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Movement for Socialism (BFS / MPS), Switzerland

Bewegung für den Sozialismus / Mouvement pour le Socialisme / Movimento per il Socialismo

image by M. Schmöger, 20 December 2015

The flag

See also:

The Flag

Bewegung für 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, Zürich, 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. Schmöger, 20 December 2015