Workers' Socialist Party (Mexico)

Workers' Socialist Party
Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores
Founded1 May 1975 (1975-05-01)
Dissolved1987 (1987)
Split fromComité Nacional de Auscultación y Organización
Succeeded byParty of the Cardenist Front of National Reconstruction
HeadquartersMexico City, Mexico
NewspaperEl Insurgente
IdeologySocialism
Marxism–Leninism
Reformism
Anti-imperialism[1]
Political positionleft-wing to far-left

The Workers' Socialist Party (Spanish: Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores, PST) was a socialist political party in Mexico. The PST was founded in 1975 by Rafael Aguilar Talamantes, Graco Ramírez and Juan Ignacio del Valle, though the party did not obtain its official registration until 1979.[2] The party nominated Cándido Díaz Cerecedo in the 1982 presidential election.

The PST won 10 plurinominal seats in the Chamber of Deputies in their first elections in 1979. Three years later, they gained one seat. Finally, the PST gained one additional seat in the 1985 midterm elections.

However, the PST became a satellite party of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).[3] The PST was renamed the Party of the Cardenist Front of National Reconstruction in 1987.

  1. ^ Bolívar Meza, Rosendo (January–April 2004). "El proceso de aglutinamiento de la izquierda en México" (PDF). Estudios Políticos (in Spanish). 8 (1): 204. doi:10.22201/fcpys.24484903e.2004.1.37613. Retrieved 27 March 2023 – via SciELO.
  2. ^ "Partidos políticos en México" (PDF) (in Spanish). Talleres Gráficos de la Camara de Diputados. 2004. pp. 21–22.
  3. ^ Bruhn, Kathleen (1997). Taking on Goliath: the Emergence of a New Left Party and the Struggle for Democracy in Mexico. Penn State University Press. p. 323. ISBN 978-0-271-02511-7.