The Euroleft was mentioned on pen-l a while ago. I explored the Euroleft website and some other information and found the following:
POSITION The Euroleft is a network (their term) of political parties from numerous, but not all, European countries. The network has 39 elected members in the European parliament (election of June 2004). The network had its first congress in Athens, Greece in 2005. Its ideological position is explicitly (a) against neo-liberal and neo-conservative capitalism, (b) against social democracy and Third Way politics, (c) for support of Venezuelas Bolivarian revolution under Hugo Chavez, (d) against the U.S. embargo of Castros Cuba, (e) for economic democracy (radical democracy), (f) for eradication of unemployment, (g) for peace, (h) other. Implicitly, the network appears to distance itself from Stalinist-type communism. The network might be called post-communist, but it does not describe itself that way. Whether the description democratic socialist is appropriate, is a bit ambiguous. On the one hand, the network includes parties that describe themselves as democratic socialist; on the other hand, the network describes itself as non-Socialist left. The network also includes some Greens. Capsule statement: Europe needs to be re-established on a foundation of peace, democracy and full respect for social and human rights. STRENGTH The member parties of the network have the support of about 3 to 4 (three to four) percent, on average, in their respective national elections, as follows (information as of December 2005): (A) Parties where an election result is available for the party [format = COUNTRY, PARTY NAME, PERCENT support received by the party in the latest national election, YEAR of latest national election] France, French Communist Party, 4.8, 2002 Germany, Left Party.PDS, 8.7, 2005 Greece, Coalition of Left, of Movements and Ecology, 3.3, 2004 Italy, Communist Refoundation Party, 5.0, 2001 Luxemburg, The Left Luxemburg, 1.9, 2004 Portugal, Leftwing Bloc, 6.4, 2005 San Marino, Communist Refoundation, 3.4, 2001 Spain, United Left, 5.0, 2004 Switzerland, Labour Party of Switzerland, 0.7, 2003 Average of above = 39.2 / 9= 4.4 percent (B) Parties where an election result for the party is not listed separately, but is included in the category other parties [format = COUNTRY, PARTY NAME, PERCENT popular support received by other parties, including the named party, in the latest national election, YEAR of latest national election] Austria, Communist Party of Austria, 1.7, 2002 Czech Republic, Party of Democratic Socialism, 12.5, 2002 Estonia, Estonian Left Party (EVP), 2.8, 2003 Hungary, Labour Party, 6.2, 2002 Romania, Socialist Alliance Party, 11.1, 2004 Spain, Communist Party of Spain, 4.9, 2004 Spain, United Alternative Left of Catalonia, 4.9, 2004 Average of other parties above = 44.7 / 7 = 6.4 percent Estimating the strength of member parties as ½ of other parties above = 0.5* 44.1 / 7 = 3.2 percent (C) Parties that are not members, but have observer status in the Euroleft network [format = COUNTRY, PARTY NAME] Cyprus, Progressive Party of The Working People of Cyprus Czech Republic, Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia Denmark, Red Green Alliance Finland, Communist Party of Finland Germany, German Communist Party Italy, Party of Italian Communists Slovakia, Communist Party of Slovakia Turkey, Freedom and Solidarity Party Regards, GK
