In reality, despite including communist, socialist and anarcho-syndicalist tendencies the PT was generally regarded as little more than a front for the Trotskyist PCI.
Its national secretary was Daniel Gluckstein (pseudonym: Seldjouk), who received less than 0.5% in the 2002 French presidential election.
Gérard Schivardi, a candidate in the 2007 presidential elections under the PT, gained 0.34% of the votes.
In the 10 and 17 June 2007 French National Assembly elections, the party won no seats.
The PT published a magazine called Informations Ouvrières (Workers' News).