Hardly anybody now remembers the Hungarian Socialdemocratic Party (MSzDP). It has been effectively swallowed up by the Socialist Party, which isn’t exactly setting the world on fire electorally. The latest tests of opinion have come in Slovakia and Ireland. In Ireland the PES member Labour Party won only six seats out of 160. The story […]
DiEM25 – Movement or Party?
What does the future hold for DiEM25, now that Yanis Varoufakis has become an MP in the Greek parliament? Varoufakis is still active in the organisation, indeed scheduled to take part in one of the online events on May 11. However, being elected as a representative of DiEM25’s so called electoral wing brings its own […]
Links Europa
International Foundation Links Europa, to give it its formal name, was set up in 1976 by Carlos Pronk, an activist in PvdA (the Dutch Labour Party), along with members of sister parties, mainly in Britain and West Germany. The aim was to bring rank and file members of socialdemocratic parties together by holding conferences and […]
First thoughts
Nearly thirty years on from our conference in Vienna, followed by our training visit to Hungary, the need for a body like Links Europa which can bring progressive socialdemocrats together is just as acute as when the iron curtain had recently lifted. The demise of state planned economies has consigned all left parties to a […]