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The Socialist Workers League was a group of Israeli Trotskyists , founded in 2002 and dissolved in 2004. The SWL was built as a result of a split initiated by Trotskyists who were part of the Israeli Committee for One Democratic Republic of Palestine. The prominent member of the SWL was Yossi Schwartz , former member of the leadership of the Canadian section of the International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist) , known as the international Spartacist tendency , the Trotskyist League (Canada) . The Trotskyists, led by Schwartz, believed that only a program that struggles for a socialist Palestinian republic can unite the Palestinian Arab workers and peasants of the region.

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13-839: With two comrades, Schwartz founded a faction named Militants for the Fourth International . The MFI contained only 5-6 comrades. After a short factional struggle, the MFI decided to build itself as independent organization. The newborn SWL contacted the Partido Obrero , the Workers' Party (Argentina) tendency in Argentina, the leading section of the Co-ordinating Committee for the Refoundation of

26-758: Is also part of the Sitraic (Syndicate of Workers of the Construction Industry and Affiliates) leadership, a combative union facing the Uocra (Union of Construction Workers of the Argentine Republic) leadership . It also directs the SUTNA (Single Union of Argentine Tire Workers) belonging to the CTA of workers since 2016. It also organizes numerous groups of workers, with regional and national reach. In

39-471: Is an Argentine Trotskyist political party . It was the largest national section of the Co-ordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International . In the 2009 legislative election , the party received 1.1% of the vote. Its strongest vote in this and some other recent elections has been in Salta Province in the north west, particularly in the city of Salta itself; its next best

52-668: The International Marxist Tendency led by Alan Woods and the late Trotskyist politician Ted Grant . It changed its name to In Defense of Marxism Circle (IDMC), starting entry work within the Communist Party of Israel and later on within the Labor Party (Israel) . The SWL was dissolved and does not exist any more. In July 2007, the IDMC comrades left the International Marxist Tendency following

65-695: The Classical Transport Group nationwide. The Worker's Party has a long tradition with graphics unions and has various delegates in various factories and in the Graphic Orange, the main opposition to union leadership. It is also in the front lines of the struggle in the press workers union (UTPBA) through the Orange Press. Inside the telephone industry (FOETRA) organizes the Telephone Orange. Other affiliated groups are

78-561: The Fourth International . The SWL became the official section of the CCRFI. It published a monthly journal, The Militant . During 2002 and the beginning of 2003, the SWL attempted to launch a movement for one and democratic republic with Abnaa el-Balad movement. The failure to build it, led the minority faction to conclude that it must ally with the Communist Party of Israel and call for voting to its political front, Hadash . The majority, led by

91-644: The Health Tribune, Worker's Fiber, as well as The Orange Television. Combative Mercantile groups and the orange list of university teachers. In addition, the Workers' Party has a presence among the fairgrounds of the Centennial Park, painters, and paper makers, among others. Its main publication is the weekly Prensa Obrera (Workers' Press), started in 1982. Its articles are often distributed and translated in other countries. This publication has

104-578: The PO comrades, claimed that the 2003 elections should be boycotted . As a result of the factional struggle, the SWL (minority) changed its views and accepted the right of the Israeli people for self-determination, along the perspective of socialist federation of the Middle East with full cultural and national rights to all minorities. In June 2003, the SWL (minority) decided to become political supporter of

117-719: The former's demand for military support in the Hamas movement and their refusal to accept the work of the IMT within the Pakistan Peoples Party , adopting some of the politics of the SWL again but upholding the state capitalism analysis of the USSR and changing their name to the Internationalist Socialist League . Partido Obrero The Workers' Party ( Spanish : Partido Obrero , PO)

130-455: The function of being the main distributor of their ideas and analysis. In December 2007 it reached the 1,000th edition. On December 3, 2019, a publication edited by a new segment that was formed within the party during the internal crisis of 2019, Política Obrera , began to circulate. Prensa Obrera Prensa Obrera ( Workers' Press ) is the weekly newspaper edited by the Workers' Party (PO) of Argentina. The first edition went out in

143-550: The obligation of giving 5% of their wages to the party, in the case of members that hold elected office, they keep a sum equal to the minimum wage and they donate the rest to the party. Not adhering to protests and demonstrations would result in not receiving social assistance. Trade Unions The Worker's Party directs the Associated Teachers' Union, the main teaching union of the University of Buenos Aires. It

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156-622: The teaching union, the current Teaching Tribune developed, which participates in the direction of some sections of SUTEBA-CTERA and also develops an important activity in UTE-CTERA, ATEN-CTERA, ADOSAC-CTERA, UEPC-CTERA and the Self-convened Teachers of Salta. In the UTA (Transportation and underground train union) participates in various sectors such as Ecotrans, Subte (Metrolines), Line 168 and Line 60 with affiliations by company and

169-648: Was in neighbouring Catamarca . Its members have included Jorge Altamira , Néstor Pitrola , Claudio del Plá , Amanda Martin and Mariano Ferreyra . It participates in the Workers Left Front , which had some success in elections in 2011. Following elections in 2013 it now has two national deputies, and several provincial deputies and councilors. Funding The party is financed entirely by its supporters and militants. Due to its class politics it does not receive any money from private or public sources that could compromise its political actions. Members have

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