Revolutionary Workers' Party (Uruguay)

Revolutionary Workers' Party
Partido Obrero Revolucionario
Founded1944
NewspaperFrente Obrero
IdeologyCommunism
Trotskyism
Posadism
Political positionFar-left
International affiliationFourth International Posadist
Website
por.uy

The Revolutionary Worker's Party (Spanish: Partido Obrero Revolucionario, POR) is a Uruguayan TrotskyistPosadist party.

The party was established in 1944 as the Revolutionary Workers League.[1][2] The party is a section of the Fourth International Posadist.[1] In 1969, during rule of president Jorge Pacheco Areco, party was banned and remained illegal until 1971.[3] In 1971, it took part in the establishment of the Broad Front, and contested with its own lists labelled 'Workers Front' in the 1971 elections.[4] Despite the fact that Uruguay signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in July 1968, effectively banning nuclear power in Uruguay, it advocated for the formation of a nuclear weapons program. The party's leader Thiago De Los Santos claimed the treaty suppressed the "last communist revolution which is nuclear bombing".

References

  1. ^ a b Yearbook on International Communist Affairs. Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University., 1975. p. 566
  2. ^ Fernández, Nelson. Quién es quién en el gobierno de la izquierda. Editorial Fin de Siglo, 2004. p. 37
  3. ^ "Frente Obrero". sitiosdememoria.uy. Sitios de Memoria Uruguay. Retrieved 14 March 2026.
  4. ^ Aguirre Bayley, Miguel. Frente Amplio: Libro del cincuentenario. AGUILAR, 2021. p. 23