the Basque Country and Navarre. The name of the coalition comes from the fortress of Amaiur in Navarre, which was one of the last Basque strongholds during th ...
;
''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 Fourth International. Its main publications are ''Sin Muro'' in Spanish and ''L'Aurora'' (Dawn) in the Catalan language.
See also
* POUM
References
External links
POR official sitePartit Obrer Revolucionari
(Catalan)
Redes official site
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Anti-Francoism
Communist parties in Spain
Far-left politics in Spain
Trotskyist organisations in Spain
United Left (Spain)