Irish revolutionary socialist party standing for a workers' republic and international socialism and linked with Socialist Workers Party in Britain.
Comprehensive directory of leftist parties and organisations around the world which is updated every two months.
Split from (US) SWP in 1960s over issues of feminism and civil rights work and strongly identified with feminism, anti-racism and gay and lesbian liberation, the FSP participates in the Peace and Freedom Party in California and the Labor Party (US). The FSP also has branches in Canada and Australia.
Formed in 1991 after its members were expelled from the Socialist Party of Great Britain. Publishes Socialist Studies. Site includes online literature and meeting information. Criticises the original SPGB for being anarchist oriented and reformist.
Possibly the largest far-left group in Britain. Until recently the SWP had not run candidates in elections since the 1970s. Part of the "International Socialist Tendency" which is a loose grouping of organizations espousing the general line of the SWP and the theories of Tony Cliff.
Campaigns in the interests of ordinary workers, the unemployed and young people, standing in the best traditions of James Larkin and James Connolly. Represented in the Irish Dail by Joe Higgins. Affiliated with the Committee for a Workers International.
Daniel DeLeon founded the SLP in 1890. This site includes facts about the SLP's history, its revolutionary principles and program, a definition of socialism, an SLP local directory and a short biography of Daniel De Leon.
General Secretary is Sheila Torrence. Descended from the tendency led by Gerry Healy who was expelled in the 1980s. Ran one candidate in the last election. Rival of Socialist Equality Party both of which claim to be the British section of the International Committee of the Fourth International.
Site includes the party's aims and objectives and current affairs topics. Rival of Workers' Revolutionary Party from which it split in the 1980s. Both claim to be the British section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (itself a result of a 1950s split in Trotsky's Fourth International).
A multi-tendency socialist and feminist party which has been on the ballot in California since 1968
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