The smallest and the most left wing of the SPA, known as the Debs Caucus, including McReynolds, formed the Socialist Party USA ( SPUSA ).

Members of Socialist Action, a small Trotskyist group, play a leading role in the New Democratic Party Socialist Caucus, a small faction on the left wing of that social democratic party, and advocate that their members join and engage with the NDP.

Bev Meslo was a Vancouver-area activist and represented the New Democratic Party Socialist Caucus in the leadership election.

The Waffle was also the progenitor of the NDP Socialist Caucus and the New Politics Initiative ( NPI ).

During the spring of 1919 the Left Wing Caucus of the Socialist Party, buoyed by a large influx of new members from countries involved in the Russian Revolution, prepared to wrest control from the smaller controlling faction of moderate socialists.

The group's counterpart in English Canada was Socialist Challenge which later joined the New Socialist Group and forms a Fourth International Caucus within it.

In 2001, Socialist Caucus member Marcel Hatch challenged Alexa McDonough from the floor of the convention ; however, McDonough easily retained the leadership in the resulting vote.

She was also a candidate in the 2003 NDP leadership election representing the party's Socialist Caucus but won only 1. 1 % of the vote.

Along with Tim Wohlforth and Shane Mage, he was a leader of the Left Wing Caucus which developed in the YSL in early 1957 in opposition to Shachtman's plan to liquidate the ISL into the Socialist Party-Social Democratic Federation.

At first it consisted mainly of ex-Independent Socialist League members who had disagreed with the decision to merge the ISL into the Socialist Party-Social Democratic Federation in 1958 and had become uncomfortable with the positions taken by Max Shachtman and the Realignment Caucus within the party, i. e. entry into the Democratic Party, and an orientation toward the established union leadership and integrationist forces within the civil rights movement.

When the SDS imploded in 1969 many of its members joined the Independent Socialists, including the Revolutionary Socialist Caucus, and significant parts of the SDS chapters at the University of Chicago, University of Michigan, CCNY, and Madison.

The New Democratic Party Socialist Caucus is an unofficial left-wing faction within Canada's New Democratic Party.

Consequently, the Socialist Caucus also opposes Tony Blair's Third Way policies because they " the basic class and economic structures of capitalism unchanged.

" The policies of the socialist caucus are similar to the Socialist Campaign Group in the United Kingdom however, unlike the SCG, the Socialist Caucus does not enjoy the public support of any elected parliamentarians.

The NDP SC views itself as the successor to the Waffle of the 1960s and 1970s and a number of members in the Socialist Caucus were also in the NDP's Left Caucus and the Campaign for an Activist Party or CAP of the 1980s.

The Trotskyist group Socialist Action plays a " leading role " in the Socialist Caucus.

In 2001, the Socialist Caucus ran Marcel Hatch in a leadership challenge against Alexa McDonough.

Bev Meslo was the Socialist Caucus ' candidate in the party's 2003 leadership election, winning 1. 1 % of the vote in the party's first One Member One Vote leadership election, which was won by Jack Layton.

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.

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 %).

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 ).

The Bolsheviks came to power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and founded the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic which would later in 1922 become the chief constituent of the Soviet Union.

* In Georgia, the Socialist Labour Party was founded in 1992.

* 1921 – The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.

Prewar ' epistemic communities ,' such as the International Association for Labour Legislation ( IALL ), founded in 1900, and political networks, such as the Socialist Second International, were a decisive factor in the institutionalization of international labour politics.

* 1936 – In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.

The Libertarian International – founded at the Congress of Saint Imier a few days after the split between Marxist and libertarians at the congress of the Socialist International held in The Hague in 1872 – competed successfully against social democrats and communists alike for the loyalty of anticapitalist activists, revolutionaries, workers, unions and political parties for over fifty years.

* 1879 – The Spanish Socialist Worker's Party is founded in Casa Labra Pub ( city of Madrid ) by the historical Spanish workers ' leader Pablo Iglesias.

It had been during this period that Mao had first learned of the imported western concept of socialism from a newspaper article, and intrigued, he read several pamphlets by Jiang Kanghu ( 1883 – 1954 ), a student who had founded the Chinese Socialist Party in November 1911.

It was an offshoot of the Communist Party of Peru — Bandera Roja ( red flag ), which in turn split from the original Peruvian Communist Party, a derivation of the Peruvian Socialist Party founded by José Carlos Mariátegui in 1928.

* The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia bans the cultural organization Matica hrvatska, founded in 1842.

* May 2 – The Spanish Socialist Worker's Party is founded in Casa Labra Pub ( city of Madrid ) by the historical Spanish workers ' leader Pablo Iglesias.

In Britain, the democratic socialist tradition was represented in particular by the William Morris ' Socialist League, and in the 1880s by the Fabian Society, and later the Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) founded by Keir Hardie in the 1890s, of which George Orwell would later be a prominent member.

* German Socialist Party ( Deutschsozialistische Partei ), a minor far-right party founded after World War I

He co-founded a section of the Socialist Party of Chile ( founded in 1933 with Marmaduque Grove and others ) in Valparaíso and became its chairman.

The General German Workers ' Association ( Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein, ADAV ), founded in 1863, and the Social Democratic Workers ' Party ( Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands, SDAP ), founded in 1869, merged in 1875, under the name Socialist Workers ' Party of Germany ( Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands, SAPD ).

In Brazil, as an officially recognised platform or faction of the PT until 1992, the Trotskyist Movimento Convergência Socialista ( CS ), which founded the United Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSTU ) in 1994, saw a number of its members elected to national, state and local legislative bodies during the 1980s.

The Union of Soviet Writers was founded to control the output of authors, and the new policy was rubber-stamped at the Congress of Socialist Writers in 1934.

The Socialist Workers ' Party of Germany, a left split from the Social Democratic Party of Germany founded in 1931, co-operated with the International Left Opposition briefly in 1933 but soon abandoned the call for a new International.

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

* The Ukrainian Helsinki Group was founded in November 1976 to monitor human rights in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Berríos founded the Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean ( COPPPAL ), is a member of the Executive Council of the Latin American Human Rights Association ( ALDHU ), and Honorary President of the Socialist International ( SI ).

In 1936, HaKibbutz HaArtzi founded its own political party, the Socialist League of Palestine, commonly referred to as Hashomer Hatzair.

The Nordic Realm Party (, NRP ) was a Neo-Nazi political party in Sweden, founded in 1956 as the National Socialist Combat League of Sweden ( Sveriges nationalsocialistiska kampförbund ) by Göran Assar Oredsson.