Rødt

Rødt Raudt Red
Party leader	Bjornar Moxnes
Secretary General	Benedikt Pryneid Hansen (party secretary)
vice-chairman	1. Marie Sneve Martinussen 2. Silje Josten Kjosbakken
founding	March 11, 2007
Headquarters	Oslo
Youth organization	Rød ungdom or Raud ungdom
Alignment	Marxism Revolutionary socialism Democratic socialism Eco-socialism Feminism EU skepticism Anti - racism Anti-imperialism
Colours)	red
Parliament seats	1/169 ( Storting , 2017 )
Number of members	9,661 (Dec 2019)
Website	rødt.no

Rødt (abbr. R ; Nynorsk Raudt ; German Rot ) is a Marxist and democratic-socialist party in Norway . She sends a member to the national parliament in Storting .

history

Rødt was created on March 11, 2007 through the merger of the Rød Valgallianse (Red Election Alliance) and the Maoist- oriented Arbeidernes kommunistparti (Communist Workers' Party, AKP). As a result of the Tiananmen massacre and the decline of the Eastern Bloc, there had been upheavals in the AKP. These political changes made the establishment of Rødt possible.

In September 2007 the Trotskyist organization Internasjonale Sosialister , part of the International Socialist Tendency , joined the new party. It thus had around 1,700 members. In 2016 the party already had 3,093 members. There was again significant growth up to June 2018; the party had 6,000 members at that time. At the same time, the survey results for Storting were stable at 4.9%, which would correspond to 8 mandates.

The party's first chairman was Torstein Dahle, who had headed Rød Valgallianse from 2003 . Ingrid Baltzersen, previously chairwoman of the Arbeidernes kommunistparti , and the Uruguayan educator Ana Taylor Lopez acted as deputies .

program

Rødt sees itself as a “revolutionary” party and refers to both the principle of class struggle and the concept of “ democratic socialism ”. In a manifesto that was adopted by the foundation party conference in March 2007, the goal is a “democratic and socialist society” that is characterized by “ecological balance, individual freedom, women's emancipation, social justice and the abolition of poverty”. The vision remains the "classless society".

An important topic for Rødt is the defense and also the development of the welfare state , which the right-wing parties want to abolish from their point of view. The party believes that nobody should earn more than 1,500,000 kroner (around 150,000 euros) a year and therefore everything above should be taxed at 100%.

The party demands equal wages for men and women and a radical change in environmental policy in view of the impending climate catastrophe. In economic policy, she rejects the privatization of state companies and advocates the nationalization of companies such as Telenor or Statoil . She supports anti- racist actions and criticizes what she believes is the restrictive asylum policy in Norway.

In terms of foreign policy, the party demands Norway's exit from NATO and the withdrawal of Norwegian troops from Afghanistan . Rødt firmly rejects Norway's membership in the European Union .

The party has no official ties to parties abroad. However, she may participate. a. on the globalization-critical network Attac and the pro- Palestinian initiative in Norway ( Palestine Committees ). Among other things, it calls for a boycott of the "occupant Israel ".

elections

Flag of Rødt

For legal reasons, the party entered the local elections in 2007 under the name Rød Valgallianse . It won 41,340 votes nationwide, which corresponds to a share of 1.9 percent. She was able to move into 66 municipal councils and provided the mayor of Risør .

After the local elections in 2011, the party has 57 local parliamentary seats and five seats in Fylkestingen .

For the 2009 parliamentary elections , Rødt put up candidates in all the provinces . The party performed best in Oslo and Hordaland . With a nationwide share of 1.3 percent of the vote, however, she did not win a mandate in Storting. In 2013 the share of votes fell, and a district mandate in Oslo was just missed. In the 2017 parliamentary elections , the result was improved and Rødt sent a member of parliament for the first time. Only the previous organization, Arbeidernes kommunistparti (as Rød Valgallianse ) had succeeded in doing this in 1993 . The Oslo district mandate is chaired by Bjørnar Moxnes.

Election results

houses of Parliament

Election year	be right	percent	Seats	+/-
2009	36,219	1.3	0/169	0
2013	30,751	1.1	0/169	0
2017	70,341	2.4	1/169	1

Local

year	percent	Type
2007	1.9 2.1	Municipal Fylke
2011	1.5 1.7	Municipal Fylke
2015	2.0 2.2	Municipal Fylke
2019	3.8 3.9	Municipal Fylke

Chair

The highest organ between the party congresses is the working committee ( arbeidsutvalget ). Its chairman and two deputies are determined by the party congress every two years:

• Torstein Dahle, 2007–2010
• Turid Thomassen, 2010–2012
• Bjørnar Moxnes, since 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Resett.no: Rødt har doblet medlemstallet på to år , 7 January 2020
2. ↑ http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/roedt/roedt-holder-paa-kommunismen/a/10123041/
3. ^ Rosa Luxemburg Foundation: For another Europe. Left parties on the move , Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin 2005, p. 188.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Rødt - landets røde rebell nrk.no, accessed on September 12, 2009
5. ↑ ABC Nyheter: lover kamp for økt formuesskatt og ny arveavgift , June 28, 2018
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Rødt he donates rødt.no, March 11, 2007
7. ↑ Basic program (Norwegian) rødt.no, accessed on November 14, 2012
8. ^ Siv Sandvik: Rødt vil stjele rødgrønne sofavelgere NRK , reviewed on December 1, 2017
9. ↑ Kommunestyrevalgene 2003-2007. Godkjente stemmesedler og representanter Statistisk sentralbyrå, accessed on November 14, 2012
10. ↑ Her er Rødts nye ledelse rødt.no, accessed on May 6, 2012

Web links

• Rødt.no official website (norw., Engl., Span., Sami )