Socialist Left Party (Austria) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The Socialist Left Party (de: Sozialistische LinksPartei, or SLP) is a Trotskyist political party in Austria. It is a member of the Committee for a Workers' International. The party originated in the 1980's, when the forerunner "Sozialistische Offensive Vorwarts" emerged from the far-left wing of the Socialist Youth of Austria. It later transformed itself during the protests against the participation of the FPO in the Austrian government in 2000 into the current SLP, forming itself as a party at a conference on January 30th 2000. In 2002, it ran in federal elections for the Nationalrat; however, it was unable to win a seat.