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2017-07-22T18:14:02+00:00350776</p><style type="text/css">.custom350759{color:#493267 !important; background-color:#7BB3FF !important; }</style><blockquote class="custom350759"><em><a href="/forum/post/350759/">JohnBeige</a> posted:</em><br/><p class="postbody_text">fascists defeated in favor of, what, a bush jr esque party? green-left alliance grew, soc dems imploded?</p></blockquote><p class="postbody_text">
<br/>- neoliberals were able to predictably put the worst parts of austerity on the social democrats
<br/>- green-left liberals grew as did the regular left liberals
<br/>- the fascists got bigger but not as big as previously thought
<br/>- the left-reformists didn't have a fashion icon as a spokesperson and they got ignored by the wokes
Archive :: The Crystallized Social Labour Mine :: An attempt at a series of understandable posts on the state of leftist parties in the European Union (by JohnBeige)
2017-07-22T07:58:22+00:00350759fascists defeated in favor of, what, a bush jr esque party? green-left alliance grew, soc dems imploded?
Archive :: The Crystallized Social Labour Mine :: An attempt at a series of understandable posts on the state of leftist parties in the European Union (by belgend)
2017-07-22T07:18:31+00:00350757</p><style type="text/css">.custom350726{color:#493267 !important; background-color:#7BB3FF !important; }</style><blockquote class="custom350726"><em><a href="/forum/post/350726/">JohnBeige</a> posted:</em><br/><p class="postbody_text">what the hell happened in the netherlands</p></blockquote><p class="postbody_text">
<br/>you're gonna have to be more specific
Archive :: The Crystallized Social Labour Mine :: An attempt at a series of understandable posts on the state of leftist parties in the European Union (by JohnBeige)
2017-07-21T18:22:35+00:00350726what the hell happened in the netherlands
Archive :: The Crystallized Social Labour Mine :: An attempt at a series of understandable posts on the state of leftist parties in the European Union (by Guyovich)
2017-05-10T08:50:36+00:00346688</p><style type="text/css">.custom346641{}</style><blockquote class="custom346641"><em><a href="/forum/post/346641/">belgend</a> posted:</em><br/><p class="postbody_text">"Hey Mamma mia, you can't-a make-a the revolution without knowing Juve Merda"
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<br/><img class="postimg_inline" src="http://i.imgur.com/x73jea8.png"/>
Archive :: The Crystallized Social Labour Mine :: An attempt at a series of understandable posts on the state of leftist parties in the European Union (by GroverBabyFurr)
2017-05-09T20:35:24+00:00346656now THATS a list I can get behind
Archive :: The Crystallized Social Labour Mine :: An attempt at a series of understandable posts on the state of leftist parties in the European Union (by belgend)
2017-05-09T18:58:48+00:00346641<span style="font-size:32px">To you speaks the caricatural id of the Rhizzone posting population to bring you their concluding remarks of the state of leftist parties in Europe enslaved by the imperialist-supracapitalist €urop€an Union: for a Rhizzonist Internationale of the Sixth Sense</span>
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<br/>Friends, Comrades, Colonels of Zapato,
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<br/>In our search for the parties worthy of our attention in the first world inbetween bouts of discussing the FARC, the YPG and CPI(M) (where M stands for Maoist, you revisionist bitch fuckre), we must sadly conclude that at least 75% of the parties active in these imperialist states are 100% bullshit and traitors to the class struggle. However, we've decided within the collective leadership of the National Council of Posting Without Limits that we will bring extra attention to the parties we do care about somewhat, in alphabetical order of the country they're in.
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<br/><strong>Austria: </strong>The rump state of German interests has surprisingly several interesting parties, but none of them as interesting as the <strong>PdA </strong>which manages to both remove the veil of socialdemocracy from the eyes of the workers as serve the people through their antifascist struggle. Honorary mention to the weirdos in the Fifth International of <strong>Arbeiter*innenstandpunkt </strong>for actually doing work in the streets instead of being paper trots.
<br/><strong>Belgium: </strong>A sad ordeal of parties where none of them believe in the Shining Light of Juche. If we have to pick one, we reluctantly pick the <strong>PVDA-PTB </strong>because they at least have an organisational basis.
<br/><strong>Bulgaria: </strong>The comrade who gave us his results on Bulgaria had not learned Bulgarian during his work. We have sent him to a struggle session in IFAP and will be following the <strong>KPB </strong>until further notice shows them being also bullshit. Their article length from what we can tell seems adequate.
<br/><strong>Croatia: </strong>The case here was obvious. <strong>Crvena akcija </strong>is the only party in the most recent acquisition of European capital to have the foresight to demand of interested comrades to discuss their interest through PGP keys, which only shows they fully understand democratic centralism in a way the parliamentarians in the GUE never could.
<br/><strong>Cyprus: </strong>In the discussion between the right-opportunist AKEL who dared go into a government without a protracted people's war like our comrades in Nepal and the left-opportunist NEDA, the Rhizzone National Council takes the most anti-imperialist path, which in this case means we hope Turkey takes over Cyprus from European Capital (as TUrkey is still only part of the miilitary wing of US imperialism, not the economic wing) and the <strong>DHKP-C </strong>call for people's war.
<br/><strong>Czech Republic</strong>: We bedrudingly support the <strong>KSCM </strong>as it's the only party that seems to frighten the Velvet counterrevolutionaries in Czechia.
<br/><strong>Denmark: </strong>The <strong>APK </strong>seem to have the most correct analysis on the EU, and it didn't almost liquidate itself in something as stupid as a "'""Unity List"'"" of right-opportunists.
<br/><strong>Estonia: </strong>The Rhizzone finds Estonia should be returned to the Soviets, and this left-reformist party won't help.
<br/><strong>Finland: </strong>The <strong>KTP </strong>actively supports the science of Juche, and should be supported in return.
<br/><strong>France: </strong>The <strong>PRCF </strong>regularly uses football analogies in its articles, and as the PCI has said "Hey Mamma mia, you can't-a make-a the revolution without knowing Juve Merda" also we wanted them to shut up so we said ok to supporting them.
<br/><strong>Germany: </strong>We were shocked to find out that there's a legal party within the most capitalist nation in Europe that think the DDR was good. The <strong>KPD </strong>gets our support.
<br/><strong>Greece: </strong>The Greek left is enough of a joke as it is, which is why we support the biggest source of hellatious laughter <strong>the KKE</strong>. Honorary mention to the OAKKE for giving the correct facts that Chechens did in fact do 9/11
<br/><strong>Hungary</strong>: <strong>Balpart </strong>doesn't seem to want to drown refugees, which is all we can ask for really. If only Kruschev backed off huh
<br/><strong>Ireland: </strong>We demand the <strong>Official IRA </strong>restart its people's war against the British. Honorary mention to LARP groups being registered as legal parties
<br/><strong>Italy: </strong>The <strong>Rifondazione </strong>seems to be the only party in Italy actually combatting the protofascism of Beppo Grelli, which makes them objectively good in our opinion.
<br/><strong>Latvia: </strong>Give it back to the Soviets
<br/><strong>Lithuania: </strong>Kick racism out of the left, give it back to the Soviets
<br/><strong>Luxemburg: </strong>The <strong>KPL </strong>is the only party to go to the streets and serve the people against the interests of vulture capitalists at Lidl
<br/><strong>Malta: </strong>We are sending a Rhizzone emergency squad to kickstart the left there as we speak!
<br/><strong>the Netherlands</strong>: Swamp Germans, <strong>NCPN </strong>saw through the imperialism in Kosovo though, so they deserve kudos.
<br/><strong>Poland: </strong>Once again, only the <strong>KPP </strong>frightens the Solidarnosc counterrevolutionaries
<br/><strong>Portugal: </strong>We eagerly await the return of people's war by the <strong>PCTP</strong>. Until then the PCP will do, <em>I guess
<br/></em><strong>Romania: </strong>We support that communist party that frightens the counterrevolutionaries and is illegal rn. Keep up the fight
<br/><strong>Slovakia: </strong>Will return to this when we can be sure fascist viruses won't infect our PC (necessary for our weird twitter sessions)
<br/><strong>Slovenia: </strong>We go for the party that wasn't founded in the fucking Hilton what the fuck
<br/><strong>Spain: </strong>TUmblr is a necessary part to make the unity between the class struggle and the twee struggle. <strong>UCE
<br/></strong><strong>Sweden: </strong>The <strong>KP </strong>frightens the social fascists.
<br/><strong>United Kingdom: </strong>*wakes up in a cold sweat* HARPAL BRAR IS A REVISIONIST! <strong>RCPB-ML
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<br/></strong>In this concludes the parties we could consider to contact in a RHizzonist European Internationale. I'll make the website. Fronpage please
Archive :: The Crystallized Social Labour Mine :: An attempt at a series of understandable posts on the state of leftist parties in the European Union (by cars)
2017-05-09T14:58:13+00:00346618ty for this thread it's real good and useful for me.
Archive :: The Crystallized Social Labour Mine :: An attempt at a series of understandable posts on the state of leftist parties in the European Union (by JohnBeige)
2017-05-06T20:26:53+00:00346484Rhizzone-approved party list
Archive :: The Crystallized Social Labour Mine :: An attempt at a series of understandable posts on the state of leftist parties in the European Union (by belgend)
2017-05-06T19:55:53+00:00346482I've said I'd do a post on political parties in the EU special territories, but there's not that many of them that have a propaganda cchannel I can check out online and I don't have the funds to do a world trip to find them first hand. Also there's like 20 parties in the Canary Islands who might no longer exist. So I've scrapped it, and that means the end of this project unless you really want me to do some conclusion post for this.
Archive :: The Crystallized Social Labour Mine :: An attempt at a series of understandable posts on the state of leftist parties in the European Union (by c_man)
2017-05-02T02:22:00+00:00346220</p><style type="text/css">.custom345568{}</style><blockquote class="custom345568"><em><a href="/forum/post/345568/">belgend</a> posted:</em><br/><p class="postbody_text"><img class="postimg_inline" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/25/Cpbmlsymbol.PNG"/>
<br/><strong>Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) (CPB-ML)
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<br/></strong>CPB-ML is a Maoist split from the CPGB done in the '60s. At the time of the Sino-Albanian split, it sided with the Hoxhaists. Have supported the Soviets now and again since. Alexei Sayle used to be a member. Hates the EU and calls Remainers 'enemies of the people'. Opposes mass immigration which makes them sound hella fash.
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<br/><strong>Membership: </strong>unknown
<br/><strong>MPs: </strong>no
<br/><strong>International affiliation: /
<br/>European affiliation: /
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<br/></strong><strong>Position on the European Union
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<br/></strong>"We are throwing off the shackles of the misnamed European Union, which seeks only to dictate and deny sovereignty. By March 2019 we must be out.
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<br/>This day is truly one to celebrate.
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<br/>In 1975 the British people did not believe we could run our own affairs. The referendum vote then was by more than 2 to 1 to throw in our lot with the European Economic Community, to ask it to please manage Britain for us (actually, for its own interests). Last June this woeful decision was finally reversed.
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<br/>The people have shown we want a sovereign Britain. We have declared confidence in ourselves to determine the country’s future without any instruction from Brussels or Berlin.
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<br/>We know that we can and must control our economy, our laws, our borders, and we expect the government to act accordingly. There can be no backsliding, no fudges. Only full independence will do. Push aside any who still wish to block it.
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<br/>The blockers are fewer and fewer but they are dangerous enemies of the people and the country. They want to hand us back to foreign control. All who desire a successful Britain must unite to see this through, engage in the discussion and planning for the future, and act to carry it out."
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<br/><strong>On the minimum wage
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<br/></strong>With a rise in the minimum wage coming into effect on 1 April, the Low Pay Commission has published its analysis of the impact of the National Minimum Wage introduced by the Treasury in 2016. The Commission hails as success that 12.9 per cent of workers in Northern Ireland and 10.8 per cent of workers in the North East are set to get a pay “increase” as opposed to 4.8 per cent in London, 6 per cent in the South East and 7.7 per cent in Scotland.
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<br/>But what the Commission sees as success the trade union movement should see as reason to hang its head in shame because the National Minimum Wage is being hailed as the norm not the bottom of the wages ladder. Why do we who claim to be organised labour skulk along, cap in hand, like Oliver Twist?
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<br/>The proportion of workers on the minimum wage has risen to 8.5 per cent of the workforce, up from 7.3 per cent in 2016 and 5.6 per cent in 2015. The Commission also indicates that the regionalisation of pay has not changed or improved, with traditional pockets of low pay still remaining – such as Somerset, Devon, Rossendale in the North West, Boston in East Anglia where one worker in five is now on the minimum wage.
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<br/>Half of all minimum wage earners are in retail, hospitality, cleaning. A third of these jobs are in Britain’s allegedly boom sector of hairdressing, beauticians, tattoo artists and so on.
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<br/>All the cries from employers that the national minimum wage would lose jobs have been proved false: jobs are available but at reduced rates of pay. And the schemes to supposedly elevate poverty wages – national living wage, London living wage, the national minimum wage – are all based on benefits being included to hide poverty at work.
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<br/>And thousands of workers are receiving even less. The government’s “name and shame” list of employers not paying the national minimum wage lengthens every time it is published. That’s the reality of Britain’s poverty wage, low wage, minimum wage economy."
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<br/><img class="postimg_inline" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Emblem_of_the_Communist_Party_of_Great_Britain_%28Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist%29.svg/180px-Emblem_of_the_Communist_Party_of_Great_Britain_%28Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist%29.svg.png"/>
<br/><strong>Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) (CPGB-ML)
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<br/></strong>Split from the SLP in 2004. Led by Harpal Brar, which coincidentally sounds like the murmurs I make when anyone asks me about the CPGB-ML. Hates trotskyism, revisionism and think the 2011 riots where hella anti-cap. Openly love Stalin. Supports leftist movements abroad, thinks Sinn Fein should lead a 32-county Ireland and is against Scottish independence.
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<br/><strong>Membership: </strong>unknown
<br/><strong>MPs: </strong>no
<br/><strong>International affiliation: </strong>/ (participated in the International Communist Seminar
<br/><strong>European affiliation: /
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<br/></strong><strong>Position on the European Union
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<br/></strong>I don't think they have one, but their articles are all really fucking long. Like, twice the length of the PCRF.</p></blockquote><p class="postbody_text">
<br/>until now i thought these were the same party, thank you for your informative post
Archive :: The Crystallized Social Labour Mine :: An attempt at a series of understandable posts on the state of leftist parties in the European Union (by belgend)
2017-04-28T19:00:26+00:00346101<span style="font-size:32px">The EU-wide Left… outside of the EU?</span>
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<br/>Europarties, unlike what their name might make you think, don’t stop at the EU borders. Here are the parties of the EU-wide left that aren’t actually in the EU.
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<br/><strong><u>European Left outside of the EU</u></strong><u>
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<br/></u><img class="postimg_inline" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Spravmir.jpg/180px-Spravmir.jpg"/>
<br/><strong>Беларуская партыя аб'яднаных левых «Справядлівы сьвет» (Belarus)
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<br/></strong>Founded in 1991 as the official successor of the Communist Party of Byelorussia, it was one of the first main political forces in post-Soviet Belarus. The party would split in 1996, however, in two on the question of supporting Aleksandr Lukashenko. The party we’re talking about here is the anti-Lukashenko camp of the former PKB. Is trying to oust Lukashenko outside of the elecotral process, which they call a sham, and look to the US to intervene.
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<br/><strong>Membership</strong>: unknown
<br/><strong>MPs:</strong>: no
<br/><strong>International affiliation: </strong>/
<br/><strong>National affiliation: </strong>United Democratic Forces of Belarus
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<br/><strong>Position on the European Union
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<br/></strong>A bunch of Belarussian sites say their site is called camarade.biz, but it just looks like a regular old newspaper to me, unless the former Communist Party of Belarus thinks the Champions League results is mandatory reading for marxists (I can’t say I disagree).
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<br/><img class="postimg_inline" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/PCRM_logo.png/120px-PCRM_logo.png"/>
<br/><strong>Партидул Комуништилор дин Република Молдова (ПКРМ) (Moldova)
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<br/></strong>Founded in 1994 and the only communist party to have been in a majority government in a Post-Soviet state. It used this majority not to do away with the capitalist modes of production that had already developed, but to privatise even further. Used to like the EU, now they don’t anymore.
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<br/><strong>Membership: </strong>40,000 (2014)
<br/><strong>MPs: </strong>21
<br/><strong>International affiliation: </strong>Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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<br/><strong>Position on the European Union
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<br/></strong>“By signing the Association Agreement with the European Union, the government betrayed the country and its citizens, lacking Moldova's economy of prospects. (…) At the moment, our country is not prepared to meet the requirements of the Association Agreement with the EU, hasty signed by corrupt and directed government against our Eastern partners. Moldova needs an agreement that will take into account the interests of the entire Moldovan people, including the inhabitants of the left bank of the Dniester.”
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<br/><strong>On Moldova being overrun by… snow!
<br/></strong>“On the morning of Thursday, April 20, the snow covered the entire country. Stihia once again turned into a "catastrophe" for both the inhabitants of the capital and for the tens of thousands of inhabitants of the districts of the country, who remained on this day without electricity, as well as for the drivers who had Risked coming out on national routes.
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<br/>(...)
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<br/>An alarm signal also fired the farmers. But in their messages, some representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry have said that "the situation can not be criticized so far". On the other hand, farmers did not share the optimism of ministerial officials. According to them, they have suffered from stony cultures - persians, apricots, cherries, plums and others. And while the special commission, created to check the state of agricultural production in the country, will work, the frosts expected in the coming days could have destroyed about 70 percent of the fruit. The situation is equally sad for many legumes, which in some districts have already been planted in the open field.
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<br/>At the same time, the situation has raised concern with the Government. Prime Minister Pavel Filip has asked for an estimate of damage caused by stigma in the last 24 hours and proposals for concrete actions for the liquidation of the situation and support for farmers should be submitted. It is noteworthy that no one in the bureaucratic structures took care of the "concrete actions" in time, and, at the same time, of their immediate implementation. Most likely, this time, no official will suffer. Unlike the rest.”
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<br/><img class="postimg_inline" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Pdalogo.gif"/>
<br/><strong>Partei der Arbeit der Schweiz (PdA) (Switzerland)
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<br/></strong>Founded in 1944 after the Communist Party of Switzerland was banned by the Swiss state for supporting the Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact. Since then haven’t done a whole bunch apart from some mad infighting, but they seem to have gotten their shit together on keeping the party afloat in recent years.
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<br/><strong>Membership: </strong>2000 (2009)
<br/><strong>MPs: </strong>1
<br/><strong>International affiliation: / </strong>(Participated in the ICS and is since 2015 an observer member of the Four Party Conference)
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<br/><strong>Position on the European Union
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<br/></strong>“Since the creation of the EU, a multitude of EU Directives have been implementing a Europe-wide coordinated policy of social reduction, deregulation of employment and social systems, privatization of public enterprises and services. The consequences: pressure on wages caused by unfettered site competition, widening of the precarious low-wage sector, increased retirement age, increased health care, long-term and youth unemployment, growing poverty even in highly developed countries, increasing social insecurity, more difficult access to education and future prospects. A policy at the expense of the broad population, which the EU is ruthlessly enforcing through its so-called Troika (ECB, IMF and EU Commission) in the countries of Europe (Greece as the best known example). Officially, the EU stands as a "community of values" that ensure peace in Europe and around the world, serve the ideals of democracy and human rights, guarantee economic stability and social progress. All this has turned out to be a big lie. The EU is a power construct to protect and expand internally and externally the capitalist, imperialist interests of large corporations and capital. Inward, there is a process of the development of the state surveillance of the citizens and the reinforcement of the state repressive instruments, especially under the pretext of «combating terrorism». The crisis in Ukraine shows that Europe does not provide protection against wars. In order to enforce the imperialist interests of the powerful corporations, even openly appearing Fascist forces are supported and waged. Every year, thousands of children, women and men die in the desperate attempt to cross the Mediterranean. The Mediterranean has become the largest cemetery in the world because of EU policy.”
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<br/><strong>On the bombing of Syria
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<br/></strong>“The PdAS expresses its full solidarity with the Syrian people and the peoples of the region and places itself behind their right to self-determination without external interference. The Swiss government is called upon not only to condemn the poison gas use on one hand, to be half-hearted for "an avoidance of a military escalation" and a political solution in Syria. It must also clearly condemn US intervention and draw consequences in relations with the USA. The sanctions against Syria, which mainly affect the civilian population, with the exception of the export ban on war materials, must be abolished immediately. The Swiss government is also called upon to make a stronger commitment to peaceful mediation between all civil war sides.
<br/>The PdAS calls on all those who wish to receive peace in the world to protest against the US intervention in Syria. The war in Syria can not be ended with war! It must not be repeated what happened in the Iraq war! No to the imperialist war!”
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<br/><strong>Özgürlük ve Dayanışma Partisi (ÖDP) (Turkey)
<br/></strong>The ÖDP was founded in 1994 as a merger of several left-wing groups and calls itself a socialist libertarian party (whatever that means). Their history is filled with parties being pissed that building an actual political party is taking too long and leaving for bigger parties. Might no longer exist when these posts are done.
<br/><strong>Membership: </strong>3119 (2017)
<br/><strong>MPs: </strong>no
<br/><strong>International affiliation: /
<br/>Also member of the EACL
<br/>National affiliation: </strong>United June Movement
<br/><strong>Position on the European Union
<br/></strong>“At the beginning of the 21st century, he sat in the head of the country's agenda on Turkey's membership to the EU. The major forces of Turkey, the big capital, the ruling media, the self-changing segment of political Islam on February 28th, and the armed forces have established their future strategies on integration into the EU. This has the effect of being accepted as the goal of the Republic's 80-year Westernization project, as much as the preferences of sovereign powers to join capitalist globalization over the EU. Much of the trade union circles are based on the institutionalization of social and trade union rights in Europe; The main body of the Kurdish opposition, with the expectation that identity and culture demands will find a legitimate ground in the EU, The majority of the people support the process with the hope that a better level of life can only be achieved through the EU. (…) It is now the goal of the EU to fight for the revolutionary transformation of Europe, while the citizens are kept away from decision-making mechanisms, the anti-democratic institutional structure obstructing participation, the neoliberal policies it implements, especially the elite character of the EU Commission. On the other hand, we have the responsibility to uphold the progress made in the EU process on the democratic rights and achievements that we have been paying for the sake of Turkish leftists, socialists, for many years. It is not based on an 'essential' assumption that only the concepts of labor, democracy, human rights and women's rights can be found in Europe. There is no reason not to create common grounds in other geographies where our projections can be found.'Social Europe' and 'labor of Europe' defender of the Third World against the racist, the most serious opponents of imperialist policy, organizers of the anti-war movement and the global justice movement also needs to remember that they are a part.”
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<br/>They don’t seem that active anymore for the rest sadly, they do post sometimes but it’s about rude graffiti on their buildings.
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<br/><strong><u>The Nordic Green-Left not in the EU</u></strong><u>
<br/></u><img class="postimg_inline" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e6/Republic_%28Faroe_Islands%29_logo.png"/>
<br/><strong>Tjóðveldi (Faroe Islands)
<br/></strong>Founded in 1948 when the Danish king declared and immediately after annuled Faroese independence. Ecosocialist and democratic socialist, but are looking for Faroese independence more than anything else.
<br/><strong>Membership: </strong>unknown
<br/><strong>MPs: </strong>7 Faroese, 1 Danish
<br/><strong>International affiliation: /
<br/></strong><strong>Position on the European Union
<br/></strong>I know too little Faroese to comprehend their site sadly and this is the first time Google has failed me, as neither Danish nor Icelandic are good to help me. I’m sorry, this has all turned into a colossal failure.
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<br/><strong>Inuit Ataqatigiit (Greenland)
<br/></strong>Founded in 1976 by radicalised socialist youths in Denmark. Has since turned democratic socialist but in favor of privatisations. Yuck!
<br/><strong>Membership: </strong>unknown
<br/><strong>MPs: </strong>11 Greenland MPs, 1 Danish
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<br/><strong>International affiliation: /
<br/>Position on the European Union
<br/></strong>Don’t have one
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<br/>Their ‘position pieces’ right now are just them saying where they are in municipal coalitions and they’re saying goodbye to an MP who’s going back to being a helicopter pilot. Nordic politics.
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<br/><img class="postimg_inline" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d7/Left-Green_Movement_2016.png/200px-Left-Green_Movement_2016.png"/>
<br/><strong>Vinstrihreyfingin – grænt framboð (Iceland)
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<br/></strong>Founded in 1999 by leftists who thought all the leftists getting co-opted into one social democratic party was a dumb idea. Democratic socialist, hates NATO, hates the US and EU, loves Palestine. Seem like sort of a good bunch.
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<br/><strong>Membership: </strong>unknown
<br/><strong>MPs: </strong>10
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<br/>Position on the European Union
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<br/></strong>Pretty straightforward, they want to keep Iceland out of the EU. No real analysis.
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<br/><strong>Do not point to me
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<br/></strong>“Has a decision been taken to introduce a dual health system in Iceland? And if so, who made that decision? And when was she taken? What is the right of a National Medical Director or Minister for Health regarding the Clinical Operating License? Is the private hospital there illegal or legal? Who is responsible when the minister, the head of the litigation says: Do not point to me? The debate about privatization in the health service has certainly been confusing, as the Medical Director of Health points out. And the dangers of recording a dual health system have been discussed a little.
<br/>It is easy to pronounce the phrase that those who have enough money should have the option of paying for their own actions rather than waiting for those who are not as well-offenders. It is also easy to say that by this means only the waiting for us is shortened and even claim that those who have enough money just have to pay for themselves. This argument, however, is contrary to one of the main assumptions on which our welfare system is based: That everyone should have equal opportunity to get the best possible health care regardless of the economy.
<br/>Once a double healthcare system has been confirmed, the next step is the requirement for free patient insurance to be prepared to pay the amount of money that is paid to the victim. Thus, the development has been in the Nordic countries, and these requirements have already been heard here, including the Cancer Society of Iceland for several years. But what happens when people have paid for their actions from their own pocket or through the insurance? Then the question arises: Why should I pay taxes so others who do not buy insurance can enjoy healthcare? And then the co-responsibility has disappeared, and when we arrive in the American model, private healthcare, the world's most expensive health service, which is not paid out of joint funds (Obamacare is outgoing), but everybody - through an employer or insurance company Pay for yourself. If he missed the job, was sick as a child or escaped paying a premium, he was aware.
<br/>Do we want such a society? No, actually not. Studies have shown that Icelanders want health services for all and cost from joint funds. And what's more: 86,761 voters demanded that the healthcare system be restored and that the state will make more efforts to improve service to all, not just some. And it was not the promises of the chairman of the future Bjartrar, that same Ottars Proppé and now responsible for this terrible development.”
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<br/><strong>Sosialistisk Venstreparti (SV) (Norway)
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<br/></strong>Founded in 1975 as the merger of an electoral alliance consisting of the Communist Party of Norway, the Socialist People’s Party and AIK (the Communists eventually decided to remain an independent party). Feminist, ecosocialist and democratic socialist, against NATO and EU. Part of the Red-Green Coalition between 2005 and 2013 (Stoltenberg II).
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<br/><strong>Membership: </strong>9422 (2014)
<br/><strong>MPs: </strong>7
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<br/>Position on the European Union
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<br/></strong>“The EU is characterized by mass unemployment, poverty and collapse in the confidence of it
<br/>Political system. In the absence of good democratic alternatives, people are turning in
<br/>More and more to right-wing extremists and extreme religious groups. The best medicine against Europe's growing extremism is political solutions that ensure worthy lives and safe jobs for most people. Besides working to solve the social crisis, Europe has to cooperate closely to follow up the threat extremism constitutes”
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<br/><strong>New Work Program for a Warm Community
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<br/></strong>“The world and Norway are not poor, but security, opportunities, power and money are unfairly distributed. It increases the differences between people and the economic and political elite, both in Norway and in the world.
<br/>We better benefit, we create more. Do we stop climate emissions, make the world safer and we get jobs we can live off. If we create fair agreements between countries on trade and cooperation, conflicts will be muted and opportunities opened to all.
<br/>Norway is a country with relatively small differences, a strong welfare state, high labor participation among both sexes, strong unions and a stable economy. This has made Norway one of the world's best countries to live in. Nevertheless, we know that this can turn around. The differences in power and wealth increase, unemployment has gotten stuck and more people have to work in temporary positions. At the same time housing prices are shrinking. How to create and reinforce differences.
<br/>We need a fair and environmentally friendly society, both locally, nationally and globally. We must safeguard the best of Norwegian society, such as small differences, high employment and strong common arenas. We must reduce the differences, strengthen welfare and fight poverty in general, and poverty in families with children in particular. We must contribute to more and safer jobs by transforming ourselves into the zero-emission society and pursuing an active business policy.”
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<br/><strong>The EACL just has some weird Swiss minor parties that doesn’t exist, and the ODP
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<br/></strong><strong>INITIATIVE outside of the EU
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<br/></strong>INITIATIVE works with a whole bunch of Communist parties that aren’t registered because of the virulent anti-communism in those states, so I won’t do a writeup of them but I will mention them here: Communist Party of the Workers of Belarus, Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, New Communist Party of Yugoslavia, Union of Communists of Ukraine.
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<br/><strong>Norges Kommunistiske Parti (NKP) (Norway)
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<br/></strong>Founded in 1923 when the Norwegian Labour Party no longer agreed with the democratic centralism of the Comintern. The pro-Comintern line would found the NKP. Main force in the Norwegian resistance against fascism. Opposed the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviets. Officially calls itself ‘democratic socialist’ since the fall of the USSR. Opposed the Soviet coup of 1991. Under surveillance by the Norwegian state
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<br/><strong>Membership: </strong>unknown
<br/><strong>MPs: </strong>no
<br/><strong>International affiliation: </strong>IMCWP
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<br/><strong>Position on the European Union
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<br/></strong>“The battle for further integration efforts by Norway in the imperialist world, through the EU and NATO's new attack strategies, is a struggle for peace. It is a struggle for increased national independence and independence. It is a struggle for popular rule against capital power and militarism. (…) The most important prerequisite for creating a world without war is that the opinion prevents weapons and military-strategic installations from being placed in space and that the earthquake ceases. It must be sharpened to fight the United States missile shield in the room and we must prevent a radar to this technology placed in the Czech Republic and rockets in Poland. It is a tragedy that the former socialist countries have become the most reactionary guns to the United States and NATO. The accession of these countries to the EU does not serve the economic, social or anti-militarist goals of the working class. (…) All EU treaties (the Maastricht Agreement, the Services Directive, etc.) aim to weaken the wage workers' influence on economic policy. EU countries must meet these requirements to enter the Economic and Monetary Union”
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<br/>The NKP hasn’t done any articles since 2016 yet, as they are currently preparing for the elections. That’s a bit shit how they’re not able to do both.
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<br/><strong>Türkiye Komünist Partisi (TKP) (Turkey)
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<br/></strong>Founded in 1993 as SIP, the TKP took the name from the original Communist Party in a Special Congress in 2001. Had a short split in two factions in 2014 which meant all activity was stopped, but the factions reconciled in January of this year and the TKP was re-instated. Opposed the Iraq War. Hates AKP, NATO and EU. Close to the KKE and PCP, one of the founders of INITIATIVE.
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<br/><strong>Membership: </strong>1987 (2017)
<br/><strong>MPs: </strong>no
<br/><strong>International affiliation: </strong>IMCWP
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<br/><strong>Position on the European Union
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<br/></strong>“Peace movements around the world have risen against the war. Opposite trends in a number of capitalist European countries gained momentum as the enlargement and integration period of the EU understood that it would bring new heavy loads to the laborers, and the scale of these trends became evident by the rejection of the European Constitution by popular vote.”
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<br/><strong>On the results of the presidential referendum
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<br/></strong>“We declared the same day that there was no legitimacy of the announced results of the referendum on April 16th.
<br/>Later, new evidence emerged about the theft and irregularities in the referendum. Every day, every day, new ones are added.
<br/>We say it one more time. No referendum came out, the ruling YSK and using the AA and Erdogan came to a balcony. Erdogan, who is very frightened in any way, has made a Presidential speech after this.
<br/>They have made a great mistake, believing that the honest, honest people of Turkey will accept such a widespread fraud. They can not accept the ruthlessness of this referendum, arrogantly posing, challenging, saying "we do not rule".
<br/>It is obvious that he will not be busy.
<br/>Now they go out and say "respect the democratic process, national will".
<br/>Moreover, millions of people questioning the fraudulent referendum that owns their will have begun to call the coup.
<br/>You know how to blow. With NATO, imperialist countries, internationally, we are especially well aware of the piling of our people. Remember that you celebrated with fireworks when you signed the agreement that the European Union delivered this country. At that time the communists of this country were struggling, saying, "Fucking EU imperialism." Just like we struggle with NATO, US imperialism.
<br/>In response to the call of the people, "there is Germany behind them, there is great capital"
<br/>The big bosses in power in the AKP are the powerful imperialist countries dominated by the USA and Germany. As these forces are deeply contradictions and conflicts within themselves, now they have begun to live deep problems with their old friends, Erdogan.
<br/>It is no doubt of anyone; Erdogan and his team are now ready to make every concession to regain the support of these forces. Major tenders, new privatizations, new free zone agreements, exemptions, privileges ... These are all our people, the harm of our country.
<br/>If these are not enough for the class of capital, if they are to say, "We will bring them back as we brought them" ...
<br/>There is no interest in the search for our rights. The NATO is the AKP, which begs the EU gov- ernments and plunders our country into the bigger monopoly. We represent the laboring people.
<br/>One day, it is not our problem if Erdogan can no longer defend even those who have brought him to power.
<br/>We have opened the flag against imperialism, the monopoly, the exploiters, the anti-secularist reaction. Our history is the history of the struggle against them.
<br/>If you understand, you will be bragged as "great friend USA", "our partner is Germany" and if you live in tension, you are so impersonal enough to be called "ohyyy Europe".
<br/>Darbeymiş, exploded, empty!
<br/>Better, submit to the will of the people and return immediately to this Constitutional amendment.
<br/>Know the friendly enemy well: the TKP will continue the legitimate struggle for strengthening the will of the people. This struggle is a struggle against money fathers, imperialist occupation and wars, Sorosist interventions and anti-public reactionism.
<br/>From tomorrow, everywhere, in the workplace, in the neighborhood, in the schools call for the establishment of Committees against the President, we organize these committees.
<br/>We know that the people are continuing to say NO.
<br/>And this people will not bow to you.”
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<br/>There might be other partner organisations in Georgia, Moldova and Macedonia but apart from the INITIATIVE site or Wikipedia there’s no active propaganda on the web from them <img src="/media/forum/img/smilies/sad.png" />
Archive :: The Crystallized Social Labour Mine :: An attempt at a series of understandable posts on the state of leftist parties in the European Union (by platzapS)
2017-04-25T03:44:37+00:00345754Which one has Mike MacNair
Archive :: The Crystallized Social Labour Mine :: An attempt at a series of understandable posts on the state of leftist parties in the European Union (by JohnBeige)
2017-04-24T16:59:24+00:00345689RCG are good peeps imo. Their group is small but they're not trots so
Archive :: The Crystallized Social Labour Mine :: An attempt at a series of understandable posts on the state of leftist parties in the European Union (by belgend)
2017-04-24T16:56:25+00:00345687</p><style type="text/css">.custom345653{color:#131A38 !important; background-color:#FF9ECF !important; }</style><blockquote class="custom345653"><em><a href="/forum/post/345653/">tears</a> posted:</em><br/><p class="postbody_text">groups like the NCP, RCPB(ML), CPB(ML) all have about 5 memebers each, but they all seemed to inherit property meaning they could continue to exist and produce a paper. its wierd
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<br/>btw u missed out Revolutionary Communist Group (good people) who actually exist and u have a good chance of meeting poeople from.
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<br/>i thought of putting RCG in but they don't consider themselves a party, and if i had to put in every pol org that wasn't a party that post would be a) way longer than the greece post (yugh) and b) i'd have to include the awl D: