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Socialist International
Political grouping
Political grouping
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Socialist International |
| image | Red Rose (Socialism).svg |
| size | 100px |
| caption | Socialist International logo |
| map | Parties of Socialist International.svg |
| mcaption | Light red: Countries with a political party affiliated with the Socialist International |
| Dark red: Countries with the ruling party affiliated with the Socialist International | |
| abbreviation | SI |
| predecessor | Labour and Socialist International |
| formation | |
| type | International non-governmental organization |
| purpose | "Strengthen relations between the affiliated parties and to coordinate their political attitudes and activities" |
| headquarters | Maritime House |
| location | Old Town, |
| Clapham, | |
| London. | |
| 0JW | |
| United Kingdom | |
| region_served | Worldwide |
| membership | 119 political parties and 13 affiliated organizations |
| leader_title | President |
| leader_name | Pedro Sánchez |
| leader_title2 | General-Coordinator |
| leader_name2 | Chantal Kambiwa |
| main_organ | Congress of the Socialist International |
| budget | £1.4 million (2014) |
| website | [socialistinternational.org](https://www.socialistinternational.org/) |
| secessions | Progressive Alliance |
Note
the international founded in 1951
Dark red: Countries with the ruling party affiliated with the Socialist International Clapham, London. 0JW United Kingdom
The Socialist International (SI) is a political international consisting mostly of social democratic political parties and labour organisations. The SI was founded in support of democratic socialism, albeit it has generally moderated over time.
Although formed in 1951 as a successor to the Labour and Socialist International, it has antecedents in the late 19th century. The organisation currently includes 132 member parties and organisations from over 100 countries. Its members have governed in many countries, including most of Europe. In 2013, a schism in the SI led to the establishment of the Progressive Alliance.
The current president is the prime minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, elected at the last SI Congress held in Madrid, Spain, in November 2022.{{Cite web |title=Spain PM takes over as Socialist International chief
History
First and Second Internationals (1864–1916)
The International Workingmen's Association, also known as the First International, was the first international body to bring together organisations representing the working class. It was formed in London on 28 September 1864 by socialist, communist and anarchist political groups and trade unions. Tensions between moderates and revolutionaries led to its dissolution in 1876 in Philadelphia.
The Second International was formed in Paris on 14 July 1889 as an association of the socialist parties.
Labour and Socialist International (1919–1940)
The International Socialist Commission (ISC), also known as the Berne International, was formed in February 1919 at a meeting in Bern by parties that wanted to resurrect the Second International. In March 1919, Communist parties formed the Communist International ("Comintern"), the Third International, at a meeting in Moscow.
Some parties did not want to be a part of the resurrected Second International (ISC) or Comintern. They formed the International Working Union of Socialist Parties (IWUSP, also known as Vienna International, Vienna Union, or Two-and-a-Half International) on 27 February 1921 at a conference in Vienna. The ISC and the IWUSP joined to form the Labour and Socialist International (LSI) in May 1923 at a meeting in Hamburg.
Socialist International (1951–present)
The Socialist International was formed in Frankfurt in July 1951 as a successor to the LSI.
During the post-World War II period, the SI aided social democratic parties in re-establishing themselves when dictatorship gave way to democracy in Portugal (1974) and Spain (1975). Until its 1976 Geneva Congress, the SI had few members outside Europe and no formal involvement with Latin America. In the 1980s, most SI parties gave their backing to the Nicaraguan Sandinistas (FSLN), whose democratically elected left-wing government was subject to a campaign to overthrow it backed by the United States, which culminated in the Iran–Contra affair after the Reagan administration covertly continued US support for the Contras after such support was banned by Congress.
In the late 1970s and in the 1980s the SI had extensive contacts and discussion with the two leading powers of the Cold War period, the United States and the Soviet Union, on issues concerning East–West relations and arms control. The SI supported détente and disarmament agreements, such as SALT II, START and INF. They had several meetings and discussion in Washington, D.C., with President Jimmy Carter and Vice President George H. W. Bush and in Moscow with Secretaries General Leonid Brezhnev and Mikhail Gorbachev. The SI's delegations to these discussions were led by the Finnish Prime Minister Kalevi Sorsa.
By the 1980s, the SI had become more favourable to a social democratic or social market economy, rather than a socialist economy, arguing "a 'social market economy' needs to be developed, where economic development and a truly competitive market can be established [...]." In its platform, it states: "markets can and must function as a dynamic way of promoting innovation and signalling the desires of consumers [...]."
Following the Tunisian Revolution, the Constitutional Democratic Rally was expelled from the SI in January 2011; and as a result of the 2010–2011 Ivorian crisis, the Ivorian Popular Front was expelled in March 2011,
Progressive Alliance split (2013)
On 22 May 2013 the Social Democratic Party of Germany along with some other current and former member parties of the SI founded a rival international network of social-democratic parties known as the Progressive Alliance, citing the perceived undemocratic and outmoded nature of the SI, as well as the Socialist International's admittance and continuing inclusion of undemocratic political movements into the organization. For example, the SPD objected to the continued presence of the Sandinista National Liberation Front and the delayed ouster of the Tunisian Democratic Constitutional Rally and Egyptian National Democratic Party.
Relationship with Latin America
For a long time, the Socialist International remained distant from Latin America, considering the region as a zone of influence of the United States. For example, it did not denounce the coup d'état against Socialist President Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala in 1954 or the invasion of the Dominican Republic by the United States in 1965. It was not until the 1973 Chilean coup d'état that "a world we did not know" was discovered, explained Antoine Blanca, a diplomat for the French Socialist Party. According to him, solidarity with the Chilean left was "the first challenge worthy of the name, against Washington, of an International which, until then, had done everything to appear subject to American strategy and NATO". Subsequently, notably under the leadership of François Mitterrand, the SI supported the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and other movements in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras in their struggle against US-supported dictatorships.
In the 1990s, it was joined by non-socialist parties that took note of the economic power of the European countries governed or to be governed by their partners across the Atlantic and calculated the benefits they could derive from it. During this period, "the Socialist International works in a clientist way; some parties come here to rub shoulders with Europeans as if they were in the upper class," says Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, one of the representatives of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (Mexico) at the SI. It is home to "the very centrist Argentinean Radical Civic Union (UCR); the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which was not very democratically in power for seventy years; the Colombian Liberal Party—under whose governments the left-wing formation Patriotic Union (1986–1990) was exterminated—introduced the neoliberal model (1990–1994) and to which, until 2002, Álvaro Uribe will belong". In the following decade, many left-wing parties that came to power (in Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and El Salvador) preferred to keep their distance from the SI.
Left splits
As other left-wing parties distanced themselves from the SI, the Socialist Party of Uruguay and the Democratic Socialists of America left the international in 2017 due to members having adopted policies favoring austerity, privatization, deregulation, and capitalism, and rejecting socialism. The former was a founding member of the Progressive Alliance in 2013, and the latter joined the anti-capitalist Progressive International in 2023.
Logo
The logo is the fist and rose, based on the 1977 design by José María Cruz Novillo for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, itself a variant of the logo drawn by Marc Bonnet for the French Socialist Party in 1969. Variants of the emblem are or were used by several SI member parties.
Presidents, honorary presidents and secretaries general
Presidents
- , there have been a total of 9 Socialist International presidents.
| No. | Portrait | Name | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (born–died) | Term of office | Political party | Congress(es) | Country | Ref. | Took office | Left office | Time in office | 1 | Labour Party (UK)}};" | 2 | Social Democrats (Denmark)}};" | 3 | Social Democratic Party of Germany}};" | 4 | Social Democratic Party of Austria}};" | 5 | Social Democratic Party of Germany}};" | 6 | Socialist Party (France)}};" | 7 | Socialist Party (Portugal)}};" | 8 | PASOK}};" | Movement of Democratic Socialists}};" | 9 | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}};" | ||||||||||
| [[File:no image.png | 80px]] | **Morgan Phillips** | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (1902–1963) | 3 July 1951 | 6 July 1957 | Labour Party | I–IV | United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [[File:Alsing Andersen (3x4 cropped).jpg | 80px]] | **Alsing Andersen** | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (1893–1962) | 6 July 1957 | 5 December 1962 | Social Democratic Party of Denmark | V–VII | Denmark | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [[File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-21272-0001,_Erich_Ollenhauer.jpg | 80px]] | **Erich Ollenhauer** | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (1901–1963) | 9 September 1963 | 14 December 1963 | Social Democratic Party of Germany | VIII | West Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [[File:Dr. Pittermann van de Socialistische Internationale (3x4 cropped).jpg | 80px]] | **Bruno Pittermann** | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (1905–1983) | 5 September 1964 | 26 November 1976 | Socialist Party of Austria | IX–XII | Austria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [[File:Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F057884-0009,_Willy_Brandt.jpg | 80px]] | **Willy Brandt** | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (1913–1992) | 26 November 1976 | 17 September 1992 | Social Democratic Party of Germany | XIII–XVIII | West Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [[File:Pierre_Mauroy_1990.jpg | 80px]] | **Pierre Mauroy** | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (1928–2013) | 17 September 1992 | 10 November 1999 | Socialist Party | XIX–XX | France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [[File:Guterres EP 2000 (3x4 cropped).jpg | 80px]] | **António Guterres** | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (b. 1949) | 10 November 1999 | 15 June 2005 | Socialist Party | XXI–XXII | Portugal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [[File:George Papandreou (3x4 cropped).jpg | 80px]] | **George Papandreou** | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (b. 1952) | 30 January 2006 | 25 November 2022 | Panhellenic Socialist Movement | XXII–XXV | Greece | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Movement of Democratic Socialists | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [[File:Obisk_španskega_predsednika_vlade_v_Sloveniji_(53658605930)_(cropped).jpg | 80px]] | **Pedro Sánchez** | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (b. 1972) | 25 November 2022 | *Incumbent* | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party | XXVI | Spain |
Honorary presidents
Honorary presidents include:
- Mustapha Ben Jafar, Tunisia
- Rubén Berríos, Puerto Rico
- Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Mexico
- Tarja Halonen, Finland
- Eero Heinäluoma, Finland
- Isabel Allende, Chile
- Mahamadou Issoufou, Niger
- Lionel Jospin, France
- George Papandreou, Greece
- Miguel Vargas, Dominican Republic
Secretaries general
- Julius Braunthal, Austria (1951–1956)
- Bjarne Braatoy, Norway (1956–1957)
- Albert Carthy, United Kingdom (1957–1969)
- Hans Janitschek, Austria (1969–1976)
- Bernt Carlsson, Sweden (1976–1983)
- Pentti Väänänen, Finland (1983–1989)
- Luis Ayala, Chile (1989–2022)
- Benedicta Lasi, Ghana (2022-2024)
General Coordinator
In February 2024, the SI Council meeting in Madrid established the role of General Coordinator, effectively putting the office of Secretary General on hold:
- Chantal Kambiwa, Cameroon (2024-present)
Summits
- 1951 (Ist): Frankfurt, West Germany.
- 1952 (IInd): Milan, Italy.
- 1953 (IIIrd): Stockholm, Sweden.
- 1955 (IVth): London, United Kingdom.
- 1957 (Vth): Vienna, Austria.
- 1959 (VIth): Hamburg, West Germany.
- 1961 (VIIth): Rome, Italy.
- 1963 (VIIIth): Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 1964 (IXth): Brussels, Belgium.
- 1966 (Xth): Stockholm, Sweden.
- 1969 (XIth): Eastbourne, United Kingdom.
- 1972 (XIIth): Vienna, Austria (2nd time).
- 1976 (XIIIth): Geneva, Switzerland.
- 1978 (XIVth): Vancouver, Canada.
- 1980 (XVth): Madrid, Spain.
- 1983 (XVIth): Albufeira, Portugal.
- 1986 (XVIIth): Lima, Peru.
- 1989 (XVIIIth): Stockholm, Sweden (2nd time).
- 1992 (XIXth): Berlin, Germany.
- 1996 (XXth): New York City, United States.
- 1999 (XXIst): Paris, France.
- 2003 (XXIInd): São Paulo, Brazil.
- 2008 (XXIIIrd): Athens, Greece.
- 2012 (XXIVth): Cape Town, South Africa.
- 2017 (XXVth): Cartagena, Colombia.
- 2022 (XXVIth): Madrid, Spain (2nd time).
Members
Full members
There are 93 full members:
| Country | Name | Abbr | Government | Notes | Lower House | Upper House | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socialist Party of Albania | PS | [in government](2025-albanian-parliamentary-election) | title=XXI Congress of the Socialist International, Paris – Decisions of the Congress Regarding Membership | url=http://www.socialistinternational.org/viewArticle.cfm?ArticlePageID=59 | publisher=Socialist International}} Promoted to full member in 2003. | |||||||||
| Socialist Forces Front | FFS | [in opposition](2021-algerian-parliamentary-election) | title=XIX Congress of the Socialist International, Berlin – Decisions on Membership of the Socialist International | url=http://www.socialistinternational.org/viewArticle.cfm?ArticlePageID=16 | publisher=Socialist International}} Promoted to full member in 1996. | |||||||||
| Social Democratic Party | PS | [in opposition](2023-andorran-parliamentary-election) | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=311}} | ||||||||
| Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola | MPLA | [in government](2022-angolan-general-election) | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=270}} | ||||||||
| Radical Civic Union | UCR | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=286}} | |||||||||
| Armenian Revolutionary Federation | ARF | [in opposition](2021-armenian-parliamentary-election) | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=37}} Promoted (as ASP) to consultative member in 1999. Promoted (as ASP) to full member in 2003. | ||||||||
| Belarusian Social Democratic Party (People's Assembly) | BSDP | [extra-parliamentary](2019-belarusian-parliamentary-election) | title=Meeting of the SI Council in Luanda, Angola 27–28 November 2015 | url=http://www.socialistinternational.org/councils.cfm | publisher=Socialist International}} Officially deregistered in Belarus since 2005. | |||||||||
| Socialist Party | PS | [in opposition](2024-belgian-federal-election) | ||||||||||||
| National Unity Front | UN | [extra-parliamentary](2020-bolivian-general-election) | Promoted to full member in March 2017. | |||||||||||
| Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina | SDP BiH | [in government](2022-bosnian-general-election) | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=311}} | ||||||||
| Democratic Labour Party | PDT | title=XVII Congress of the Socialist International, Lima – Decisions on Membership of the Socialist International | url=http://www.socialistinternational.org/viewArticle.cfm?ArticleID=79&ArticlePageID=26&ModuleID=18 | publisher=Socialist International}} Promoted to full member in 1989. | ||||||||||
| Party of Bulgarian Social Democrats | PBSD | [extra-parliamentary](2023-bulgarian-parliamentary-election) | ||||||||||||
| Bulgarian Socialist Party | BSP | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=68}} | |||||||||
| People's Movement for Progress | MPP | extra-parliamentary | date=18 March 2019 | title=SI Member Parties in Government | url=https://www.socialistinternational.org/news/statements/si-member-parties-in-government-333/ | access-date=9 June 2019 | website=www.socialistinternational.org | publisher=Socialist International}} | ||||||
| Social Democratic Front | SDF | [in opposition](2020-cameroonian-parliamentary-election) | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=307}} | ||||||||
| African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde | PAICV | [in opposition](2021-cape-verdean-parliamentary-election) | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=25}} | ||||||||
| National Union for Democracy and Renewal | UNDR | [in opposition](2024-chadian-parliamentary-election) | Admitted as observer member in June/July 2014. Upgraded to full member in 2017. | |||||||||||
| Party for Democracy | PPD | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=265}} | |||||||||
| Radical Party of Chile | PRSD | |||||||||||||
| Socialist Party of Chile | PS | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=325}} | |||||||||
| Colombian Liberal Party | PLC | [junior party in coalition](2022-colombian-parliamentary-election) | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=211}} | ||||||||
| National Liberation Party | PLN | [in opposition](2022-costa-rican-general-election) | Full member since 1987. | |||||||||||
| Social Democratic Party of Croatia | SDP | [in opposition](2020-croatian-parliamentary-election) | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=312}} | ||||||||
| EDEK Socialist Party | EDEK | Full member since 1987. Promoted to full member in 1992. | ||||||||||||
| Cyprus TRNC Cyprus (North) | Republican Turkish Party | CTP | [in opposition](2022-northern-cypriot-parliamentary-election) | title=SI Council Meeting in Mexico City | url=http://www.socialistinternational.org/viewArticle.cfm?ArticleID=2299 | publisher=Socialist International}} | ||||||||
| Communal Democracy Party | TDP | [extra-parliamentary](2022-northern-cypriot-parliamentary-election) | Admitted as consultative member in November 2015. Promoted to full member in March 2017. | |||||||||||
| Social Democracy | SOCDEM | [extra-parliamentary](2025-czech-parliamentary-election) | ||||||||||||
| Union for Democracy and Social Progress | UDPS | [in government](2023-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-general-election) | title=Meeting of the SI Council in Santo Domingo | url=https://www.socialistinternational.org/our-meetings/councils/santo-domingo-2019/ | access-date=2026-01-12 | website=Socialist International}} | ||||||||
| Dominican Revolutionary Party | PRD | [in opposition](2020-dominican-republic-general-election) | Full member since 1987. | |||||||||||
| Democratic Left | ID | [extra-parliamentary](2025-ecuadorian-general-election) | Member since 1987. Delisted in 2017. Rejoined in 2022. | |||||||||||
| Egyptian Social Democratic Party | ESDP (or HMDI in Arabic) | [in opposition](2020-egyptian-parliamentary-election) | title=The Egyptian Social Democratic Party Obtains Full Membership in the International Socialist Party | url=https://egysdp.org/?p=14958 | access-date=2026-01-12 | date=2024-12-26 | website=Egyptian Social Democratic Party | language=ar}} | ||||||
| Convergence for Social Democracy | CPDS | [extra-parliamentary](2022-equatorial-guinean-general-election) | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=87}} | ||||||||
| Social Democratic Party of Finland | SDP | [in opposition](2023-finnish-parliamentary-election) | ||||||||||||
| Socialist Party | PS | [in opposition](2024-french-legislative-election) | ||||||||||||
| National Democratic Congress | NDC | [in government](2021-albanian-parliamentary-election) | title=XXIII Congress of the Socialist International, Athens – Decisions of the Congress Regarding Membership | url=http://www.socialistinternational.org/viewArticle.cfm?ArticlePageID=1270 | publisher=Socialist International}} | |||||||||
| Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party | GSLP | [in government](2023-gibraltar-general-election) (Major party in coalition alliance with GLP) | Became full member in 2025 | |||||||||||
| PASOK – Movement for Change | PASOK-KINAL | in opposition | Full member since 1990. | |||||||||||
| Rally of the Guinean People | RPG | [in opposition](2021-guinean-coup-d-etat) | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=148}} | ||||||||
| Fusion of Haitian Social Democrats | PFSDH | extra-parliamentary | Full member since 1989. | |||||||||||
| Social Democratic Assembly for the Progress of Haiti | RSD | extra-parliamentary | Admitted as full members in 2018 | |||||||||||
| Hungarian Socialist Party | MSzP | [in opposition](2022-hungarian-parliamentary-election) | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=158}} Promoted to full member in 1996. | ||||||||
| Indian National Congress | INC | [in opposition](2024-indian-general-election) | author=Gabriel Sheffer | title=Innovative Leaders in International Politics | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=__efKLSD3M0C&pg=PA202 | access-date=30 January 2013 | year=1993 | publisher=SUNY Press | isbn=978-0-7914-1520-7 | page=202}} Readmitted as full member December 2014. | ||||
| Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran | KDPI | Admitted as observer member in 1996. Promoted to consultative member in 2008. Officially banned in Iran. | ||||||||||||
| Patriotic Union of Kurdistan | PUK | [junior party in coalition](2021-iraqi-parliamentary-election) | Admitted as observer member in 2003. Promoted to full member in 2008. | |||||||||||
| Labour Party | [in opposition](2024-irish-general-election) | |||||||||||||
| The Democrats | Democrats | in opposition | ||||||||||||
| Italian Socialist Party | PSI | [extra-parliamentary](2022-italian-general-election) | ||||||||||||
| Ivorian Popular Front | FPI | [in opposition](2025-ivorian-parliamentary-election) | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=184}} Expelled in March 2011. Rejoined in May 2025. | ||||||||
| People's National Party | PNP | [in opposition](2020-jamaican-general-election) | Full member since 1952. Temporarily demoted to observer member in 2012 due to non-payment of membership fees. | |||||||||||
| Social Democratic Party | SDP | [in opposition](2021-japanese-general-election) | Full member since 1951 as the Japan Socialist Party. | |||||||||||
| Nationwide Social Democratic Party | JSDP | [in opposition](2023-kazakh-legislative-election) | Admitted as consultative member in 2012. Promoted to full member in November 2015. | |||||||||||
| Vetëvendosje | LVV | in government | Admitted as observer member in 2018. Promoted to full member in 2024.{{Cite web | title=LVV becomes a full member of the Socialist International | date=2024-12-21 | access-date=2026-01-12 | website=Telegrafi}} | |||||||
| Kyrgyzstan | Social Democrats | SDK | [in opposition](2021-kyrgyz-parliamentary-election) | Legal successor to the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan. | ||||||||||
| Progressive Socialist Party | PSP | [in opposition](2022-lebanese-general-election) | Full member since 1980. | |||||||||||
| Social Democratic Party of Lithuania | LSDP | [in government](2024-lithuanian-parliamentary-election) | Full member since the 1990s. | |||||||||||
| Alliance for Democracy in Mali | ADEMA-PASJ | [in opposition](2021-malian-coup-d-etat) | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=29}} Promoted to full member in 2008. Status unclear following the [2020 Malian coup d'état](2020-malian-coup-d-etat). | ||||||||
| Rally for Mali | RPM | [in opposition](2021-malian-coup-d-etat) | Admitted as consultative member in 2003. Status unclear following the [2020 Malian coup d'état](2020-malian-coup-d-etat). | |||||||||||
| Labour Party | PL | [in government](2022-maltese-general-election) | Full member since 1955, leading to the entire party being interdicted by the Catholic Church in 1961. Demoted to observer member in 2012 due to non-payment of membership fees. Delisted in December 2014. Rejoined in 2025. | |||||||||||
| Rally of Democratic Forces | RFD | [extra-parliamentary](2023-mauritanian-parliamentary-election) | Admitted as observer member in 2003. Promoted to full member in 2008. | |||||||||||
| Labour Party | PTR | [in government](2024-mauritian-general-election) | Full member since 1969. | |||||||||||
| European Social Democratic Party | PSDE | [extra-parliamentary](2021-moldovan-parliamentary-election) | title=XXIV Congress of the Socialist International, Cape Town – Decisions on Membership | url=http://www.socialistinternational.org/viewArticle.cfm?ArticlePageID=1697 | publisher=Socialist International}} | |||||||||
| Mongolian People's Party | MPP | [in government](2024-mongolian-parliamentary-election) | Admitted (as Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party) as observer member in 1999. | |||||||||||
| Promoted (as Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party) to full member in 2003. | ||||||||||||||
| title=Montenegro | url=http://www.europeanforum.net/country/montenegro | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050418025741/http://www.europeanforum.net/country/montenegro | url-status=dead | archive-date=18 April 2005 | publisher=European Forum for Democracy and Solidarity}} | DPS | [in opposition](2023-montenegrin-parliamentary-election) | Admitted as consultative member in 2003. Promoted to full member in 2008. | ||||||
| title=Socijalistička internacionala | url=http://www.sdp.co.me/SocijalistickaInternacionala | publisher=Social Democratic Party of Montenegro | language=cnr | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221171744/http://www.sdp.co.me/SocijalistickaInternacionala | archive-date=21 February 2014}} | SDP | [extra-parliamentary](2023-montenegrin-parliamentary-election) | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=313}} | |||
| Socialist Union of Popular Forces | USFP | [in opposition](2021-moroccan-general-election) | Promoted to full member in 1992. | |||||||||||
| Frelimo Party | FRELIMO | [in government](2019-mozambican-general-election) | Admitted as consultative member in 1996. Promoted to full member in 1999. | |||||||||||
| South West Africa People's Organisation | SWAPO | [in government](2019-namibian-general-election) | Promoted to full member in 2008. | |||||||||||
| Nepali Congress | NC | in coalition | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=250}} | ||||||||
| Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism | PNDS | [in opposition](2023-nigerien-coup-d-etat) | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=267}} Status unclear following the [2023 Nigerien coup d'état](2023-nigerien-coup-d-etat). | ||||||||
| Social Democratic Union of Macedonia | SDUM | [in opposition](2024-north-macedonian-parliamentary-election) | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=315}} Demoted to observer member in 2012 due to non-payment of membership fees. Delisted in December 2014. Rejoined in May 2025. | ||||||||
| Pakistan People's Party | PPP | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=261}} | |||||||||
| Palestine | Fatah | [in government](2005-palestinian-presidential-election) | Admitted as observer member in 1996. Promoted to consultative member in 1999. Promoted to full member in 2012. | |||||||||||
| Democratic Revolutionary Party | PRD | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=290}} Admitted as consultative member in 1996. Promoted to full member in 2003. | |||||||||
| Progressive Democratic Party | PDP | [in opposition](2023-paraguayan-general-election) | Admitted as consultative member in 2008. Promoted to full member in November 2015. | |||||||||||
| Peruvian Aprista Party | PAP | [extra-parliamentary](2021-peruvian-general-election) | Promoted to full member in 1999. | |||||||||||
| Philippine Democratic Socialist Party | PDSP | [extra-parliamentary](2022-philippine-house-of-representatives-elections) | Admitted as consultative member in 1992. Demoted to observer member in 2012 due to non-payment of membership fees. Delisted in December 2014. Reinstated in 2019. | |||||||||||
| Socialist Party | PS | [in opposition](2025-portuguese-legislative-election-aftermath) | ||||||||||||
| Puerto Rican Independence Party | PIP | [in opposition](2020-puerto-rican-general-election) | Consultative member in 1987, full member in 1994. Promoted to full member in 1992. | |||||||||||
| Social Democratic Party | PSD | [in government](2024-romanian-parliamentary-election) | PSDR]] admitted as consultative member in 1992, full member in 2001. Admitted as full member in 2003. Both parties merged into PSD in 2001. | |||||||||||
| Party of Socialists and Democrats | PSD | [junior partner in coalition](2024-san-marino-general-election) | Consultative member in 1961, full member in 1980. | |||||||||||
| Socialist Party of Senegal | PS | [in opposition](2024-senegalese-parliamentary-election) | Full member since the 1970s. | |||||||||||
| Serbia | Social Democratic Party of Serbia | SDPS | Admitted as observer member in 2018. Promoted to full member in 2024. | |||||||||||
| Direction – Social Democracy | SMER-SD | [in government](2023-slovak-parliamentary-election) | Full member. | |||||||||||
| African National Congress | ANC | [in government](2024-south-african-general-election) | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=24}} | ||||||||
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party | PSOE | [in government](2023-spanish-general-election) | Full member since 1951. | |||||||||||
| Democratic Forum for Labour and Liberties | FDTL | date=2022-09-19 | title=Tunisie : Une coalition politique annonce son boycott des prochaines législatives | url=https://news.gnet.tn/tunisie-une-nouvelle-coalition-politique-annonce-son-boycott-des-prochaines-legislatives/ | access-date=2023-12-30 | website=Gnet news | language=fr-FR}} | |||||||
| Republican People's Party | CHP | [in opposition](2023-turkish-parliamentary-election) | Took Social Democratic Populist Party's place in 1995. | |||||||||||
| Social Democratic Party of Ukraine | SDPU | [extra-parliamentary](2019-ukrainian-parliamentary-election) | Admitted as consultative member in 2003. | |||||||||||
| (Northern Ireland) | Social Democratic and Labour Party | SDLP | [in opposition](2022-northern-ireland-assembly-election) | Admitted as a full member in 1974. | ||||||||||
| New Space | PNE | [in government](2024-uruguayan-general-election) | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=253}} Party does not individually stand in elections but participates as part of the Broad Front. | ||||||||
| A New Era | UNT | [in opposition](2025-venezuelan-parliamentary-election) | url=http://www.socialistinternational.org/images/dynamicImages/files/Council%20decisions-1.pdf | title=Decisions of the Council | website=socialistinternational.org | access-date=2 March 2020 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180907221513/http://www.socialistinternational.org/images/dynamicImages/files/Council%20decisions-1.pdf | archive-date=7 September 2018}} Promoted to full member in November 2015. | |||||
| Democratic Action | AD | [in opposition](2025-venezuelan-parliamentary-election) | Observer member in 1966, consultative member in 1981, full member mid 1980s. | |||||||||||
| Yemeni Socialist Party | YSP | [in opposition](2003-yemeni-parliamentary-election) | Admitted as observer member in 2003. Promoted to consultative member in 2008. | |||||||||||
| Promoted to full member in 2012. |
Consultative parties
There are 17 consultative parties:
| Country | Name | Abbr | Government | Notes | Lower House | Upper House | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Botswana Democratic Party | BDP | [in opposition ](2024-botswana-general-election) | Admitted as consultative member in June/July 2014. | ||||||||
| Unified Lumumbist Party | PALU | [in opposition](2018-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-general-election) | Admitted as observer member in December 2014. Upgraded to consultative member in 2019. | ||||||||
| Djibouti | Movement for Democratic Renewal and Development | MRD | Upgraded to consultative member in 2019. | ||||||||
| Eswatini | People's United Democratic Movement | PUDEMO | Admitted as consultative member in 2013. Political parties are banned in Eswatini. | ||||||||
| Gabonese Progress Party | PGP | Admitted as consultative member in 1996. | |||||||||
| United Democratic Party | UDP | [in opposition](2022-gambian-parliamentary-election) | Admitted as consultative member in 2012. | ||||||||
| Social Democrats for the Development of Georgia | SDD | [extra-parliamentary](2024-georgian-parliamentary-election) | Admitted as consultative member in 2013. | ||||||||
| Convention People's Party | CPP | [extra-parliamentary](2024-ghanaian-general-election) | Admitted as consultative member in 2018 | ||||||||
| African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde | PAIGC | [in opposition](2019-guinea-bissau-presidential-election) | Admitted as consultative member in 2008. | ||||||||
| Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan | KPIK | Admitted as observer member in 2014 Promoted to consultative member in 2018 Officially banned in Iran. | |||||||||
| Palestine | title=Palestinian Territories | url=http://www.europeanforum.net/country/palestinian_territories | publisher=European Forum for Democracy and Solidarity | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090603113808/http://www.europeanforum.net/country/palestinian_territories | archive-date=3 June 2009}} | PNI | [in opposition](2006-palestinian-legislative-election) | Admitted as observer member in 2008. Promoted to consultative member in 2012. | ||
| Palestinian Popular Struggle Front | PPSF | junior partner in coalition | Admitted as consultative member in 2018. | ||||||||
| Sahrawi Republic | Polisario Front | POLISARIO | [in government](2023-sahrawi-legislative-election) | Admitted as observer member in 2008. | |||||||
| São Tomé and Príncipe | Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe/Social Democratic Party | MLSTP/PSD | [in opposition](2022-sao-tomean-parliamentary-election) | Admitted as consultative member in 2013. | |||||||
| Syria | Democratic Union Party | PYD | [extra-parliamentary](2020-syrian-parliamentary-election) | Admitted as consultative member in November 2015. | |||||||
| Democratic Convention of African Peoples | CDPA | [extra-parliamentary](2018-togolese-parliamentary-election) | Admitted as consultative member in 1999. | ||||||||
| Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party | DEM | [in opposition](2023-turkish-parliamentary-election) |
Observer parties
There are 11 observer parties:
| Country | Name | Abbr | Government | Notes | Lower House | Upper House | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party for Liberties and Development | PLD | [in opposition](2024-chadian-parliamentary-election) | |||||||||
| Congo-Brazzaville | Congolese Party of Labour | PCT | [in government](2022-republic-of-the-congo-parliamentary-election) | title=Council Meeting, St. Julians, Malta | url=https://www.socialistinternational.org/our-meetings/councils/council-meeting-st-julians-malta/ | access-date=2026-01-12 | website=Socialist International}} | ||||
| Eswatini | Swazi Democratic Party | SWADEPA | Admitted as observer member in June/July 2014. | ||||||||
| Labour Party of Kenya | Admitted as observer member in 2012. | ||||||||||
| Lesotho | Lesotho Congress for Democracy | LCD | Admitted as observer member in June/July 2014. | ||||||||
| Future Movement | Admitted as observer member in November 2025. | ||||||||||
| El Islah | Admitted as observer member in November 2025. | ||||||||||
| UNAMOS | [extra-parliamentary](2021-nicaraguan-general-election) | ||||||||||
| Sahrawi Republic | Sahrawi Movement for Peace | LCD | Admitted as observer member in 2024.{{Cite web | title=Zapatero y Bono vuelven a avalar a un movimiento saharaui que el CNI vincula a Marruecos | date=2025-02-27 | access-date=2026-01-13 | website=Público | language=es}} | |||
| Somaliland | Justice and Welfare Party | JWP | [in opposition](2017-somaliland-presidential-election) | Admitted as observer member in 2013. | |||||||
| Labour Party | [in government](2024-united-kingdom-general-election) | Member since 1951. Currently holds a majority in Westminster, following the [2024 United Kingdom general election](2024-united-kingdom-general-election). Welsh Labour is [in government](2021-senedd-election) in Wales and London Labour [holds](2021-london-mayoral-election) the London Mayoralty. The party asked to be downgraded to observer status in February 2013 "in view of ethical concerns, and to develop international co-operation through new networks." The request was accepted later that year. |
Former members
| Country | Name | Abbr | Notes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Democratic Party of Albania | PSD | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=27}} Demoted to observer member in 2012 due to non-payment of membership fees. Delisted in December 2014. | ||||||
| Algeria | National Liberation Front | FLN | Expelled following the [2019 Algerian protests](2019-2021-algerian-protests). | ||||||||
| New Democracy | ND | Admitted as consultative member in 1999. | |||||||||
| Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party | ALP | Admitted as consultative member in 2008. | |||||||||
| Popular Socialist Party | PSP | Democratic Socialist Party]] to form the Socialist Party. | |||||||||
| Socialist Party | PS | Full member since 1951. | |||||||||
| Azerbaijani Social Democratic Party | ASDP | title=Ölkənin ən məşhur partiyası özünü buraxdı: Əlizadələrin qurduğu 34 illik ASDP-nin son beyanati | website=Yeni Müsavat | url=https://musavat.com/news/olkenin-en-meshur-partiyasi-ozunu-buraxdi-elizadelerin-qurdugu-34-illik-asdp-nin-son-beyanati_967970.html?d=1 | date=4 April 2023 | language=az | access-date=9 April 2024}} | ||||
| People's Electoral Movement | MEP | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=270}} Delisted in December 2014. | ||||||
| Australian Labor Party | ALP | Admitted as full member in 1966. Delisted in December 2014. | |||||||||
| Social Democratic Party of Austria | SPÖ | Admitted as a full member in 1951. Delisted in 2022. | |||||||||
| Barbados Labour Party | BLP | Admitted as full member in 1987. Demoted to observer member in 2012 due to non-payment of membership fees. Delisted in December 2014. | |||||||||
| Belgian Socialist Party | PSB/BSP | Founder member. Split in 1978. | |||||||||
| Forward | Delisted in 2017. | ||||||||||
| Democratic Union of Progressive Forces | UDFP | Admitted as observer member in 1992. | |||||||||
| Social Democratic Party | PSD | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=310}} Promoted to full member in 2003. | ||||||
| Alliance of Independent Social Democrats | SNSD | Admitted as consultative member in 2003. Promoted to full member in 2008 Expelled in August 2012. | |||||||||
| Botswana National Front | BNF | Admitted as observer member in 1996. | |||||||||
| Revolutionary Left Movement | MIR | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=241}} Promoted to full member in 1992. | ||||||
| Bulgarian Euro-Left | author=Janusz Bugajski | title=Political Parties of Eastern Europe: A Guide to Politics in the Post-Communist Era | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9gGKtLTQlUcC&pg=PA790 | access-date=6 February 2013 | year=2002 | publisher=M.E. Sharpe | isbn=978-1-56324-676-0 | pages=790–}} | Admitted as observer member in 1999. | ||
| Party for Democracy and Progress / Socialist Party | PDP/PS | Admitted as full member circa 1995. Demoted to observer member in 2012 due to non-payment of membership fees. Delisted in December 2014. | |||||||||
| Front for Democracy in Burundi | FRODEBU | Admitted as consultative member in 2003. Demoted to observer member in 2012 due to non-payment of membership fees. | |||||||||
| Delisted in December 2014. | |||||||||||
| Canada | Co-operative Commonwealth Federation | CCF | Became the New Democratic Party in 1961. | ||||||||
| New Democratic Party | NDP/NPD | Delisted in 2018. | |||||||||
| Movement for Democracy and Social Progress | MDPS | Admitted as observer member in 1992. | |||||||||
| Movement for the Liberation of the Central African People | MLPC | Admitted as observer member in 2008. Upgraded to full member in 2018. | |||||||||
| Kurdistan Democratic Party | KDP | url=https://www.rudaw.net/sorani/kurdistan/2108202226 | access-date=2023-12-30 | website=www.rudaw.net | title=Rudaw}} | ||||||
| Kyrgyzstan | Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan | SDPK | Promoted to full member in June 2018. Party dissolved in 2020. | ||||||||
| Alternative Democratic Pole | PDA | Former observer member. Delisted in December 2014. | |||||||||
| [M-19 Democratic Alliance](19th-of-april-movement) | AD/M-19 | Admitted as observer member in 1992. | |||||||||
| Partido MAN | MAN | Promoted to full member in 1989. Delisted in 2017. | |||||||||
| Social Democrats | SD | Founding member. Withdrew in 2017. | |||||||||
| Dominica Labour Party | DLP | Admitted as consultative member in 1996. Demoted to observer member in 2012 due to non-payment of membership fees. Delisted in December 2014. | |||||||||
| National Democratic Party | NDP | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=245}} Expelled in January 2011. | ||||||
| Democratic Party | PD | Admitted as observer member in 1996. | |||||||||
| Social Democratic Party | SDE | Member since 1990. Withdrew in 2017. | |||||||||
| Fiji Labour Party | FLP | military coup]]. | |||||||||
| French Section of the Workers' International | SFIO | Founding member. Member in 1951–1969. | |||||||||
| Union of Citizens of Georgia | CUG | Admitted as observer member in 1996. Party disbanded in 2003. | |||||||||
| Social Democratic Party of Germany | SPD | Founding member. Withdrew in 2017. | |||||||||
| Siumut | Admitted as consultative member in 1986. Demoted to observer member in 2012 due to non-payment of membership fees. Delisted in December 2014. | ||||||||||
| National Unity of Hope | UNE | title=La Internacional Socialista anuncia la expulsión de Voluntad Popular | |||||||||
| Social Democratic Convergence | CSD | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=306}} | ||||||
| Party of the National Congress of Democratic Movements | KONAKOM | Admitted as consultative member in 1992. Promoted to full member in 1996. | |||||||||
| Struggling People's Organization | OPL | Admitted (as Lavalas Political Organisation) as observer member in 1996. | |||||||||
| Revolutionary Progressive Nationalist Party | PANPRA | Admitted as consultative member in 1989. Promoted to full member in 1992. | |||||||||
| Social Democratic Party of Hungary | MSZDP | Member since 1990. Admitted as observer member in 1992. Promoted to consultative member in 1999. | |||||||||
| Social Democratic Party | A | Member since 1987. Formed Social Democratic Alliance in 2000. | |||||||||
| Social Democratic Alliance | S | Withdrew in 2017. | |||||||||
| League of Iranian Socialists | Joined in 1960. It was dissolved in 1980s. | ||||||||||
| Democratic Party of the Left | PDS | Admitted as full member in 1992. Merged with others to form Democrats of the Left in 1998. | |||||||||
| Democrats of the Left | DS | Full member since 1992 as Democratic Party of the Left. Merged with other movements to form the Democratic Party in 2007. Listed as SI member until XXIV Congress in 2012. | |||||||||
| Italian Socialist Party | PSI | Party dissolved in 1994 and succeeded by the Italian Socialists (who formed the Italian Democratic Socialists in 1998 and resumed as the Italian Socialist Party in 2007). | |||||||||
| Italian Democratic Socialist Party | PSDI | Founding member. Party merged into the Italian Democratic Socialists in 1998 (renamed into Italian Socialist Party in 2007). | |||||||||
| Democratic Socialist Party | DSP/Minsha-tō | author1=James C. Docherty | author2=Peter Lamb | title=Historical Dictionary of Socialism | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JRYjU-L4F7wC&pg=PA187 | access-date=28 January 2013 | date=2 October 2006 | publisher=Scarecrow Press | isbn=978-0-8108-6477-1 | pages=187–}} Merged with non-socialist movements to form the New Frontier Party in 1994. | |
| Japan Socialist Party | JSP/Shakai-tō | Admitted as SI member in 1951. Refounded as the Social Democratic Party in 1996. | |||||||||
| Jordanian Democratic Party of the Left | JDPL | Admitted as observer member in 2003. | |||||||||
| Ata Meken Socialist Party | Admitted as observer member in 2008. | ||||||||||
| Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party | LSDSP | Full member since 1994. Demoted to observer member in 2012 due to non-payment of membership fees. | |||||||||
| Delisted in December 2014. | |||||||||||
| Social Democratic Party "Harmony" | SDPS | Admitted as consultative member in June/July 2014. Withdrew in 2017. | |||||||||
| Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party | LSAP/POSL | Full member since 1951. Delisted in 2022. | |||||||||
| Party for National Unity | VITM | Admitted as consultative member in 1989. | |||||||||
| title=International Solidarity | url=https://dapmalaysia.org/en/about-us/international-solidarity/ | publisher=Democratic Action Party}} | DAP | Full member since 1987. Delisted in 2017. | |||||||
| Mauritian Militant Movement | MMM | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=229}} Delisted in 2022. | ||||||
| Institutional Revolutionary Party | PRI | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=167}} Expelled in 2025. | ||||||
| Party of the Democratic Revolution | PRD | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=268}} | ||||||
| Social Democratic Party of Moldova | PSDM | Admitted as observer member in 1996. | |||||||||
| Mongolian Social Democratic Party | MSDP | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=238}} Promoted to full member in 1996. Merged with others in 2000 to form the Democratic Party. | ||||||
| Congress of Democrats | CoD | Admitted as consultative member in 2003. Demoted to observer member in 2012 due to non-payment of membership fees. Delisted in December 2014. | |||||||||
| Labour Party | PvdA | Decided to minimise involvement in SI in December 2012. Delisted in December 2014. | |||||||||
| New Zealand Labour Party | NZLP | Member since 1952. Demoted to observer member in 2012 due to non-payment of membership fees. Delisted in December 2014. | |||||||||
| NicaraguaNicaragua | Sandinista National Liberation Front | FSLN | Expelled in January 2019 because of violation of human rights during the [Nicaraguan protests](2018-2021-nicaraguan-protests) | ||||||||
| Nigeria | All Progressives Congress | APC | Admitted as consultative member in December 2014. | ||||||||
| North Vietnam | Vietnamese Socialist Party | Consultative member between 1955 and 1969. | |||||||||
| Labour Party | DNA | Member since 1951. Withdrew in 2016. | |||||||||
| Party for a Country of Solidarity | PPS | Admitted as consultative member in 2003. Promoted to full member in 2008. | |||||||||
| Revolutionary Febrerista Party | PRF | Admitted as full member in the 1970s. | |||||||||
| Akbayan | Admitted as consultative member in 2003. | ||||||||||
| Democratic Left Alliance | SLD | Full member since 1996. Withdrew in 2017. | |||||||||
| Labour Union | UP | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=352}} Demoted to observer member in 2012 due to non-payment of membership fees. | ||||||
| Delisted in December 2014. | |||||||||||
| Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland | SdRP | Democratic Left Alliance]] in 1999. | |||||||||
| Democratic Party | PD | Liberal Democratic Party]] to form the Democratic Liberal Party. | |||||||||
| A Just Russia — Patriots — For Truth | SRZP | url=http://www.spravedlivo.ru/news/anews/19005.php | title=СПРАВЕДЛИВАЯ РОССИЯ стала полноправным членом Социнтерна | publisher=A Just Russia | language=ru | access-date=2 September 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120907214414/http://www.spravedlivo.ru/news/anews/19005.php | archive-date=7 September 2012 | url-status=dead}} Expelled in March 2022 for its support for the [Russian invasion of Ukraine](2022-russian-invasion-of-ukraine). | ||
| Social Democratic Party of Russia | SDPR | Admitted as consultative member in 2003. | |||||||||
| Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party | SKNLP | Admitted as consultative member in 1992. Demoted to observer member in 2012 due to non-payment of membership fees. Delisted in December 2014. | |||||||||
| Progressive Labour Party | Expelled in 1992. | ||||||||||
| Saint Lucia Labour Party | SLP | Admitted as consultative member in 1992. Demoted to observer member in 2012 due to non-payment of membership fees. Delisted in December 2014. | |||||||||
| Saint Vincent Labour Party | SVGLP | Admitted as consultative member in 1989. Merged with the Movement for National Unity in 1994 to form the Unity Labour Party. | |||||||||
| Unity Labour Party | ULP | Demoted to observer member in 2012 due to non-payment of membership fees. Delisted in December 2014. | |||||||||
| Democratic Party | DS | Admitted as consultative member in 2003. Promoted to full member in 2008. | |||||||||
| Social Democratic Party | SDP | Admitted as consultative member in 2003. Promoted to full member in 2008. | |||||||||
| Demoted to observer member in 2012 due to non-payment of membership fees. Ceased to exist in 2009 | |||||||||||
| People's Action Party | PAP | Resigned in 1976 in response to the Dutch Labour Party's charges of violations of human rights and detention of political prisoners without trial, and DLP and the British Labour Party's charges of media censorship. | |||||||||
| Party of the Democratic Left | SDĽ | Direction – Social Democracy]] in 2005. | |||||||||
| Social Democratic Party of Slovakia | SDSS | Direction – Social Democracy]] in 2005. | |||||||||
| Slovenian Democratic Party | SDS | Admitted (as the Social Democratic Party of Slovenia) as observer member in 1992. | |||||||||
| Social Democrats | SD | Admitted (as United List of Social Democrats) as full member in 1996. Demoted to observer member in 2012 due to non-payment of membership fees. Delisted in December 2014. | |||||||||
| Swedish Social Democratic Party | SAP | Withdrew in March 2017. | |||||||||
| Social Democratic Party of Switzerland | SP/PS | Withdrew in 2017. | |||||||||
| Chama Cha Mapinduzi | CCM | Admitted as full member in 2013. | |||||||||
| Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor | FRETILIN | Admitted as consultative member in 2003. | |||||||||
| Democratic Constitutional Rally | RCD | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=101}} Expelled in January 2011. | ||||||
| Popular Unity Movement | MUP | Admitted as consultative member in 1989. | |||||||||
| Democratic Left Party | DSP | Admitted as consultative member in 1986. Expelled in 1992. | |||||||||
| Democratic People's Party | DEHAP | Admitted as observer member in 2003. Merged with the Democratic Society Movement to form the Democratic Society Party which in turn was succeeded by the Peace and Democracy Party. | |||||||||
| Social Democratic Populist Party | SHP | Admitted as consultative member in 1986. Promoted to full member in 1989. Merged with the Republican People's Party in 1995. | |||||||||
| Socialist Party of Ukraine | SPU | Admitted as consultative member in 2003. Expelled in July 2011. | |||||||||
| Democratic Socialists of America | DSA | url=http://www.leftvoice.org/DSA-Votes-for-BDS-Reparations-and-Out-of-the-Socialist-International | title=DSA Votes for BDS, Reparations, and Out of the Socialist International | first=Juan Cruz | last=Ferre | date=5 August 2017 | access-date=7 August 2017}} | ||||
| Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee | DSOC | Member since 1976, merged with the New American Movement in 1982 to form the Democratic Socialists of America, which remained a member until 2017. | |||||||||
| Social Democrats, USA | SDUSA | Member since 1972. Withdrew in 2005. | |||||||||
| Party for the Government of the People | PGP | Colorado Party]] in 1994. | |||||||||
| Socialist Party of Uruguay | PSUA | Lamb | Docherty | 2006 | p=327}} Withdrew in 2017. | ||||||
| For Social Democracy | PODEMOS | Admitted as consultative member in 2008. | |||||||||
| Movement for Socialism | MAS | Admitted as consultative member in 2003. | |||||||||
| Popular Will | VP | Admitted as full member in December 2014. Expelled in 2024. | |||||||||
| Patriotic Front | PF | Admitted as consultative member in 2013. | |||||||||
| Movement for Democratic Change | MDC | Admitted as full member in 2008. Delisted in 2017. |
Fraternal organisations
The Socialist International maintains close ties with three fraternal organizations:
- International Falcon Movement – Socialist Educational International (IFM/SEI)
- International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY)
- Socialist International Women (SIW)
Associated organisations
In addition to its member parties and fraternal organisations, the Socialist International collaborates with a number of associated organisations from across the world:
- Arab Social Democratic Forum (ASDF)
- Euro-Latin American Forum of Progressive and Socialist Parliamentarians
- International Federation of the Socialist and Democratic Press (IFSDP)
- International Labour Sports Confederation (CSIT)
- International League of Religious Socialists (ILRS)
- International Social Democratic Union for Education (ISDUE)
- Jewish Labor Bund (JLB)
- National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)
- Party of European Socialists (PES)
- Social Democratic Group of the Latin American Parliament
- World Labour Zionist Movement (WLZM)
Notes
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