9 November, 2022
When the PES was founded 30 years ago, its manifesto honoured the survivors of two world wars who had placed their hopes in a peaceful, progressive, Europe. It affirmed the PES mission— a Europe without racism, nationalism, inequality and environmental disaster. Thirty years later, this book reviews how far European socialism has come and what remains to be done to achieve a better future.
Introduction by Sergei Stanishev, PES President
Prologue by Achim Post, PES Secretary General
30 years of progress
THE FIFTIES: The ideal of community and collaboration
THE SIXTIES: Make party not war
Political statement from the socialist parties of the European Community from 1978
THE EIGHTIES: Socialists vs. Thatcherism & Reaganomics
THE NINETIES: C’mon everybody, get up and fight
The pioneers of “Stronger together”
THE 2000s: Bigger, better, stronger
The search for the common candidate
THE 2020s: Challenges like never before
ARCHIVES: Peace Policy in Our Time by Willy Brandt
PES Manifesto 1992
ARCHIVES: Why I am a Democratic Socialist by Olof Palme
PES Manifesto 1994
PES Manifesto 1999
PES Manifesto 2004
PES Manifesto 2009
PES Manifesto 2014
PES Manifesto 2019
Our Presidents
Our Founders
Our Future
PES Achivements and Milestones
Instead of an Epilogue by Ivan Krastev
Full list of PES presidents and PES Congresses by date