Revolutionary Workers' Party-Struggle
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The Revolutionary Workers' Party-Struggle (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 Obrero Revolucionario-Combate, POR-C) was a small Trotskyist political party
Political party
A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

 in Bolivia
Bolivia
Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

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The Revolutionary Workers' Party-Struggle was established in 1957 by a dissident group which broke away from the Revolutionary Workers' Party
Revolutionary Workers' Party (Bolivia)
The Revolutionary Workers' Party is a Trotskyist political party in Bolivia. At its height in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the POR was one of the few Trotskyist parties in history to gain a mass working-class following.-Beginnings:...

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Led by workers' leader Hugo Gonzáles Moscoso.
In 1980 the POR-C allied with the Revolutionary Party of the Nationalist Left
Revolutionary Party of the Nationalist Left
The Revolutionary Party of the Nationalist Left was a left-wing political party in Bolivia. It was founded in 1963 by the labor leader Juan Lechín Oquendo and by Mario Torres Calleja and Edwin Moller in lesser roles...

 and its candidate Juan Lechín Oquendo
Juan Lechín Oquendo
Juan Lechín Oquendo was a labor-union leader and head of the Federation of Bolivian Mine Workers from 1944 to 1987 and the Bolivian Workers' Union from 1952 to 1987...

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In 1984, the POR-C merged with the Workers' Vanguard Party
Workers' Vanguard Party
The Workers' Vanguard Party was a small Trotskyist political party in Bolivia.The Workers' Vanguard Party was established by a dissident fraction which broke away from the Communist Vanguard of the Revolutionary Workers' Party in 1978.It was led by Filemón Escóbar Escóbar and Ricardo Catoira...

 to form the new Revolutionary Workers' Party-Unified
Revolutionary Workers' Party-Unified
The Revolutionary Workers' Party-Unified was a small Trotskyist political party formed in Bolivia in 1984 by the merging of the Revolutionary Workers' Party-Struggle and the Workers' Vanguard Party .In 1985 POR-U allied with the Revolutionary Liberation Movement Tupaq Katari and its candidate...

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