Socialist Workers Organisation (Senegal)
Socialist Workers Organisation | |
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| Leader | Sally Ndongo and Babacar Doudou |
| Founded | 1973 |
| Dissolved | 1991 |
| Merged into | And-Jëf/African Party for Democracy and Socialism |
| Ideology | Trotskyism Socialism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
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The Socialist Workers Organisation (
Trotskyist organisation in Senegal
.
It was founded in France by Sally Ndongo and Babacar Doudou in 1973, with the name Grouping of Revolutionary Workers (Groupement des Ouvriers Révolutionnaires, GOR). They had previously been members of the first post-war Trotskyist organisation in Senegal, the Workers Avant-Garde, which had collapsed soon after expelling them.
The GOR split in 1976, with a minority who had called for
national liberation forming the Communist Workers League (LCT). The majority maintained the GOR, and in 1977 started activities inside Senegal. That year, the GOR and the LCT undertook unity discussions, but foundered after the LCT argued that the Soviet Union
did not play a progressive role.
The GOR subsequently joined the
African Independence Party
.
The general secretary of OST was Mbaye Bathily.
OST published Combat Ouvrier.
In 1991 OST become one of the founding members of And-Jëf/African Party for Democracy and Socialism.
References
- Zuccarelli, François. La vie politique sénégalaise (1940-1988). Paris: CHEAM, 1988.
- Robert Jackson Alexander, International Trotskyism, 1929-1985: A Documented Analysis of the Movement
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