Labor Party (Panama)
{{distinguish|Labor and Agrarian Party}}
The Labor Party ({{langx|es|Partido Laborista}}) was a Panamanian political party.
The initiative to launch the Labor Party began in 1927.{{cite book|author=Ricaurte Soler|title=Panamá: historia de una crisis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VYuwWoLlGvwC&pg=PA59|date=1 January 1989|publisher=Siglo XXI|isbn=968-23-1553-0|page=59}} Founders of the party included Diógenes de la Rosa, Don Cristóbal Segundo and Domingo H. Turner.{{cite book|title=Revista cultural lotería: L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SpMSAQAAIAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Lotería Nacional de Beneficencia|pages=9–10}} The party obtained some 1,000 votes in the 1928 general election.{{cite book|author=John W. McCauley|title=The Changing Relationship Between Nationalism and Radicalism in Panama Since 1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n5yRSa8FZQkC|year=1967|publisher=Michigan State University. Department of History|pages=91–92}}
In 1929 the party sent a delegation to the 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America, at which it announced its publication El Mazo ('The Mallet').{{cite book|author=Manuel Caballero|title=Latin America and the Comintern, 1919-1943|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CeCQrxJkiAMC&pg=PA8|date=6 June 2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-52331-8|page=8}} The delegates of the party were Eugenio Cossani and Jacinto Chacón.{{cite book|author=Pablo González Casanova|title=Historia del movimiento obrero en América Latina|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0ptIAAAAYAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Siglo Veintiuno Editores|page=298|isbn=9789682312298 }} At the conference, the party presented itself as 'partly communist'. In August 1929 the party protested against the raising of a bust of US president Theodore Roosevelt in Colón, citing that the monument hurt the 'national dignity' of Panama.{{cite book|author=Gregorio Selser|title=Cronología de las intervenciones extranjeras en América Latina: 1899-1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bfVuFICzTwAC&pg=PA473|year=1994|publisher=UNAM|isbn=978-968-36-7797-6|page=473}}
The successor organization of the Labor Party, the Communist Party of Panama (Partido Communista de Panamá, PCP), was officially established in 1930.
Political parties of the Americas: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies. V. 1. Edited by Robert J. Alexander. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982. Pp. 566. Whilst Segundo and Turner became Communist Party leaders, De la Rosa did not join the new party and drifted in a Trotskyist direction.