Revolutionary Left Party

The Partido de la Izquierda Revolucionaria was a Bolivian Communist Party.

It was in May 1940 under the direction of José Antonio Arze y Arze ( born January 13, 1904 in Cochabamba; † August 23, 1955 in ibid ) and Ricardo Anaya Arze (* February 6, 1907 Cochabamba ;) founded as a Moscow-backed communist party. She sought supporters among the miners. Your Member of Parliament negotiated cooperative during the Second World War with governments, who were allied with the Allies. Compared to the fascist pro- Axis government of Gualberto Villarroel López (December 20, 1943 to July 21, 1946 ), she stressed the class antagonisms.

Enrique Hertzog convened on May 14, 1947 Alfredo Mendizábal as Minister of Labour and Gustavo Henrich as Minister of Public Works and Communications, two members of the PIR in his cabinet. As in this period, the Patiño Mines and Enterprises Consolidated, Inc. dismissed under Antenor Patiño Rodríguez, all employees of the mines Siglo XX and Catavi with financing from the Banco Central and then the politically inconspicuous part of employees reinstated presented on the minimum wage was for this castling the PIR blamed.

As of 1951, the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario, which was indistinguishable until 1945 by other fascist movements, open for two years against Communists, which the PIR disappeared into obscurity.