New Political International, the "Progressive Alliance"

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Progressive Alliance
Due to the continued presence of nationalistic, corrupt and despotic parties in Socialist International, many prominent members are becoming "observer members" only and have formed a new centre-leftist alliance of purely liberal-social-democratic parties. Apparently the US Democratic National Committee have actually joined this one, due to it's more pragmatic platform. Already the Party of European Socialists has joined, as have global trade unions
Opinions on this new International and the old organisation
I always use Political internationals as the barometer of a parties ideology when looking into them, so this is a big move. It add's to SI, Global Greens, Liberal Intnl, Alliance of Democrats, Centrist Democrat Intl (Christian/Islamic Democratic parties), and Intl Democrat Union (Conservative and Libertarian-Conservative partes). That's not even counting the various commies.
http://progressive-alliance.info/en/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Alliance_(political_international)#cite_note-3

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Hope it doesn't become the Third Wayite Club.

The Third way is ultimately a more flexible form of Social Democracy, so it varies. There are some relatively leftist parties there- like the SPO.

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Out and out market economy abolition is no longer a mainstream view- even the German and Swedish Lefts and SYRIZA don't advocate that. If you want real Marxist leftists, you'd need to peek beyond most electoral politics. So yeah.