Partido ng Manggagawang Pilipino

Not to be confused with Partido ng Manggagawa at Magsasaka.

The Filipino Workers' Party (Filipino: Partido ng Manggagawang Pilipino, PMP) is a Marxist-Leninist communist party in the Philippines.

Filipino Workers' Party Partido ng Manggagawang Pilipino
Spokesperson	Clara Obrero (Melencio faction)[1] Asa Proletaryo (Magtubo faction)[2]
Founded	August 5, 2002; 23 years ago (2002-08-05)
Merger of	Partido ng Manggagawang Pilipino Sosyalistang Partido ng Paggawa Partido Proletaryo Demokratiko
Newspaper	Manggagawa
Ideology	Communism[3] Marxism-Leninism[3] Factions: National democracy Democratic socialism Progressivism
Political position	Left-wing to far-left
Colors	Red
Party flag
Website
manggagawangpilipino.tripod.com
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In a founding congress launched from 30 January to 5 February 1999, Popoy Lagman led the formation of the Partido ng Manggagawang Pilipino from the Manila-Rizal Revolutionary Committee (KRMR) which split from the Communist Party of the Philippines.^[4] Following his assassination in 2001, it later merged with Sonny Melencio's Sosyalistang Partido ng Paggawa (SPP), whose core group earlier broke with the KRMR in 1998^[5] and the Partido Proletaryo Demokratiko (PPD) in 2002.

The PMP (Merger), as it was known in its early years, was beget with disunity^[6] which came into a breaking point in 2007, when the group around Melencio split the party, taking the mass organisations of Sanlakas, Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP), and the Kongreso ng Pagkakaisa ng Maralitang Lungsod (KPML) with them, over the issue of nominees of the electoral party Partido ng Manggagawa led by Renato Magtubo for the 2007 midterm elections. Both factions now claim the name Partido ng Manggagawang Pilipino for their own respective underground parties.

Electoral performance

Election	Votes	%	Seats
2001	216,823	3.32%	1
2004	448,072	3.52%	2
2007	119,082	0.74%	0
2010	140,257	0.47%	0

Representatives to Congress

Period	1st Representative	2nd Representative
12th Congress 2001–2004	Filemon Lagman (posthumously)	—
13th Congress 2004–2007	Renato Magtubo	Filemon Lagman (posthumously)
14th Congress 2007–2010	Out of Congress
15th Congress 2010–2013	Out of Congress