United Socialist Party
| United Socialist Party (VSP) | |
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| founding | October 4th and 5th, 1986 |
| Place of foundation | Dortmund |
| resolution | December 2000 |
| Headquarters | Cologne |
| Alignment | Marxism |
| Colours) | red , white |
The United Socialist Party (VSP) was a small left-wing socialist party in Germany that existed from the mid-1980s to the end of the 1990s . It emerged in October 1986 from the union of the Trotskyist Group International Marxists (GIM), which formed the German section of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International , with the Maoist KPD / ML (Red Morning). Minorities that rejected the association split off from both predecessor parties (for example, the GIM youth organization “Red Mole” formed the VSP-independent group Mole ).
founding
The unification conference took place on October 4th and 5th, 1986 in Dortmund. The VSP was based in Cologne.
It was represented journalistically by the “ Sozialistische Zeitung ” (SoZ), which replaced the newspapers “ was tun ” (former organ of the GIM) and “ Roter Morgen ” (former organ of the KPD / ML).
The VSP was registered as a political party with the Federal Returning Officer, but only presented candidates once in federal elections. She later lost this status under the German party law .
Unlike the GIM, the VSP had no formal relationship with the Fourth International and its United Secretariat. The former members of the GIM, however, remained as individual members in the Fourth International and created the “AG of Members of the Fourth International in the VSP” for the purpose of electing delegates to international congresses and journalistic work.
Discussions about a cooperation with the Democratic Socialists (DS) did not lead to any result, negotiations with the Bund Westdeutscher Kommunisten (BWK) about a union failed.
development
After the turning point and peaceful revolution in the GDR , large parts of the VSP welcomed the renaming of the SED to the PDS. They saw in this a break with Stalinism as well as an opportunity for a new socialist beginning and took part in building the PDS. Jakob Moneta was elected to the central union committee of the PDS, and Winfried Wolf entered the Bundestag as a candidate of the PDS via the state list of Baden-Württemberg.
In 1993 the VSP gave up the claim to be a party after a final candidacy in the Hamburg state elections and renamed itself the Association for Socialist Politics while retaining the abbreviation .
This "Association for Socialist Politics" dissolved in the 1990s. The SoZ newspaper continued to appear, published by an “ Association for Solidarity Perspectives” . V. ”, again with the abbreviation VsP, but with a lower case“ s ”, and is a kind of unofficial central organ of the international socialist left (isl).
The current of the members of the Fourth International in the VSP existed in two organizations: the Revolutionary Socialist Bund (RSB) and the isl, which were both part of the Fourth International, and together with groups in Austria and Switzerland published the magazine Inprekorr . Both organizations merged in 2016 to form the International Socialist Organization .
literature
- Christoph Jünke : A short history of the left socialist VSP from 1986 to 2000 , in: Christoph Jünke: Forays through the red 20th century. Hamburg: Laika-Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-94423-300-0 , pp. 187-211. (online: A short history of the left-wing socialist VSP from 1986 to 2000 by Christoph Jünke )