United Socialist Party

The United Socialist Party (USP/A) is a socialist political party in Aldegar, originally founded as an electoral coalition by the name United Socialist Front. The coalition was founded in 3316, and it was registered as a united party in 3330.

Political ideology
The United Socialist Party describes itself as a democratic socialist party, though not all of its members describe themselves as this. The party claims that the creation of socialism is not valid as a form of government unless at least a large amount of the population wants a socialist community. The USP officially rejects total state socialism, and rather advocates the formation of workers' councils and trade unionism to ensure a direct workers' democracy.

Despite this, the party advocates publicly funded healthcare, education and infrastructure. Its short-term goals are according to Aldegarian media and various politicians very similar to social democratic principles, but its long-term plans of creating a full decentralised socialist economy as socialist or moderate communist ideas.

Originally the United Socialist Front, the legal forerunner of the USP, consisted of the Communist Party of Aldegar, the Aldegarian Socialist Party and the Democratic Left. These were marxist, social democratic and socialist respectively. In the tripartite group, the ASP was the largest party, hence a majority of USP members describe themselves as social democrats.

History
The current United Socialist Party started out as an electoral alliance between the three local Socialist, Communist and Democratic Left parties. It was launched for the 3318 election, after the utter defeat of all the three parties in the national election the previous year. However, as the tripartite coalition was unable to gain any seats in any election but the local elections, the three parties decided in 3329 to merge into a socialist unity party in the red left of Aldegarian politics, far to the left of the Liberal Party.

Silas Alucci
The leading personality in the formation of the party was the young immigrant and intellectual Silas Alucci. He managed to win the party leadership election in February sixth 3330 with well over fifty per cent of the vote, and appointed his administration the next day. He described himself as a marxist, thus representing the party's left wing. A small group of social democrats said they were going to look at his policies during the early months of his term, and if they would be too far to the left, they would split from the party. However due to Alucci's uniting figure this split was prevented, and the party was established as what it had been founded for serving as - a black, red and pink unity party.