The Revolutionary Workers' Party (, ; POR) is a Spanish

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group. It was founded in 1974 as the radical Anti-Francoist Revolutionary Workers' Party of Spain (''Partido Obrero Revolucionario de España'' (''PORE'')), a name that it kept up until 1983. This group was mainly active in the

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area. Since 1998, the ''POR'' is part of United Left (IU) through the internal group known as ''Redes.''

History

The party was led by Aníbal Ramos ( Arturo van den Eynde) for thirty years. Its clandestine phase in

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was characterized by ferocious persecution by the Spanish police and the arrest and torture of many of its members. In order to avoid extensive arrests ''PORE'' organized itself in tight cells. The extremism of this group by did not abate after the

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's death for ''PORE'' steadfastly opposed the

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which it saw as a mere continuation of

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. It also opposed the reformist policies of the government of

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as well as the government crackdown of the

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separatist organisation

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, being one of the first to cry foul during the so-called ''guerra sucia''. ''PORE'' was renamed ''POR'' in 1983, eight years after the beginning of the political transition. This party keeps decentralized sections only in

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, being part of Esquerra Unida i Alternativa (EUiA) as the ''Bastida'' faction. In the Basque Country a sector of ''POR'' that was integrated in Ezker Batua-Berdeak (''EB-B'') through Erabaki abandoned the coalition in 2011 in order to ask the vote for Amaiur;''El colectivo Erabaki de EB pedirá el voto para 'Amaiur' en elecciones y reclama la unidad de "toda la izquierda vasca"''
''Europa Press'', October 1, 2011. meanwhile another sector kept within ''EB-B'' as the ''Sarea/Redes'' faction. Internationally ''POR'' is part of the

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. Its main publications are ''Sin Muro'' in Spanish and ''L'Aurora'' (Dawn) in the

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References

External links

POR official sitePartit Obrer Revolucionari
(Catalan)
Redes official site
{{Authority control Anti-Francoism Communist parties in Spain Far-left politics in Spain Fourth International (post-reunification) Trotskyist organisations in Spain United Left (Spain)

History

See also

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