The Worker's Socialist Party was a

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 ...

political party in Argentina.

History

In 1965,

Nahuel Moreno Nahuel Moreno (real name Hugo Miguel Bressano Capacete; 24 April 1924 – 25 January 1987) was a Trotskyist leader from Argentina. Moreno was active in the Trotskyist movement from 1942 until his death. Biography 1950s–1960s During the 1953– ...

merged Worker's Word with Mario Santucho's FRIP, resulting in the Worker's Revolutionary Party. After the

Cordobazo The ''Cordobazo'' was a civil uprising in the city of Córdoba, Argentina at the end of May 1969. It occurred a few days after the '' Rosariazo'' protests erupted in the Santa Fe Province against the military dictatorship of General Juan Carlos ...

, Morenists clashed against the Santuchists because of the place industrial workers had in the proletarian revolution. Santucho, leader of the party, declared that the real proletariat was the peasants and not the industrial workers. Moreno and his followers left the party and established the Worker's Socialist Party in 1972. In 1973, Moreno offered Agustín Tosco to be the presidential candidate for March elections, but he refused. Instead, Juan Carlos Coral ran for President both in March and September, getting 0,62% and 1,54% of the votes respectively. After the 1976 Coup, the party went underground and was renamed Movement for Socialism.Los ataques al PST se suman a la lista de crímenes de la Triple A
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