Guatemalan Labour Party Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo | |
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Leader | Ricardo Rosales |
Founder | José Manuel Fortuny |
Founded | 1949 |
Dissolved | 1998 |
Preceded by | Democratic Vanguard faction of the Revolutionary Action Party |
Succeeded by | Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity |
Military wing | Rebel Armed Forces (1960–1968) |
Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism |
National affiliation | Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity |
Party flag | |
The Guatemalan Labour Party (Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo) was a Marxist-Leninist party in Guatemala. It existed from 1949 to 1998. It gained prominence during the government of Jacobo Arbenz. It was one of the main forces of opposition to the various regimes that followed Arbenz's overthrow, and later became a constituent of the URNG guerrilla coalition during the later phase of the country's Civil War.