Socialist Left Party (Austria)

Socialist Left Party (Austria)

Infobox Austrian Political Party
party_name = Sozialistische LinksPartei
party_deletable image-caption
party_articletitle = PAGENAME
leader = Sonja Grusch
foundation = 2000 ("Sozialistische LinksPartei")
2000 (Merged from "Sozialistische Offensive Vorwärts")
ideology = Trotskyism
position = Left wing
international = Committee for a Workers' International
european = none
europarl = none
colours = Red
headquarters = Kaiserstraße 14/11
A-1070 Vienna
website = [http://www.slp.at http://www.slp.at]
The Socialist Left Party (de: "Sozialistische LinksPartei", or SLP) is a Trotskyist political party in Austria. It is a member of the Committee for a Workers' International. The party originated in the 1980's, when the forerunner "Sozialistische Offensive Vorwärts" emerged from the far-left wing of the Socialist Youth of Austria. It later transformed itself during the protests against the participation of the FPÖ in the Austrian government in 2000 into the current SLP, forming itself as a party at a conference on January 30th 2000 [ [http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/sparchive/147.htm Mass Protest movement in Austria against right-wing] , The Socialist 147, 03/03/00] . In 2002, it ran in federal elections for the "Nationalrat"; however, it was unable to win a seat.

The SLP has several professed goals as part of their party plan for reform: social justice on a national and global level; a stop to the neo-liberal government's spending cuts and privatisation schemes; gender equality and equality for homosexuals; an end to Nazism, racism, and all forms of xenophobia; protection of the environment; as well as other topics relating to anti-globalisation. The party is also anti-EU. The SLP aims to help found an alternative to social democracy and what it terms the "bureaucratic-centralist" or "Stalinist" KPÖ. As a section of the Committee for a Workers' International it has a Trotskyist analysis which rejects Stalinism as well the cultural revolution approach of Maoism. It also rejects social democracy, which it believes has become bourgeois. The SLP defines itself as a young, revolutionary pro-labour party.

In 2001, the party stood in elections in Vienna and received 100 voters, 0.01% of the vote in communal elections of 2001. However, since the SLP put itself up for votes in only one district ("Zentrum"), this equates to relatively 0.18% of all votes. The party campaigned also in other districts such as Margareten, where it received 139 votes, which totals to 0.68% of all votes.

In communal elections of 2005, the party campaigned again in the districts of "Zentrum" and Margareten. It was able to raise its votes to 124 in Zentrum (0.24% or 0.02% for all of Vienna); however, it lost in Margareten (90 votes, 0.47%). Because the SLP ran against the KPÖ in Margareten, their presence could have contributed to the narrow miss for the KPÖ in entering the communal assembly there, with their tally of 2.22%. The SLP also ran in Favoriten (0.19%) and Brigittenau (0.28%); however, neither result was enough to qualify for a seat.

Campaigns

Socialist Left Party activists have been prominent in defending abortion rights. In 2003, after writing an article criticising the methods of pro-life group Human Life International (HLI), SLP member Claudia Sorger was taken to court, but won her case on July 10th 2003 [ [http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2003/310/index.html?id=pp5a.htm Success In Defending Women's Right To Abortion] - The Socialist 310 26/07/03]

External links

* [http://www.slp.at/ Official web site]

References


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