Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. The list of parties using the exact name ''"Socialist Party"'' is to be found in the
Socialist Party article.
Socialist Party may also refer to the wide variety of political parties that use the word "Socialist" in their names, often in conjunction with other adjectives and political labels. What follows is an incomplete alphabetical list of such parties:
Names used by several different parties
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Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party (disambiguation)
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Authentic Socialist Party (disambiguation)
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Democratic Socialist Party (disambiguation)
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Independent Socialist Party (disambiguation)
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National Socialist Party (disambiguation)
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New Socialist Party (disambiguation)
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Polish Socialist Party (disambiguation)
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Popular Socialist Party (disambiguation)
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Revolutionary Socialist Party (disambiguation)
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Socialist Action Party (disambiguation)
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Socialist Democratic Party (disambiguation)
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Socialist Equality Party (disambiguation)
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Socialist Labor Party (disambiguation)
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Socialist Labour Party (disambiguation)
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Socialist Left Party (disambiguation)
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Socialist People's Party (disambiguation)
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Socialist Republican Party (disambiguation)
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Socialist Unity (disambiguation)
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Socialist Unity Party (disambiguation)
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Socialist Workers Party (disambiguation)
*Unified or Unitary or
United Socialist Party (disambiguation)
Africa
Egypt
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Egyptian Arab Socialist Party
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Egyptian Socialist Party
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Liberal Socialists Party
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Socialist Party of Egypt
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Socialist Popular Alliance Party
Other African countries
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Liberal Socialist Party (Angola), Angola
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Burkinabé Socialist Party, Burkina Faso
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Party for Democracy and Progress / Socialist Party, Burkina Faso
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Gabonese Socialist Party, Gabon
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Socialist Party of Guinea, Guinea
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Socialist Party of Guinea-Bissau
The Socialist Party of Guinea-Bissau (, PSGB) is a political party in Guinea-Bissau.
History
The party was established in 1994 following the general elections
A general election is an electoral process to choose most or all members of a gov ...
, Guinea-Bissau
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Party of the Unified Socialist Left, Morocco
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Socialist Party (Morocco), Morocco
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Socialist Workers and Farmers Party of Nigeria, Nigeria
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Rwandese Socialist Party, Rwanda
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Senegalese Socialist Party, Senegal
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Socialist Party of Senegal, Senegal
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Socialist Party of Azania, South Africa
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Islamic Socialist Party, Sudan
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Pan-African Socialist Party, Togo
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Socialist Destourian Party, Tunisia
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Socialist Party, Tunisia
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Zairian Socialist Party, Zaire
Asia
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Assyrian Socialist Party
India
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Congress Socialist Party
The Congress Socialist Party (CSP) was a socialist caucus within the Indian National Congress. It was founded in 1934 by Congress members who rejected what they saw as the anti-rational mysticism of Gandhi as well as the sectarian attitude of ...
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French India Socialist Party
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Kerala Socialist Party
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Mahe Socialist Party
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Praja Socialist Party
The Praja Socialist Party, abbreviated as PSP, was an Indian political party. It was founded in 1952 when the Socialist Party, led by Jayaprakash Narayan, Rambriksh Benipuri, Acharya Narendra Deva and Basawon Singh (Sinha), merged with the ...
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Punjab Socialist Party
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Samyukta Socialist Party
Samyukta Socialist Party (; SSP), was a political party in India from 1964 to 1974. SSP was formed through a split in the Praja Socialist Party (PSP) in 1964. In 1965, Ram Manohar Lohia merged his Socialist Party (Lohia) with SSP and conteste ...
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Socialist Janata (Democratic) Party
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Socialist Party (India)
The Socialist Party was an Indian political party. It won 12 seats at the 1951 Indian general election, coming third. Despite Jayaprakash Narayan's personal popularity, its electoral fortunes did not improve. It merged with the Kisan Mazd ...
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Socialist Party (Marxist)
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Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
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West Bengal Socialist Party
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World Socialist Party of India
Sri Lanka
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Socialist Party of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka Freedom Socialist Party, Sri Lanka
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Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna
The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP; , PLF) is a Marxist–Leninist political party in Sri Lanka. The party was formerly a revolutionary movement and was involved in two armed uprisings against the government of Sri Lanka: once in 1971 JVP ins ...
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Frontline Socialist Party
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Communist Party of Sri Lanka
The Communist Party of Sri Lanka (; ) is a communist party in Sri Lanka. In the 2004 Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 2004 legislative election, the party was part of the United People's Freedom Alliance that won 45.6% of the popular vote and ...
Japan
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Leftist Socialist Party of Japan
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Okinawa Social Mass Party
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Rightist Socialist Party of Japan
Turkey
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Ottoman Socialist Party
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Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey – Socialist Unity
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Socialist Democracy Party
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Turkish Workers and Peasants Socialist Party
Other Asian countries
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Socialist Party of Bangladesh, Bangladesh
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Burma Socialist Party, Burma
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Burma Socialist Programme Party
The Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP) was the ruling party of Burma (now Myanmar) from 1962 to 1988 and the country's sole legal party from 1964 to 1988. Party chairman Ne Win overthrew the country's democratically elected government i ...
, Burma
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Socialist Party (Iran), Iran
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Socialist Party of Iran, Iran
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Nasserist Socialist Vanguard Party, Iraq
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Ata Meken Socialist Party, Kyrgyzstan
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Progressive Socialist Party, Lebanon
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Nepal Samata Party (Socialist), Nepal
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Pakistan Socialist Party, Pakistan
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Socialist Party (South Korea), South Korea
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Socialist Cooperation Party, Syria
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Socialist Party of Tajikistan, Tajikistan
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Socialist Party of Thailand, Thailand
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Socialist Party of Vietnam
The Socialist Party of Vietnam () was a political party in Vietnam which existed from 1946 to 1988. It was founded with the official aim of uniting "patriotic intelligentsia". Along with the Democratic Party of Vietnam, the Socialist Party joined ...
, Vietnam
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Yemeni Socialist Party
The Yemeni Socialist Party (, ''al-Hizb al-Ishtiraki al-Yamani'', YSP), officially the Socialist Party Organization (), is a Social democracy, social democratic List of political parties in Yemen, political party in Yemen. A successor of Yemen's ...
, Yemen
Europe
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Group of the Party of European Socialists
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International Working Union of Socialist Parties
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Party of European Socialists
The Party of European Socialists (PES) is a Social democracy, social democratic European political party.
The PES comprises national-level political parties from all the European Economic Area, European economic area states (EEA) plus the Unit ...
Belgium
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Belgian Socialist Party
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Workers' Party of Belgium
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Socialist Party (Belgium)
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Socialist Party Different
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Left Socialist Party (Belgium)
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Republican Socialist Party
France
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French Socialist Party (1902)
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French Socialist Party (1919)
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Radical-Socialist Party Camille Pelletan
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Republican-Socialist Party
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Socialist Party (France)
The Socialist Party ( , PS) is a Centre-left politics, centre-left to Left-wing politics, left-wing List of political parties in France, political party in France. It holds Social democracy, social democratic and Pro-Europeanism, pro-European v ...
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Socialist Party of France – Jean Jaurès Union
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Socialist Party of France (1902)
The Socialist Party of France () was a socialist political party.
The party was founded in 1902 during a congress in Commentry by the merger of the Marxist French Workers' Party led by Jules Guesde and the Blanquist Socialist Revolutionary Part ...
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Socialist Revolutionary Party (France)
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Workers and Peasants' Socialist Party
Ireland
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Cork Socialist Party
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Socialist Party (Ireland)
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Socialist Party of Ireland (1971)
Iceland
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Icelandic Socialist Party
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People's Unity Party – Socialist Party
Italy
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Italian Reformist Socialist Party
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Italian Socialist Party
The Italian Socialist Party (, PSI) was a Social democracy, social democratic and Democratic socialism, democratic socialist political party in Italy, whose history stretched for longer than a century, making it one of the longest-living parti ...
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Italian Socialist Party (2007)
The Italian Socialist Party (, PSI) is a social-democratic political party in Italy. The party was founded in 2007–2008 by the merger of the following social-democratic parties and groups: Enrico Boselli's Italian Democratic Socialists (legal ...
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Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity
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New Italian Socialist Party
The New Italian Socialist Party or New PSI ( or ''Nuovo PSI'', NPSI), more recently styled as Liberal Socialists – NPSI, is a List of political parties in Italy, political party in Italy which professes a Social democracy, social-democratic ideol ...
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Reformist Socialist Party
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Socialist Party (Italy, 1996)
Netherlands
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Pacifist Socialist Party
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Socialist Party (Netherlands)
The Socialist Party ( ; SP ) is a democratic socialist political party in the Netherlands. Founded in 1971 as the Communist Party of the Netherlands/Marxist–Leninist (KPN/ML, ), the party has since moderated itself from Marxism–Leninism and ...
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Socialist Party (Netherlands, interbellum)
Portugal
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Portuguese Socialist Party
The Portuguese Socialist Party () was a Portuguese political party.
History
The party was founded in 1875. During its initial phase, it was heavily influenced by Proudhonism and rejected revolutionary Marxism. In 1919 the leftwing of the party ...
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Socialist Party (Portugal)
The Socialist Party ( , PS) is a social democracy, social democratic List of political parties in Portugal, political party in Portugal. It was founded on 19 April 1973 in the German city of Bad Münstereifel by militants who were at the time w ...
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Workers Party of Socialist Unity
Romania
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Romanian Socialist Party
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Socialist Alliance Party
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Socialist Party of Labour
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Socialist Party of Romania
Russia
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Socialist Party
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United Socialist Party of Russia
San Marino
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Party of Socialists and Democrats
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Sammarinese Independent Democratic Socialist Party
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Sammarinese Reformist Socialist Party
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Sammarinese Socialist Party
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New Socialist Party (San Marino)
The New Socialist Party (, NPS) was a social-democratic political party in San Marino.
It was formed in 2005 as a split by those among the members of the Sammarinese Socialist Party who did not accept the merger with the post-communist Party o ...
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Socialist Party (San Marino)
Spain
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Radical Socialist Republican Party
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Socialist Canarian Party
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Socialist Party of the People of Ceuta
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Socialist Party of Catalonia-Congress
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Socialist Party of Majorca
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Socialist Party of the Basque Country–Basque Country Left
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Socialist Party of the Islands
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Socialist Party of the Valencian Country
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Socialists' Party of Catalonia
The Socialists' Party of Catalonia (, PSC–PSOE) is a social democratic political party in Catalonia, Spain, resulting from the merger of three parties: the Socialist Party of Catalonia–Regrouping, led by Josep Pallach i Carolà, the Socia ...
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Socialists' Party of Galicia
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Valencian Socialist Party
Sweden
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Left Socialist Party (Sweden)
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Socialist Justice Party
International Socialist Alternative (ISA) is an international association of Trotskyist political parties.
ISA was founded by sections on one side of a split in the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI).
History
In 2018 and 2019, a di ...
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Socialist Party (Sweden, 1929)
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Socialist Party (Sweden, 1971)
United Kingdom
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British Socialist Party
The British Socialist Party (BSP) was a Marxist political organisation established in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Great Britain in 1911. Following a protracted period of political faction, factional struggle, in 1916 the party's ...
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Socialist Party (England and Wales)
The Socialist Party () is a Trotskyist political party in England and Wales. Founded in 1997, it had formerly been Militant, an entryist group in the Labour Party from 1964 to 1991, which became Militant Labour from 1991 until 1997. It is a ...
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Socialist Party of Great Britain
The Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB) is a small socialist political party in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1904 as a split from the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), it advocates using the ballot box for revolutionary purposes and ...
Scotland
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Scottish Republican Socialist Party
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Scottish Socialist Party
The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) is a Left-wing politics, left-wing political party campaigning for the establishment of an Scottish independence, independent Socialism, socialist Scottish Scottish republicanism, republic.
The party was fou ...
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Scottish Socialist Party United Left
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Socialist Party Scotland
Other United Kingdom countries
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Irish Republican Socialist Party, Northern Ireland
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Socialist Party Wales, Wales
Other European countries
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Albanian Socialist Alliance Party, Albania
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Socialist Party of Albania
The Socialist Party of Albania (, PSSh), also known as simply the Socialist Party (, PS), is a Social democracy, social-democratic centre-left political party in Albania. It is the successor to the Party of Labour of Albania, which reconstituted ...
, Albania
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Belarusian Socialist Sporting Party, Belarus
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Socialist Party (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
The Socialist Party ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Социјалистичка Партија, СП, separator=" / ", Socijalistička Partija, SP) is a social-democratic political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Formed on 2 June 1993 in Banja Luka, it serv ...
, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party (Broad Socialists), Bulgaria
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Bulgarian Socialist Party, Bulgaria
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Provincial Christian-Socialist Party, Czechoslovakia
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Socialist Party of the Czechoslovak Working People, Czechoslovakia
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Serbian Party of Socialists (Croatia), Croatia
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Socialist Party of Croatia, Croatia
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Georgian Socialist-Federalist Revolutionary Party, Georgia
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German Socialist Party, Germany
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Socialist Reich Party, Germany
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Fighting Socialist Party of Greece, Greece
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Socialist Party of Greece, Greece
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Hungarian Socialist Party, Hungary
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Socialist Party of Latvia, Latvia
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Socialist Workers and Peasants Party of Latvia, Latvia
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Socialist Party (Lithuania), Lithuania
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Socialist Party of Lithuania, Lithuania
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Radical Socialist Party (Luxembourg), Luxembourg
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Socialist Party of Macedonia, Macedonia
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Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova
The Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova (, PSRM) is a democratic socialist political party in Moldova. A populist party, it holds Eurosceptic and Russophilia, Russophilic views, both of which are reflected by its long-time leader and ...
, Moldova
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Socialist Party of Moldova, Moldova
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Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro
Democrat, Democrats, or Democratic may refer to:
Politics
*A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people.
*A member of a Democratic Party:
**Democratic Party (Cyprus) (DCY)
** Democratic Par ...
, Montenegro
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People's Socialist Party of Montenegro
The People Socialist Party of Montenegro (, NSS CG) was an opposition political party in Montenegro within the Serbian List due to its support of political union of Montenegro with Serbia, holding 1 seat (represented by MP Emilo Labudović) in th ...
, Montenegro
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Silesian Socialist Party The Silesian Socialist Party (, ŚPS) was a political party in Silesia, Poland. The party was founded on May 1, 1928, by Józef Biniszkiewicz. When the new party was founded, it took over the regional PPS organ ''Robotnik Śląski'' ('Silesian Work ...
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Socialist Party of Serbia
The Socialist Party of Serbia (, abbr. SPS) is a populist political party in Serbia. Ivica Dačić has led SPS as its president since 2006.
SPS was founded in 1990 as a merger of the League of Communists of Serbia and Socialist Alliance ...
, Serbia
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Socialist Party of Slovenia, Slovenia
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Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, Ukraine
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Socialist Party of Ukraine
The Socialist Party of Ukraine (, abbreviated SPU) was a social democratic and democratic socialist Political parties in Ukraine, political party in Ukraine. It was one of the oldest parties in Ukraine and was created by former members of the Sov ...
, Ukraine
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Socialist Party of Yugoslavia
The Socialist Party of Yugoslavia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Socijalistička partija Jugoslavije, Социјалистичка партија Југославије) was a political party in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The party was founded on 18 December 1921 ...
, Yugoslavia
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Socialist Party of Yugoslavia (2002), Yugoslavia
North America
Canada
National
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New Democratic Party Socialist Caucus
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Socialist Party of Canada
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Socialist Party of Canada (WSM)
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United Canadian Socialist Party
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Socialist Party of North America
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World Socialist Party of Canada
Local
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Socialist Party of Alberta, Alberta
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Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia), British Columbia
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Socialist Party of Canada (Manitoba), Manitoba
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Socialist Party of Ontario, Ontario
Cuba
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Cuban Socialist Party
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Socialist Party of Manzanillo
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Socialist Party of the Island of Cuba
United States
National
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African People's Socialist Party
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Freedom Socialist Party
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Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party
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Party for Socialism and Liberation
The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) is a communist party, communist political party in the United States, political party in the United States. PSL formed in 2004, when its members split from the Workers World Party.
PSL describes it ...
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Socialist Party of America
The Socialist Party of America (SPA) was a socialist political party in the United States formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party of America ...
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Socialist Party USA
The Socialist Party of the United States of America (also Socialist Party USA or SPUSA) is a socialist political party in the United States. SPUSA formed in 1973, one year after the Socialist Party of America splintered into three: Social De ...
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Socialist Union Party
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World Socialist Party of the United States
Local
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Socialist Party of California, California
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Socialist Party of Colorado, Colorado
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Socialist Party of Connecticut, Connecticut
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Socialist Party of Florida, Florida
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Chicago Socialist Party, Illinois
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Socialist Party of Kansas, Kansas
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Socialist Party of Massachusetts, Massachusetts
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Socialist Party of Michigan, Michigan
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Socialist Party of Minnesota, Minnesota
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Socialist Party of New Jersey, New Jersey
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Socialist Party of New York, New York
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Socialist Party of Ohio, Ohio
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Socialist Party of Oklahoma, Oklahoma
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Socialist Party of Oregon, Oregon
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Puerto Rican Socialist Party, Puerto Rico
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Socialist Party (Puerto Rico)
The Socialist Party (, PS), also known as Socialista Obrero (Socialist Worker's), was a pro- statehood political party in Puerto Rico, that also contemplated independence in the case that entry into the American Union was denied by Congress. T ...
, Puerto Rico
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Socialist Party of Texas, Texas
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Socialist Party of Washington, Washington
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Socialist Party of Wisconsin, Wisconsin
Other North American countries
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Vanguard Nationalist and Socialist Party, Bahamas
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Socialist Party (Guatemala), Guatemala
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Mexican Socialist Party, Mexico
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Socialist Party of Mexico, Mexico
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Socialist Party (Panama), Panama
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Workers' Socialist Party (Panama), Panama
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Caribbean Socialist Party, Trinidad and Tobago
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Trades Union Congress and Socialist Party, Trinidad and Tobago
Oceania
Indonesia
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Socialist Party (Indonesia)
The Socialist Party (, PS) was socialist political party in Indonesia which existed from 1945 to 1948. The party was founded as a merger between the Socialist People's Party (Indonesia), Socialist People's Party (Paras) of Prime Minister Sutan S ...
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Socialist Party of Indonesia
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Socialist Party of Indonesia (Parsi)
Other countries in Oceania
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Socialist Party (Australia), Australia
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Victorian Socialist Party, Australia
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Socialist Party of Timor, East Timor
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New Zealand Socialist Party, New Zealand
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World Socialist Party (New Zealand), New Zealand
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Liberal Socialist Party, Singapore
South America
Argentina
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Argentine Socialist Vanguard Party
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Socialist Party (Argentina)
The Socialist Party (, PS) is a Centre-left politics, centre-left political party in Argentina. Founded in 1896, it is one of the oldest still-active parties in Argentina, alongside the Radical Civic Union.
The party has been an opponent of K ...
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Socialist Party of the National Left
Bolivia
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Socialist Party (Bolivia, 1971)
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Socialist Party-1
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Workers Socialist Party of Bolivia
Peru
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Socialist Democrat Party
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Socialist Party (Peru)
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Socialist Party of Peru (1930)
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Socialist Vanguard Party
Other South American countries
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Brazilian Socialist Party
The Brazilian Socialist Party (, PSB) is a political party in Brazil. It was founded in 1947, before being abolished by the military regime in 1965 and re-organised in 1989 after the re-democratisation of Brazil. It elected six Governors in 201 ...
, Brazil
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Socialist Party of Chile
The Socialist Party of Chile (, or PS) is a centre-left to Left-wing politics, left-wing political party founded in 1933. Its historic leader was President of Chile Salvador Allende, who was deposed in a 1973 Chilean coup d'état, coup d'état by ...
, Chile
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Socialist Party – Broad Front of Ecuador, Ecuador
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Guianese Socialist Party, French Guiana
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Nicaraguan Socialist Party
The Nicaraguan Socialist Party (''Partido Socialista Nicaragüense'') is a political party in Nicaragua. Founded in July 1944 by Dr. Mario Flores Ortiz. PSN operated as the official communist party in the country. At the time of its foundation, P ...
, Nicaragua
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Nicaraguan Socialist Party (de los Sánchez), Nicaragua
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Socialist Party of Uruguay
The Socialist Party of Uruguay () is a centre-left political party in Uruguay. Founded in 1910, it is part of the Broad Front political coalition and the Progressive Alliance.
History
The party was founded in 1910. Its main leader and spokes ...
, Uruguay
See also
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List of elected socialist mayors in the United States
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List of Socialist Party of Great Britain members
* {{intitle, Socialist Party
Parties
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Socialist
Socialism is an economic ideology, economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse Economic system, economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership. It describes ...
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