Workers' Vanguard Party

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The Workers' Vanguard Party (Spanish: Vanguardia Obrera, VO) was a small Trotskyist political party in Bolivia.

The Workers' Vanguard Party was established by a dissident fraction which broke away from the Communist Vanguard of the Revolutionary Workers' Party in 1978. [1] It was led by Filemón Escóbar Escóbar and Ricardo Catoira Marín. [2]

The VO took part in elections in 1978 and presented as its presidential candidate Ricardo Catoira Marín and Filemón Escobar as vice-presidential candidate. [3]

In 1980 the VO took part in an electoral coalition Democratic and Popular Union backing Hernán Siles Zuazo. [4]

In 1984, the Workers' Vanguard Party merged with the Revolutionary Workers' Party-Struggle to form the new Revolutionary Workers' Party-Unified. [5]

Notes

  1. ↑ Charles Hobday. Communist and Marxist parties of the world. Longman, 1986. p. 351.
  2. ↑ Political handbook of the world 1981. New York, 1981. p. 90.
  3. ↑ Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 2. [Oxford] [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. p. 150.
  4. ↑ Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 2. [Oxford] [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. p. 152.
  5. ↑ Political parties of the world. Longman, 1988. p. 71.

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