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Workers' Front
Frente Obrero
AbbreviationFO
LeaderRoberto Vaquero
Founded13 March 2019
HeadquartersCalle Gascó Oliag 6, PTA 42. 46010 Valencia
NewspaperUNIÓN
Ideology
Political positionBig tent
Party flag
File:Frente Obrero bandera.png
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 explicitly communist. Their political ideology is a syncretic combination of leftwing economic positions and far right 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.[5]

They oppose vulture funds, positive discrimination, surrogacy, the European Union, NATO, capitalism, feminism, deindustrialization, queer ideology, Muslims, the Trans Law, cosmopolitanism, postmodernism, and political correctness.[5]

Criticisms

The FO is criticized by other parties as transphobic, reactionary and racist and compared (negatively) to radical right party. It has also been criticized for giving credit to the Great Replacement theory. [6]

Vox.[7][8]

In 2023 the FO was acussed of having received money from the Algerian government which the party denies. [9]

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.[10]

Election results

2023 Spanish local elections
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

References

  1. ^ "Presentación del comité pro-Frente Obrero España" (PDF). UNION. October 2018. p. 6.
  2. ^ "LA MARCHA DEL FRENTE OBRERO" (PDF). UNION. January 2018. p. 10.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ I CONGRESO DEL FRENTE OBRERO, retrieved 2023-07-09
  4. ^ "Return of the Old Left: A Look at the Spanish Worker's Front". europeanconservative.com. 2023-03-25. Retrieved 2023-07-09.
  5. ^ a b "PROGRAMA". Frente Obrero España (in Spanish). 2022-09-07. Retrieved 2023-07-09.
  6. ^ https://aldescubierto.org/2023/02/03/desmontando-las-mentiras-de-roberto-vaquero-y-la-ultraderecha-sobre-la-inmigracion/
  7. ^ "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.
  8. ^ "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.
  9. ^ https://www.atalayar.com/en/articulo/politics/frente-obrero-denies-being-in-the-service-of-algeria-and-having-received-money-from-the-north-african-country/20230720104111188485.html
  10. ^ "BOLETÍN OFICIAL DEL ESTADO" (PDF). JUNTAS ELECTORALES PROVINCIALES. 21 June 2023. Retrieved 9 July 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)