Forum of the New European Left

The Forum of the New European Left (NELF) is an amalgamation of 18 communist , left-socialist and green-left parties and organizations from 16 European countries. The forum was constituted in November 1991 at a meeting of Western European left parties organized by the United Left of Spain in Madrid.

Against the background of the collapse of the real socialist systems in Eastern Europe, a new definition of socialist politics was sought in view of the changed situation , but initially a new form of international cooperation to enable a regular exchange of opinions and experiences.

In 2003/04 the party of the European Left (EL) was founded out of the NELF . The NELF continued to exist for the time being, also because not all NELF members joined the EL.

A youth association, the European Network of Democratic Young Left , developed from the NELF in 1994 and a women's network in 2007.

Members

•  Denmark : Socialistisk Folkeparti
•  Estonia : Eesti Vasak Party
•  Finland : Vasemmistoliitto
•  France : Parti communiste français
•  Germany : The Left
•  Greece : Coalition of the Left and Progress - SYNASPISMOS
•  Ireland : Democratic Left
•  Italy : Partito della Rifondazione Comunista
•  Italy : Movement for Communist Unity
•  Netherlands : Groen Links
•  Norway : Sosialistisk Venstreparti
•  Sweden : Vänsterpartiet
•  Switzerland : Party of Labor in Switzerland
•  Spain : Izquierda Unida
•  Spain : Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds

Permanent guests

• Democratic Left (UK)
• Progressive Party of the Working People - AKEL (Cyprus)
• ADISOK (Cyprus)
• the United Left (Belgium)
• European United Left / Nordic Green Left Group in the European Parliament

literature

• Helmut Scholz : The Party of the European Left. Some aspects of their development in: RLS Standpunkte No. 13/2005. ( online , PDF; 92 kB)
• Kate Hudson : The New European Left: A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century? , New York, 2012, ISBN 9780230248762 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.berlin-stadtderfrauen.de/de/kongress/docs/kauf_d.html ( Memento from September 6, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
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