Guatemalan Party of Labour

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Guatemalan Labour Party Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo
Leader	Ricardo Rosales
Founder	José Manuel Fortuny
Founded	1949
Dissolved	1998
Preceded by	Democratic Vanguard faction of the Revolutionary Action Party
Succeeded by	Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity
Military wing	Rebel Armed Forces (1960–1968)
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism
National affiliation	Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity
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Politics of Guatemala Political parties Elections

The Guatemalan Labour Party (Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo) was a Marxist-Leninist party in Guatemala. It existed from 1949 to 1998. It gained prominence during the government of Jacobo Arbenz. It was one of the main forces of opposition to the various regimes that followed Arbenz's overthrow, and later became a constituent of the URNG guerrilla coalition during the later phase of the country's Civil War.