Socialist Workers Party | |
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Founder | Revolutionary Communist Group (GCR) |
Founded | 1989 |
Newspaper | El Khatwa |
Ideology | Internationalism Marxism Trotskyism Socialism Communism Feminism |
Political position | Left-wing to far-left |
National affiliation | Forces of the Democratic Alternative |
International affiliation | Fourth International |
Council of the Nation | 0 / 144 |
People's National Assembly | 0 / 462 |
People's Provincial Assemblies | 0 / 1,976 |
Municipalities | 1 / 1,541 |
Website | |
pst-algerie.org | |
The Socialist Workers' Party (PST; French: Parti socialiste des travailleurs; Arabic: حزب العمال الاشتراكي, romanized: hizb aleummal alaishtirakii; Kabyle: Akabar Anemlay n Yixeddamen) is an Algerian political party. Founded in 1989 by the Revolutionary Communist Group, itself established by a group of Trotskyist students in 1974, the PST remains affiliated with Fourth International, a Trotskyist international.[1]
In the 2007 Algerian parliamentary election, the PST won 0.75% of the vote, meaning it did not receive any of the 389 seats available.[2]
In 2019, the PST joined the Forces of the Democratic Alternative (FDA), a secular alliance of political and civil opposition during the pro-democracy Hirak movement.[3] As part of the FDA, it boycotted the 2021 Algerian parliamentary elections, which subsequently had the lowest turnout of an Algerian election, at 22.99%.[4]
In January 2022, the Council of State order the freezing of all PST activities, as well as the closure of its headquarters, following a complaint filed by the Ministry of the Interior. THE PST denounced this as "a blatant attack on partisan pluralism and democratic freedoms in Algeria".[5]