Labor Party (Panama)

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Not to be confused with the Labor Party (PALA) founded in 1982.

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

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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]

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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 Trotskyite direction.^[2]

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References

1 2 Ricaurte Soler (1 January 1989). Panamá: historia de una crisis. Siglo XXI. p. 59. ISBN 968-23-1553-0.
1 2 3 Revista cultural lotería: L. Lotería Nacional de Beneficencia. 1999. pp. 9–10.
1 2 3 John W. McCauley (1967). The Changing Relationship Between Nationalism and Radicalism in Panama Since 1945. Michigan State University. Department of History. pp. 91–92.
↑ Manuel Caballero (6 June 2002). Latin America and the Comintern, 1919-1943. Cambridge University Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-521-52331-8.
↑ Pablo González Casanova (1984). Historia del movimiento obrero en América Latina. Siglo Veintiuno Editores. p. 298.
↑ Gregorio Selser (1994). Cronología de las intervenciones extranjeras en América Latina: 1899-1945. UNAM. p. 473. ISBN 978-968-36-7797-6.
↑ Political parties of the Americas: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies. V. 1. Edited by Robert J. Alexander. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982. Pp. 566.

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[Soler1989-1] 1 2 Ricaurte Soler (1 January 1989). Panamá: historia de una crisis. Siglo XXI. p. 59. ISBN 968-23-1553-0.

[a-2] 1 2 3 Revista cultural lotería: L. Lotería Nacional de Beneficencia. 1999. pp. 9–10.

[McCauley1967-3] 1 2 3 John W. McCauley (1967). The Changing Relationship Between Nationalism and Radicalism in Panama Since 1945. Michigan State University. Department of History. pp. 91–92.

[Caballero2002-4] Manuel Caballero (6 June 2002). Latin America and the Comintern, 1919-1943. Cambridge University Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-521-52331-8.

[Casanova1984-5] Pablo González Casanova (1984). Historia del movimiento obrero en América Latina. Siglo Veintiuno Editores. p. 298.

[Selser1994-6] Gregorio Selser (1994). Cronología de las intervenciones extranjeras en América Latina: 1899-1945. UNAM. p. 473. ISBN 978-968-36-7797-6.

[7] Political parties of the Americas: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies. V. 1. Edited by Robert J. Alexander. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982. Pp. 566.