Initiative for Democratic Socialism

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Initiative for Democratic Socialism
Iniciativa za demokratični socializem
Leader Collective leadership
Founded8 March 2014
DissolvedJune 2017
Merged into The Left
Headquarters Ljubljana
Ideology Marxism
Anti-capitalism
Euroscepticism
Political position Left-wing to far-left
National affiliation United Left
European affiliation Party of the European Left
Coloursred
Website
http://www.demokraticni-socializem.si/

Initiative for Democratic Socialism (IDS) was a Slovenian Marxist party founded on March 8th, 2014, and was part of the United Left electoral alliance. [1] Its collective leadership structure without an individual leader, inspired by Occupy Wall Street, [2] was conceived by members of The Workers and Punks University in November 2013, and only allowed for an elected coordinator of the IDS council. Luka Mesec was the first coordinator to be elected. [3] In 2017 the IDS merged with the Party for Sustainable Development of Slovenia (TRS) to form The Left(Slovene: Levica). [4]

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Program

Its program, based on The Workers and Punks University economic analysis, included regulation of neoliberalism in the short term by making tax rates more progressive, directing funds to public works to lower unemployment, and other ideas associated with social democracy. Their long term goal was the replacement of capitalism with democratic socialism, through policies like workplace democracy and nationalization. [1]

International partners

The initiative is linked to the European Left together with other European new anti-capitalist parties, including German Die Linke, French Front de Gauche, and Portuguese Left Bloc. [2]

2014 Elections

The United Left, which included the IDS, received 5.47 percent of the vote in the 2014 European Parliament election in Slovenia and 6.0 percent of the vote in the 2014 Slovenian parliamentary election.

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References

  1. 1 2 Nastala je nova stranka, Iniciativa za demokratični socializem, Delo, 8 March 2014
  2. 1 2 Neki novi tovariši..., Mladina, 13 November 2013
  3. Nastala je nova stranka, Iniciativa za demokratični socializem, Dnevnik, 8 March 2014
  4. "STA: Merging of the Left marked by departures from IDS". english.sta.si. Retrieved 2017-06-25.