Socialist Workers' Party (Argentina)
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The Socialist Workers' Party (Spanish: Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas, PTS), previously known as the Workers Party for Socialism (Partido de Trabajadores por el Socialismo), is a Trotskyist political party in Argentina. It was founded in 1988, as the first schism of the Movement for Socialism (MAS), a Trotskyist party led by Nahuel Moreno until his death. Within the next four years, the MAS split into more than 20 groups.
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Socialist Workers' Party Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas | |
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Abbreviation | PTS |
Leader | Nicolás del Caño |
President | José Montes |
Founded | 1988 |
Split from | Movement for Socialism |
Headquarters | Buenos Aires |
Newspaper | La Verdad Obrera (1992–2015) La Izquierda Diario (2015–) |
Think tank | Karl Marx Institute of Socialist Thought (IPS Karl Marx) León Trotsky Study, Research and Publishing Center (CEIP León Trotsky) |
Student wing | En Clave Roja (Universities) No Pasarán (High schools) |
Youth wing | Juventud del PTS |
Women's wing | Pan y Rosas |
Union wing | Movimiento de Agrupaciones Clasistas |
Ideology | Trotskyism Marxist feminism |
Political position | Left-wing to far-left |
National affiliation | Workers' Left Front |
International affiliation | Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International |
Colours | Red |
Seats in the Chamber of Deputies | 4 / 257 |
Seats in the Senate | 0 / 72 |
Seats in the Buenos Aires City Legislature | 2 / 60 |
Website | |
pts.ar | |
In the presidential election of 2007 it obtained 95,000 votes (0,57%). The number of voters for this party in the 2003 parliamentary election was 42,331 (about 0.25%). In the 1999 presidential election the party had obtained 43,911 votes (about 0.23%).
Located on the left side of the political spectrum and member of the Workers' Left Front,[1] the PTS aims to establish a working-class government that breaks with capitalism, putting forth a material hegemonic force grounded in the main combats and organization processes of the working class—such as the student and women's movement—, seeking to develop revolutionary factions within them.[2]
By establishing this electoral coalition, the PTS managed to enter the Argentine Congress for the first time after the legislative elections of 2013.[3] As part of the Front, it obtained representation in the Buenos Aires Legislature,[4] as well as the provincial legislatures of Buenos Aires, Córdoba,[5] Jujuy,[6] Mendoza[7] and Neuquén[8] and in the city councils of Godoy Cruz, Las Heras, Maipú and Mendoza[9] in Mendoza and the city councils of Libertador General San Martín, Palpalá and San Salvador in Jujuy.[6] It has one national deputy, Nicolás del Caño; current or recent provincial deputies include Christian Castillo, Raúl Godoy, Myriam Bregman, Laura Vilches and Laura Cano.
The PTS has presence in 15 provinces and in Buenos Aires City; its members have minor seats in the Buenos Aires Underground union (AGTSyP),[10] the Neuquén ceramics workers union (SOECN),[11] the Western Soapmakers Workers Union (SOJO),[12] as well as occupying secretaries in the United Argentinian Tire Workers Trade Union (SUTNA), the United Trade Union of Education Workers (SUTE, Mendoza) and several sections of the Buenos Aires Education Workers Trade Union (SUTEBA) etc. Its youth branch conducts the student unions in highschools,[13] and the universities of Buenos Aires (UBA),[14] La Plata (UNLP), General Sarmiento (UNGS), Quilmes (UNQ)[15] and Comahue (UNCo).[16] The PTS also publishes the digital newspaper La Izquierda Diario (the daily left), located among the top 100 most visited websites in the country.[17]