Progressive Socialist Organizations of the Mediterranean

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The Progressive Socialist Organizations of the Mediterranean (PSOM), (Arabic: مؤتمر الاحزاب الاشتراكية للبحر الأبيض المتوسط) also known as the Mediterranean Socialist Conference, was a bloc and gathering of socialist parties and movements of the Mediterranean region, conceived and planned by Andreas Papandreou of Greece and Dom Mintoff of Malta and mostly funded by Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya. PSOM aimed to function as an alternative to the Socialist International (SI), which, PSOM members felt, was under the negative influence and hegemony of the West German SPD, which was considered an “almost conservative” party, and this despite the personal friendship of Willy Brandt and Papandreou. Dislike towards the SPD had mainly to do with its embrace of what PSOM members felt was West Germany’s “subservience” regarding NATO’s “inordinate hostility” towards the Soviet Union and anti-colonial left-wing movements. PSOM was also notable for bringing together mutually hostile parties and trying to bridge...

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