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Arbeidernes Kommunistparti (AKP; The Communist Party of Workers ), formerly Arbeidernes Kommunistparti (Marxist-Leninistene) (AKP (ml)); The Communist Party of Workers (the Marxist-Leninists) was a Marxist-Leninist party in Norway (1973-2007).

On March 10, 2007, the AKP merged with Rød Valgallianse (RV) to form the Rødt party .

history

The AKP (ml) was founded on February 18, 1973 as a Maoist party. She went mainly from the Youth League ( Sosialistisk Ungdomsforbund , from 1969 with additional ml ) of the Socialist People's Party (then Sosialistisk Folkeparti ) indicates the taken a pro-Chinese course since the late '60s and from 1969 with explanations in the Beijing Review to speak had reported. The AKP (ml) rejected the policies of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of Norway (NKP), which was oriented towards the CPSU, as revisionist . Ideologically, the party followed the theories of Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Vladimir Ilyich Lenin , Josef Stalin and especially the ideas of Mao Zedong , which it wanted to apply “ in the class struggle in Norway ”. Political role models were the CPSU until Stalin's death, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the Party of Labor of Albania (PdAA) and various liberation movements .

Because of the full compliance with the CCP's policy, party delegations were invited to the People's Republic of China several times , and statements, greetings, and articles from the party organs were printed in the Beijing Rundschau . The statements of the AKP (ml) on the policy of the Soviet Union, most of which had been copied from Chinese publications, aroused particular interest among the Chinese Communists. The Soviet Union was compared several times in the magazines of the AKP (ml) with the German Empire at the time of National Socialism . In the late 1970s, the AKP (ml) actively supported Pol Pot , who gave a banquet for then party chairman Pål Steigan during his visit to Phnom Penh on September 29, 1978.

In its early years, the AKP (ml) worked closely with other Scandinavian ML parties, with whom it held conferences several times. It also belonged to the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations and was thus a sister party of the MLPD .

From 1973 the AKP (ml) took part in a Red Election Alliance ( Rød Valgallianse / Raud Valallianse; RV) in the elections for Storting and achieved results between 0.4% (1973) and 1.7% (1997). In 1993, 1.1% of the vote gave the RV a seat in the Norwegian Parliament.

The AKP (ml) owned (temporarily) its own newspaper, Klassekampen (initially monthly, then weekly, daily), a theoretical magazine Røde Fane (Rote Fahne) and a publisher October , which published revolutionary literature.

The number of members is not known, but some sources speak of 1500 members last. The fact that the membership of the AKP (ml) consisted to a large extent of university graduates and students could be concealed by the fact that they were encouraged to work in factories in the 1970s. The party was monitored by the Norwegian National Intelligence Service.

The Norwegian political scientist Bernt Hagtvet believes the party is partly responsible for the crimes of the Khmer Rouge , which the party supported, and criticizes the failure to come to terms with communist history and support for communist genocide.

On March 10, 2007, the AKP merged with Rød Valgallianse (RV) to form the Rødt party .

Chairperson

Known members

Publications

  • Norwegian Marxist-Leninists intensify the struggle against social-imperialism: resolution from the Workers' Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), Norway, November 2-3 , Oslo: October 1975, ISBN 82-7094-097-6
  • AKP (ml) s tre første ar: vedtak, uttalelser and opprop fra AKP (ml), febr. 1973 - May 1975; tillegg: documents from Rød Valgallianse 1973 og 1975 , Oslo: October 1975, ISBN 82-7094-098-4
  • Class struggle: international bulletin of WCP (ml), Workers' Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) Norway , Oslo: October (1977–1985)

literature

  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Schlomann , Paulette Friedlingstein: The Maoists. Beijing branches in Western Europe . Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1970, ISBN 3-7973-0195-2 , (pp. 233-235: The Norwegian 'Sosialistisk Ungdomsforbund' , the newspaper 'Klassekampen' ).
  • Congratulations on the 5th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Labor Party (ML) of Norway . In: Peking Rundschau , No. 8, February 18, 1978, ZDB -ID 300609-8 , p. 3.
  • Harald Skjønsberg: På parti med Stalin? The remarkable histories of MLernes storhetstid. Gyldendal, Oslo 1990, ISBN 82-574-0820-4 , (201 pages, photos, about Arbeidernes Kommunistparti).
  • Robert J. Alexander: Maoism in the developed world . Praeger, Westport CT 2001, ISBN 0-275-96148-6 , (pp. 137-139: The Norwegian Workers Communist Party ).
  • Hans Petter Sjøli: Mao, min Mao. Histories of the AKPs vekst and case. Cappelen, Oslo 2005, ISBN 82-02-23353-4 .
  • Hans Petter Sjøli: Maoism in Norway and how the AKP (m-l) made Norway more Norwegian. In: Scandinavian Journal of History , vol. 33, 2008, No. 4, ISSN  0346-8755 , pp. 478-490, (Special Issue 1968).

Movies

  • Comrade Pedersen (Norwegian: Gymnaslærer Pedersen , based on the novel by Dag Solstad ), director: Hans Petter Moland , feature film, Norway 2006

Web links

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  1. ^ Norway: Founding of the Communist Workers' Party (ML) , in Peking Rundschau (PR), No. 10, March 13, 1973, p. 20
  2. ↑ Congratulatory telegram from the Central Committee of the Association of Socialist Youth in Norway , in: Peking Rundschau (PR), No. 17, April 29, 1969, pp. 24-25; Congratulations from the Socialist Youth League (Marxist-Leninists) of Norway , in: PR No. 45, November 11, 1969, pp. 26-27
  3. ↑ Chairman Hua Meets Delegation of Norwegian Worker 'Communist Pary (ML) , in: Peking Review , No. 8, February 18, 1977, pp. 3–4 (not all visits were reported in such detail with photos)
  4. ^ Telegram from Paal Steigan, chairman of the Communist Workers' Party of Norway (ML) , in: PR , No. 38, September 21, 1976, pp. 53-54 (on Mao's death)
  5. ^ "Klassekampf" (Norway): The character of Soviet aid , in: PR , No. 5, February 5, 1974, p. 27; The murderous arms trade of social imperialism (from Klassekampen No. 9/1974, reprinted in PR , No. 16, April 23, 1974)
  6. ↑ “Rote Fahne” (Norway): The Soviet Union has all the character traits of Hitler's Germany , in: PR , No. 16, April 20, 1976, p. 29
  7. ↑ Marxist-Leninist Organizations (:) The aggression against Kampuchea under indictment , in: PR , No. 5, February 6, 1979, p. 23ff, p. 24: “ The Working Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Workers' Party of Norway (ML) placed in In his statement of January 8th, he stated that the Vietnamese aggression against Kampuchea carried out under Soviet command had set a very important task for the progressive peoples: they must strongly condemn this aggression and increase their support for the Kampuchea people. On this question there are reasons enough to mobilize all peoples who support democracy, regardless of their political position, to condemn this aggression. "
  8. ↑ Northern Europe: Joint Conference of Marxist-Leninist Organizations , in: PR No. 5, February 4, 1975, p. 23 (together with the Communist League of Denmark (Marxist-Leninists), Marxist-Leninist Group of Finland, Marxist-Leninist Organization of Faroe Islands, Communist Union League of Iceland and Communist Party of Sweden )
  9. ^ Rosa Luxemburg Foundation: For another Europe. Left parties on the move , Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin 2005, p. 190
  10. ↑ Bernt Hagtvet: Det unnvikende oppgjøret , Dagbladet , July 17, 2003