The Workers' Party is an Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 Trotskyist (left-wing socialist) 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...

. It is the largest national section of the Co-ordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International

Co-ordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International

The Coordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International is a Trotskyist international organisation. Its name in Spanish is Coordinadora por la Refundación de la Cuarta Internacional. It was formed in 2004 at a conference in Buenos Aires called by the Movement for the...

.

At the Argentine legislative election, 2009

Argentine legislative election, 2009

Legislative elections were held in Argentina for half the seats in the Chamber of Deputies and a third of the seats in the Senate on 28 June 2009, as well as for the legislature of the City of Buenos Aires and other municipalities.-Background:...

 this party had 1.1% of the vote. http://www.elecciones.gov.ar/ar/paginas/if_top.htm Its strongest vote in this and some other recent elections has been in Salta Province

Salta Province

Salta is a province of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the east clockwise Formosa, Chaco, Santiago del Estero, Tucumán and Catamarca. It also surrounds Jujuy...

 in the north west, particularly in the city of Salta

Salta

Salta is a city in northwestern Argentina and the capital city of the Salta Province. Along with its metropolitan area, it has a population of 464,678 inhabitants as of the , making it Argentina's eighth largest city.-Overview:...

 itself, its next best has been in neighbouring Catamarca

Catamarca

Catamarca may refer to:*San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, Argentina*Catamarca Province, Argentina...

.

Its members have included Jorge Altamira

Jorge Altamira

Jorge Altamira , is an Argentine activist and politician leading the Workers' Party in Argentina.He was born José Saúl Wermus in Buenos Aires, in 1942. Son of a printing worker active in the Graphist Union, Altamira began participating in the labor movement at an early age, and took part in a...

, Néstor Pitrola

Néstor Pitrola

Néstor Antonio Pitrola is an Argentine trade unionist and leading member of the Workers' Party of Argentina.Pitrola was his party's candidate for President of Argentina in October 2007. He and his running mate Gabriela Arroyo gained 113,004 votes, amounting to 0.62% of the vote in ninth place.He...

, Gabriela Arroyo

Gabriela Arroyo

Gabriela Arroyo is a member of the Workers' Party of Argentina .She was its candidate for vice-president of Argentina in the Argentine general election, 2007.-External links:* announcing her candidacy...

 and Mariano Ferreyra

Mariano Ferreyra

Mariano Ferreyra was an Argentine student who was active in the Workers' Party ....

.

It is participating in the Workers Left Front

Workers Left Front

The Workers' Left Front is an alliance of three Trotsykist parties in Argentina formed to fight a number of elections in 2011, announced at a press conference in April....

.

Publications

His main publication his the weekly Prensa Obrera (Workers' Press), started in 1982. Its articles are often distributed and translated in other countries.