Political Parties That Have Used The Name
The Peruvian Communist Party was founded with the name of Peruvian Socialist Party (Partido Socialista del Perú) by José Carlos Mariátegui, it is considered the first Communist Party of Peru.
Some political parties that also claimed the name (or its true meaning):
- Communist Party – Red Star
- Communist Party of Peru – Red Fatherland
- Communist Party of Peru (Marxist–Leninist)
- Peruvian Communist Party – Red Flag
- Revolutionary Communist Party – Red Trench
- Proletarian Party of Peru
- Revolutionary Communist Party (Working Class)
- Revolutionary Socialist Party (Marxist–Leninist)
- Revolutionary Vanguard (Communist Proletarian)
- Revolutionary Workers' Party (Peru)
- Worker Peasant Student and Popular Front
- Workers' Revolutionary Party (Peru)
The United Left movement was a loose alliance of several of these leftist parties that gained a strong political presence in the 1980s.
Read more about this topic: Communism In Peru
Famous quotes containing the words political parties, political and/or parties:
“All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.”
—John Arbuthnot (1667–1735)
“We are concerned now, however, about natural, not political limits.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)