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Oak Hills
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« on: February 16, 2015, 02:14:15 PM »

This is going to be a rather boring exercise. Tongue

United States: Socialist Alternative
United Kingdom
           England: Socialist Party of England and Wales
           Wales: Socialist Party of England and Wales
           Scotland: Socialist Party Scotland
           Northern Ireland: Socialist Party of Ireland
Canada: Socialist Alternative
           Quebec: Socialist Alternative
Australia: Socialist Party
New Zealand: Socialist Voice
France: Revolutionary Left
Spain: Revolutionary Socialism
Germany: Socialist Alternative
Italy: Countercurrent
Austria: Socialist Left Party
Poland: Socialist Alternative
Czech Republic: Socialist Alternative Future
Slovakia: 99 Percent - Civic Voice
Slovenia: United Left
Romania: Socialist Alternative Party
Denmark: Red-Green Alliance
Norway: Red Party
Sweden: Socialist Justice Party
Finland: Socialist Alternative
Iceland: People's Front of Iceland
Japan: International Solidarity
Taiwan: Committee for a Worker's International (Taiwan)
South Korea: Labor Party
South Africa: Workers and Socialist Party
Israel: Socialist Struggle
Egypt: Revolutionary Socialists
Greece: Xekinima
Turkey: Socialist Alternative
India: New Socialist Alternative
Pakistan: Socialist Movement Pakistan
Mexico: Labor Party
Brazil: Freedom, Socialism, and Revolution
Argentina: Workers' Left Front
Chile: Revolutionary Socialism

Told you so. In any case, although I listed CWI affiliates in Greece and Spain, I would more likely than not vote for Podemos and Syriza, assuming the CWI affiliate in question was not running a candidate in opposition to either organization in the nation in question.

You really do know your obscure left wing parties.. Why go People's Front of Iceland (less than 0.1%) and Social Justice Party in countries that actually have decent left wing parties capable of passing the threshold? Even when you do not like the standard left wing party like Syriza, you go Xekinima and not Antasya (which at least had a theoretical chance).

What is the point of going for ideological purity to such an extreme degree? I get with something like the US Democrats and mainstream SD parties, but you seem hellbent on finding the most obscure sects in countries with PR and actual socialist parties capable of getting into parliament.

He supports the Committee for a Workers' International, and simply listed its affiliates in each of those countries, some of which do endorse a vote for larger leftist coalitions such as SYRIZA.
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Oak Hills
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« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2015, 03:08:56 PM »

I think I'm gonna try this, only listing countries I've been following enough to have an opinion.

Austria: The Greens - The Green Alternative, but only for lack of a better alternative at the federal level.
Canada: New Democratic Party, but I would vote for Greens or Liberals if necessary to stop the conservatives from winning my riding.
France: Parti de Gauche
Germany: Die Linke (Reform Left Network within the party)
Greece: SYRIZA
Israel: Meretz
Spain: Podemos
United Kingdom: I figure I'd vote Labour or Greens in most constituencies, but I'd consider a minor left-wing party if one was standing in my constituency.
United States: I'd be registered Democratic if in a closed-primary state, but I would vote Green or some minor left-wing party if the election in question wasn't close, I didn't like the Democrat, and/or the Republican wasn't scary enough to get me to hold my nose.
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