Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti
The name Communist Party of Sweden ( Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti , SKP for short) was used by several Swedish parties. Therefore here is an overview:
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Left Party (Sweden) , commonly known as the "Communist Party of Sweden", was active between 1921 and 1967. Today's Vänsterpartiet (Left Party) refers to its roots in this party.
- Communist Party of Sweden (1924) , a splinter group of the SKP under Zeth Höglund around 1924 (this party joined the Swedish Social Democrats in 1926).
- Socialist Party (Sweden) 1929, " Kilbohmarna ", the bulk of the SKP, left the Communist International (Comintern) in 1929 and was re-admitted in 1948.
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Communist Association of Marxists-Leninists , KFML , a Maoist party that called itself the Communist Party of Sweden between 1973 and 1987.
- Communist Party of Sweden , Kommunistiska Partiet , an anti-revanchist party, still active today. It split off from KFML in the 1970s .
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Swedish Communist Workers' Party SKA , an anti- Deng Xiaoping , splinter party, 1980–1993
- Communist Party in Sweden , KPS , a pro-Albanian founded by dissidents that existed from 1980 to 1993.
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Communist Party of Sweden (1995) , the name was used from 1995. Previously the group was known as the "Workers' Party - the Communists ( APK )". The so-called Flamman Group (named after the party newspaper sympathizing with it) split off in 1975 as an orthodox pro- Soviet section from the then Vänsterpartiet Kommunisterna (today Vänsterpartiet). This happened when C.-H. Hermansson, as the new chairman, took a distanced course towards Moscow.
- Communist Party of Sweden (1995) (II) , splinter group of the APK, which split off in 1995 under Sten Gunnarsson, Jonas af Roslagen and Ingvar Lööv.
Outline the history of the communist parties in Sweden
The Social Democratic Workers' Party SAP is Sweden's oldest party and was founded on April 23, 1889. The formation of trade unions in the 1880s and the founding of social democratic newspapers in Malmö in 1882 and Stockholm in 1885 by August Palm were the first important steps on the way to founding a party. At the beginning the party was strongly influenced by the German social democracy. The first party programs took over much of the German Gotha program and later the Erfurt program. The desired socialist transformation of society should take place through reforms after a democratically legitimized takeover of government through elections.
During the First World War, the internal party conflicts between the reformist party leadership and the more radical left wing of the party culminated. The Left Party was formed in 1917 by a group of socialists excluded from the Social Democratic Party under the name Sveriges socialdemokratiska vänsterparti (Swedish Social Democratic Left Party). At the 1921 party congress, all anti-Leninist party members were expelled and the party changed its name to Sveriges kommunistiska parti (Communist Party of Sweden). Today's Vänsterpartiet (Left Party) goes back to this party, which existed until 1967 .
Further internal conflicts led to waves of exclusion from the groups around Zeth Höglund in 1924 and Karl Kilbom in 1929. Höglund founded the Communist Party of Sweden (1924) . This party rejoined the Swedish Social Democrats in 1926. Kilbom founded the Socialist Party (Sweden) in 1929 . This party "Kilbohmarna" left the Communist International in 1929 and was reopened in 1948.
After Stalin's death and the rift between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China , the Sveriges communistiska parti of 1921 experienced heated internal discussions that ultimately led to the establishment of further communist parties in Sweden. In 1967 she changed her name again to Vänsterpartiet kommunisterna (Left Party - Communists).
In the course of disputes about ideological affiliation, the Communist Association of Marxists-Leninists, KFML , was founded from the environment of the Vänsterpartiet kommunisterna . This party was strongly Maoist. It was also called the Communist Party of Sweden and existed between 1970 and 1987.
literature
- Bernd Henningsen : The left in Sweden. History, programs, politics . In: Hans Rühle , Hans-Joachim Veen (Hrsg.): Socialist and Communist Parties in Western Europe. Publication of the social science research institute of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung . Volume 2: Nordländer (= Uni-Taschenbücher . Vol. 762). Leske + Budrich (UTB), Opladen 1979, ISBN 3-8100-0241-0 . Pp. 123-200.