The International League of Religious Socialists is an umbrella organization of religious socialist movements in political parties throughout the world. Founded in the 1920s, it has member groups in 21 countries totalling 200,000 members. For most of its history it was mainly European and contained mainly Christian Socialist

Christian socialism

Christian socialism generally refers to those on the Christian left whose politics are both Christian and socialist and who see these two philosophies as being interrelated. This category can include Liberation theology and the doctrine of the social gospel...

 groups, but has recently expanded to the Americas, Africa and Australia and to include more groups with connections to other religions. It is an associate organisation of the Socialist International

Socialist International

The Socialist International is a worldwide organization of democratic socialist, social democratic and labour political parties. It was formed in 1951.- History :...

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The member organizations are:

• Ernest Burgmann Society (Australia)
• ACUS: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Christentum und Sozialismus (Austria)
• The Christian Socialist Movement
  Christian Socialist Movement
  The Christian Socialist Movement, or CSM, is a socialist society affiliated to the British Labour Party.The CSM was an amalgamation of the Society of Socialist Clergy and Ministers and the Socialist Christian League. R. H. Tawney made one of his last public appearances at the Movement's inaugural...
  
   (Britain)
• Bulgarian Religious Social Democrats (Bulgaria)
• Cristianos por la Liberacion (Costa Rica)
• Frente Nacional de Cultos (Dominican Republic)
• Kristillisten Sosialidemokraattinen Liitto (Finland)
• Bund der Religiösen Sozialistinnen und Sozialisten Deutschlands (Germany)
• Religious Socialist Section of the MSZP (Hungary)
• Cristiano Sociali (Italy)
• Latvian Christian Social Democratic Organisation (Latvia)
• Religious Social Democrats (Lithuania)
• Trefpunt van Socialisme en Levensovertuiging (Netherlands)
• Kristne Arbeidere (Norway)
• Contak (Philippines)
• ANC
  African National Congress
  The African National Congress is South Africa's governing Africanist political party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party , since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994. It defines itself as a...
  
   Religion and Socialism Commission (South Africa)
• Norabideak/Cristianos en el PSOE (Spain - Basque Country)
• Satyodaya (Sri Lanka)
• Broderskapsrörelsen
  Swedish Association of Christian Social Democrats
  The Swedish Association of Christian Social Democrats organizes Christian members of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. The organization was founded in 1929...
  
   (Sweden)
• Religiös-Sozialistische Vereinigung der Deutschschweiz (Switzerland)
• DSA
  Democratic Socialists of America
  Democratic Socialists of America is a social-democratic organization in the United States and the U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International, an international federation of social-democratic,democratic socialist and labor political parties and organizations.DSA was formed in 1982 by a merger of...
  
  Religion & Socialism Commission (United States)

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