Nahuel Moreno

Who was Nahuel Moreno?

Nahuel Moreno was a Trotskyist leader from Argentina. Moreno was active in the Trotskyist movement from before World War II until his death.

During the 1953-1963 split in the Fourth International he backed the International Committee faction led by the Socialist Workers Party. For much of this time he published a journal called Palabra Obrera, and organised a group which sought to act as the left wing of the Peronist movement.

Prior to the reunification of the two factions in 1963, the International Secretariat's best-known leader in Latin America, J. Posadas, left to form his own Fourth International. After Posadas' departure, Moreno became the central leader of the International's Latin American Bureau. When the Fourth International was reunified in 1963, his current helped to found the Revolutionary Workers Party in Argentina.

In the 1970s, when divisions surfaced over guerrilla warfare inside the International, Moreno lead the pro-SWP faction of the PRT which eventually established a public faction, the PRT-La Verdad. This group oriented around fighting for union rights and mass based party building. In 1973, it fused with the pro-Trotskyist Socialist Party of Argentina to found the Socialist Workers Party of Argentina. The PST sided with the SWP as Moreno had sided with them for several years. As factional differences within the International peaked, the American SWP formed the Leninist Trotskyist Faction, of which Moreno's PST was a part.