Luis Favre

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Luis Favre or Luiz Favre is the nom-de-guerre of Felipe Belisario Wermus (born 1949 Buenos Aires, Argentina). He was, as a young man, an Argentinian union militant and member of Politica Obrera. Later (in the early 1970s) he moved to France and became a leading member of the Internationalist Communist Organisation (OCI), a Trotskyist party in France, working especially in its international department with responsibility for Latin America. He moved to live in Brazil to set up a Latin American Bureau of the Lambertist international current.

He was a critic of Pierre Lambert within the OCI/FI-ICR (Fourth International (ICR)) during its 1986-87 crisis and left the OCI-FI(ICR) at that time to become a member of the PT. He is known to a broader public as the second husband of Marta Suplicy, ex-mayor of São Paulo and now a PT minister.[1] He is linked to a group of ex-Trotskyists within the PT, including Luiz Gushiken and Clara Ant, known colloquially as the 'Libelu', after their tendency, Libertade e Luta, which moved to support the Lula wing of the PT.

Since 1986 he has been an aide to the National Secretariat of International Relations of the PT, attending various international events on its behalf.[2]

His brother José Saul Wermus, better known under his nom-de guerre Jorge Altamira, is General Secretary of the Argentine Trotskyist party Partido Obrero, successor to Politica Obrera. Other siblings are also active within that party in Argentina.