Frei Ruiz-Tagle was succeeded in 2000 by Socialist Ricardo Lagos, who won the presidency in an unprecedented runoff election against Joaquín Lavín of the rightist Alliance for Chile, by a very tight score of less than 200, 000 votes ( 51, 32 %).

Two years later, members of the Socialist Labor Party left the Knights to found the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance as a Marxist rival.

The parties taking part in the opposition coalition were the Jose Roy's allies in the Nacionalista Party headed by Renato Cayetano with Enrile as their " commanding leader ", a faction of the legislators from Kilusang Bagong Lipunan that distanced from Marcos headed by Assemblyman Arturo Tolentino, the pre-1986 leaders that defected from the ruling coalition such as Eva Estrada-Kalaw, the Partido Nacionalista ng Pilipinas headed by Blas Ople, the Mindanao Alliance, the Muslim Federal Party and the Christian Socialist Democratic Party.

* Socialist Alliance ( Australia ), a Socialist political party

* Socialist Alliance ( England ), a political party in England

Other times the formation of such Fronts were undertaken without the participation of other parties, such as the Socialist Alliance of Working People of Yugoslavia and the National Front of Afghanistan, though the purpose was the same: to promote the Communist Party line to generally non-communist audiences and to mobilize them to carry out tasks within the country under the aegis of the Front.

* Red-Green Alliance of Denmark: a political alliance, later a political party formed in 1989 by the Left Socialists ( VS ), Communist Party of Denmark ( DKP ) and Socialist Workers Party ( SAP ).

* The European political alliance Nordic Green Left Alliance, formed by the Left Alliance ( Finland ), the Left-Green Movement ( Iceland ), the Left Party ( Sweden ), the Socialist Left Party ( Norway ) and the Socialist People's Party ( Denmark ).

Others include Costa Rican National Socialist Youth, Costa Rican National Socialist Alliance, New Social Order, Costa Rican National Socialist Resistance ( which is Costa Rica's member of the World Union of National Socialists ) and the Hiperborean Spear Society.

* International Alliance of Socialist Democracy, an organization founded by Mikhail Bakunin

Six political parties have seats in the Provincial Council: Christian Democratic and Flemish / New-Flemish Alliance ( CD & V / N-VA, 25 seats ), Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats ( Open VLD, 17 seats ), Vlaams Belang ( 15 seats ), Socialist Party – Different-Spirit ( SP. A-Spirit, 14 seats ), Groen!

While at university, West was a member of the Socialist Workers Party and later briefly the Socialist Alliance ; West has been a left-wing activist for many years ; he was a critic of Tony Blair's New Labour government.

The borough council consisted of 5 representatives for the Socialist Left, 4 for Labour, 2 each for Conservatives and Progress and 1 each for the Red Electoral Alliance and the Liberals.

In the 2007 borough election Labour became the largest party, with 5 representatives, the Socialist Left and the Conservatives both getting 3 seats, the Liberals 2 and Progress and the Red Electoral Alliance 1 each.

Labour became the largest party with 5 representatives, the Socialist Left have 3, the Conservatives, Liberals and the Red Electoral Alliance 2 each, and the Progress party 1.

Some politicians of the Alliance of Free Democrats and Hungarian Socialist Party parties have argued for the introduction of marriage for same-sex couples.

The Scottish Socialist Party was formed from the Scottish Socialist Alliance ( SSA ), an alliance of left-wing organisations in Scotland, Following reasonable results by the alliance in the 1997 General Election, the decision was taken to transform the SSA from an electoral alliance into a single party to contest the first elections of the new Scottish Parliament.

In the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic itself there was no separate Communist Party until 1990 as affairs were controlled directly by the CPSU.

That of itself would be a sufficient reason for joining a Socialist party.

In July 1976, Barre's SRC disbanded itself and established in its place the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party ( SRSP ), a one-party government based on scientific socialism and Islamic tenets.

* October 7 – The communist Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party votes to reorganize itself as a socialist party, to be named the Hungarian Socialist Party.

This met with a Red Army counter-offensive that drove into Polish territory almost to Warsaw, Minsk itself was re-captured by the Soviet Red Army on 11 July 1920 and a new Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic was declared on 31 July 1920.

The process of combination, where the conservative-nationalist-monarchist group thought that they could piggyback on to and control the National Socialist movement to garner the seats of power, was to repeat itself 10 years later in 1933 when Franz von Papen would legally ask Hitler to form a government.

The FN has established itself as the third largest political force in France, after the Union for a Popular Movement ( UMP ) and the Socialist Party ( PS ).

The centrist social democratic Radical Civic Union, Argentina's oldest party, allied itself in various districts with the centrist Civic Coalition or with the social democratic Socialist Party, secured 77 seats, thus gaining 16.

Although many commentators were surprised at the time, and considered it to be an institutional crisis, some claiming the Fifth Republic could not accommodate itself of such rivalry at the head of the state, cohabitation repeated itself after the 1993 elections, when the RPR again won the elections, and then after the 1997 elections, when the Socialist Party won, leading to the constitution of Lionel Jospin's Plural Left government while Chirac was only at the beginning of his first presidential term.

Lima proved itself to be very much in the Progressive tradition with these changes, after flirting with radicalism in 1912 when the voters elected a Socialist mayor.

To avoid un-American connotations that became associated with the name after World War I, the Socialist Party of Star City in 1918 renamed itself the Independent Citizens ' party and won back local government, partly due to its opposition to the regressive " capitation tax " the Citizens ' Party had imposed.

The Russian Federation has inherited its structure from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( RSFSR ) that was one of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union and itself was considered a federation of national territories.

The latter showed strong ideological divisions within the left-wing spectrum, and the Socialist Party itself.

Although this new government lasted only three weeks, until the Socialist People's Party realigned itself with Labour, it formed the basis for an opposition victory under the leadership of Per Borten at the 1965 elections.

The USSR, which had grafted onto the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic several countries that had had short-lived independence ( Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the lands of Central Asia ), never reconciled itself to having lost West Ukraine, West Belarus, Bessarabia, and the three Baltic states ( territories which formerly belonged to the Russian Empire ) in the course of 1919-21.

It was formerly known as the Socialistische Partij ( SP ), which in turn had branched off from the Belgian Socialist Party, itself formed by former members of the Belgian Labour Party.

The expellees formed a rival Scottish Labour Party ( Democratic Wing ), and this in turn later renamed itself the Scottish Socialist League ( SSL ).

The Socialist Party was itself beset with factional disagreements.

The inaugural conference, although deciding to name itself " Labour " rather than " Socialist ," nonetheless overwhelmingly accepted that the object of the party should be ‘ to secure the collective and communal ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange ’.

In July 1976, Barre's SRC disbanded itself and established in its place the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party ( SRSP ), a one-party government based on scientific socialism and Islamic tenets.

The Socialist Party was formerly the Militant tendency of the Labour Party, grouped around the Militant newspaper, which was founded in 1964 and described itself as the " Marxist voice of Labour and Youth ".

The Socialist Party criticises what it terms the " lavish " compensation given to the bosses of nationalised industries in the past, and links up the demand for nationalisation to demands for the workers to rely on their own control and management of the nationalised industries, and to the need for the socialist transformation of society itself.

Several times in my youth I voted the Socialist ticket, but less because I was Socialist than because I was not either a Republican or a Democrat, and I voted for Franklin Roosevelt every time he was a candidate.

He said he was `` confessing that I was a member of the Socialist Party in 1910 ''.

He said that when he was a Socialist in 1910, the party called for government operation of all utilities and the pooling of all resources.

Though Hitler was originally against the idea ( but later convinced ), Drexler changed the name of the party to the National Socialist German Workers ' Party ( Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP ) early in 1920.

In 1960, Inejiro Asanuma, Chairman of the Japanese Socialist Party, was assassinated in a stabbing by an extreme rightist.

The second president was another member of the Union of Demicratic Forces-Petar Stoyanov and served until 2002, when the leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party-Georgi Parvanov began to replace him, he won two mandates and served until 2011, when Rosen Plevneliev of the right-oriented GERB was elected for a five-year mandate.

Their government collapsed in late 1992, and was succeeded by a technocratic team, put forward by the Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ), which served until 1994, when the president dissolved the government and appointed a provisional one to serve until the pre-term elections, appointed for December in the same year.

By 1931, the National Socialist German Workers ' Party was starting to gain influence and control in German politics.

The Brezhnev Doctrine (, ) was a Soviet Union foreign policy, first and most clearly outlined by S. Kovalev in a September 26, 1968 Pravda article, entitled " Sovereignty and the International Obligations of Socialist Countries.

Failure to address the economic and social disparities and increasing political awareness of the less-affluent population, as well as indirect intervention and economic funding to the main political groups by both the KGB and the CIA, as part of the Cold War, led to a political polarization under Socialist President Salvador Allende which in turn resulted in the 11 September 1973 coup and the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, whose 17-year regime was responsible for numerous human rights violations and deep market-oriented economic reforms.

He was a Marxist physician and member of Chile's Socialist Party, who headed the " Popular Unity " ( UP or " Unidad Popular ") coalition of the Socialist, Communist, Radical, and Social-Democratic Parties, along with dissident Christian Democrats, the Popular Unitary Action Movement ( MAPU ), and the Independent Popular Action.

Croatia was a Socialist Republic part of a six-part Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia.

The reincorporation of Cuba as an active member had arisen regularly as a topic within the inter-American system ( e. g., it was intimated by the outgoing ambassador of Mexico in 1998 ) but most observers did not see it as a serious possibility while the Socialist government remained in power.

The region's governor is, since 1 January 2011, Stavros Arnaoutakis, who was elected in the November 2010 local administration elections for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement.

" It was replaced by the State Political Administration or GPU, a section of the NKVD of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( RSFSR ).