The Workers' Socialist Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Socialista de los Trabajadores, abbreviated MST), known for many years as the Workers' Socialist Party (Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores, abbreviated PST), is a Trotskyist political party in Bolivia. PST/MST was affiliated to LIT-CI for a long period.[1][2][3]
Origins edit
PST emerged from a Morenoist fraction of the Socialist Party-1 of Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz in the late 1970s.[4] Quiroga Santa Cruz had developed contacts with Trotskyists during his exile in Argentina, and invited Trotskyists to join his party. The PST was established, and legally recognized, as the Workers' Socialist Organization (Organización Socialista de los Trabajadores, OST) in 1980. The organization published El Chasqui (later renamed Chasqui Socialista).[5][6][7]
1980s edit
In 1984 the PST had several delegates present at the sixth congress of Central Obrera Boliviana (COB), including factory workers from La Paz and teachers from Oruro.[5]
PST held a party congress in the beginning of 1985, with 380 delegates.[8]
When COB launched a general strike in March 1985, which was to last for 20 days, PST raised the slogan "All power to COB!".[8]
Later developments edit
MST appealed for blank votes in the 2010 local and regional elections.[9]
Leadership edit
Pablo Solón Romero was the main leader of PST during the 1980s.[1] Other members of the party Executive Committee in the early 1980s were Amalia Pando Vega, Hernán Vilela Diez de Medina, Jaime Vilela Gutiérrez and Jorge de la Zerda Gueti.[10] Whilst Solón (later the Ambassador of Bolivia to the United Nations) is no longer affiliated with the organization, Jaime Vilela Gutiérrez remains in the leadership of MST.[11][12][13]
Youth wing edit
MST has a youth wing, Socialist Youth (Juventud Socialista).[14]
References edit
- ^ a b Correo Internacional. Lora-Solón: Polémica clave en Bolivia
- ^ LOR-CI. Acto y columna común por la Independencia política y sindical de los trabajadores frente a la derecha y el gobierno del MAS
- ^ PRT-Izquierda Revolucionaria. BOLIVIA: LA REVOLUCIÓN INCESANTE
- ^ Staar, Richard Felix, and Margit N. Grigory. Yearbook on International Communist Affairs 1987: Parties and Revolutionary Movements. Stanford, Calif: Hoover Institution Press, 1987. p. 53 (Yearbook on International Communist Affairs series)
- ^ a b Alexander, Robert J. International Trotskyism, 1929-1985: A Documented Analysis of the Movement. Durham: Duke University Press, 1991. p. 130
- ^ Moreno, Nahuel. Intervenciones en el Comité Ejecutivo de la LIT-CI -11 de mayo 1985
- ^ MST. Chasqui Socialista
- ^ a b Alexander, Robert J. International Trotskyism, 1929-1985: A Documented Analysis of the Movement. Durham: Duke University Press, 1991. p. 131
- ^ MST. ELECCIONES A GOBERNADORES Y ALCALDES: VOTA NULO
- ^ Rolón Anaya, Mario. Política y partidos en Bolivia. La Paz, Bolivia: Librería Editorial "Juventud", 1999. p. 509
- ^ The Guardian. Bolivia creates a new opportunity for climate talks that failed at Copenhagen
- ^ Marxismo Vivo. Um vendaval oportunista II
- ^ Vilela, Jaime. COCA, NARCOTRÁFICO Y RECOLONIZACIÓN
- ^ UIT-CI. Pronunciamientos reclamando investigación y castigo por el asesinato de dirigentes obreros clasistas Richard Gallardo, Luis Hernández y Carlos Requena, en Aragua Venezuela