Socialist Workers Party (in

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: ** Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Ca ...

: ''Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores'', or PST) is a

trotskyist Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Ukrainian-Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and some other members of the Left Opposition and Fourth International. Trotsky self-identified as an orthodox Marxist, 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 ...

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. In 1980, PST had its candidates on the lists of PRT. On March 7, 1982, the majority wing of the

Revolutionary Marxist Workers Party The Revolutionary Marxist Workers Party ( es, Partido Obrero Marxista Revolucionario) was a Trotskyist political party in Peru that was founded in 1970 by a dissident fraction of ''Vanguardia Revolucionaria''. It was led by Ricardo Napurí and Jo ...

(POMR), led by Senator Ricardo Napurí, merged into PST. PST is a member of LIT-CI. It publishes ''Bandera Socialista''. In 1992, PST split, and a group adhering to UIT-CI formed a parallel PST.

References

External links

PST website
Political parties established in 1971 Communist parties in Peru International Workers League – Fourth International Trotskyist organisations in Peru {{CP-stub