Socialist party

American  

noun

1. a U.S. political party advocating socialism, formed about 1900 chiefly by former members of the Social Democratic Party and the Socialist Labor Party.

2. any political party advocating socialism.

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Example Sentences

The fledgling party had "a unique opportunity" to found "a socialist party of mass appeal" that could take on the mainstream parties of parliament, he said.

From BBC

There are no official policies yet, but the party's political statement agreed at the conference defines it as a "member-led socialist party" with "the working class" at its heart.

From BBC

I mean, it’s an amazing feat that there’s a Democratic Socialist Party in the German parliament.

From Slate

Well, nobody’s laughing now, after the actual mayor-elect began his speech by quoting Eugene V. Debs, the legendary Socialist Party hero who ran for president five times, getting nearly a million votes in 1912.

From Salon

In a victory speech, the mayor-elect paid homage to Eugene Debs, the labor organizer and an American socialist party founder, and promised to serve those with “fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor” and their brethren.

From The Wall Street Journal