New socialist party, The Left, founded in Switzerland

[Die Neue Zeit]

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news_digest/Left_leaning_parties_receive_competition.html?site Sect=104&sid=11522274&ty=nd


A new Swiss political party has been founded. "The Left" will attempt to win votes with a platform more leftwing than that of the Greens or Social Democrats.

Around 200 people took part in a congress of the new party in Schaffhausen on Saturday.

In an appeal to Swiss voters, The Left said it intended to become an "eco-socialist power, which is currently lacking in Switzerland".

One of the co-founders of the new party, Florian Keller, said The Left should appeal to young people across the country who feel represented by neither the centre-left Social Democrats or Greens.

A national committee was elected on Saturday, whose mandate is to enter "into dialogue with all anti-capitalist and eco-socialist movements in the country" with the goal of uniting them in a single party.

A formal founding ceremony is scheduled to take play next May in Lausanne.

Name-wise, this new organization is capitalizing on the tag line "The Left" (i.e., Die Linke), but in substance it may indeed be just like the NPA in France.

[Demogorgon]

Does this include any parties in the National Assembly such as The Swiss Labour Party?

[Die Neue Zeit]

I honestly don't know. I tried searching for more information on this formation, but didn't get any besides copies of this short article. Perhaps Swiss comrades can enlighten us.

[Revy]

There is also solidaritéS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarit%C3%A9S) in Switzerland.

Their website says in French "solidaritéS [Solidarity] is an anti-capitalist, feminist and environmentalist movement for socialism of the 21st century".

solidaritéS is also a member of the European Anticapitalist Left.

[Q]

Perhaps Swiss comrades can enlighten us.

Do we have any?

[Hermes Szondi]

pda.ch


To be able to post links or images your post count must be 25 or greater. :crying:

[Revy]

pda.ch


To be able to post links or images your post count must be 25 or greater. :crying:

That one too. It's affiliated with the Party of the European Left.

[Hermes Szondi]

la-gauche.ch

To be able to post links or images your post count must be 25 or greater.

[Q]

la-gauche.ch

To be able to post links or images your post count must be 25 or greater.

Just 23 more to go ;)

[Die Neue Zeit]

OK, now I'm confused: solidaritéS? pda.ch? la-gauche.ch?

[Q]

OK, now I'm confused: solidaritéS? pda.ch? la-gauche.ch?

Translation: Switzerland also has a far left scene, which is probably tiny and is utterly fractured.

[Die Neue Zeit]

Actually, I just want to know which ones are "revolutionary" and which ones are "reformist."

[L.J.Solidarity]

The new party is actually called La Gauche - Linke Alternative - La Sinistra, it seems to be the successor of an electoral alliance the three largest left-wing parties in Switzerland (traditional pro-moscow PdA/Labor Party, rather reformist ex-trotskyist Solidarités and apparently still more reformist Linke Alternative) formed for the 2007 elections. In their founding document they call for other "groups of the radical left" to join them, refering to themselves as a "movement" rather than a party, and they seem to really like the words "eco-socialist" and "anticapitalist". The most radical thing in their programme is a "maximum weekly work time" of 32 hours on 4 days, and they want basic income, so obviously they're a reformist formation, not even calling for nationalisation/socialization of any industries.

[Uncle Ho]

It's pretty sad when the right-wing Nazi wannabes in Austria call for massive re-nationalization, yet self-proclaimed Socialists do not.

Anyone wondering why the Socialism is waning so badly need only look at the policies and hopeless fragmentation of those politicians who claim to support it.

[Die Neue Zeit]

The new party is actually called La Gauche - Linke Alternative - La Sinistra, it seems to be the successor of an electoral alliance the three largest left-wing parties in Switzerland (traditional pro-moscow PdA/Labor Party, rather reformist ex-trotskyist Solidarités and apparently still more reformist Linke Alternative) formed for the 2007 elections. In their founding document they call for other "groups of the radical left" to join them, refering to themselves as a "movement" rather than a party, and they seem to really like the words "eco-socialist" and "anticapitalist". The most radical thing in their programme is a "maximum weekly work time" of 32 hours on 4 days, and they want basic income, so obviously they're a reformist formation, not even calling for nationalisation/socialization of any industries.

In other words, they're more likely to have a founding congress like this (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7kuww_meeting-de-lancement-du-parti-de-ga_news)?