Workers' Party (Togo)
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Workers' Party is an opposition Togo
lese political party
founded in 1998. It is of Trotskyist orientation and has links to the trade unions. Claude Améganvi
has been the PT's national coordinator since the party's founding. PT is a member of Pierre Lambert
's International Liaison Committee for a Workers' International (ILC).
Togo
Togo, officially the Togolese Republic , is a country in West Africa bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, on which the capital Lomé is located. Togo covers an area of approximately with a population of approximately...
lese political party
Political party
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founded in 1998. It is of Trotskyist orientation and has links to the trade unions. Claude Améganvi
Claude Améganvi
Claude Henri Améganvi is a Togolese Trotskyist and former political prisoner. An architect by training, in 1977 he joined the exile student movement in France in opposition to the one-party dictatorship of Gnassingbé Eyadéma. He helped found the Organisation of Togolese Workers for Democracy in...
has been the PT's national coordinator since the party's founding. PT is a member of Pierre Lambert
Pierre Lambert
Pierre Lambert was a French Trotskyist leader, who, for many years acted as the central leader of the French Courant Communiste Internationaliste which founded the Parti des Travailleurs.He was born in Paris to a family of Russian Jewish immigrants...
's International Liaison Committee for a Workers' International (ILC).