Socialist Alternative (Netherlands)

Socialist Alternative (Dutch: Socialistisch Alternatief) is a Trotskyist political party in the Netherlands. It is affiliated to International Socialist Alternative.

Socialist Alternative
Socialistisch Alternatief - ISA Nederland
Founded1977
NewspaperSocialistisch Alternatief
(Socialist Alternative)
IdeologyMarxism
Socialism
Trotskyism
Political positionFar-left
European affiliationEuropean Anti-Capitalist Left
International affiliationInternational Socialist Alternative
ColoursRed
Website
www.socialistischalternatief.nl

The party was involved in the Occupy movement in the Netherlands.[1]

History

Socialist Alternative was founded as Inter in 1977. The name was shortly after changed to Forward (Voorwaarts) and from the early 1980s to 2010 it was called Offensive (Offensief). The party has gone by its current name since September 2010, "to clearly put forward the need for a socialist alternative, in a period when the crisis of capitalism is ever more central".[2] Since 2022, members of ISA Netherlands have been working inside new socialist formations such as Socialisten 010 in Rotterdam and Democratisch Socialisten Amsterdam, who are split offs from the SP.

Originally part of the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA), in 1998 Socialist Alternative (then still called Offensive) left the PvdA and joined the Dutch Socialist Party (SP), operating in an entryist fashion. Its members were banned from the SP in February 2009, on the grounds of being "a party within a party", since which time it has operated as an independent organisation.[3][4]

References
  1. Occupybeweging met partytent op het Waagplein (in Dutch), Friesch Dagblad, 24 October 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2015
  2. Persbericht: In het Offensief voor een Socialistisch Alternatief! (in Dutch), Socialistisch Alternatief, 26 September 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
  3. Verslag partijraad 21 februari 2009 (in Dutch), Socialistische Partij, 21 February 2009. Retrieved 11 May 2010
  4. Open brief aan de leden en sympathisanten van de Socialistische Partij (SP) Archived 2009-10-15 at the Wayback Machine (in Dutch), Offensief, 8 February 2009. Retrieved 11 May 2010
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