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Socialist Party (France)
The Socialist Party, also known as the Parti socialiste français, is France's principal social-democratic party, refounded at the 1971 Épinay congress under François Mitterrand and led since 2018 by Olivier Faure.
Socialist Party (Netherlands)
Socialist Party (Socialistische Partij, SP), Dutch left-wing party founded 1972 as a Maoist CPN split; entered parliament 1994, peaked at 25 seats in 2006, led by Jimmy Dijk since 2023.
Socialist Party (Portugal)
Partido Socialista (PS): Portuguese centre-left social democratic party founded 19 April 1973 in Bad Münstereifel from the Acção Socialista Portuguesa; historic party of Mário Soares, alternated in government with the PSD, and fell to 58 seats behind Chega in the May 2025 election.
Socialist Party of Albania
The Socialist Party of Albania (Partia Socialiste e Shqipërisë, PS) is a social-democratic party founded in 1991 by Fatos Nano from the communist Party of Labour, led by Edi Rama since 2005, and in government 1997-2005 and 2013-present.
Socialist Party of America
Socialist Party of America (SPA), US democratic socialist party founded 1901 in Indianapolis from the Social Democratic Party and a Socialist Labor Party wing; led by Eugene V. Debs and Norman Thomas; split 1919 into the Communist parties, renamed Social Democrats USA in 1972.
Socialist Party of Chile
Socialist Party of Chile (Partido Socialista de Chile, PS), founded 19 April 1933 in Santiago by Grove, Matte, and Allende; Chilean left party that led the Unidad Popular government under Salvador Allende (1970–1973) and joined Concertación, Nueva Mayoría, and Boric governments.
Socialist Party of Greece
The Socialist Party of Greece (Σοσιαλιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας), founded by Platon Drakoulis in 1909, was among the first organized socialist bodies in modern Greek history.
Socialist Party of Puerto Rico
The Socialist Party of Puerto Rico (Partido Socialista Puertorriqueño, PSP) was a political party founded in 1971 seeking an independent, socialist republic; it dissolved in 1993.
Socialist Party of Senegal
The Socialist Party of Senegal (Parti socialiste, PS) is a Senegalese political party founded in 1948 by Léopold Sédar Senghor that governed Senegal from independence in 1960 until 2000.
Socialist Party of Serbia (Социјалистичка партија Србије)
Socialist Party of Serbia (Социјалистичка партија Србије, SPS), Serbian party founded July 1990 as successor to the League of Communists of Serbia; ruled under Milošević 1990–2000, led by Ivica Dačić since 2006, SNS junior coalition partner since 2012.
Socialist Party USA
Socialist Party USA (SPUSA), formally Socialist Party of the United States of America, a democratic socialist multi-tendency party reconstituted in Milwaukee in 1973 under Frank Zeidler, running independent socialist candidates and governed by a biennial National Convention.
Socialist People's Party (Norway)
Sosialistisk Folkeparti (SF), the Socialist People's Party of Norway, founded 1961 by Labour defectors opposing NATO; won 2 Storting seats 1961 and 1965, none 1969, joined the Socialist Election Alliance 1973, and merged into the Socialist Left Party in 1975–76.
Socialist realism
Socialist realism (Социалистический реализм, Sotsrealizm, Sorela) was the USSR's mandatory official art method from 1934, defined by Gorky at the Writers' Congress, requiring optimistic, party-minded depiction of reality in revolutionary development, enforced through state-controlled unions and spread across Eastern Europe and Asia.
Socialist realism in Bulgaria
Socialist realism in Bulgaria was the officially mandated artistic method of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, imposed on painting, literature, and theater from the late 1940s until 1989.
Socialist realism in Romania
Socialist realism in Romania was the officially imposed artistic and literary method of the Romanian People's Republic, instituted in 1948, which subordinated literature and the arts to the Communist Party.
Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Socijalistička Republika Bosna i Hercegovina) was one of six republics of socialist Yugoslavia, existing under that name from 1963 to 1992.
Socialist Republic of Chile
The Socialist Republic of Chile (República Socialista de Chile) was a short-lived Chilean state proclaimed on 4 June 1932 after a coup led by Marmaduke Grove forced President Montero's resignation, lasting twelve days.
Socialist Republic of Croatia
The Socialist Republic of Croatia (Socijalistička Republika Hrvatska), earlier the People's Republic of Croatia, was one of six constituent republics of Yugoslavia from 1963 to 1990.
Socialist Republic of Macedonia
The Socialist Republic of Macedonia (Социјалистичка Република Македонија) was one of the six constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, named as such from 1963 to 1991.
Socialist Republic of Montenegro
The Socialist Republic of Montenegro (Socijalistička Republika Crna Gora) was one of six republics of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1992, with its capital at Podgorica, renamed Titograd.
Socialist Republic of Romania
Socialist Republic of Romania (Republica Socialistă România): the communist Romanian state, 1965–1989, under the Romanian Communist Party, later Nicolae Ceaușescu's national-Stalinist dictatorship, ended by the violent December 1989 revolution and his execution.
Socialist Republic of Serbia
The Socialist Republic of Serbia was one of the six constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, existing from 1963 until September 1990.
Socialist Republic of Slovenia
Socialist Republic of Slovenia (Socialistična republika Slovenija), a constituent republic of socialist Yugoslavia 1945–1990/91; one-party communist rule, 1948 Cominform split, workers' self-management, renamed Republic of Slovenia in 1990 before the 1990 independence plebiscite and 1991 secession.
Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma
The Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma was the official name of Burma (now Myanmar) from 1974 to 1988, a one-party socialist state under Ne Win.
Socialist Revolutionary Party (Партия социалистов-революционеров)
Socialist Revolutionary Party (Партия социалистов-революционеров, PSR, esery), Russian agrarian socialist party founded 1901–1902 from neo-Narodnik groups; led by Viktor Chernov, used a Combat Organization for terror, won 40% in the 1917 Constituent Assembly elections, and was suppressed by 1925.
Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia
The Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia (SSR Abkhazia) was a Soviet republic in Abkhazia, proclaimed on 31 March 1921 and downgraded to an autonomous republic within Georgia in 1931.
Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and Belorussia
The Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and Belorussia, known as Litbel, was a short-lived Soviet republic created in February 1919 by merging the Lithuanian and Belorussian SSRs.
Socialist state
Socialist state (Slovak: Socialistický štát): a state with state-owned means of production, central planning, and ruling communist party under Marxism–Leninism; first the 1917 RSFSR/USSR, later China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, North Korea.
Socialist Transformation of Private Industry and Commerce
The Socialist Transformation of Private Industry and Commerce (资本主义工商业社会主义改造) was the Chinese Communist Party policy that converted private capitalist industry and commerce into joint state-private enterprises between 1953 and 1956.
Socialist Unity Party of Germany
Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, SED), East German Marxist-Leninist ruling party formed 21–22 April 1946 by the Soviet-pressured merger of KPD and SPD; ruled the GDR 1949–1989, renamed PDS in 1989.