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{{Short description|Left-wing political party in Argentina}}
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{{Distinguish|Socialist Party (Argentina)}}
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{{Infobox political party
|country = Argentina
|name = Argentine Socialist Party
|native_name = Partido Socialista Argentino
|abbreviation = '''PSA'''
|colorcode = #E30C1B
|logo = File:Partido_Socialista_Argentino_%281958-1972%29.png
|logo_size = 150px
|leader = [[Alfredo Palacios]]<br />[[Alicia Moreau de Justo]]
|foundation = 1958
|dissolution = 1972
|headquarters = [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina
|ideology = [[Democratic socialism]]<br />[[Reformism]]<br />[[Progressivism]]
|position = Left-wing
|split = [[Socialist Party (Argentina)|Socialist Party]]
|successor = [[Popular Socialist Party (Argentina)|People's Socialist Party]]
| youth_wing       = [[Socialist Youth of Argentina]]
|international = [[Socialist International]]
|seats1_title       =
|website =
}}
The '''Argentine Socialist Party''' was a [[socialist]] political party in Argentina formed after the third division of the [[Socialist Party (Argentina)|Socialist Party]].
==History==
===Origin===
When democracy was restored (though [[peronism]] became illegal) in 1958, a Socialist Party congress was held in [[Rosario, Santa Fe|Rosario]], in which a faction led by the [[Argentine Senate|Senator]] [[Alfredo Palacios]] and [[Alicia Moreau de Justo]] denounced that some party leaders were not truly socialists, accusing them of supporting a new version of [[Manchester Liberalism]]. After this congress, there was a disrupt in the traditional party: on the one hand, [[Nicolás Repetto]] and [[Américo Ghioldi]] founded the [[Democratic Socialist Party (Argentina)|Democratic Socialist Party]], on the other hand, the previously mentioned Palacios and Moreau founded the Argentine Socialist Party. Though both proclaimed themselves as the ''Socialist Party'', the government forced them to use different denominations, ending up in ''Argentine'' and ''Democratic'' respectively.
===1958–1965===
While the Democratic Socialist Party held both anti-Peronist and [[anti-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 the [[Argentine Chamber of Deputies|Chamber of Deputies]] in the [[1963 Argentine general election|1963 election]]. The party could ensure stability during these years, something that would change after the death of its leader, Alfredo Palacios, in 1965.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.partidosocialista.org.ar/historia/|title=Historia del Partido Socialista}}</ref>
===1965–1972===
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 the [[Revolución Argentina|1966–1973 coup]]. Numerous far-left radicals including [[Maoists]], [[Che Guevara|Guevarists]] and [[Fidel Castro|Fidelists]] could not stand the centre-left views of the party, so they started joining other parties, such as the [[Argentine Socialist Vanguard Party|Socialist Vanguard Party]], the [[Argentine Marxist–Leninist Communist Party|Communist Vanguard Party]], the [[Communist Party (Argentina)|Communist Party]] and the [[Worker's Socialist Party (Argentina)|Worker's Socialist Party]].
In 1970, Jorge Selser led the PSA to participate, along the [[Justicialist Party]], the [[Radical Civic Union]], the [[Christian Democratic Party (Argentina)|Christian Democratic Party]] and the Bloquist Party, in ''La Hora del Pueblo'' (in English, ''The People's Hour''), a document written to demand the dictatorship the restoration of democracy. Because of this, the ''de facto'' president, [[Alejandro Lanusse]], announced the restoration of democracy through the 1972 ''Gran Acuerdo Nacional'' (in English, ''Great National Accord'') and his Interior Minister, [[Arturo Mor Roig]], [[March 1973 Argentine general election|organized elections for 1973]]. Nevertheless, the new legislation would dissolve the PSA, because it did not allow any party to call itself ''Argentine''. 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 a [[Leninist]] ideology, which resulted in the [[Popular Socialist Party (Argentina)|People's Socialist Party]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lavanguardiadigital.com.ar/index.php/2017/04/24/un-hecho-significativo-para-la-historia-del-socialismo-argentino/|title=El PSA: un hecho significativo para la historia del socialismo argentino|date=24 April 2017 }}</ref>
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[[Category:Political parties in Argentina]]
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