The League of Democratic Socialists (Bund Demokratischer Sozialisten) is an Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n political party formerly affiliated with the World Socialist Movement

World Socialist Movement

The World Socialist Movement is an international organisation of affiliated socialist parties created in 1904 with the founding of the Socialist Party of Great Britain...

, though unlike most other WSM parties, it did not start as an offshoot of the Socialist Party of Great Britain

Socialist Party of Great Britain

The Socialist Party of Great Britain , is a small Marxist political party within the impossibilist tradition. It is best known for its advocacy of using the ballot box for revolutionary purposes; opposition to reformism; and its early adoption of the theory of state capitalism to describe the...

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BDS contested the 1959 legislative election

Austrian legislative election, 1959

Parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 10 May 1959. Although the Social Democratic Party received the most votes, the Austrian People's Party won the most seats. The Communist Party of Austria lost all three seats and has not returned to the National Council since. Voter turnout was...

, getting 2 190 votes (0.1%).http://www.bmi.gv.at/wahlen/nrw_100559.asp

Though nominally favouring a classless, moneyless, egalitarian society, in recent years the Bund's newspaper has printed a number of nationalistic, anti-immigration articles. As the opinions expressed in these articles could not be reconciled with the WSM's Declaration of Principles, the Bund was dropped as a WSM companion party circa 2003.