The Party of Labour of Burkina () was a
political party
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in
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to ...
(formerly
Upper Volta).
The PTB was a
Marxist-Leninist party founded in 1990 as a split from the
Organization for Popular Democracy - Labour Movement (ODP-MT) mainly by former members of the
Union of Burkinabè Communists. It merged with the
Party for Democracy and Progress in February 1996.
The secretary general of the PTB
Oumarou Clément Ouédraogo was killed in 1991.
Communist parties in Burkina Faso
Labour parties
Political parties established in 1990
Defunct political parties in Burkina Faso
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