Socialist Equality Party (Germany)

The Socialist Equality Party (German: Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei, SGP) is a Trotskyist minor political party in Germany. It was founded in 1971 as the Federation of Socialist Workers (Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter) by West German supporters of Gerry Healy's Socialist Labour League and was renamed the Party for Social Equality, Section of the Fourth International (German: Partei für Soziale Gleichheit, Sektion der Vierten Internationale, PSG) in 1997. On 18-19 February 2017, the party adopted its present name.[2] It is classified as left-wing extremist and is under observation by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.[3]

Socialist Equality Party Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei
Leader	Ulrich Rippert
Founded	1971
Headquarters	Berlin
Membership	273 (2016)[1]
Ideology	Trotskyism
Political position	Far-left
International affiliation	International Committee of the Fourth International
Website
www.gleichheit.de
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The party sees itself as the German section of the Fourth International in the tradition of Leon Trotsky.[4] The international umbrella group of the party is the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI).[5] It has contacts to other member parties of the ICFI in England, the US, Sri Lanka, France, Canada and Australia.

The SGP is critical of trade unions, social democrats and former Stalinist organisations.[6] The party takes an anti-nationalist and anti-capitalist stance.