United Socialist Workers' Party
United Socialist Workers' Party Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores Unificado | |
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President | José Maria de Almeida |
Founded | 5 June 1994[1] |
Registered | 19 December 1995 |
Split from | Workers' Party |
Newspaper | Opinião Socialista |
Youth wing | Coletivo Rebeldia |
Women's wing | Secretaria Nacional de Mulheres |
LGBT wing | Secretaria LGBT |
Black wing | Raça e Classe |
Membership (December 2019) | 15,873[2] |
Ideology | |
Political position | Far-left[3] |
International affiliation | IWL-FI |
Colours | Red Yellow |
Party flag | |
Website | |
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History
Early history
The origins of the PSTU can be traced to 1972 when a number of Brazilian militants from a variety of political backgrounds contacted the
Returning to Brazil in 1974, the Workers League commenced publication of the magazine Workers Independence and recruited new members from within the student movement. By 1977 the group had grown to 300 members. At that point,
In 1978, the Workers League formed the Movimento Convergência Socialista (CS) as part of a tactic aimed at the establishment of a new mass socialist party. The Workers League also renamed itself the Socialist Workers Party (PST). Later in the year a number of members were jailed, alongside them Nahuel Moreno. An international campaign for their release won the support of Gabriel García Márquez.
By 1979, CS was part of a growing campaign for a new Workers' Party and played an important role in the metal working strikes that took place in the ABC region that year. In January the PST fully integrated itself into the CS ending its separate organisational form. The following year again saw CS taking a role in the important 40-day strike in the ABC region. Its own growth was marked by the attendance of 3,000 people at a rally of the CS and Moreno's international tendency, then linked to Pierre Lambert's France-based tendency. By 1982 Moreno and Lambert had parted company and the former organised the International Workers' League (Fourth International) to which CS affiliated.
In the early 1980s, CS took part in the founding of the
Recent history
The affiliation of CS with the PT was not to last and by late 1991 the leadership of the latter was concerned at the activities of some PT factions particularly CS. This situation arose due to the involvement of CS in extra-parliamentary struggles and deepened in 1992 as the CS campaigned against the government of Fernando Collor de Mello and the International Monetary Fund. The situation continued to deteriorate and in June CS was expelled from PT. In response the CS formed the Revolutionary Front which at a Congress in April 1993 became the PSTU with the fusion of CS into the new party alongside a number of smaller groups including Democracia Operária (RS), the PFS, MSR (PE), Liga and the CS. 21 of April Movement.
Since then the PSTU has continued as a persistent presence in the Brazilian labour and social movements to the left of the PT. It has lost a number of members in splits, most recently to the newly formed PSOL, which it refused to become a part of. It contests national and local elections and is involved in social movements, particularly the labor movement and student movement. The PSTU publishes the weekly newspaper Opinião Socialista (Socialist Opinion) and is the main group contributing to the journal Marxism Alive/Marxismo Vivo.
The PSTU is the Brazilian section of the
In the 2010 presidential election, the PSTU candidate received 0.08% of votes (88,000).
Electoral history
Presidential election
Election | Candidate | Running mate | Coalition | First round | Second round | Result | ||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | |||||
1998 | Zé Maria (PSTU) | José Galvão de Lima (PSTU) | None | 202,659 | 0.30% | – | – | Lost |
2002 | Dayse Oliveira (PSTU) | None | 402,236 | 0.47% | – | – | Lost | |
2006 | Heloísa Helena (PSOL) | César Benjamin (PSOL) | PSOL; PCB; PSTU | 6,575,393 | 6.75% | – | – | Lost |
2010 | Zé Maria (PSTU) | Cláudia Durans (PSTU) | None | 84,609 | 0.08% | – | – | Lost |
2014 | None | 91,209 | 0.09% | – | – | Lost | ||
2018 | Vera Lúcia Salgado (PSTU) | Hertz Dias (PSTU) | None | 55,762 | 0.05% | – | – | Lost |
2022 | Kunã Yporã Tremembé (PSTU) | None | 25,625 | 0.02% | – | – | Lost |
Legislative elections
Election | Chamber of Deputies | Federal Senate
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Role in government | ||||||
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Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | ||
1994 | 154,666[a] | 0.34% | 0 / 513
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New | 674,856 | 0.70% | 0 / 81
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New | Extra-parliamentary |
1998 | 187,675 | 0.28% | 0 / 513
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0 | 371,618 | 0.60% | 0 / 81
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0 | Extra-parliamentary |
2002 | 159,251 | 0.18% | 0 / 513
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0 | 490,251 | 0.32% | 0 / 81
|
0 | Extra-parliamentary |
2006 | 101,307 | 0.11% | 0 / 513
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0 | 196,636 | 0.23% | 0 / 81
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0 | Extra-parliamentary |
2010
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102,120 | 0.11% | 0 / 513
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0 | 436,192 | 0.26% | 0 / 81
|
0 | Extra-parliamentary |
2014 | 188,473 | 0.19% | 0 / 513
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0 | 355,585 | 0.40% | 0 / 81
|
0 | Extra-parliamentary |
2018 | 41,304 | 0.04% | 0 / 513
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0 | 413,914 | 0.24% | 0 / 81
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0 | Extra-parliamentary |
2022 | 27,905 | 0.03% | 0 / 513
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0 | 135,599 | 0.13% | 0 / 81
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0 | Extra-parliamentary |
References
- ^ "Partido". 26 December 2012.
- ^ "Eleitores filiados". Archived from the original on 2018-11-03. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
- ^ "Partido da extrema esquerda, PSTU lança operária sapateira como pré-candidata à Presidência da República". 2 March 2018.
- ^ (in Italian) PC-ROL website
- ^ See also:Progetto Comunista Rifondare l'Opposizione dei Lavoratori on the Italian Wikipedia
- ^ (in Portuguese) History of the PSTU Archived 2007-08-13 at the Wayback Machine