Social Democratic
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Socialist Party of America
Founded in 1901 from a merger of dissident groups, the Socialist Party reached roughly one hundred thousand members and twelve hun...
Labour Party (UK)
Labour emerged from the Labour Representation Committee of 1900, a union and socialist alliance formed after Liberal failures to r...
Co-operative Party
The Co-operative Party was founded in 1917 to represent the consumer co-operative movement in Parliament after retailers faced dis...
Social Democratic Party (UK)
The SDP launched in 1981 when Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, David Owen, and Bill Rodgers left Labour, judging it captured by the ...
Social Democratic Party of Germany
The SPD traces its founding to the 1863 ADAV of Ferdinand Lassalle and the 1869 party of Bebel and Liebknecht, united at Gotha in ...
The Left (Germany)
Die Linke formed in 2007 from the PDS, successor of the East German SED, merged with the WASG, a West German union left around Osk...
Socialist Party (France)
The PS succeeded the SFIO, the century old socialist federation, in 1969, and Francois Mitterrand rebuilt it at Epinay in 1971 int...
La France Insoumise
La France Insoumise, Unbowed France, launched in 2016 around Jean-Luc Melenchon, a former Socialist senator, with a mass rally and...
Democratic Party (Italy)
The Partito Democratico formed in 2007 from the Democrats of the Left, heirs of the Italian Communist Party via the PDS, and La Ma...
Spanish Socialist Workers Party
The PSOE was founded in 1879 by Pablo Iglesias, mine unionists and Marxists, surviving illegality under Primo de Rivera and Franco...
Podemos
Podemos burst from the 2011 15-M square protests, founded by political scientists around Pablo Iglesias with Laclauian theory of p...
Sumar (Spain)
Sumar, the electoral platform of labor minister Yolanda Diaz, united Podemos, United Left, Greens, and regional left forces for th...
SYRIZA
SYRIZA, Coalition of the Radical Left, assembled in 2004 from Eurocommunist, Maoist, green, and civic groups, and exploded in the ...
Swedish Social Democratic Party
SAP was founded in 1889 and built the folkhemmet, the people home, through decades of near unbroken governance: universal welfare,...
Labour Party (Netherlands)
The PvdA emerged in 1946 from prewar social democracy and progressive religious currents, the party of Willem Drees welfare state ...
Socialist Revolutionary Party
The Socialist Revolutionaries united the narodnik heritage of peasant socialism, terrorism against Tsarist officials, and land soc...
Workers Party (Brazil)
The PT emerged from the Sao Paulo metalworker strikes of the late 1970s, founded in 1980 by Lula, unionists, intellectuals, and li...
Brazilian Social Democracy Party
The PSDB formed in 1988 from dissident PMDB intellectuals around Fernando Henrique Cardoso, social democratic by name and social l...
Broad Front (Uruguay)
The Frente Amplio united socialists, communists, Christian Democrats, and former guerrillas in 1971 around General Liber Seregni, ...
Socialist Party of Chile
The PSCh was founded in 1933 from Marxist and middle class currents, electing Salvador Allende, who became the world first democra...
Israeli Labor Party
Labor descends from Mapai of David Ben-Gurion, the state building party of 1948, in the Alignment that governed Israel three decad...
Australian Labor Party
Labor formed in the colonies during the 1891 strikes, holding the world first labor governments briefly in Queensland in 1899, and...
New Democratic Party
The NDP succeeded the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, the 1932 prairie socialist movement of Tommy Douglas, medicare father,...