Workers and Farmers Party

For the Costa Rican political party of the same name, see People's Vanguard Party (Costa Rica).

Workers and Farmers Party
Abbreviation	WFP
Leader	Stephen Maharaj C. L. R. James
Founded	1965
Dissolved	1966
Split from	DLP
Succeeded by	ULF
Ideology	Marxism Labourism
Politics of Trinidad and Tobago Political parties Elections

The Workers and Farmers Party was a Marxist political party in Trinidad and Tobago. The party was organised by former Democratic Labour Party leader Stephen Maharaj, C.L.R. James, George Weekes (of the Oilfields Workers Trade Union) and included the then little-known Basdeo Panday among its slate of candidates. It was succeeded by the United Labour Front led by Basdeo Panday.

The party contested the 1966 General Elections. It secured 3.5% of the vote and failed to win any seats in Parliament. None of its candidates secured the 12.5% of the vote in their constituency that was required to have their deposits refunded.

The major political impact of the WFP was that it launched the political career of Basdeo Panday.

References

• Anthony, Michael (2001). Historical Dictionary of Trinidad and Tobago. Scarecrow Press, Inc. Lanham, Md., and London. ISBN 0810831732.
• Meighoo, Kirk (2003). Politics in a Half Made Society: Trinidad and Tobago, 1925-2002. Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston, Jamaica. ISBN 9766370796.