Revolutionary Socialist Party (marxist-leninist)

Revolutionary Socialist Party (Marxist-Leninist) (in Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

: Partido Socialista Revolucionario (Marxista-Leninista), PSR(m-l)) was a political party

Political party

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in Peru

Peru

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founded in 1978 through a split in the Revolutionary Socialist Party

Revolutionary Socialist Party (Peru)

Revolutionary Socialist Party , a political party in Peru formed in November 1976 by a group of radical army officers who had been active in the "first phase of the revolution" under Velasco Alvarado and who subsequently advocated a return to the objectives of the 1968 coup.Its founders included...

. Its leaders included Antonio Aragón, Carlos Urrutia and Andrés Avelino Mar. It participated in the 1980 general elections on the lists of Popular Democratic Unity

Popular Democratic Unity

Popular Democratic Unity , was a political front in Peru founded in 1977 by Revolutionary Vanguard, Revolutionary Communist Party and Revolutionary Left Movement. UDP contested the 1978 and 1980 elections....

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