Socialist Equality Party (Germany)

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The Socialist Equality Party (Template:Langx, SGP) is a minor Trotskyist political party in Germany.

History

It was founded in 1971 as the Federation of Socialist Workers (Script error: No such module "Lang".) by West German supporters of Gerry Healy's Socialist Labour League and was renamed the Party for Social Equality, Section of the Fourth International (Script error: No such module "Lang"., PSG) in 1997.

On 18–19 February 2017, the party adopted its present name.[1]

Also in 2017 the SGP won a defamation lawsuit filed against them by Humboldt University professor Jörg Baberowski : the Hamburg district court ruled that the party's right to freedom of speech allowed them to accuse Baberowski of a "distortion of history".[2] The court also ruled that the SGP was able to defend their characterization of Baberowski as a "right-wing extremist" by referencing his statements about Adolf Hitler with a specific example being him saying, "Hitler was not cruel. He did not want people to talk about the extermination of the Jews at his table”.[2][3]

The SGP has been active in the initiative undertaken by the International Committee of the Fourth International to build the International Workers Alliance of Rank and File Committees (IWA-RFC),[4] having established several committees in the automotive industry,[5] among postal workers,[6] and transport workers who ran a slate of candidates for the Berlin staff council elections.[7]

Ideology

The party sees itself as the German section of the Fourth International in the tradition of Leon Trotsky.[8] The international umbrella group of the party is the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI).[9] It has contacts to other member parties of the ICFI in England, the US, Sri Lanka, France, Canada and Australia.

The SGP is critical of trade unions (which it views as merely a tool of the labour aristocracy), social democrats, and Stalinist organisations.[10] The party takes an anti-nationalist and anti-capitalist stance. It supports the introduction of universal basic income.[11]

The SGP is classified as a left-wing extremist organization by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) and is as such under surveillance.[12] It has also been characterised as advocating "Marxist class-based ideology and class conflict," along with criticism of perceived imperialism and militarism. These stances are viewed as inconsistent with German constitutional principles.

Election results

Bundestag

Year Votes % Seats
1990 826 0.0% 0
1994 1,285 0.0% 0
1998 6,226 0.0% 0
2002 did not contest
2005 15,605 0.0% 0
2009 2,957 0.0% 0
2013 4,564 0.0% 0
2017 1,291 0.0% 0
2021 1,535 0.0% 0
2025 425 0.0% 0

European Parliament

Election Votes % Seats +/– EP Group
1989 7,788 0.03 (#22) Template:Composition bar New –
1994 10,678 0.03 (#28) Template:Composition bar Steady 0
1999 Did not contest Template:Composition bar Steady 0
2004 25,795 0.10 (#23) Template:Composition bar Steady 0
2009 9,646 0.04 (#32) Template:Composition bar Steady 0
2014 8,924 0.03 (#25) Template:Composition bar Steady 0
2019 5,283 0.01 (#41) Template:Composition bar Steady 0
2024 5,923 0.01 (#35) Template:Composition bar Steady 0

See also

Notes

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References

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  4. ↑ https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/04/24/pers-a24.html
  5. ↑ https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/10/08/4690-o08.html
  6. ↑ https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/14/pxzn-a14.html
  7. ↑ https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/17/e541-m17.html
  8. ↑ PSG: Fragen an die Partei für Soziale Gleichheit Script error: No such module "webarchive".
  9. ↑ World Socialist Web Site: Wer ist das IKVI? Script error: No such module "webarchive".
  10. ↑ PSG: Wahlerklärungen 2005-2008 Script error: No such module "webarchive".
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Further reading

External links

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