Workers' Front (Spain)
Workers' Front Frente Obrero | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | FO |
| Leader | Roberto Vaquero |
| Founded | 13 March 2019 |
| Headquarters | Calle Gascó Oliag 6, PTA 42. 46010 Valencia |
| Newspaper | UNIÓN |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Syncretic |
| Website | |
| https://frenteobrero.es/ | |
Workers' Front (Spanish: Frente Obrero, FO) is a Spanish political party. The party was founded as a mass organisation of the anti-revisionist communist Marxist–Leninist Party (Communist Reconstruction) (PML (RC)) in 2018 and registered as a separate political party in March 2019.
History
The Workers' Front was established on October 14, 2018, at the Ateneo de Madrid as a front organization of the PML (RC).[1] During the event, various representatives from the organizations that make up the front spoke, with the Secretary of the PML (RC), Roberto Vaquero, concluding the speeches.
Subsequently, the Workers' Front expanded to several cities in Spain, such as La Coruña, León, Ponferrada, Zaragoza, and Cádiz.[2]
On June 12, 2022, their first congress was held. During the congress the decision to become a political party was approved by the members. Representatives from other organizations, such as the Polisario Front, spoke during the congress.[3]
Ideology
Despite being strongly connected with the PML (RC), the FO is not explicitely communist. Their political ideology is a syncretic combination of leftwing economic positions and conservative social viewpoints.[4]
In their program A Spain for the Workers, they defend national sovereignty, Hispanic identity, free university education, the nationalization of strategic economic sectors, energy sovereignty, nuclear energy, increasing the minimum wage, supporting the rural sector, promoting birth rates, creating more public housing, introducing rent control and limiting immigration to prevent the formation of ghettos.[5]
They oppose vulture funds, positive discrimination, surrogacy, the European Union, NATO, capitalism, feminism, deindustrialization, queer ideology, the Trans Law, cosmopolitanism, postmodernism, and political correctness.[5]
Criticisms
The FO is criticized by other left-wing parties as transphobic, reactionary and racist and compared (negatively) to radical right party Vox.[6][7]
Elections
The FO participated in elections for the first time in 2023. The party participated in the municipal elections in four municipalities, namely Villalba de los Arcos, Santa Margalida, Mislata, and Mandayona, winning one seat in Mandayona. The FO is contesting the 2023 general election, fielding candidates in all 50 constituencies.[8]
Election results
| Municipality | Votes | % | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| Villalba de los Arcos | 27 | 7.6% | 0 |
| Santa Margalida | 100 | 1.8% | 0 |
| Mislata | 255 | 1.1% | 0 |
| Mandayona | 42 | 21.6% | 1 |
See also
- Workers Party of Britain, a minor British political party also backed by an anti-revisionist commuinist party (CPGB-ML)
External links
References
- ^ "Presentación del comité pro-Frente Obrero España" (PDF). UNION. October 2018. p. 6.
- ^ "LA MARCHA DEL FRENTE OBRERO" (PDF). UNION. January 2018. p. 10.
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- ^ "Return of the Old Left: A Look at the Spanish Worker's Front". europeanconservative.com. 2023-03-25. Retrieved 2023-07-09.
- ^ a b "PROGRAMA". Frente Obrero España (in Spanish). 2022-09-07. Retrieved 2023-07-09.
- ^ "Frente Obrero, un discurso político homofóbico y racista que promueve la división de la clase trabajadora". La Izquierda Diario - Red internacional (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-07-09.
- ^ "El partido de los escraches a Sánchez y Podemos se presenta a las elecciones por primera vez en Castilla y León". El Español (in Spanish). 2023-06-21. Retrieved 2023-07-09.
- ^ "BOLETÍN OFICIAL DEL ESTADO" (PDF). JUNTAS ELECTORALES PROVINCIALES. 21 June 2023. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
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