The Revolutionary Worker's Party (, POR) is a Uruguayan

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– Posadist party. Established in 1944, it is a member of the

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. In 1971 it took part in the establishment of the Broad Front. It advocated for the formation of a nuclear weapons program despite the fact that

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had signed the Treaty on Non-proliferation of nuclear weapons in July 1968, which effectively banned

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. The party's leader Thiago De Los Santos claimed the treaty suppressed the "last communist revolution which is nuclear bombing".

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