Workers' Front (Spain)

Workers' Front (Spanish: Frente Obrero, FO) is a Spanish political party founded as a mass organization by the anti-revisionist party PML (RC) in October 2018 and registered as a separate political party in March 2019. As of 2024, it is headed by Roberto Vaquero, a geographer, historian and political activist also graduated in political sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid.

History

The Workers' Front was established on October 14, 2018 at the Ateneo de Madrid as a front organization of the PML(RC). Subsequently, the Workers' Front expanded to several cities in Spain, such as La Coruña, León, Ponferrada, Zaragoza, and Cádiz.

On June 12, 2022, their first congress was held. During the congress the decision to become a political party was approved by the members. Representatives from other organizations, such as the Polisario Front, spoke during the congress.

In late 2023, the group announced they would be participating in the 2023 Spanish protests against the PSOE government.

Since then, they, and especially their leader, Roberto Vaquero, have gained presence in social media and even national televisions in Spain, participating in debates on current political issues in programs such as Horizonte, on channel Cuatro.

Ideology

Despite being strongly connected with the PML(RC) and supporting far-left ideologies such as Marxism-Leninism, the FO is not explicitly communist. Their political ideology is a syncretic combination of left-wing economic positions and right-wing cultural and ethical viewpoints.

In their program A Spain for the Workers, they defend national sovereignty, Hispanic identity, free university education, the nationalization of strategic economic sectors, energy sovereignty, nuclear energy, increasing the minimum wage, supporting the rural sector, promoting birth rates, creating more public housing, introducing rent control and limiting immigration.

They oppose capitalism, the European Union, NATO, surrogacy, feminism, deindustrialization, queer theory, the Trans Law, affirmative action, islamization, cosmopolitanism and political correctness.

Criticism

The party has been criticized by other leftist organizations as transphobic because of denying the gender ideology and the idea that the gender (especially being a woman) is only a "feeling".

Moreover, they have considered it reactionary and racist because of being strongly opossed to the increasing presence of islamic immigration not integrated into European societies (sometimes non-respectful with women's or LGBT's rignts, other times linked to higher crime rates than the native population, or with violent events motivated by religious fanaticism).

In addition, they have been compared (negatively) to the right-wing party Vox because of some coincidences in the aforementioned ideas.

It has also been accused of giving credit to the Great Replacement theory, despite the fact that it is a logical consequence of the combination of the current European demography and the current migratory patterns.

In 2023, FO was accused of having received money from the Algerian government by Euromagreb. This was later denied by the party.

Elections

The FO participated in elections for the first time in the 2023 Spanish local elections. They ran in Villalba de los Arcos, Santa Margalida, Mislata, and Mandayona, winning one seat in Mandayona.

Election results

Cortes Generales

European Parliament

See also

• Workers Party of Britain, a minor British political party also backed by an anti-revisionist communist party (CPGB-ML)
• National communism

External links

• Workers Front
• Marxist–Leninist Party (Communist Reconstruction)

References