left-wing political party active in the early twentieth century; generally supported an aggressive redistribution of wealth.
In "Sleep of Reason" Earths, an American political party focused on social justice, particularly on protecting the working man from unregulated robber-baron capitalism. Though it's the farthest "left" of the mainstream political parties, the Socialist party is found in many nations, and Socialist candidates have been elected President in Europe, Canada, and the United States.
a political party in the United States formed in 1900 to advocate socialism
The Socialist Party (French: Parti Socialiste or PS) is the main opposition party in France. It replaced the French section of the Workers' International (SFIO) in 1969.
The Socialist Party is a Trotskyist political party active in England and Wales and part of the Committee for a Workers' International. They publish a weekly newspaper entitled The Socialist and a monthly Socialism Today. As an organisation, it has evolved from the Militant Tendency, who in the early 1980s started to be expelled from the Labour Party, for operating as an entryist political party with a programme and organisation entirely separate from that of the Labour Party (the Militant claimed to be nothing more than a newspaper at the time).
The Socialist Party (SP, Dutch: Socialistische Partij) is a Dutch socialist political party. After the 2006 election, the Socialist Party became one of the major parties of the Netherlands with 25 seats of 150, an increase of 16 seats.
The Socialist Party (Portuguese: Partido Socialista, pron. ) is a political party of Portugal. It was founded on April 19, 1973 in the German city of Bad Münstereifel, by militants of the Portuguese Socialist Action (Portuguese: Acção Socialista Portuguesa).
The Socialist Party (in Irish Páirtà Sóisialach) is a political party active in Ireland. It is currently Ireland's only Marxist organisation with electoral representation in Dáil Éireann. It is affiliated to the Trotskyist Committee for a Workers' International (CWI).
The Parti Socialiste or PS of Belgium is a French-speaking social democratic political party. It is the dominant party in Wallonia, supported by the urban working class, and is led by Elio Di Rupo. In Brussels, it has recently performed head-to-head with the MR liberals.
The Socialist Party is a small Trotskyist political party in Australia affiliated with the Committee for a Workers International. The group began in 1985 as a small faction within the Australian Labor Party but left the ALP in the early 1990s when Labor and most social democratic parties internationally moved to the right. It then became known as Militant and then the Militant Socialist Organisation before becoming the Socialist Party.
A split in the Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti (The Communist Party of Sweden) in 1929 resulted in the formation of a parallel communist party, led by Karl Kilbom and Nils Flyg. This party won over the entire communist parliamentary faction and a major part of the militancy. They were also able to win over the main publication of SKP, Folkets Dagblad Politiken.
The Socialistiska Partiet is a Swedish political party, the Swedish section of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International. The party was formed at a congress in 1971, through the merger of Revolutionary Marxists (RM) and the Bolshevik Group (BG). Initially it was called League of Revolutionary Marxists (Revolutionära Marxisters Förbund, RMF).
The Socialist Party of Argentina (Partido Socialista) is a social-democratic political party in Argentina.
Socialist Party has been the name of several political parties in India, all of which have their roots in the Congress Socialist Party formed during the freedom struggle. (The Samajwadi Party is also a modern-day party whose first name in Hindi means "socialist".)
The Socialist Party (Spanish: Partido Socialista, PS) was a political party in Puerto Rico.
The Socialist Party is a minor political party of South Korea. It was established as the Youth Progressive Party (ì²ë…„진보당) in 1988, but changed its name to the present form on August, 2001.
The Socialist Party (in Dutch: Socialistische Partij, SP) was a Dutch revolutionary syndicalist libertarian socialist political party. The SP played only a minor role in Dutch political history.
Socialist Party (Marxist) was a Trotskyist political party in India. It was formed in 1954 by the Trotskyists inside the Socialist Party, who broke away in protest against the merger of the Socialist Party and the Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party into the Praja Socialist Party. The new party was not affiliated to any of the Trotskyist Fourth Internationals.