Labor Party (Panama)

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The Labor Party (Spanish : Partido Laborista) was a Panamanian political party.

The initiative to launch the Labor Party began in 1927. [1] [2] Founders of the party included Diógenes de la Rosa, Don Cristóbal Segundo and Domingo H. Turner. [2] The party obtained some 1,000 votes in the 1928 general election. [3]

In 1929 the party sent a delegation to the 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America, at which it announced its publication El Mazo ('The Mallet'). [1] [4] The delegates of the party were Eugenio Cossani and Jacinto Chacón. [5] At the conference, the party presented itself as 'partly communist'. [3] In August 1929 the party protested against the raising of a bust of US president Theodore Roosevelt in Colón, citing that the monument hurt the 'national dignity' of Panama. [6]

The successor organization of the Labor Party, the Communist Party of Panama (Partido Communista de Panamá, PCP), was officially established in 1930. [7] [3] Whilst Segundo and Turner became Communist Party leaders, De la Rosa did not join the new party and drifted in a Trotskyist direction. [2]

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