Movement for Socialism (BFS / MPS), Switzerland

Bewegung f�r den Sozialismus / Mouvement pour le Socialisme / Movimento per il Socialismo

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Bewegung f�r den Sozialismus (BFS)
Mouvement pour le Socialisme (MPS)
Movimento per il Socialismo (MPS)

The BFS/MPS is a small left-socialist party with somewhat Trotskyist tendencies. It is mainly active in Basel, Z�rich, Geneva, Vaud, Fribourg and Ticino. The MPS has one seat in the Ticino cantonal parliament.

The symbol combines the letters "bfs" with the letters "mps", so that they share the "s"; the "s" is white on a red field, the other letters are black.

The earlier flags look rather homemade; they are square, red with the symbol (all in black) in the lower fly [1,2,3,4].

 images by M. Schmöger, 20 December 2015

A newer variant has the logo in full colour on a white square, and on  the hoist end the full party name in either German [3,5,6,7] or Italian [8,9,10,11]. I do not know if there is a French version as well.

[1] http://test.sozialismus.ch/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/2012-05-01-1.Mai-Demo-013.jpg
[2] http://test.sozialismus.ch/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Bild-Homepage.jpg
[3] http://www.bfs-zh.ch/Bilder/Arbeiterinnenbewegung/14_November_2012_IMG_8669_bearbeitet-102_1.jpg
[4] http://test.sozialismus.ch/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Bild-Homepage.jpg
[5] http://sozialismus.ch/wp-content/uploads/mig-4-1024x576.jpg
[6] http://sozialismus.ch/wp-content/uploads/unia2-1024x519.jpg
[7] http://sozialismus.ch/wp-content/uploads/unia4.jpg
[8] http://i.ytimg.com/vi/lQmNygT-ZSY/hqdefault.jpg
[9] http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HWeNZnj7fkc/Spu4GO3kNeI/AAAAAAAAArA/KioahaNzMKU/s320/bandiere.JPG
[10] http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-um1kLFOemTg/TaVuUWteT8I/AAAAAAAAAxc/4txKM5y04Tc/s400/manifmps.jpg
[11] http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7GX13QB4w_Y/RwERvyyHzBI/AAAAAAAAAGA/dl575JXLkn0/s1600/p_20070929_171108_belli2.jpg

M. Schm�ger, 20 December 2015