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Socialist Party of the National Left

Argentinian political party

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ7551723 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Socialist Party of the National Left (Spanish: Partido Socialista de la Izquierda Nacional, PSIN) was a political party in Argentina, founded in 1962 by Jorge Abelardo Ramos, Jorge Enea Spilimbergo and others, representative of the National Left Argentine political tradition.

The political philosopher Ernesto Laclau was a member of the PSIN until 1969, when the British historian Eric Hobsbawm supported his entrance to Oxford.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Socialist Party of the National Left” as argentinian political party. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1962, 1969—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Socialist, Party and National can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as argentinian political party. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Socialist Party of the National Left” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.