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Argentine Socialist Party Partido Socialista Argentino | |
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| Abbreviation | PSA |
| Leader | Alfredo Palacios Alicia Moreau de Justo |
| Founded | 1958 |
| Dissolved | 1972 |
| Split from | Socialist Party |
| Succeeded by | People's Socialist Party |
| Headquarters | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Youth wing | Socialist Youth of Argentina |
| Ideology | Democratic socialism Reformism Progressivism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| International affiliation | Socialist International |
TheArgentine Socialist Party was asocialist political party in Argentina formed after the third division of theSocialist Party.
When democracy was restored (thoughperonism became illegal) in 1958, a Socialist Party congress was held inRosario, in which a faction led by theSenatorAlfredo Palacios andAlicia Moreau de Justo denounced that some party leaders were not truly socialists, accusing them of supporting a new version ofManchester Liberalism. After this congress, there was a disrupt in the traditional party: on the one hand,Nicolás Repetto andAmérico Ghioldi founded theDemocratic Socialist Party, on the other hand, the previously mentioned Palacios and Moreau founded the Argentine Socialist Party. Though both proclaimed themselves as theSocialist Party, the government forced them to use different denominations, ending up inArgentine andDemocratic respectively.
While the Democratic Socialist Party held both anti-Peronist andanti-communist views, the Argentine one embraced Peronism as a proletarian movement, becoming an alternative during the years the Peronist party was prohibited. This benefited the PSA, winning six seats for theChamber of Deputies in the1963 election. The party could ensure stability during these years, something that would change after the death of its leader, Alfredo Palacios, in 1965.[1]
Although the PSA suffered some minor splits after its foundation, these became common after the death of Palacios and the illegalization of political parties after the1966–1973 coup. Numerous far-left radicals includingMaoists,Guevarists andFidelists could not stand the centre-left views of the party, so they started joining other parties, such as the Socialist Vanguard Party, theCommunist Vanguard Party, theCommunist Party and theWorker's Socialist Party.
In 1970, Jorge Selser led the PSA to participate, along theJusticialist Party, theRadical Civic Union, theChristian Democratic Party and the Bloquist Party, inLa Hora del Pueblo (in English,The People's Hour), a document written to demand the dictatorship the restoration of democracy. Because of this, thede facto president,Alejandro Lanusse, announced the restoration of democracy through the 1972Gran Acuerdo Nacional (in English,Great National Accord) and his Interior Minister,Arturo Mor Roig,organized elections for 1973. Nevertheless, the new legislation would dissolve the PSA, because it did not allow any party to call itselfArgentine. Although Selser wanted to form a new socialist party independently using other name, they did not have enough people to participate in the elections. Knowing this,Guillermo Estévez Boero, the leader of a socialist organization from the interior of the country, convinced him to merge the parties under aLeninist ideology, which resulted in thePeople's Socialist Party.[2]
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