In a joint statement in the Guardian, what was then the gang of three called for "an acceptable socialist alternative".

Yet there is also no socialist alternative being put forth in the political discussion; a booming stock market beckons even the smallest investor.

I am still waiting for a serious socialist alternative.

Enthusiasts there rediscovered him as a socialist alternative to Stalinism in the arts.

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the socialist alternative has pushed the world's politics to the right.

We need a fresh socialist democratic alternative.

Since September 2010 the group changed to the current name to "reflect the need for a socialist alternative that is needed in a time of capitalist crisis".

We still have a chance, in a neighborhood of equals, among all the European states, to develop a socialist alternative to the Federal Republic.

Which has everything to do with redefining a realistic socialist alternative rather than electoral representation.

But as you point out, it's never too late to reconstruct a socialist alternative to the minority government that's wrecking the place.