Nahuel Moreno (April 24, 1924 - January 25, 1987) (real name Hugo Bressano) was a Trotskyist leader from Argentina. Moreno was active in the Trotskyist movement from before World War II until his death. With the 1953 split in the Fourth International he backed the International Committee faction led by the Socialist Workers Party in the USA. April 24 is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (115th in leap years). ... 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Trotskyism can refer to either the body of ideas associated with Leon Trotsky or the movement based on those ideas. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: Immense human sacrifice, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons - the atom bomb being the ultimate. ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Emblem of the Fourth International The Fourth International was an international organisation of Trotskyist communists. ... The International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) is a Trotskyist international. ... The Socialist Workers Party is a small communist political party in the United States. ...

He then organised a group which sought to act as the left wing of the Peronist movement, publishing a journal called Palabra Obrera. In the 1960s he founded the Socialist Workers Party (PST) of Argentina, having sided with the SWP when it fused with the European based International Secretariat to form the United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI). Peronism is an Argentine political ideology based on the ideas and programs associated with former president Juan Perón. ... The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... Initially the title International Secretariat of the Fourth International was the name given to the executive committee responsible for the regular operation of the Fourth International (FI) founded in 1938. ... The United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI) is the largest Trotskyist international organisation. ...

Prior to the reunification of the two factions in 1963, the International Secretariat's leader in Latin America, J. Posadas, split to form his own Fourth International (Posadist). Posadas' departure cleared the way for Moreno to become leader of the USFI's Latin American Bureau. Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ... J. Posadas (1912-1981) (occasionally referred to as Juan Posadas), was the pseudonym of Homero Cristali, an Argentinian Trotskyist. ... The Trotskyist-Posadist IVth International is a Trotskyist international organisation founded in 1962 by Juan Posadas who was leader of the Latin America Bureau of the Fourth International in the 1950s as well as the section of the FI in Argentina. ...

By this time the PST was quite sizeable and Moreno was the head of the former ICFI forces in Latin America. As factional differences within the USFI mounted, the American SWP formed the Leninist Trotskyist Faction, of which Moreno's PST was a part, until he formed his own Bolshevik Faction when the LTF was dissolved. His BF left the USFI and formed a new international grouping with Pierre Lambert's supporters but this rapidly became unglued. Moreno and his supporters then formed their own international grouping, the International Workers' League (LIT), mostly, but not exclusively, based in Latin America around the Argentine Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) and the Brazilian Socialist Convergence, now the United Socialist Workers' Party (PSTU). Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ... Pierre Lambert (born June 9, 1920) (real name Pierre Boussel) is a French Trotskyist leader. ... See also the Workers International League. ... Brazils United Socialist Workers Party (in Portuguese, Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores Unificado, or PSTU) was founded in 1994 after pre-foundation congresses in 1992 and 1993, uniting several Socialist and Communist organizations and independent activists, centered around the Convergência Socialista group which left the Workers Party when its...

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• Moreno's writings in English translation
• Moreno's writings in Spanish