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Socialist International is a worldwide organization of democratic socialist, social democratic and labour political parties. It was formed in 1951.
History
The Second International, which was formed in 1889 and dissolved on the eve of World War I in 1914, consitituted some of the same parties that would later form the Socialist International. Among the Second International's most famous actions were its 1889 declaration of 1 May as International Labour Day and its 1910 declaration of 8 March as International Women's Day. While the Second International was split by the outbreak of World War I, a skeleton form survived through the International Socialist Commission. The International re-formed in 1923 (as the Labour and Socialist International), and was reconstituted again, in its present form, after World War II (during which many social democratic and socialist parties had been suppressed in Nazi-occupied Europe).
During the post-World War II period, the SI aided social democratic parties in re-establishing themselves when dictatorship gave way to democracy in Portugal (1974) and Spain (1975). Until its 1976 Geneva Congress, the Socialist International had few members outside Europe and no formal involvement with Latin America[1]. In the 1980s, most SI parties gave their backing to the Nicaraguan Sandinistas (FSLN), whose left-wing government had incited enmity from the United States. Since then, the SI has admitted as member-parties not only the FSLN but also the centre-left Puerto Rican Independence Party, as well as the ex-Communist parties such as the Italian Democrats of the Left (Democratici di Sinistra (DS)) and the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO).
The Party of European Socialists, a European political party active in the European Parliament, is an associated organisation of the Socialist International.
Presidents
- Morgan Phillips 1951-1957
- Alsing Andersen 1957-1962
- Erich Ollenhauer 1963
- Bruno Pittermann 1964-1976
- Willy Brandt 1976-1992
- Pierre Mauroy 1992-1999
- António Guterres 1999-2005
- George Papandreou 2006-present
Honorary Presidents
- Enrique Silva Cimma
Congresses
- I 1951 Frankfurt
- II 1952 Milan
- III 1953 Stockholm
- IV 1955 London
- V 1957 Vienna
- VI 1959 Hamburg
- VII 1961 Rome
- VIII 1963 Amsterdam
- IX 1964 Brussels
- X 1966 Stockholm
- XI 1969 Eastbourne
- XII 1972 Vienna
- XIII 1976 Geneva
- XIV 1978 Vancouver
- XV 1980 Madrid
- XVI 1983 Albufeira
- XVII 1986 Lima
- XVIII 1989 Stockholm
- XIX 1992 Berlin
- XX 1996 New York
- XXI 1999 Paris
- XXII 2003 São Paulo
- XXIII 2008 Athens
Member parties
Consultative parties
- Azerbaijan - Azerbaijan Social Democratic Party
- Belarus - Belarusian Social Democratic Party (People's Assembly)
- Burundi - Front for Democracy in Burundi
- Dominica - Dominica Labour Party-in government
- Fiji - Fiji Labour Party
- Gabon - Gabonese Progress Party
- Ghana - National Democratic Congress-in government
- Guatemala - Social Democratic Convergence
- Greenland - Forward-in government
- Guyana - Working People's Alliance
- Mali - Rally for Mali
- Namibia - Congress of Democrats
- Moldova - Democratic Party of Moldova
- Paraguay - Party for a Country of Solidarity
- Philippines - Akbayan Citizens' Action Party
- Philippines - Philippine Democratic Socialist Party
- Russia - Union of Social Democrats
- Saint Kitts and Nevis - Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party-in government
- Saint Lucia - Saint Lucia Labour Party
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Unity Labour Party-in government
- Timor-Leste - Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor
- Togo - Democratic Convention of African Peoples
- Tunisia - Democratic Forum for Labour and Freedom
- Northern Cyprus - Republican Turkish Party (pending consultation)
- Ukraine - Socialist Party of Ukraine
- Ukraine - Ukrainian Social Democratic Party-in government
Observer parties
- Botswana - Botswana National Front
- Bulgaria - Bulgaria Social Democracy
- Central African Republic - Patriotic Front for Progress
- Colombia - Alternative Democratic Pole
- Democratic Republic of the Congo - Union for Democracy and Social Progress
- Haiti - Organisation of the People in Struggle
- India - Janata Dal (Secular)
- Iran - Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran
- Jordan - Jordanian Democratic Party of the Left
- Mauritania - Rally of Democratic Forces
- Moldova - Social Democratic Party of Moldova
- Palestine - Fatah-in government
- Russia - Fair Russia-support president Medvedev
- Turkey - Democratic Society Party
- Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic - Polisario Front-in government
- Yemen - Yemeni Socialist Party
Fraternal organisations
- International Falcon Movement - Socialist Education International
- International Union of Socialist Youth
- Socialist International Women
Associated organisations
- International Federation of the Socialist and Democratic Press
- International Labour Sports Confederation
- International League of Religious Socialists
- International Union of Social Democratic Teachers
- Jewish Labour Bund
- National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (United States of America)
- Parliamentary Group of the Party of European Socialists
- Party of European Socialists
- Social Democratic Group of the Latin American Parliament
- World Labour Zionist Movement
See also
- African Socialist International
- PARLATINO
- International Workingmen's Association ("First International")
- International Working Union of Socialist Parties ("Second and a half international"/"Two-and-a-half International")
- Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière (SFIO, the French section of the Second International)
References
- ^ The Dictionary of Contemporary Politics of South America, Routledge, 1989