Socialist Workers' Party (Argentina)
| Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas Socialist Workers' Party |
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| President | José Montes |
| Founded | 1988 |
| Headquarters | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Newspaper | La Izquierda Diario |
| Youth wing | Juventud del PTS |
| Ideology | Trotskyism Revolutionary Socialism |
| National affiliation | FIT |
| International affiliation | Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International |
| Colours | Red |
| Seats in the Chamber of Deputies |
1 / 257
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| Seats in the Senate |
0 / 72
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| Website | |
| pts.ar | |
| Politics of Argentina Political parties Elections |
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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 (left-wing revolutionary socialist) political party in Argentina. It was founded in 1988, as the first schism of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) (a Trotskyist party led by Nahuel Moreno until his death). Within the next 4 years, the MAS would split in more than 20 groups.
In the presidential election of 2007 it had obtained 95,000 votes (0,57%). The number of voters for this party in 2003's parliamentary election was 42,331 (about 0.25%). In the 1999's presidential election the party had obtained 43,911 votes (about 0.23%).
PTS is the Argentine section of Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International.
It is participating in the Workers' Left Front. It has one national deputy, Nicolás del Caño, current or recent provincial deputies include Christian Castillo, Raúl Godoy and Laura Vilches.
