Association for Solidarity Perspectives (Germany)
The United Socialist Party ( VSP) was an existing mid -1980s to the late 1990s left-wing socialist small party in Germany. She went in October 1986 from the union of the Trotskyist International Marxist Group (GIM ), which formed the German section of the Fourth International, with the KPD / ML ( Roter Morgen ) out. From two previous parties minorities seceded, who rejected the union ( as was the GIM youth organization " Red Mole", the VSP - independent group mole ).
The union conference was held in Dortmund on 4 and 5 October 1986. The VSP had its headquarters in Cologne.
It was represented editorially by the " Socialist newspaper" ( POI ), which entered so that the place of newspapers " what to do " (former organ GIM ) and " Red Morning " (former organ of the KPD / ML).
The VSP was registered as a political party at the Federal Returning Officer, but presented only once candidates in federal elections on. Later she lost the formal status by the West German party law again.
Unlike the GIM the VSP had no formal relations with the Fourth International and their united Secretariat. However, the former members of the GIM remained as individual members in the Fourth International and created for the purpose of election of delegates to international congresses and journalistic work, the "male members of the Fourth International in the VSP ".
Discussions on cooperation with the Democratic Socialists (DS ) led to no result, negotiations with the federal West German Communists ( BWK) failed on an association.
After the "Wende " welcomed large parts of the VSP renaming the SED to PDS. They saw it as a break with Stalinism, as well as a chance for a new beginning socialist and participated in the building of the PDS. Jakob Moneta was elected to the central trade union committee of the PDS, and Winfried Wolf retired as a candidate of the PDS over the national list Baden -Württemberg in the Bundestag.
Around 1993, the VSP renamed in Association for Socialist policies while retaining the abbreviation.
These " Association for Socialist policy " no longer exists. The newspaper POI appears, however, further edited by an "Association for Solidarity Perspectives eV", again with the abbreviation VsP, but a lower case "s", and is a kind of unofficial central organ of the international socialist left ( isl ).
The flow of the members of the Fourth International in the VSP exists today in two organizations: the Revolutionary Socialist Federation ( RSB ) and the isl, both of which are part of the Fourth International, and together with groups in Austria and Switzerland to publish the magazine Inprecorr.