Political Parties Established in 1924 - Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana, Lebanese Communist Party, Charter Party (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana, Lebanese Communist Party, Charter Party, Progressive Party (United States, 1924-46), Northern Ireland Labour Party, Lithuanian Nationalists Union, National Fascisti, National Party (Ireland, 1924), Progressive Republican Party, Country Progressive National Party, Swedish National Socialist Farmers' and Workers' Party, Lebanese People's Party, Iberian Communist Federation, Communist Party of Sweden, Freeminded People's Party, Communist Workers Party, Coalition, Workers Party. Excerpt: American Revolutionary Popular Alliance Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana The Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana is a centre-left Peruvian political party . At the legislative elections held on 9 April 2006, the party won 22.6 % of the popular vote and 36 out of 120 seats in the Congress of the Republic . Its presidential candidate at the elections of the same day, Alan Garca, won 22.6 % of the vote and went on to win the second round on 4 June 2006 with 52.6 %. History APRA was originally founded by Vctor Ral Haya de la Torre in Mexico City on 7 May 1924 with aspirations to becoming a continent-wide party, and it subsequently influenced a number of other Latin American political movements, including Bolivia 's Revolutionary Nationalist Movement ( Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario, MNR) and Costa Rica 's National Liberation Party ( Partido Liberacin Nacional, PLN). It is the oldest surviving political party in Peru and one of the best established. APRA is as much a social phenomenon as a political movement, with a membership whose loyalty to the party has been unwavering for several generations. APRA initially espoused anti-imperalism, Pan-Americanism, international solidarity and economic nationalism. Years of repression and clande...