Workers' Revolutionary Party (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 Revolucionario de los Trabajadores) is a trotskyist

Trotskyism

Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. Trotsky considered himself an orthodox Marxist and Bolshevik-Leninist, arguing for the establishment of a vanguard party of the working-class...

 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 Peru

Peru

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 founded in 1978 by a fraction of PST

Socialist Workers Party (Peru)

Socialist Workers Party is a trotskyist political party in Peru founded in 1971 by a group of dissidents of the Revolutionary Left Front . The group was led by Hugo Blanco and Enrique Fernández Chacón.In 1978, PST founded FOCEP together with other groups. In the same year it contested elections...

, FIR(IV) and FIR(Combate). Its founding leaders included Hugo Blanco

Hugo Blanco

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, Hipólito Enríquez, Raúl Castro Vera and Nicolás Lucar. It participated in the general elections 1980 and the municipal elections 1980 and 1983.

PRT is currently led by Raúl Castro Vera.

The PRT became the Pervuvian section of reunified Fourth International

Reunified Fourth International

The Fourth International is a Trotskyist international. In 1963, the majorities of the two public factions of the Fourth International, the International Secretariat and the International Committee, reunited, electing a United Secretariat of the Fourth International...

 but, in the 1980s, the Fourth Internationals in Peru joined the Partido Unificado Mariateguista.