Komunistická strana Slovenska (1992)

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Komunistická strana Slovenska
Communist Party of Slovakia
Logo of the KSS
Party leader Jozef Hrdlička
founding August 29, 1992
Headquarters Bratislava
Alignment Communism , Marxism-Leninism
Colours) red
Parliament seats 0 of 150
European party INITIATIVE , EL (observer)
Website www.kss.sk

The Communist Party of Slovakia (Slovak: Komunistická strana Slovenska , KSS) is a communist party in Slovakia .

It was founded in 1992 through the merger of the two parties Zväz komunistov Slovenska and Komunistická strana Slovenska - 91 , both of which came into being in March 1991 when Orthodox members split off from the former Communist Party of Slovakia, which had recently been renamed Strana Demokratieickej ľavice until In 1989, when part of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia was the de facto ruler in Slovakia, and from a legal point of view, it has nothing to do with the current Communist Party of Slovakia. Ideologically, however, the current KSS sees itself as the successor organization of this party from the time before the Velvet Revolution .

In the Slovak parliamentary elections in 2002 , the KSS won 6.32% of the votes cast and moved into the National Council for the first time with eleven members, although it had to leave it again after the elections on June 17, 2006 , as it had 3.88% of the votes could no longer overcome the five percent threshold . However, the Communist Party of Slovakia supported Robert Fico's government .

On December 30, 2010, the KSS supported a joint resolution of 38 communist parties in Europe against growing anti-communism in Europe. Andrej Zaslove classifies them as left-wing populist.

The strongholds of the KSS are mainly in Banská Bystrica , Košice and Prešov - in those regions where unemployment is comparatively high.

In 2006, the then 29-year-old former member of parliament (2002-2006) Jozef Hrdlička was elected as the new party chairman. He announced a modernization of his party and demanded that the KSS should try to integrate itself more strongly into the party of the European Left . In the European Left , the KSS has observer status. However, the KSS does not share all of the EL's European and historical political standpoints.

The KSS is currently "weakened by financial mistakes."

The youth association of the KSS, SMKČ, apparently has contacts to the German MLPD and the DKP- related magazine RotFuchs .

In 2015, the KSS helped finance a bust for Vasiľ Biľak , the installation of which in a public square in Krajná Bystrá, his birthplace , caused controversy.

Election results

Election results since 1998
year Elections for ... be right % Seats
1998 National Council 094.015 2.79% 00
2002 National Council 181,872 6.32% 11
2004 European Parliament 031,908 4.54% 00
2006 National Council 089,418 3.88% 00
2009 European Parliament 013,643 1.65% 00
2010 National Council 021,104 0.83% 00
2012 National Council 018,583 0.72% 00

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tomasz Konicz : »We reject privatizations« - Interview with Dr. Luboš Blaha, in: Junge Welt, June 17, 2006. Available here.
  2. ↑ Tomasz Konicz: "We are not the Don Quixote of the EU" - Interview with Dr. Luboš Blaha, in: Junge Welt, July 17, 2006. Available here.
  3. ↑ Stefan Wirner: "Anyone who has no anti-American reflexes is brain dead!" - Interview with Jürgen Elsässer, Jungle World, No. 3, January 17, 2007. Available here.
  4. ↑ Smer nie je podľa komunistov skutočná ľavicová strana , in: spravy.pravda.sk, March 15, 2010. Available here.
  5. ↑ Stop anti-communist attacks! - Joint statement of 38 communist parties , u. a. published in: Zeitung vum Lëtzebuerger Vollek, December 30, 2010. Available here.
  6. ^ Andrej Zaslove: Here to Stay? Populism as a New Party Type. In: European Review 16: 319-336.
  7. ↑ Heiko Kosel : The Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS) , in: Birgit Daibler / Cornelia Hildebrandt (ed.): Die Linke in Europa - Analyzes of Left Parties and Party Alliances , Rosa Luxemburg Foundation , Berlin 2009. Available here. (PDF; 1.7 MB)
  8. ↑ [http://lavka.info/text.php4?topnavi=5&naviID=111&textID=1195&PHPSESSID=7a9354c3a9527e72f83b8fc9e3eb91e0 available here.] (Link not available)
  9. ↑ Heiko Kosel : The Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS) , in: Birgit Daibler / Cornelia Hildebrandt (ed.): Die Linke in Europa - Analyzes of Left Parties and Party Alliances , Rosa Luxemburg Foundation , Berlin 2009. Available here. (PDF; 1.7 MB)
  10. ^ David X. Noack: Slovakia is becoming clearer , in: Junge Welt, October 14, 2011.
  11. ↑ Jozef Výrostek: From agony to action - How the " Red Fox " proves to be an encouragement to Slovak comrades , in: Rotfuchs, January 2012, p. 21. Available here. (PDF; 1.5 MB)
  12. ↑ Stefan Heinlein: Slovak folk hero or criminal? in: Deutschlandradio on March 10, 2015.

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