Socialist Party of Slokais
The Socialist Party of Slokais El Partido Sociladad de Slokais | |
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| Slokasian name | La Nek Sonad dal Slokais |
| Leader | Talia La Cruz |
| General Secretary | Minmintao Johnson |
| Leader in the Tribal Council | Jian Shen-Gu |
| Founded | January 14, 1978 |
| Headquarters | New Liverpool |
| Newspaper | Working Peoples Weekly |
| Youth wing | Young Socialists |
| Membership (2020) | 1,100,700 |
| Ideology | Organized Labor interests, Socialist, Anti-Fascist |
| Political position | Center-Left to Far-Left |
| Colors | Crimson |
| House | 27 / 644
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| Tribal Council | 3 / 19
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| Provincial Governors | 1 / 21
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| Website | |
| Socialist.si | |
The Socialist Party also known as the Socialist-Labor Party of Slokais or 'El Partido Socialdad de Slokais. Is a political party formed in 1978 that supports socialist and pro-labor policy.
History[edit | edit source]
The Socialist Party was formed in 1978 to follow up the Left Front for Socialist Reform. Early members were mostly those who had fought for the Socialist Reformist Army during the Cvil War. The first party leader was Alfonso Arroyo who was a lawyer and colonel during the Civil War. One of his acts was to dissolve much of the military wings and build connections with the Rio Pedras Conference for Labor. The Socialist Party ran a party list in the 1980 Elections, winning various local races. In 1984, Alfonso Arroyo became the first Socialist Party member elected to the Slokaisan Legislature winning a run-off election during the period when Victoria Province used the first-past-the-post system for elections. In the Legislature, the Socialist Party joined the confidence and supply agreement with Howard-Alexander Walker until the 1988 Elections. During this time the party was a social-democratic political organization, however after the Dawson-Marquez Agreement, the Socialist Party became controlled by a revolutionary socialist wing, which led to a period of weakening with many leaving the party.
In 2000 the party was involved in the Newport Riots where strikes turned violent as nationwide protests over a national minimum wage led to the Socialist Party members conflicting with strikbreakers. After this new, a more labor-focused group took over, and the party united with the Labor Party. And in 2004, Socialist-Labor won 13 seats and became part of the government of Johnathan Adama, the party built a solid base in Victoria, however, when the Left Party collapsed in 2018 it grew to 21 MPs. And 27 MPs in 2020
Policy[edit | edit source]
The Socialist Party was founded as a social-democratic labor organization, with the goal of increasing political representation of labor interests. After a period of radical policy in the 90s and 2000s, the current Socialist Party is more moderate. Party policy no longer encourages a transition to a socialist economic system, rather "a moderation of the current political state". Much of the Socialist base is among the rural working-class, especially in Victoria Province with a faction of blue-collar urban workers. Much of the party leadership are Spanish speaking, a rarity among major political parties and has often opposed the idea of English being the language of governance.