The Socialist Workers Party (
Spanish: ''Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores'', PST) was a
Panamanian
Trotskyist political party.
The PST was accorded legal recognition as a party in September 1983. It sought, unsuccessfully, to enlist the support of the
People’s Party of Panama
People's Party of Panama ( es, Partido del Pueblo de Panamá, PPP) was a communist party in Panama. It was founded on 4 April 1930 as the Communist Party of Panama (''Partido Comunista de Panamá'', PCP), after Panamanian communists broke away f ...
in an electoral front against "Yankee imperialism" in 1984.
The PRT vehemently opposed the
Manuel Noriega-led
National Democratic Union coalition in 1984 and ran its own candidate,
Ricardo Barría, for president.
In 1990, after the overthrow and arrest of
Manuel Noriega, the PST joined the United Patriotric Front to protest the U.S. intervention.
The PST was officially deregistered in November 1984.
[Political Handbook of the world, 1993. New York, 1993. Pp. 637.]
See also
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:Socialist Workers Party (Panama) politicians
References
1983 establishments in Panama
1984 disestablishments in Panama
Communist parties in Panama
Defunct communist parties
Defunct political parties in Panama
Political parties disestablished in 1984
Political parties established in 1983
Trotskyist organizations in North America
Trotskyist parties
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