The Socialist Workers Party (

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: ''Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores'', PST) was a

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nian

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

. The PST was accorded legal recognition as a party in September 1983. It sought, unsuccessfully, to enlist the support of the

People’s Party of Panama The People's Party of Panama (, PPP) is an unregistered communist party in Panama. It was founded on 4 April 1930 as the Communist Party of Panama (''Partido Comunista de Panamá'', PCP), after Panamanian communists broke away from the Labour Pa ...

in an electoral front against "Yankee imperialism" in 1984. The PRT vehemently opposed the

Manuel Noriega Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno ( , ; February 11, 1934 – May 29, 2017) was a Panamanian dictator and military officer who was the ''de facto'' List of heads of state of Panama, ruler of Panama from 1983 to 1989. He never officially serv ...

-led National Democratic Union coalition in 1984 and ran its own candidate,

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, for president. In 1990, after the overthrow and arrest of

, the PST joined the United Patriotric Front to protest the U.S. intervention. The PST was officially deregistered in November 1984.Political Handbook of the world, 1993. New York, 1993. Pp. 637.

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