The United Socialist Workers Party ( port. Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores Unificado ) is a Brazilian political party. Founded in 1972 . The party leader is José Maria de Almeida . Member of the International League of Workers - the Fourth International .
| United Socialist Workers Party | |
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| Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores Unificado | |
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| Leader | José Maria de Almeida |
| Founding date | 1972 (under the current name - 1993) |
| Headquarters | Sao paulo |
| Ideology | Marxism Trotskyism |
| International | International League of Workers |
| Allies and blocks | Movement towards socialism (Argentina) |
| Site | www.pstu.org.br |
Adheres to the ideology of Trotskyism . One of the largest parties of the Latin American Trotskyist trend is Morenism .
It originated as a group of Brazilian political émigrés in Chile who, after the military coup of Pinochet in 1973, were forced to flee from there. Existed under the name of "Workers League", participated in the organization of the Workers Party and the largest trade union association of Brazil (CUT), but in 2004 the trade unions, focusing on the FPSA and the Party of Socialism and Freedom , also Trotskyist and critical to the government of the PT, left it.
In the presidential election of 1998, the leader, José Maria de Almeida (Ce Maria), took 7th place out of 12, receiving 0.30% of the vote, in 2002 - 5th place, receiving 0.47% of the vote.
In the 2006 elections, she spoke in the Left Front coalition.