Workers' Left Front

Workers' Left Front – Unity
Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores – Unidad
AbbreviationFIT-U
LeaderNicolás del Caño
FoundedApril 14, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-04-14)
HeadquartersBuenos Aires
IdeologyMarxism[1]
Trotskyism[2][3]
Revolutionary socialism[4][5]
Political positionFar-left[6][7][8]
Colours  Pink
Seats in the Chamber of Deputies
5 / 257
Seats in the Senate
0 / 72

The Workers' Left Front – Unity (Spanish: Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores – Unidad, FIT-U) is an electoral alliance of four revolutionary Trotskyist communist parties in Argentina: the Workers' Party (PO), the Socialist Workers' Party (PTS), Socialist Left (IS), and the Workers' Socialist Movement (MST).[9] Initially founded in 2011, the alliance added MST in 2019.

After the 2023 Argentine general election the FIT-U has five national deputies in the National Congress of Argentina: Nicolás del Caño (PTS),[10] Christian Castillo (PTS),[11] Myriam Bregman (PTS),[12] Alejandro Vilca (PTS),[13] and Romina Del Plá (PO).

The predecessor of FIT-U was the Frente de Izquierda y los Trabajadores, Anticapitalista y Socialista, which consisted of the PTS, IS and New Movement for Socialism (NMAS). It stood in the 2009 legislative elections.[14] Attempts to include the PO in this front broke down because the PO insisted on filling the first three positions on the lists with its own members.[14]

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  2. ^ "¿Qué es el trotskismo?: ¿utopía virginal o experiencia probada y fracasada?".
  3. ^ "Qué es el trotskismo, por un trotskista argentino".
  4. ^ Maiello, Matías; Crivaro, Octavio (February 2, 2020). "A Brief History of the Workers Left Front". Left Voice. Retrieved August 8, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Tylim, Natalia (December 30, 2021). "Electoral advances for the revolutionary left in Argentina". Tempest Magazine. Retrieved August 8, 2024.
  6. ^ "La izquierda se consolida como tercera fuerza nacional y confía en ampliar su bancada a partir de diciembre". 28 October 2021.
  7. ^ "La izquierda se consolida como tercera fuerza e irrumpe en los concejos deliberantes bonaerenses". 20 November 2021.
  8. ^ "Elecciones 2021: Las diferencias que impiden una alianza de los partidos de izquierda". 27 March 2021.
  9. ^ "La izquierda realizará un importante anuncio de listas unitarias en todo el país". La Izquierda Diario. 11 June 2019. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  10. ^ "Nicolás del Caño". Sitio web del PTS.
  11. ^ "Christian Castillo". Sitio web del PTS.
  12. ^ "Myriam Bregman". Sitio web del PTS.
  13. ^ "Alejandro Vilca". Sitio web del PTS.
  14. ^ a b "El frente anticapitalista". Pagina 12. As a candidate for national deputy, the university professor and leader of the PTS, Christian Castillo, will be running; José Castillo, an economist and member of the Socialist Left, will be running for the position of Buenos Aires legislator; and the chosen candidate for national deputy for the province of Buenos Aires is Héctor Heberling, leader of the new MAS.