The Party of Labour of Burkina () was a political party in Burkina Faso.
PTB was founded on December 23, 1990 by Clément Oumarou Ouédraogo, who became the general secretary of the party.Banks, Arthur S., et al. Political Handbook of the World 1998. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. p. 134Kaboré, Roger Bila. Histoire politique du Burkina Faso: 1919-2000. L'Harmattan, 2002. p. 242 Ouédraogo had been expelled from the Popular Front and the Organization for Popular Democracy - Labour Movement (ODP-MT), organizations of which he had been the general secretary, by Blaise Compaoré in April 1990. PTB was registered on April 4, 1991. PTB was a Marxist-Leninist party.Yé, Bongnessan Arsène. Burkina Faso, les fondements politiques de la IVe République. Presses universitaires de Ouagadougou, 1995. pp. 126-127
Ouédraogo was killed on December 9, 1991.Rupley, Lawrence, et al. Historical Dictionary of Burkina Faso. Scarecrow Press, 2013. pp. lx, 157-158 After the death of Ouédraogo, the Second Plenum of the PTB Central Committee elected Alain Nidaoua Sawadogo as the new party leader.Femmes d'Afrique. Karthala, 1998.Rétrospective de l'actualité en .... Ministre de la communication, 1992. p. 6 PTB merged with the Party for Democracy and Progress on February 23, 1996.
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