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

Some of my fellow workers were grooming me for an office in the Socialist Party.

He suggested that without the Socialist Party ever gaining a national victory, most of its original program has come to pass under both major parties.

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.

The Second World War temporarily hindered the anthroposophical movement in most of Continental Europe, as the Anthroposophical Society and most of its daughter movements ( e. g. Steiner / Waldorf education ) were banned by the National Socialists ( Nazis ); virtually no anthroposophists ever joined the National Socialist Party.

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

Since 1990, Bulgaria has an unstable party system, in the past two decades differently dominated by the post-communist Bulgarian Socialist Party or by the right Union of Democratic Forces and recently by the new right-oriented party-Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria.

After the fall of the communism in 1990, the former communist party changed to Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ) and won the first post-communist elections for the new constitution in 1990 with a small majority.

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.

He won the majority of 120 seats in the parliament and agreed partnership with the party of the Muslim minorities-Movement for Rights and Freedoms in opposition against the two previously governing parties-the Socialist Party and the Democratic Forces.

The Bulgarian Socialist Party won the parliamentary elections in 2005 with 82 out of the 240 seats, thus it didn't get the majority of the seats, with Simeon's movement being the second party.

Unlike the communist parties in most other East European states, the BCP ( changing its name to Bulgarian Socialist Party ) retained majority power after the transition in Bulgaria by winning the first free national elections in June 1990.

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

* India: Revolutionary Socialist Party ( Bolshevik )

In East Germany after local election losses, a forced merger of political parties in the Socialist Unity Party (" SED "), followed by elections in 1946 where political opponents were oppressed.

Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party also sent troops to support Qadhafi's efforts against Chad in 1987.

The more leftist members of the Democrat Party became involved in the leadership of labor unions and broke off to launch the Socialist Workers ' Party ( – POS ) in 1912.

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.

In January 2006 Chileans elected their first woman president, Michelle Bachelet, of the Socialist Party.

Following the collapse of the ruling Communist Party in Yugoslavia, Croatia adopted a new constitution in 1990 – which replaced the 1974 constitution adopted by the Socialist Republic of Croatia – and organised its first multi-party elections.

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The RSFSR, until the establishment of the Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1990, was the only Soviet republic lacking a republic-level party organisation.

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

Following the events of Bloody Sunday Bernadette Devlin, an Independent Socialist nationalist MP from Northern Ireland, expressed anger at what she perceived as government attempts to stifle accounts being reported about the day.

In 1961, the Socialists in the European Parliament attempted to produce a common European Socialist Programme but were neglected due to the applications of Britain, Denmark, Ireland and Norway to join the European Communities.

In Ireland, in the 2009 European election, Joe Higgins of the Socialist Party took one of three seats in the capital Dublin European constituency.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the INLA developed a modest organisation in Northern Ireland, particularly based on Divis Flats in west Belfast, which as a result became colloquially known as " the planet of the Irps " ( a reference to the Irish Republican Socialist Party and the film Planet of the Apes ).

The Republic of China, France, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America shall be permanent members of the Security Council.

In June 1920 a " Draft Treaty between the new Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Republic of Ireland " was circulated in Dublin.

This dual communist-nationalist doctrine was heavily influenced by the thinking of James Connolly who similarly believed in socialism and independence for Ireland and had set up his Irish Socialist Republican Party in 1896.

Corish claimed that Ireland would be ' Socialist in the Seventies '.

The Socialist Party is registered with the United Kingdom Electoral Commission, however, it is active only in England and Wales, with sister parties active in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The Socialist Labour Party ( SLP ) was a minor political party in the Republic of Ireland formed under the leadership of Matt Merrigan ( Dublin Secretary of the ATGWU ) and Noël Browne, TD in 1977.

They had previously been the sole Northern Ireland representatives of the Socialist Republican Party and the Irish Labour Party respectively, so a common joke was that " two one-man parties had become one two-man party ".

The Socialist Labour Party was also extremely active in publicizing the struggle for national self determination then taking place in Ireland.

* Socialist Environmental Alliance, a political party in Northern Ireland

It is a weekly published by the Socialist Workers Party ( SWP ) in the United Kingdom, a monthly ( and daily web site ) published by the International Socialist Organization ( ISO ) in the United States, a triweekly published by the International Socialists in Canada, a biweekly published by the Socialist Workers Party in Ireland, a quarterly published by the International Socialist Organisation in Zimbabwe and was a monthly published by the former International Socialist Organisation in Australia.

* Socialist Worker ( Ireland )

The CWI also has elected members of regional legislatures or local councils in Sweden, Germany, Australia, the Netherlands ( members of the Dutch Socialist Party ), Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the Republic of Ireland ( where they have a member of the European Parliament and 2 TDs in Dáil Éireann ) and in the former Soviet Union.

* Smoked Salmon Socialist, Ireland

* World Socialist Party ( Ireland )

* Democratic Socialist Party ( Ireland )

* In 2004, the International Socialists in Ireland merged into Socialist Democracy, the Irish affiliate of the reunified Fourth International.