Workers' Party

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Workers' Party is a name used by a number of political parties throughout the world. While the name has been used by both left-wing and right-wing organizations, it is currently used by left-wing followers of Communism, Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Social Democracy, Socialism and Trotskyism.

Current Workers' Parties include:

• Algeria: Workers' Party (Algeria) - (Trotskyist)
• Argentina: Workers' Party (Argentina) - (Trotskyist)
• Bangladesh: Workers Party of Bangladesh - (Communist)
• Barbados: Workers Party of Barbados - (Marxist)
• Brazil: Workers' Party (Brazil) - (Social Democratic)
• Ecuador: Workers' Party of Ecuador - (Communist)
• France: Workers' Party (France) - (Trotskyist)
• Finland: Workers Party of Finland
• Guinea-Bissau: Workers' Party (Guinea-Bissau)
• India (Maharashtra state): Peasants and Workers Party of India - (Marxist)
• India (West Bengal state): Workers Party of India
• Ireland: The Workers Party (Ireland) - (Marxist)
• New Zealand: Workers Party of New Zealand - (Marxist)
• North Korea: Workers' Party of Korea - (Juche)
• Singapore: Workers' Party of Singapore - (Social Democratic)
• Turkey: Kurdistan Workers Party - (Leftist Kurdish Nationalism), Workers Party (Turkey) - (Socialist, Kemalist)

Defunct Workers' parties include:

• Finland: Workers' Party of Finland (1923; banned)
• Germany: German Workers' Party (1919-1920; merged to form the Nazi Party)
• Hungary: Hungarian Workers Party (1948-1956; renamed the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party)
• Ireland: Irish Workers Party (1948-1962; merged with the Communist Party of Northern Ireland to reconstitute the all-Ireland Communist Party of Ireland)
• Macedonia: Workers Party
• Mexico: Mexican Workers' Party (1968-1987; merged with the Unified Socialist Party of Mexico to form the Mexican Socialist Party)
• North Korea: Workers' Party of North Korea (1946-1949; renamed Workers' Party of Korea)
• Romania: Romanian Workers' Party (1948-1965; renamed the Romanian Communist Party)
• South Africa: Workers Party of South Africa (1935-1953; banned by the state)
• Spain: Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (1935-1937; suppressed by Stalinist Communists during the Spanish Civil War)
• United Kingdom: International Leninist Workers Party, Workers Party of Scotland (1967-1990s; dissolved)
• United States of America: Workers' Party (Third International), Workers' Party of the United States, Workers Party, Workers Party, USA

[edit] See also

• Labour Party
• Communist Workers Party
• National Workers Party
• Socialist Workers Party
• United Workers' Party
• Workers' Communist Party
• Left-wing political parties
• List of political parties