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Ex-Maoist Socialist Party backs “herd immunity,” austerity in Dutch elections Right-wing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is reopening schools as COVID-19 surges in Europe, after a decade of leading governments of austerity and war. Rutte’s Freedom and Democracy Party (VVD) has nevertheless dominated Dutch elections, which end today, thanks to the reactionary policies of the middle-class parties that the bourgeoisie has passed off as the “left.” This includes prominently the ex-Maoist Socialist Party (SP) of the Netherlands. Rutte rejected even the limited lockdowns adopted in other ...

In the late 2000s the Dutch Socialist Party was a success story, having risen from a small Maoist group into a 50,000-member party. But a split with its youth wing and talk of a coalition with right-wingers have demoralized activists — and shown the dangers of a parliamentary party becoming unmoored from labor and social movements. The Dutch Socialist Party (SP) was long one of the success stories of the European left. Having started out as a Maoist group in the 1970s, it made its breakthrough into national politics in the 1990s, even as Communist parties collapsed and social democracy embr...

Stay, fight and win Attempts to wreck the youth section have been met with a growing tide of resistance. Emil Jacobs reports on the ongoing battles in the Socialist Party (Netherlands) The crisis in the Socialist Party is no longer making national headlines, but it is far from over. 1 Having cut all funding for its left-dominated youth section ROOD (‘Red’ in English) and expelled six members of the Communist Platform, including myself, the leadership continues to show that it dreads young people finding their way to socialism, finding their way to Marxism. ROOD has effectively been disaff...