| Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas Socialist Workers' Party |
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| Founded | 1988 |
| Headquarters | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Ideology | Socialism, Trotskyism |
| Official colours | Red |
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The Socialist Workers' Party (Spanish: Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas, PTS), previously known as the Workers Party for Socialism (Partido de Trabajadores por el Socialismo), is a Trotskyist (left-wing socialist) political party in Argentina. It was founded in 1988, as the first schism of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) (a Trotskyist party led by Nahuel Moreno until his death). Within the next 4 years, the MAS would split in more than 20 groups. The PTS has no congressional representation. In presidential election of 2007 had obtained 95,000 votes (0,57%). The number of voters for this party in 2003's parliamentary election was 42,331 (about 0.25%). In 1999's presidential election the party had obtained 43,911 votes (about 0.23%).
PTS is the Argentine section of Trotskyist Fraction – International Strategy.
It is participating in the Workers Left Front, that obtained 660,000 votes in 2011 election (500,000 for president)