Socialist Equality Party (Germany)
Trotskyist political party From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Socialist Equality Party (German: Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei, SGP) is a minor Trotskyist political party in Germany.
Socialist Equality Party Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei | |
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| Abbreviation | SGP |
| Leader | Christoph Vandreier |
| Honorary Chairman | Ulrich Rippert |
| Founded | 1971[a] |
| Headquarters | Neuenburger Straße 13, Berlin |
| Newspaper | Sozialistische Welt-Website |
| Youth wing | IYSSE |
| Membership (2021) | 280[2] |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Far-left |
| International affiliation | ICFI |
| Colors | Red |
| Bundestag | 0 / 736 |
| Bundesrat | 0 / 69 |
| State Parliaments | 0 / 1,894 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 96 |
| Heads of State Governments | 0 / 16 |
| Website | |
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History
It was founded in 1971 as the Federation of Socialist Workers (Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter) by West German supporters of Gerry Healy's Socialist Labour League and was renamed the Party for Social Equality, Section of the Fourth International (Partei für Soziale Gleichheit, Sektion der Vierten Internationale, PSG) in 1997.
On 18–19 February 2017, the party adopted its present name.[3]
Ideology
The party sees itself as the German section of the Fourth International in the tradition of Leon Trotsky.[4] The international umbrella group of the party is the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI).[5] It has contacts to other member parties of the ICFI in England, the US, Sri Lanka, France, Canada and Australia.
The SGP is critical of trade unions (which it views as merely a tool of the labour aristocracy), social democrats, and Stalinist organisations.[6] The party takes an anti-nationalist and anti-capitalist stance. It supports the introduction of universal basic income.[7]
The SGP is classified as a left-wing extremist organization by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) and is as such under surveillance.[8] It has also been characterised as advocating "Marxist class-based ideology and class conflict," along with criticism of perceived imperialism and militarism. These stances are viewed as inconsistent with German constitutional principles.
Election results
Bundestag
European Parliament
See also
Notes
- The party was founded in 1971 and changed its name in the 1990s, and again in February 2017.[1]
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Further reading
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