The Socialist Workers' Party (, PST; ; ) is an Algerian political party. Founded in 1989 by the Revolutionary Communist Group, itself established by a group of

Trotskyist Trotskyism (, ) is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Russian revolutionary and intellectual Leon Trotsky along with some other members of the Left Opposition and the Fourth International. Trotsky described himself as an ...

students in 1974, the PST remains affiliated with

Fourth International The Fourth International (FI) was a political international established in France in 1938 by Leon Trotsky and his supporters, having been expelled from the Soviet Union and the Communist International (also known as Comintern or the Third Inte ...

, a Trotskyist

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. In the

2007 Algerian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Algeria on 17 May 2007. 24 political parties and around 100 independent lists with a total of more than 12,000 candidates competed for the 389 seats in the National People's Assembly. While most Algerians voted ...

, the PST won 0.75% of the vote, meaning it did not receive any of the 389 seats available.

History

In 2019, the PST joined the

Forces of the Democratic Alternative The Forces of the Democratic Alternative ( or (FPAD), agdudan, Arabic: العقد السياسي لقوى البديل الديمقراطي; also: ''Democratic Alternative Forces Pact'', ''Forces of the Pact of the Democratic Alternative'') or FD ...

(FDA), a secular alliance of political and civil opposition during the pro-democracy Hirak movement. As part of the FDA, it boycotted the 2021 Algerian parliamentary elections, which subsequently had the lowest turnout of an Algerian election, at 22.99%. In January 2022, the Council of State order the freezing of all PST activities, as well as the closure of its headquarters, following a complaint filed by the Ministry of the Interior. THE PST denounced this as "a blatant attack on partisan pluralism and democratic freedoms in Algeria".

References

External links

Official web site
1989 establishments in Algeria Communist parties in Algeria Fourth International (post-reunification) Political parties established in 1989 Political parties in Algeria {{Algeria-party-stub