Movement

The Libertarian Party formed in Colorado in 1971 amid wage and price controls and the draft, fusing free market economics with civ...

The Greens began as committees of correspondence in 1984 and became a formal party in 1991, building on environmentalism, grassroo...

Plaid Cymru began in 1925 when nationalists meeting at the National Eisteddfod formed a party to defend the Welsh language and see...

UKIP formed in 1993 to campaign for withdrawal from the European Union, growing under Nigel Farage from a fringe into the largest ...

Founded as PEOPLE in 1973 and renamed the Green Party in 1985, the party broke through in 1989 European elections with 15 percent ...

The Co-operative Party was founded in 1917 to represent the consumer co-operative movement in Parliament after retailers faced dis...

La France Insoumise, Unbowed France, launched in 2016 around Jean-Luc Melenchon, a former Socialist senator, with a mass rally and...

The Five Star Movement of comedian Beppe Grillo and strategist Gianroberto Casaleggio grew from mass meetups and blog politics int...

Forza Italia, Go Italy, a football chant, was founded by media magnate Silvio Berlusconi months before his 1994 election victory, ...

Podemos burst from the 2011 15-M square protests, founded by political scientists around Pablo Iglesias with Laclauian theory of p...

Vox was founded in 2013 by ex PP politicians around Santiago Abascal, breaking a four decade consensus that kept Francoist heir pa...

Geert Wilders, a former VVD parliamentarian, founded the PVV in 2006 as a one man party with no membership structure, campaigning ...

GroenLinks united the Communist Party, Pacifist Socialist Party, Political Party Radicals, and Evangelical People Party in 1990, a...

The PRI formed in 1929 as the National Revolutionary Party, consolidating the post revolutionary state into corporatist machine po...

The UCR formed in 1891 around Leandro Alem and young Hipolito Yrigoyen to fight electoral fraud by the landholding regime, with up...

The PSDB formed in 1988 from dissident PMDB intellectuals around Fernando Henrique Cardoso, social democratic by name and social l...

The PSCh was founded in 1933 from Marxist and middle class currents, electing Salvador Allende, who became the world first democra...

The AAP grew from the 2011 Anna Hazare anti corruption fasts, founded by Arvind Kejriwal and comrades in 2012 with the common man ...

Founded in 1922 and legalized in 1945, the JCP endured prewar prison, built a fresh party around democratic revolution theory inde...

PTI, the Movement for Justice, was founded by cricketer Imran Khan in 1996, campaigning for welfare, anti corruption, and a new Pa...

The EFF was founded by expelled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema in 2013, demanding land expropriation without compensation, ...

Labor descends from Mapai of David Ben-Gurion, the state building party of 1948, in the Alignment that governed Israel three decad...

The Bloc formed in 1991 from Progressive Conservative and Liberal Quebec MPs around Lucien Bouchard after the failed Meech Lake ac...