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Momentum (organisation)
Momentum is a British socialist pressure group founded 8 October 2015 to organise support for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour leadership, requiring members to join the Labour Party, governed by an elected NCG, and fined £16,700 by the Electoral Commission in 2019.
New Left (Νέα Αριστερά) (Greece)
New Left (Νέα Αριστερά, Nea Aristera) is a Greek left-wing party founded December 2023 by 11 MPs who split from SYRIZA after Stefanos Kasselakis won its leadership; led by Alexis Charitsis, member of the Party of the European Left.
Party for Socialism and Liberation
Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL): Marxist-Leninist US party founded 2004 by Brian Becker and others splitting from Workers World Party; democratic centralist; runs candidates; 2024 De la Cruz-Garcia ticket was its best result.
Peace and Freedom Party
Peace and Freedom Party: California's socialist ballot-qualified party, founded June 23, 1967 amid anti-Vietnam War and civil rights movements; one of six qualified state parties; 1968 Eldridge Cleaver presidential line; feminist-socialist platform since 1974.
Podemos (Spanish political party)
Podemos, "We can," Spanish progressive party founded January 2014 by Pablo Iglesias after the 15-M anti-austerity movement; centralized structure, circles and digital assemblies, coalition government with PSOE from 2020, later decline and Sumar schism.
Popular Unity (Chile)
Popular Unity (Unidad Popular) was the Chilean left-wing coalition formed in 1969 that elected Salvador Allende president in 1970 with 36.3% and governed until the September 11, 1973 military coup.
Révolution Permanente
Révolution Permanente (RP): French Trotskyist organization and daily news website founded December 2022 by the CCR current after its 2021 departure from the NPA; affiliated to the Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International, spokesperson Anasse Kazib.
Revolutionary Communists of America
Revolutionary Communists of America (RCA), US section of the Revolutionary Communist International, is a Marxist party founded in 2024 after the "Are You a Communist" campaign, publishing The Communist newspaper and a program of nationalization and a 20-hour workweek.
Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)
Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), Indian left party founded March 1940 by ex-Anushilan Samiti, Jugantar and HSRA revolutionaries; anti-Stalinist Marxist-Leninist; Left Front in West Bengal and Tripura, UDF in Kerala since 2014; one Lok Sabha seat, Kollam.
Right Opposition
Right Opposition: Soviet Communist Party faction led by Bukharin, Rykov, and Tomsky defending the NEP and slower industrialization; defeated by Stalin's left turn in 1928–1929 and destroyed in the 1937–1938 purges.
Sammarinese Communist Party
Partito Comunista Sammarinese (PCS), Sammarinese Communist Party, Marxist party in San Marino; founded underground 1921/refounded 1941, governed with Socialists 1945–1957, returned 1978, became PPDS in 1990.
Sandinista National Liberation Front
Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN, Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional): Nicaraguan party founded 1961, overthrew Somoza in 1979, ruled 1979–1990, returned under Daniel Ortega in 2007, now an authoritarian co-presidency.
Socialist Alternative (Australia)
Socialist Alternative (SAlt, SA) is an Australian revolutionary Marxist organisation founded in 1995 from a split in the International Socialist Organisation, in the Tony Cliff tradition; it publishes Red Flag and Marxist Left Review and leads Victorian Socialists.
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.
Solidarity (Ireland)
Solidarity (Dlúthpháirtíocht – na sóisialaigh) is a revolutionary socialist organisation across Ireland, founded 2014 as the Anti-Austerity Alliance, renamed 2017, and allied with People Before Profit in the PBP-S Dáil electoral grouping.
South African Communist Party
South African Communist Party (SACP), founded 30 July 1921 as the Communist Party of South Africa; Marxist-Leninist party renamed in 1953 after going underground under the Suppression of Communism Act, allied with the ANC and COSATU in the Tripartite Alliance.
United Socialist Workers' Party
United Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores Unificado, PSTU): Argentine Trotskyist-Morenoist party founded 2011 from the FOS-COI merger, section of the IWL-FI, running in the Workers' Left Front; distinct from the Brazilian PSTU of 1994.
Workers' Party of Turkey (2017)
Workers' Party of Turkey (TİP, Türkiye İşçi Partisi), socialist party founded 2017 from the HTKP, led by Erkan Baş; revived the name of the 1961 party dissolved by Law 2533; won 1.73% and 4 seats in 2023.