Swiss socialists want to hold a referendum on the government's 3.1 billion franc ($3.4 billion) purchase of a new fighter jet fleet if the deal affects spending elsewhere, it was reported on Saturday.

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Who are these socialists? I've never heard of them. The social-democrats on the other hand...

Let's name them "the Swiss Labour Party" as a compromise ! Interesting is that the Social Democrats originally were a leftist split-away from the Liberals (FDP-Freisinnige). And they in the early days were in favour of nationalisation of services and industry and trade all over. A frequent guest of them at meetings in the Volkshaus and in the Cooperativo and in the Odean in the 1910ies was a certain Mr Vladimir Ilyitch Ulyanov. Who had his very own ideas about the future of the world.

Doesnt matter what the name. Same colour, same policies, same direction.

It 's a language thing.

In Italian, it's definitely "Il Partito socialista", i.e. the Socialist Party, nothing "democratic" about it!

"Il Partito socialista è una sezione del Partito socialista svizzero (PSS)"

Tom