Nahuel Moreno

Nahuel Moreno
Nahuel Moreno
	Moreno before 1987
Born	Hugo Miguel Bressano Capacete; 24 April 1924; Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died	25 January 1987 (aged 62); Buenos Aires, Argentina
Occupation(s)	Unionist, writer and politician
Known for	Founding the International Workers League – Fourth International

Nahuel Moreno (real name Hugo Miguel Bressano Capacete; 24 April 1924 – 25 January 1987) was a Trotskyist leader from Argentina. Moreno was active in the Trotskyist movement from 1942 until his death.

Biography

1950s–1960s

During the 1953–1963 split in the

Peronist movement.^[1]

Prior to the reunification of the two factions in 1963, the International Secretariat's best-known leader in

Fourth International (Posadist). After Posadas' departure, Moreno became the central leader of the International's Latin American Bureau. When the Fourth International

was reunified in 1963, his current helped to found the Revolutionary Workers Party in Argentina.

1970s–1980s

In the 1970s, when divisions surfaced over guerrilla warfare inside the International, Moreno led the pro-SWP faction of the PRT which eventually established a public faction, the PRT-La Verdad. This group oriented around fighting for union rights and mass-based party building. In 1973, it fused with the pro-Trotskyist Socialist Party of Argentina to found the

Socialist Workers Party (PST) of Argentina. The PST sided with the SWP as Moreno had sided with them for several years. As factional differences within the International peaked, the American SWP formed the Leninist Trotskyist Faction

, of which Moreno's PST was a part.

After the LTF was dissolved, The PST helped to form the

FSLN

's strategy and tactics in the revolution of Nicaragua.

Moreno formed a new international grouping with

Movement for Socialism (MAS) and shortly thereafter the Brazilian Socialist Convergence, based in the Metal Workers Confederation and an initial organizer of the Workers' Party (PT). In response to what they viewed as an undemocratic process and pro-capitalist orientation of the PT, they left and formed the United Socialist Workers' Party

(PSTU) but were also part of the IWL disintegration after Moreno's death.