Socialist Workers' Party (Portugal)

Socialist Workers' Party
Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores
Founded12 June 1980 (1980-06-12)
Dissolved4 May 1981 (1981-05-04)
Split fromWorkers' Revolutionary Party
HeadquartersLisbon, Portugal
NewspaperVoz Socialista (Socialist Voice)[1]
IdeologyRevolutionary socialism
Trotskyism
Political positionFar-left
International affiliationFourth International[2]
ColoursRed

The Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores, PST) was a Portuguese political party founded in 1980 (by dissidents of the Revolutionary Socialist Party[3]) and dissolved in 1981.

It was the Portuguese organisation of the Fourth International (linked to the Parity Committee[4][2], an attempt to unify the "Lambertist" and "Morenist" factions of Trotskyism and to the Bolsheviks faction[5]), proletarian and revolutionary, with the objective of establishing a dictatorship of the proletariat through the abolition of capitalism.

It stood in a single election, in coalition with the Workers' Party of Socialist Unity (POUS), for the 1980 Portuguese legislative election.[6]

Electoral results

Electoral results
Year Coalition Type of election Votes % Seats
1980
POUS/PST
Legislative
83,095
1.38%
0

(Source: National Elections Commission)

See also

References

  1. ^ "Voz socialista : orgão do Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores". Porbase – Base Nacional de Dados Bibliográficos. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
  2. ^ a b Quatrième internationale (1979) (in French). Fourth International (post-reunification). p. 5.
  3. ^ Hernández, Juan Carlos González (1999). Desarrollo político y consolidación democrática en Portugal (1974–1998) (in Spanish). Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas. p. 165. ISBN 8474762677.
  4. ^ "Correspondencia Internacional – suplemento especial de enero 1981" (PDF). Archivo León Trotsky (in Spanish). January 1981. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
  5. ^ "Le Portugal en sigles". Inprecor: correspondance de presse internationale (in French). Fourth International (post-reunification): 18. 1981.
  6. ^ "Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores". Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 17 March 2013.