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The Association for Solidarity Perspectives (German: Verein für solidarische Perspektiven, VsP) was a far-left political organization in Germany.

The VsP was formed in October 1986 in West Germany as the United Socialist Party ('Vereinigte Sozialistische Partei', VSP), a perhaps 600-strong merger of the Trotskyist International Marxist Group (GIM) and the anti-revisionist Communist Party of Germany/Marxists–Leninists.

The parties combined their newspapers, was tun (What to do) and Roter Morgen (Red Dawn) respectively, to launch the Sozialistische Zeitung [de] (Socialist Newspaper, SoZ).

The newly founded party negotiated for over 2 years with the League of West German Communists ('Bund Westdeutscher Kommunisten') about another amalgamation, but this efforts remained fruitless because of their differences over feminism.

The VSP attacked German reunification and was engaged in the fleeting left-wing resistance movement Nie wieder Deutschland [de] ('Never again, Germany!').

When the former ruling party of the German Democratic Republic, the Socialist Unity Party (SED), reconstituted itself as the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) after German reunification, individual members of the VSP entered the party and obtained official positions. However, the VSP remained independent of the PDS.

In 1994, the VSP changed its name and organisational form to Association for Solidarity Perspectives (Verein für solidarische Perspektiven, VsP). One faction of the Trotskyist current in the VsP departed in 1994 and formed the Revolutionary Socialist League (RSB). The Trotskyists who remained in the VsP formed a caucus called the International Socialist Left (ISL).

In the 2005 federal elections, the VsP supported Die Linke, the descendant of the PDS.

References

^ "Eine kleine Geschichte der linkssozialistischen VSP von 1986 bis 2000" [A short history of the left-wing socialist VSP from 1986 to 2000] (in German).

External links

(in German) VsP website
(in German) Sozialistische Zeitung website
(in German) ISL website
(in German) RSB website
(in German) Inprekorr - magazine co-published by the ISL and RSB

Political parties in Germany

Represented in the Bundestag
(733 seats)

SPD (206)
CDU (153)
The Greens (117)
FDP (90)
AfD (77)
CSU (43)
The Left (28)
BSW (10)
SSW (1)

Represented in the European Parliament
(96 seats for Germany)

Major parties	CDU (23) AfD (15) SPD (14) The Greens (12) CSU (6) BSW (6) FDP (5) The Left (3) Free Voters (3)
Minor parties	Volt (3) Die PARTEI (2) PMUT (1) ÖDP (1) Family Party (1) Party of Progress (1)

Represented in the 16 state parliaments

Major parties	SPD (16/16) CDU (15/16; not in Bavaria) AfD (14/16) The Greens (13/16) FDP (9/16) The Left (7/16) BSW (6/16) Free Voters (3/16)
Regional parties	CSU (85; only in Bavaria) BD (7; only in Bremen) SSW (4; only in Schleswig-Holstein)

Minor parties (without representation
above the district level)

Notes:

CDU: does not participate in the state election in Bavaria; instead, an associated party CSU is participating here.
Greens: are currently not in the state parliament of Brandenburg, Saarland and Thuringia.
FDP: is currently not in state parliaments of Bavaria, Berlin. Brandenburg, Lower Saxony, Saarland, Saxony and Thuringia.
AfD: is currently not in the state parliaments of Bremen and Schleswig-Holstein.
The Left: is currently not in the state parliaments of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Brandenburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and Schleswig-Holstein.
Free Voters: are currently only in the state parliaments of Bavaria, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony.

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