Great Britain
Last update: November 27, 2005
| PARTY | PERIODICALS | CONTACT | IDEOL. | INTERNAT. | ELECTION Parl. '05 |
OTHER | ||
| Alliance for Green Socialism | AGS | Under the Umbrella | left. green | 0.0073% 5 cand. |
f. 2003 by Green Socialist Network and Left Alliance | |||
| Alliance for Workers' Liberty | AWL | Workers' Liberty | tro. | see Socialist Unity | f. 1981 as Socialist Organiser | |||
| Anarchist Federation | Organise! | anar. com. | IAF | no part. | f. 1986 as Anarchist Communist Federation | |||
| Anarchist Workers Network | AWN | anar. syn. | no part. | f. 2003 by Anarchist Trade Union Networt | ||||
| Black Unity and Freedom Party | BUFP | Black Voice | left. black nat. | no part. | ||||
| British Supporters of the International Liaison Comittee for a Workers' International | Workers' Unity | tro. | ILCWI | no part. | f. 1991 as British Committee of the European Workers' Alliance | |||
| British Supporters of the International Trotskyist Opposition | In Defense of Marxism | tro. | CRFI, ITO | no part. | split from ISG | |||
| Class War Federation | Class War | rad. left. | no part. | |||||
| Communist League | CL | tro. | SWP | no part. | f. 1988 | |||
| Communist League of Great Britain | Compass, Combat | stal. | ISML, ex-Alb. | no part. | f. 1974 as split from Marxist-Leninist Organisation of Britain (MLOB) | |||
| Communist Organisation of Britain | COB | stal. | no part. | f. 1983 as Communist Organisation of England | ||||
| Communist Party Alliance | International Marxist-Leninist Review | stal. | ISML | no part. | f. 1998 as Committee for the Marxist Leninist Party | |||
| Communist Party of Britain | CPB | Morning Star, Communist Review | com. | 0.0041% 6 Cand. |
f. 1988 as split from CPGB | |||
| Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) | CPB(M-L) | Workers | stal., ex-mao. | ex-Chin. | no part. | f. 1968 | ||
| Communist Party of Great Britain | CPGB | Weekly Worker | rad. left. | in Respect | f. 1991 as split from original CPGB | |||
| Alliance of Revolutionary Communists | tro. | f. 2003 | ||||||
| Red Platform | rad. left. | f. 2004 | ||||||
| Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) | CPGB(ML) | Proletarian | stal. | no part. | f. 2004 as split from SLP, led by Zane Carpenter and Harpal Brar | |||
| Communist Workers' Organization other page | CWO | Revolutionary Perspectives, Workers' Voice | left. com. | IBRP | no part. | f. 1975 | ||
| Co-operative Party | New Mutualism | soc. dem. | on Labour lists | f. 1917 | ||||
| Democratic Labour Party | DLP | left. soc. | 0.0028% 1 cand. |
f. 1996 as split from Labour Party in Wallsall | ||||
| Democratic Socialist Alliance | DSA | rad. left. | not existing | f. 2005 as split from Democratic Platform of the Socialist Alliance | ||||
| EPSR supporters | Economic and Philosophic Science Review | rad. left. | no part. | f. 1982 as International Leninist Workers Party | ||||
| Fightback | Fightback | rad. left. | no part. | split from RCG in 2001 | ||||
| Finsbury Communist Association | Finsbury Communist | stal. | ISML | no part. | ||||
| Green Party of England and Wales | green | EFGP | 1.04% 179 cand. |
f. 1985 | ||||
| Humanist Party | HP | hum | IH | no part. | ||||
| Independent Labour Network | ILN | left. soc. | no part. | f. 1998 by former Labour Party members | ||||
| Industrial Workers of the World | IWW | Bread & Roses | anar. syn. | IWW | no part. | refounded in 1993 | ||
| Internationalist Communist Current | ICC | World Revolution | left. com. | ICC | no part. | |||
| International Communist Party [Communist Left] | ICP | Communist Left | left. com | PCI-IPaC | no part. | |||
| International Socialist Group | ISG | Socialist Outlook | tro. | USFI, EACL | in Respect | f. 1985 as split from Socialist League | ||
| International Socialist League | ISL | Socialist Voice | tro. | LIT | no part. | f. 1988 as split from WRP of Cliff Slaughter | ||
| Internationalist Perspective | left. com. | IP | no part. | |||||
| Labour Party | soc. dem. | SI, PES | 35,19% 627 cand. |
f. 1900 | ||||
| Campaign for Labour Party Democracy | CLPD | left. soc. | f. 1973 | |||||
| Campaign for Socialism | CfS | the Citizen | left. soc. | |||||
| Compass | soc. dem. | f. 2003 | ||||||
| Fabian Society | center left. | f. 1884 | ||||||
| Labour Left Briefing | LLB | Labour Left Briefing | left. soc. | |||||
| Labour Reform | soc. dem. | |||||||
| Network of Socialist Campaign Groups | SCG | Netwotk News | left. soc. | |||||
| Save the Labour Party | soc. dem. | f. 2003 | ||||||
| Socialist Campaign Group | Socialist Campaign Group News | left. soc. | group of Labour MPs | |||||
| London Corresponding Committee | The Hobgoblin | rad. left. | MH | no part. | ||||
| Marxist Bulletin | Marxist Bulletin | tro. | IBT | no part. | split from Spartacist League in 1995 as Bolshevik Tendency | |||
| Marxist Group | The Marxist | rad. left., ex-mao. | no part. | formerly the Marxist Industrial Group | ||||
| Movement for a Socialist Future | MSF | Socialist Future | ex-tro. | FIC | no part. | split as Communist League from Marxist Party in 1991 | ||
| Movement for Socialism | MFS | Reclaim the Future | tro. | ex-WIRFI, ISF | no part. | f. 1996 by WRP of Cliff Slaughter | ||
| Movements for Socialism | rad. left. | no part. | split from the Socialist Party | |||||
| New Communist Party | NCP | The New Worker | stal. | ICS | no part. | f. 1977 as split from CPGB | ||
| New Democratic Party | NDP | center left. | no part. | f. 2001 | ||||
| New Politics Network | left. soc. | ex-CI, ex-WMR, NELF | no part. | rest of Democratic Left, the former CPGB | ||||
| Northern Anarchist Network | NAN | anar. | no part. | f. 1994 | ||||
| Partisan | stal. | no part. | split from NCP in 1985 | |||||
| Peace and Progress | left. soc. | 0.0012% 2 cand. |
f. 2004 by Marxist Party | |||||
| Peace Party | no part. | |||||||
| Red Action | Red Action | rad. left. | no part. | f. 1982 as split from SWP | ||||
| Independent Working Class Association | IWCA | rad. left. | 0.0033% 1 cand. |
f. 1995 by Red Action and others | ||||
| Red Party | Red Star | rad. left. | not existing | f. 2004 by splits from AWL, CPGB, Peace Party | ||||
| Respect - The Unity Coalition | broad left. | 0.25% 26 cand. |
f. 2004 by Socialist Alliance and Independents | |||||
| Revolutionary Communist Group | RCG | Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! | rad. left. | no part. | f. 1974 as split from International Socialists | |||
| Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) | RCPB-ML | stal. | ex-Alb. | no part. | f. 1979 | |||
| Revolutionary Democratic Group | RDG | Republican Worker | tro. | no part. | f. 1983 as split from SWP | |||
| Revolutionary Internationalist League | RIL | Revolutionary Internationalist | tro. | ITC | no part. | f. 1983 as Workers Internationalist League | ||
| Movement for Justice | no part. | f. 1995, auxiliary org. og RIL | ||||||
| Revolutionary Workers' Party (Trotskyist) | RWP(T) | Red Flag | tro. | PFI | no part. | f. 1963 | ||
| Socialist Action Group | Socialist Action Review | tro. | ex-USFI | no part. | f. as Socialist League in 1982 | |||
| Socialist Alliance | SA | rad. left. | 0.0018% 2 cand. |
refounded 2005 by the Democratic Platform (SADP) of the original Socialist Alliance | ||||
| Socialist Appeal | Socialist Appeal, In Defense of Marxism | tro. | IMT | no part. | f. 1992 as split from Militant Tendency | |||
| Socialist Equality Party | SEP | tro. | ICFI | no part. | f. as International Communist Party in 1986 as split from WRP of Cliff Slaughter | |||
| Socialist Green Unity Coalition | rad. left. | see results of participating groups | f. 2005 by SP, AGS, AWL, SADP, SUN, USP, Red Party, WP | |||||
| Socialist Labour Party | SLP | Socialist News | stal. | 0.074% 49 cand. |
f. 1996 as split from Labour Party | |||
| Socialist Party | SP | The Socialist, Socialism Today | tro. | CWI | 0.035% as Soc. Alternative 17 cand. |
f. 1997 by Militant Labour (ex-Militant Tendency) | ||
| Socialist Party of Great Britain [1904] | SPGB | Socialist Standard | rad. left. | WSM | 0.00088% 1 cand. |
f. 1904 | ||
| Socialist Party of Great Britain [1991] | SPGB | Socialist Studies | rad. left. | no part. | f. 1991 as split from SP | |||
| Socialist Solidarity Network | SSN | RedShift | rad. left. | no part. | mostly former SP members | |||
| Socialist Unity Network | rad. left. | 0.0021% 2 cand. |
f. 2004 | |||||
| Socialist Workers' Party | SWP | Socialist Worker, Socialist Review, International Socialism Journal | tro. | IS, EACL | in Respect | f. 1977 by International Socialists | ||
| Solidarity Federation | SF | direct action | anar. syn. | AIT | no part. | f. 1994 | ||
| Spartacist League/Britain | SL/B | Workers Hammer | tro. | ICL | no. part. | f. 1978 | ||
| State Mutualist Party | SMP | soc. dem. | no. part. | |||||
| The United Socialist Party | TUSP | rad. left. | no. part. | f. 2004 by former dockers and Labour councillers from Liverpool | ||||
| Workers Action | Workers Action | tro. | no part. | f. 1997 as split from Workers International League (WIL) | ||||
| Workers' Fight | Class Struggle | tro. | UCI | no part. | ||||
| Workers Front Organization | WFO | tro. | ITLT | no part. | f. 2004 | |||
| Workers International to Refound the Fourth International (British Section) | tro. | WIRFI | no part. | f. 1999 as split from Movement for Socialism | ||||
| Workers Power | Workers Power | tro. | L5I | no part. | f. 1976 | |||
| Workers' Revolutionary Party | WRP | News Line, Marxist Review | tro. | ICFI2 | 0.0046% 10 cand. |
f. 1986 after split from original WRP | ||
| Workers Struggle | Workers Struggle | tro. | LCMRCI | no part. | f. 1997 as split from Workers Power | |||
| World in Common Group | Common Voice | rad. left. green | no part. | f. 2002 | ||||
Cornwall |
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| Cornish National Party | CNP | left. nat. | f. 1975 as split from Party for Cornwall | |||||
| Party for Cornwall / Sons of Cornwall | Mebyon Kernow | left. nat. | DPPE | 0.013%, 4 cand. | f. 1951 | |||
Isle of Man |
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| Manx Nationalist Party / Sons of Man | Mec Vannin | Yn Pabyr Seyr | left. nat. | f. 1962 | ||||
Scotland |
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| Anarchist Federation Alba/Scotland | An Caidreachas Ain-riaghailteach | Ar-A-mach | anar. com. | IAF | no part. | part of Anarchist Federation of the British Isles | ||
| Communist Party of Scotland | CPS | CPS Bulletin, Scottish Marxist Voice | com. | supported SSP | f. 1992 as split from CPGB | |||
| Humanist Party of Scotland | hum. | IH | no part. | |||||
| Scottish Federation of Anarchists | SFA | Scottish Anarchist | anar. | no part. | ||||
| Scottish Green Party | Pàrtaidh Uaine na h-Alba | GreenPrint | green | EFGP | see Green Party of England and Wales | seperated from Green Party of England and Wales in 1992 | ||
| Scottish National Liberation Army | SNLA | left. nat. | no part. | pol.-mil. | ||||
| Scottish Separatist Group | Comunn Dealachadh na h-Alba | SSG | left. nat. | no part. | legal wing of SLNA, f. 1995 | |||
| Scottish National Party | SNP | left. nat. | DPPE | 1.52% 59 cand. |
f. 1934 | |||
| Scottish Socialist Party | SSP | Scottish Socialist Voice | rad. left. | EACL | 0.16% 58 cand. |
f. 1996 | ||
| International Socialist Movement | ISM | Frontline | tro. | ex-CWI | f. 1999, formerly Scottish Militant Labour | |||
| International Socialists | International Socialist | tro. | CWI | f. 2001 as split from ISM | ||||
| RCN | Emancipation and Liberation | rad. left. nat. | f. 1999 | |||||
| Scottish Republican Socialist Movement | SRSM | Scottish Workers Republic | left. nat. | f. 1982 as Scottish Republican Socialist Party | ||||
| Socialist Worker Platform | tro. | IS | f. 2001 by the Scottish members of the SWP | |||||
| Workers Unity | rad. left. | |||||||
Wales |
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| Communist Party of Wales | Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru | Tel. +845-3306754 | rad. left. nat. | no part. | f. 2004 | |||
| Forward Wales | Cymru Ymlaen | left. soc. | 0.013% 6 cand. |
f. 2003, led by John Marek | ||||
| Party of Wales | Plaid Cymru | PC | left. nat. | DPPE | 0.64%, 40 cand. | f. 1925 | ||
| Red Wales, the Welsh Socialists | Cymru Goch | Y Faner Goch | rad. left. nat. | in Forward Wales | f. 1987 | |||
| Parties probably
disbanded Communist Unity Group, Marxist Workers' Group (MWG), Marxist-Leninist Society of Scotland, Workers Party of Scotland |
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