The Worker Peasant Student and Popular Front or FOCEP is a political party

Political party

A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

 in Peru

Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

. It was founded as a broad front in 1977 by a group around Genaro Ledesma Izquieta, Socialist Workers Party

Socialist Workers Party (Peru)

Socialist Workers Party is a trotskyist political party in Peru founded in 1971 by a group of dissidents of the Revolutionary Left Front . The group was led by Hugo Blanco and Enrique Fernández Chacón.In 1978, PST founded FOCEP together with other groups. In the same year it contested elections...

, Peruvian Communist Party (Red Flag)

Peruvian Communist Party (Red Flag)

Peruvian Communist Party - Red Flag , was a communist party in Peru founded in 1964 following a split in the Peruvian Communist Party. PCP-BR sided with the People's Republic of China and Maoism in the Sino-Soviet split...

 and Revolutionary Marxist Workers Party

Revolutionary Marxist Workers Party

Revolutionary Marxist Workers Party , was a Trotskyist political party in Peru that was founded in 1970 by a dissident fraction of Vanguardia Revolucionaria. It was led by Ricardo Napurí and Jorge Villarán...

. FOCEP participated in the elections in 1978. It later converted itself into a party, but only with the group around Ledesma. It participated in the 1980 elections alone, and on IU

United Left (Peru)

United Left was an alliance of leftist political parties in Peru founded in 1980 by Popular Democratic Unity , Revolutionary Left Union , Peruvian Communist Party , Revolutionary Socialist Party , Revolutionary Communist Party and FOCEP.In 1984 UDP and a part of PCR converted itself into the...

lists in 1985 and 1990.
It maintains good relations with the Workers Party of Korea of the DPRK
and has signed the 1992 Pyongyang Declaration