Socialist Party of Chile

Also known as Partido Socialista de Chile

political party in Chile

Key facts

Abbreviation: PS
President: Paulina Vodanovic
Secretary general: Camilo Escalona
Chief of senators: Alfonso de Urresti
Chief of deputies: Daniel Manouchehri
Founders: Marmaduke Grove , Óscar Schnake , Carlos Alberto Martínez , Salvador Allende
Founded: 19 April 1933 ; 93 years ago ( 1933-04-19 )
Headquarters: Barrio París-Londres , Santiago , Chile
Youth wing: Socialist Youth of Chile
Membership 2025: 43,432 (4th)
Ideology: Social democracy Democratic socialism Reformism Factions: Socialism ( multi-tendency ) Before 1990: Classical Marxism Marxism-Leninism (from 1967) Revolutionary socialism Left-wing nationalism Left-wing populism Latin American integration

~35 min read

Article

The Socialist Party of Chile (Spanish: Partido Socialista de Chile, PS) is a centre-left to left-wing 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. 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.