Socialist Organisation of Working People

The Socialist Organisation of Working People (SOP, Czech

Czech language

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: Socialistická organizace pracujících) is a Trotskyist political group in the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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established in 1998 after a split in the group affiliate to the International Socialist Tendency

International Socialist Tendency

The International Socialist Tendency is an international grouping of unorthodox Trotskyist organisations based around the ideas of Tony Cliff, founder of the Socialist Workers Party in Britain...

, Socialist Solidarity

Socialist Solidarity

Socialist Solidarity is a Trotskyist organisation in the Czech Republic. It is part of the International Socialist Tendency.It seems to have developed from a circle around a punk rock band which developed links with the Socialist Workers Party ....

. . It is a section of the League for the Fifth International

League for the Fifth International

The League for the Fifth International is an international grouping of revolutionary Trotskyist organisations around a common programme and perspectives. The group has sections in Europe, South Asia, and North America as well as supporters in the Middle East.-Early years:L5I was founded as the...

.

In their words: "SOP follows revolutionary traditions of Marx
Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement...

, Engels
Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels was a German industrialist, social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, alongside Karl Marx. In 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research...

, Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years , as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a...

and Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky , born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army....

, striving to build a revolutionary worker's party". They established an independent youth group, called REVO

Revolution (political group)

Revolution, or Revo, a revolutionary socialist youth organization, was founded in the UK by Workers Power, part of the League for the Fifth International...

, in 2000. Revo had a split in 2006.

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