Socialist Workers Organisation (Senegal)

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Socialist Workers Organisation (in French: Organisation Socialiste des Travailleurs) was a trotskyist organisation in Senegal.

It was founded in France by Sally Ndongo and Babacar Doudou in 1973, with the name Grouping of Revolutionary Workers (Groupement des Ouvriers Révolutionnaires). In 1977 GOR started activities inside Senegal.

GOR was registered as a legal political party in February 1982, taking the name OST.

The general secretary of OST was Mbaye Bathily.

OST published Combat Ouvrier.

OST was the Senegalese section of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International.

In 1991 OST become one of the founding members of And-Jëf/African Party for Democracy and Socialism.

Source: Zuccarelli, François. La vie politique sénégalaise (1940-1988). Paris: CHEAM, 1988.