The Socialist Party ( es, Partido Socialista, PS) was a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

Guatemala Guatemala ( ; ), officially the Republic of Guatemala ( es, República de Guatemala, links=no), is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico; to the northeast by Belize and the Caribbean; to the east by H ...

. The party was formed in 1951 by dissident members of the

Revolutionary Action Party Revolutionary Action Party ( es, Partido Acción Revolucionaria, PAR) was a leftist political party in Guatemala during the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution. Formed in 1945, the party went through a series of mergers and fractures before dissolving ...

. The Socialist Party sought to become the major rallying ground for non-communist elements supporting the government of President

Jacobo Árbenz Juan Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán (; 14 September 191327 January 1971) was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who served as the 25th President of Guatemala. He was Minister of National Defense from 1944 to 1950, and the second democraticall ...

. It included a number of important labor and peasant leaders, and its principal figure was Augusto Charnaud MacDonald, minister of finance in Arbens cabinet. In 1952 the party merged with the

National Renovation Party The National Renovation Party (Spanish: ''Partido Renovación Nacional'', PRN) was a reformist and progressive political party in Guatemala that was supportive of the government of Jacobo Arbenz. The PRN was founded by a group of the young revoluti ...

, National Integrity Party and Popular Liberation Front, forming the

Party of the Guatemalan Revolution The Party of the Guatemalan Revolution (, PRG) was formed in June 1952 during the Guatemalan Revolution to unite the non-Communist parties which were supporting the administration of Jacobo Árbenz. These included the Popular Liberation Front, th ...

.Political parties of the Americas : Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies / edited by Robert J. Alexander. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1982. Pp. 427.

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Defunct political parties in Guatemala Socialist parties in Guatemala Political parties established in 1951 Guatemalan Revolution 1951 establishments in Guatemala 1952 disestablishments in Guatemala Political parties disestablished in 1952 {{Guatemala-party-stub