Revolutionary Workers' Party (Peru)

The Revolutionary Workers Party (Spanish: Partido Obrero Revolucionario, POR) was the first Trotskyist political party in Peru. Originally known as the Marxist Workers Group, it changed its name in 1946. Early leaders included , and .

In 1952, Manuel A. Odría jailed or exiled the leadership of the group, which remained largely inactive until he stepped down in 1956. Two rival parties of the same were constituted. One was led by and affiliated to the International Secretariat of the Fourth International (ISFI); the other led by and affiliated to the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI). It was this second group that Hugo Blanco joined in 1958, to organise activities under the co-ordination of Nahuel Moreno. In the role, he held a peasant uprising in in 1962, for which he was jailed and then exiled.

The ISFI and Moreno's supporters in the ICFI reunited in 1963, and it appears that the two Revolutionary Labour Parties reunited at this point, to form the .

It used to be a member of the Fourth International Posadist.

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Charles D. Ameringer, Political Parties of the Americas, 1980s to 1990s