Social Equality Party (Germany)
The Socialist Equality Party, Section of the Fourth International (Brief description: PSG ) is a German small Trotskyist party. It was founded in 1997 as a successor party, founded in 1971 Federal Socialist Workers.
Substantive Profile
The party sees itself as the German section of the Fourth International in the tradition of Leon Trotsky standing. The international umbrella organization of PSG represents the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI )
In the center of the election returns of the PSG is a critique of trade unions, the Social Democrats and the former Stalinist organizations. These related to the nation-state, according to the PSG organizations have with globalization and the crisis of capitalism lost any opportunity to defend the rights and interests of the working class. Because they themselves did not provide the capitalist order in question, they went with the increasing crisis to the right.
The PSG talks in the choice statements contrast, for an international and independent movement of the workers who had to have a socialist objective. The interests of the people are in the opinion of the PSG be higher than the profit interests of a narrow elite. In explaining to the Hesse state elections in 2008 the party claimed, for example, an unconditional basic income of 1,500 euros per month and a maximum monthly income of 20,000 euros. Each additional euro should be taxed at 100 %.
Unlike other Trotskyist parties she refused the federal election campaign in 2005 from the support of the electoral alliance of WASG and Left Party. The WASG She referred in 2004 to the World Socialist Web Site as a " bureaucratic maneuvers ", which served to promote illusions in the old bureaucracies and to prevent zuwendeten workers a real alternative.
Supplied by the intelligence, the PSG was classified as left-wing extremism in 2005.
Structure
The headquarters of the party in Berlin. The Socialist Equality Party is the German organization of the ICFI and works with its sister parties, the Socialist Equality Parties (SEP ) in the UK, the U.S., Sri Lanka, Canada and Australia and with groups in France, India and Pakistan together.
Publications
The PSG is the bi-monthly magazine equal to the current political and cultural issues out, which is on display except at party events and subscription - Shipping in 44 bookshops and newsagents for sale. The PSG is the German editors of the World Socialist Web Site. In addition, the party has with the Mehring Books (formerly labor press ) over the largest Trotskyist book publisher in the German-speaking and are in addition to translations of the works of Trotsky into German, especially the writings of David North and own books out.
History
The ICFI went in 1953 from the cleavage of Pabloism forth. The PSG was founded in spring 1997 as a successor to the 1971 federal government incurred Socialist Workers (BSA).
The PSG participated in the parliamentary elections of 1998, 2005, 2009 and 2013 (in this she received 4564 second vote, 0.0 %) and in the European elections in 2004 and 2009. Nationally, the PSG joined in the state elections in Hesse 2003, 2008 and 2013 and the elections to the Berlin House of Representatives in 2006 and 2011.