title: Association for Solidarity Perspectives
text: The Association for Solidarity Perspectives (, VsP) is a far-left political organization in Germany.
  
  The VsP was formed in October 1986 in West Germany as the United Socialist Party ('Vereinigte Sozialistische Partei', VSP), a perhaps 600-strong merger of the Trotskyite International Marxist Group (GIM) and the anti-revisionist Communist Party of Germany/Marxists–Leninists.
  
  The parties combined their newspapers, was tun (What to do) and Roter Morgen (Red Dawn) respectively, to launch the  (Socialist Newspaper, SoZ).
  
  The newly founded party negotiated for over 2 years with the League of West German Communists ('Bund Westdeutscher Kommunisten') about another amalgamation, but this efforts remained fruitless because of their differences over feminism.
  
  The VSP attacked German reunification and was engaged in the fleeting left-wing resistance movement  ('Never again, Germany!').
  
  When the former ruling party of the German Democratic Republic, the Socialist Unity Party (SED), reconstituted itself as the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) after German reunification, individual members of the VSP entered the party and obtained official positions. However, the VSP remained independent of the PDS.
  
  In 1994, the VSP changed its name and organisational form to Association for Solidarity Perspectives (Verein für solidarische Perspektiven, VsP). One faction of the Trotskyist current in the VsP departed in 1994 and formed the Revolutionary Socialist League (RSB). The Trotskyists who remained in the VsP formed a caucus called the International Socialist Left (ISL).
  
  In the 2005 federal elections, the VsP supported Die Linke, the descendant of the PDS.
  
  References
  
  External links
   VsP website
   Sozialistische Zeitung website
   ISL website
   RSB website
   Inprekorr - magazine co-published by the ISL and RSB
  
  1986 establishments in West Germany
  Communist organisations in Germany
  Factions and associate parties of The Left (Germany)
  Fourth International (post-reunification)
  Organizations established in 1986
  Trotskyist organisations in Germany