Labor Party (Panama)

The Labor Party (Spanish: Partido Laborista) was a Panamanian political party.

The initiative to launch the Labor Party began in 1927.[1][2] Founders of the party included Diógenes de la Rosa, Don Cristóbal Segundo and Domingo H. Turner.[2] The party obtained some 1,000 votes in the 1928 general election.[3]

In 1929 the party sent a delegation to the 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America, at which it announced its publication El Mazo ('The Mallet').[1][4] The delegates of the party were Eugenio Cossani and Jacinto Chacón.[5] At the conference, the party presented itself as 'partly communist'.[3] In August 1929 the party protested against the raising of a bust of US president Theodore Roosevelt in Colón, citing that the monument hurt the 'national dignity' of Panama.[6]

The successor organization of the Labor Party, the Communist Party of Panama (Partido Communista de Panamá, PCP), was officially established in 1930. [7][3] Whilst Segundo and Turner became Communist Party leaders, De la Rosa did not join the new party and drifted in a Trotskyite direction.[2]

References

Ricaurte Soler (1 January 1989). Panamá: historia de una crisis. Siglo XXI. p. 59. ISBN 968-23-1553-0.
Revista cultural lotería: L. Lotería Nacional de Beneficencia. 1999. pp. 9–10.
John W. McCauley (1967). The Changing Relationship Between Nationalism and Radicalism in Panama Since 1945. Michigan State University. Department of History. pp. 91–92.
Manuel Caballero (6 June 2002). Latin America and the Comintern, 1919-1943. Cambridge University Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-521-52331-8.
Pablo González Casanova (1984). Historia del movimiento obrero en América Latina. Siglo Veintiuno Editores. p. 298. ISBN 9789682312298.
Gregorio Selser (1994). Cronología de las intervenciones extranjeras en América Latina: 1899-1945. UNAM. p. 473. ISBN 978-968-36-7797-6.
Political parties of the Americas: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies. V. 1. Edited by Robert J. Alexander. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982. Pp. 566.

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[Soler1989-1] Ricaurte Soler (1 January 1989). Panamá: historia de una crisis. Siglo XXI. p. 59. ISBN 968-23-1553-0.

[a-2] Revista cultural lotería: L. Lotería Nacional de Beneficencia. 1999. pp. 9–10.

[McCauley1967-3] John W. McCauley (1967). The Changing Relationship Between Nationalism and Radicalism in Panama Since 1945. Michigan State University. Department of History. pp. 91–92.

[Caballero2002-4] Manuel Caballero (6 June 2002). Latin America and the Comintern, 1919-1943. Cambridge University Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-521-52331-8.

[Casanova1984-5] Pablo González Casanova (1984). Historia del movimiento obrero en América Latina. Siglo Veintiuno Editores. p. 298. ISBN 9789682312298.

[Selser1994-6] Gregorio Selser (1994). Cronología de las intervenciones extranjeras en América Latina: 1899-1945. UNAM. p. 473. ISBN 978-968-36-7797-6.

[7] Political parties of the Americas: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies. V. 1. Edited by Robert J. Alexander. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982. Pp. 566.