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Communist Vanguard of the Revolutionary Workers' Party

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The Communist Vanguard of the Revolutionary Workers' Party (Spanish: Vanguardia Comunista del Partido Obrero Revolucionario, VCPOR) was a small Trotskyist political party in Bolivia.

The Communist Vanguard of the Revolutionary Workers' Party was established in 1977 by a dissident group which broke away from the Revolutionary Workers' Party in 1975.[1] Led by workers' leader Filemón Escóbar and Víctor Sossa.[2]

In 1978 the VCPOR took part in an electoral coalition Revolutionary Left Front backing Casiano Amurrio Rocha.[3]

The Communist Vanguard of the Revolutionary Workers' Party divided into three groups in 1978, two sections breaking away to form the Workers' Vanguard Party and the Workers' Socialist Organization.[4]

In 1979 the VCPOR allied with the Socialist Party-One and its candidate Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz. In 1980 the VCPOR allied with the Revolutionary Party of the Nationalist Left and its candidate Juan Lechín Oquendo.[5]

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  1. ^ Charles Hobday. Communist and Marxist parties of the world. Longman, 1986. P.351.
  2. ^ Richard Felix Staar, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace. Yearbook on international communist affairs. Hoover Institution Press., 1980. P.324. (Yearbook on International Communist Affairs series)
  3. ^ Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 2. [Oxford] [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. P.151.
  4. ^ Charles Hobday. Communist and Marxist parties of the world. Longman, 1986. P.351.
  5. ^ James Dunkerley. Bolivia: coup d'état. Latin America Bureau, 1980. P.15.