International Socialist Workers Organization
The International Socialist Workers Organization is a German Trotskyist organization. It was the German section of the "Organizing Committee for the Restoration of the Fourth International ", a split from the Fourth International under Pierre Lambert . Today the remnants of the ISA work in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
Participation in European elections
In the European elections in 1989 , the ISA initiated the list "For a Europe of workers and democracy". The list received 10,377 votes (0.04%), marginally more than the competing Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter , German section of the Fourth International.
For the European elections in 1994 a successor list was drawn up under the name "Platform Europe for Workers and Democracy". The list got 12,992 votes (0.04%).
Association of working groups for labor policy and democracy
In 1989 the ISA founded the small party Association of Working Groups for Workers' Policy and Democracy (VAA). On February 17, 1990, a branch in the German Democratic Republic was founded in East Berlin . The VAA distanced itself from the GDR and called for an "all-German government of independent workers' organizations, committed to the demands of the workers, youth and democracy". She stood up against the position of the SPD party chairman Oskar Lafontaine for reunification .
The party took part in the People's Chamber election in 1990 , but received only 380 votes. In the election of the city council of (East) Berlin in 1990 , 284 votes were cast for the VAA. In the federal election in 1990 , the party ran with state lists in Berlin , Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia as well as with a few direct candidates in various states. There were 4,530 second votes on the VAA state lists.
The VAA published the newspaper Free Tribune for Employee Policy.
Collaboration in the SPD
From 1992 the ISA shifted its work within the structures of the SPD . She represents her positions in the magazine Soziale Politik & Demokratie, among others .
Web links
- Website of "Social Politics & Democracy"
- VAA election advertisement for the 1990 Bundestag election (Youtube)