Guatemalan Party of Labour

Guatemalan Labour Party
Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo
LeaderRicardo Rosales
FounderJosé Manuel Fortuny
Founded1949
Dissolved1998
Preceded byDemocratic Vanguard faction of the Revolutionary Action Party
Succeeded byGuatemalan National Revolutionary Unity
Military wingRebel Armed Forces (1960–1968)
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism–Leninism
National affiliationGuatemalan 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.