Socialist Workers' Party (Argentina)
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Socialist Workers' Party Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas | |
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| Abbreviation | PTS |
| President | José Montes |
| Founded | 1988 |
| Headquarters | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Newspaper | La Verdad Obrera (1992-2015) La Izquierda Diario(2015-) |
| Youth wing | Juventud del PTS |
| Ideology | Trotskyism Revolutionary socialism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation | FIT |
| International affiliation | Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International |
| Colours | Red |
| Seats in the Chamber of Deputies | 2 / 257 |
| Seats in the Senate | 0 / 72 |
| Website | |
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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 Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), a Trotskyist party led by Nahuel Moreno until his death. Within the next four years, the MAS split into more than 20 groups.[citation needed]
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%).
PTS is the Argentine section of Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International.
It participates 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.
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