Revolutionary Socialist Party (Portugal)

The Partido Socialista Revolucionario (PSR, dt: Revolutionary Socialist Party ) was a Portuguese party with Trotskyist orientation.

It was founded in 1978, as a merger of the League Comunista Internacional Paulista (LCI, dt: Internationalist Communist League ), based on the theories of Pabloism, and the Partido Revolucionario dos Trabalhadores (PRT, dt: Revolutionary Workers Party), oriented to the theories of the Argentine Trotskyist Nahuel Moreno, and on 2 April 1979 as a party in the Supreme Court ( Supremo Tribunal de Justiça ) registered. The party saw itself as the Portuguese section of the Fourth International ( " United Secretariat").

In 1991 it reached 1.1%, its best result of the vote in a parliamentary election in Portugal (see parliamentary election in Portugal 1991).

With publication in the Official Gazette dated 1 April 2008 ( Diário da República, 2 ª Série - N º 64-1 de Abril de 2008) was the party officially disbanded after they had risen in the co-founded her Bloco de Esquerda (BE) 1999. However, it still exists as Associação Política Socialista Revolucionaria (English about: revolutionary- socialist political union ), a platform of the former PSR- members within the BE.