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Socialist Party of Chile

The Socialist Party of Chile (Spanish: Partido Socialista de Chile, or PS) is a centre-left political party founded in 1933. Its historic leader was President of Chile Salvador Allende, who was deposed in a coup d'état by General Augusto Pinochet in 1973. The military junta immediately banned socialist, Marxist and other leftist political parties.[12] Members of the Socialist party and other leftists were subject to violent suppression, including torture and murder, under the Pinochet dictatorship, and many went into exile. Twenty-seven years after the 1973 coup, Ricardo Lagos Escobar won the Presidency as the Socialist Party candidate in the 1999–2000 Chilean presidential election. Socialist Michelle Bachelet won the 2005–06 Chilean presidential election. She was the first female president of Chile and was succeeded by Sebastián Piñera in 2010. In the 2013 Chilean general election, she was again elected president, leaving office in 2018.

Socialist Party of Chile
Partido Socialista de Chile

Paulina Vodanovic

Camilo Escalona

Alfonso de Urresti

Daniel Manouchehri

Marmaduke Grove
Óscar Schnake
Carlos Alberto Martínez
Salvador Allende

19 April 1933 (1933-04-19)

París 873, Barrio París-Londres, Santiago, Chile

Socialist Youth of Chile

40,364 (3rd)[1]

Latin American integration[8]

Centre-left[9][10]
Before 1990:
Left-wing[7]

Unity for Chile
Democratic Socialism
New Social Pact (2021)
Constituent Unity (2020 to 2021)

Progressive Alliance
Socialist International[11]

São Paulo Forum
COPPPAL

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The Socialist Party embodies Marxism, enriched by scientific and social progress.

The Capitalist exploitation based on the doctrine of private property regarding land, industry, resource, and transportation, necessarily must be replaced by an economically socialist state in which said private property be transformed into collective.

During the process of total transformation of the system of government, a representative revolutionary government of the manual and intellectual labourers' class is necessary. The new socialist state only can be born of the initiative and the revolutionary action of the proletariat masses.

The socialist doctrine is of an international character and requires the support of all the workers of the world. The Socialist Party will support their revolutionary goals in economics and politics across Latin America in order to pursue a vision of a Confederacy of the Socialist Republics of the Continent, the first step toward the World Socialist Confederation.

1970 –

Salvador Allende

2000 – (with dual membership in the Party for Democracy)

Ricardo Lagos

2006 –

Michelle Bachelet

2014 –

Michelle Bachelet

Government Junta of Chile (1973)

Human rights violations in Pinochet's Chile

disappeared in 1974

Víctor Olea Alegria

disappeared in 1975

Carlos Lorca

general secretary between 1971 and 1979

Carlos Altamirano

Chamber of Deputies of Chile Resolution of 22 August 1973

(in Spanish)

Partido Socialista de Chile

(in Spanish)

Declaración de Principios del Partido Socialista de Chile