London office
The London office was an international alliance of left-wing socialist parties that existed from 1932 to 1940. The official name of the association was initially the Committee of Independent Revolutionary Socialist Parties , later the International Bureau for Revolutionary-Socialist Unity and the International Revolutionary-Marxist Center , often referred to in the literature as the International Working Group (IAG). The International Bureau of Revolutionary Youth Organizations was attached to the London office .
The secretary was Fenner Brockway (ILP, Great Britain) from 1932 to 1939 , and Julián Gorkin (POUM, Spain) from 1939 to 1940 .
Member parties
- Germany: Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAPD) until 1938
- Germany: Communist Party Opposition (KPD-O) observer
- Germany: Lenin League , from 1933 to 1935
- Germany: New way from 1937
- France: Parti de l'Unite Proletaire (PUP) until its dissolution in 1936
- France: Parti Socialiste Ouvrier et Paysan (PSOP) from 1939
- Great Britain: Independent Labor Party (ILP)
- Italy: Maximalist faction of the Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI) around Angelica Balabanova
- Netherlands: Onafhankelijk Socialistische Partij (OSP) and Revolutionair Socialistische Partij (RSP), merged in 1935 to form the Revolutionair Socialistische Arbeiders Partij (RSAP)
- Norway: Det Norske Arbeiderparti (DNA) (until 1933)
- Norway: Mot Dag
- Palestine: Poale Zion
- Palestine: HaSchomer HaTzair
- Poland: Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Lite, Poyln un Rusland
- Poland: Independent Workers' Party of Poland (NPRP)
- Romania: Independent Socialist Party (PSI)
- Spain: Bloque Obrero y Campesino (BOC), merged in 1935 with the Izquierda Comunista de España to form the Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista (POUM)
- Sweden: Sveriges Kommunistiska Partiet ( "Kilbom-Fraktion" ) , renamed Socialistiska Partiet in 1934 (from 1933)
- USA: Independent Labor League of America (from 1939)
- Austria: Red Front
literature
- Willy Buschak : The London Office: Left Socialism in the Interwar Period . In: Jürgen Baumgarten (Ed.): Left Socialists in Europe. Alternatives to Social Democracy and Communist Parties . Hamburg 1982, pp. 173-215. ISBN 3-88506-116-3
- Willy Buschak: The London office. European left socialists in the interwar period . Amsterdam 1985 ISBN 90-6861-001-5