Workers' Socialist Organization Explained

The Workers' Socialist Organization (Spanish: Organización Socialista de los Trabajadores, OST) was a small Trotskyist political party in Bolivia.

The Workers' Socialist Organization was established by a dissident fraction which broke away from the Communist Vanguard of the Revolutionary Workers' Party in 1978.^[1] It was led by Sonia Montafto.^[2]

In 1979 the OST allied with the Socialist Party-One and its candidate Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz.^[3]

In 1980 the OST allied with the Revolutionary Party of the Nationalist Left and its candidate Juan Lechín Oquendo.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Charles Hobday. Communist and Marxist parties of the world. Longman, 1986. P.351.
2. Political parties of the world. Longman, 1988. P.71.
3. Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 2. [Oxford] [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. P.151.
4. James Dunkerley. Bolivia: coup d'état. Latin America Bureau, 1980. P.15.