Swiss Party of Labour
The Party of Labour of Switzerland ( PdA, French Parti suisse du Travail, PST, Italian Partito Comunista, PC advises. Partida svizra da la lavur, PSDL ) is a political party in Switzerland. In the cantons of Jura, Neuchâtel and Vaud it bears the name Parti Ouvrier Populaire (POP). The party is represented in various cantonal, city and municipal parliaments. Ideologically, they positioned on the left of the political spectrum.
Objectives
The Party of Labour describes himself as a communist. One of its declared aims is " to work towards the creation of a large majority for the overthrow of capitalism and the development of Swiss society for democratic socialism." The PdA sees himself as showing solidarity with the most vulnerable groups and advocates redistribution and against privatization.
History
The PdA was founded in 1944 as the successor organization of the banned 1939-1941 Communist Party of Switzerland (KPS ) and Fédération Socialiste suisse (FSS ). Most important, it is in industry-related regions of the French-speaking French-speaking Switzerland, where it provides members of the government and in individual cities. In the Swiss National Council, it is represented with a Vaudois deputies.
In their environment created small parties that seceded from the late 1960s by the PdA, such as the POCH or the Revolutionary Marxist League, founded in 1969, in 1980 renamed to Socialist Workers Party. Some joined in the 1990s, again with the PdA together in order to combine the vote (eg the electoral alliance Alliance de Gauche in Geneva), while others went as the POCH in the Green Party of Switzerland on.
In the 1950s, the PdA was also strong in the German cantons of Switzerland. There they came because of the Cold War into isolation and became a splinter group. Only in the Canton of Basel-Stadt she held a little more than five percent. In the 1990s, she finally fell in Basel in a crisis. Lately, however, met with young forces again to the party, so that it came to new or re- creation of party sections in German Switzerland, as happened in 2003 in St. Gallen and Bern.
Tabular overview
2007 National Council elections
In the national elections of 2007, the PdA candidate in the cantons of Zurich, Vaud, Geneva and Ticino, with their own lists, in the canton of Neuchâtel on a common list of solidaritéS. The electoral alliance à gauche toute! / Left alternative that the PdA was received with the solidaritéS and the alternatives lists in the cantons of Aargau, Schaffhausen and Zurich, made it his goal to reach fraction starch in the form of five seats in the National Council.
Although the PdA able to maintain its share of the vote total, they lost in the Vaud the seat of the National Josef Zisyadis. In contrast, it missed the Mayor of Le Locle, Denis de La Reussille, only just to win in Neuenburg a seat at the expense of the countryside. As now the sole representative of the National Council PdA was Marianne Huguenin, City President of Renens re-elected. However, she waived her mandate, so that Josef Zisyadis could move into the House of Representatives again. In addition, in Geneva was the seat of the Pierre Vanek solidaritéS lost because the PdA refused to respond to the solidaritéS a sublist alliance. Also in Zurich à gauche toute could! win ( with the alternatives list as local main force) not established.
Previous parliamentary election results
Communist Youth of Switzerland
The Communist Youth Switzerland ( KJS ) is a grouping of communist -oriented Swiss teenager. It is in three of the four linguistic regions of Switzerland represented (as Communist Youth Bern, Switzerland and Central Communist Youth Communist Youth Zurich in German Switzerland, Suisse Romande as Jeunesse Communiste in western Switzerland and as Gioventú Communista in the Italian Switzerland ). The organization sees itself as representing the ideology of Marxist-Leninist Communism and the Party of Switzerland is the close work.