Workers' Revolutionary Party (Portugal) Explained

Workers Revolutionary Party
Native Name:Partido Revolucionário dos Trabalhadores, (PRT)
Lang1:Portuguese
Colorcode:
  1. FF0000
Merged:Revolutionary Socialist Party (Portugal)
Headquarters:Lisbon
Newspaper:Combate Socialista
Ideology:Marxism
Trotskyism
Position:Far-left
Colors:Maroon (Grená)
Country:Portugal

The Workers Revolutionary Party (Portuguese: Partido Revolucionário dos Trabalhadores) was a left-wing political party in Portugal. It was founded on January 31, 1975.

The party had a Trotskyist orientation, following the line known as "morenista" after Nahuel Moreno.PRT published Combate Socialista.[1]

PRT was in sympathy with, but not affiliated to, the reunified Fourth International.

In 1978 PRT merged into the Revolutionary Socialist Party, which eventually became part of the Left Bloc.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Partido Revolucionário dos Trabalhadores - Comissão Nacional de Eleições . 2013-03-03 . 2008-10-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081022192621/http://cne.pt/index.cfm?sec=0506010300&PartidoID=28 . dead .