The Association for Solidarity Perspectives (german: Verein für solidarische Perspektiven, VsP) is a

far-left Far-left politics, also known as the radical left or the extreme left, are politics further to the left on the left–right political spectrum than the standard political left. The term does not have a single definition. Some scholars consider ...

political organization in Germany. The VsP was formed in October 1986 in West Germany as the United Socialist Party ('Vereinigte Sozialistische Partei', VSP), a perhaps 600-strong merger of the Trotskyite International Marxist Group (GIM) and the

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Communist Party of Germany/Marxists–Leninists The Communist Party of Germany/Marxists–Leninists (german: Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands/Marxisten-Leninisten, KPD/ML) was a clandestine communist party active in West Germany and East Germany during the Cold War. It was founded in 1968 ...

. The parties combined their newspapers, ''was tun'' (What to do) and ''Roter Morgen'' (Red Dawn) respectively, to launch the ' (Socialist Newspaper, SoZ). The newly founded party negotiated for over 2 years with the League of West German Communists ('Bund Westdeutscher Kommunisten') about another amalgamation, but this efforts remained fruitless because of their differences over feminism. The VSP attacked

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and was engaged in the fleeting left-wing resistance movement ('Never again, Germany!'). When the former ruling party of the German Democratic Republic, the Socialist Unity Party (SED), reconstituted itself as the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) after

, individual members of the VSP entered the party and obtained official positions. However, the VSP remained independent of the PDS. In 1994, the VSP changed its name and organisational form to Association for Solidarity Perspectives (''Verein für solidarische Perspektiven'', VsP). One faction of the Trotskyist current in the VsP departed in 1994 and formed the Revolutionary Socialist League (RSB). The Trotskyists who remained in the VsP formed a

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called the International Socialist Left (ISL). In the 2005 federal elections, the VsP supported ''

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'', the descendant of the PDS.

References

External links

VsP website

''Sozialistische Zeitung'' website

ISL website

RSB website

Inprekorr
- magazine co-published by the ISL and RSB 1986 establishments in West Germany Communist organisations in Germany Fourth International (post-reunification) Organizations established in 1986 Trotskyist organisations in Germany {{Germany-poli-stub