Leftist Parties of South Africa

PARTY		PERIODICALS	CONTACT	IDEOL.	INTERNAT.	ELECTION Parl. '04	OTHER
African National Congress	ANC	Mayibuye, Umrabulo	e-mail	soc. dem.	SI	69.68%	f. 1912
African People's Democratic Union of South Africa	APDUSA	APDUSA Views		tro.		-	f. 1961
Azanian People's Organization	Azapo	Frank Talk	e-mail	left. black nat.	ICS	0.27%	f. 1978
Communist Party of South Africa (Marxist-Leninist)	CPSA(M-L)	Broadsheet		mao.	ICMLPO[M]	-
Democratic Socialist Movement		Izwi La Basebenzi	e-mail	tro.	CWI	-
Green Party of South Africa	GPSA		e-mail	green		-	f. 1999
Independent Democrats	ID		e-mail	soc. dem.		1.73%	f. 2004 as split from PAC
Industrial Workers of the World	IWW			anar. syn.	IWW	-
International Socialist Movement	ISM	Revolutionary Socialist		tro.		-	split from ISSA (today Keep Left) in 1994
Keep Left		Keep Left	e-mail	tro.	IS	-	split from WOSA in 1991, f. as International Socialists of South Africa (ISSA)
Labour Left Collective						-
New Unity Movement	NEUM			tro.		-	f. 1985
Pan Africanist Congress of Azania	PAC		e-mail	left. black nat.		0.73%	split from ANC in 1959
Socialist Party of Azania	Sopa			tro.	ILCWI	0.10%	split from Azapo in 1998
South African Communist Party	SACP	Umsebenzi, African Communist	e-mail	com.	ex-CI, ex-WMR	on ANC list	f. 1921
Spartacist		Spartacist South Africa		tro.	ICL	-
United Democratic Movement	UDM		e-mail	soc. dem.		2.28%	f. 1997
Workers International Vanguard League	WIVL		e-mail	tro.		-	split from WI in 1996
Workers' Organization for Socialist Action	WOSA	Vukani Basebenzi, Workers' Voice	e-mail	tro.	close to USFI	-	f. 1990
Workers' Party	WP		e-mail	left. soc.		-	f. 1989
World Socialist Movement	WSM				WSM	-
Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Federation	ZACF	Zabalaza	e-mail	anar. com.	ILS	-	f. 2003
Parties probably disbanded Comrades for a Workers' Government (CWG), Socialist Alternative, South African Section of the Workers International to Rebuild the Fourth International (WI), Workers' List Party (WLP), Workers' Revolution