The Workers' Vanguard (Spanish: Vanguardia Obrera; VO) was a small Trotskyist political party in Bolivia.
The Workers' Vanguard 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 Filemón Escóbar Escóbar and Ricardo Catoira Marín.[2]
The VO took part in elections in 1979 and presented as its presidential candidate Ricardo Catoira Marín and Filemón Escobar as vice-presidential candidate.[3]
In 1980 the VO took part in an electoral coalition Democratic and Popular Union backing Hernán Siles Zuazo.[4]
In 1984, the Workers' Vanguard Party merged with the Revolutionary Workers' Party-Struggle to form the new Revolutionary Workers' Party-Unified.[5]
Notes
edit- ^ Charles Hobday. Communist and Marxist parties of the world. Longman, 1986. p. 351.
- ^ Political handbook of the world 1981. New York, 1981. p. 90.
- ^ Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 2. [Oxford] [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. p. 150.
- ^ Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 2. [Oxford] [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. p. 152.
- ^ Political parties of the world. Longman, 1988. p. 71.
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