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Communist Party (Sweden)
Encyclopedia
The Communist Party is a Marxist-Leninist
political party
in Sweden
.
1970-1977 it was known as the Communist League Marxist-Leninists (the revolutionaries) (Kommunistiska Förbundet Marxist-Leninisterna (revolutionärerna), abbreviated KFML(r)) and during 1977-2004 it had the name Communist Party Marxist-Leninists (the revolutionaries) (Kommunistiska Partiet Marxist-Leninisterna (revolutionärerna), abbreviated KPML(r)).
KFML(r) was founded through a split in the pro-Beijing KFML
. "The (r)s" ("(r)-arna") considered that KFML had approached reformism and was not a genuine workers' movement. In 1970 it began publishing the weekly Proletären
(The Proletarian).
During the 1980s, KPML(r) achieved representation in some munipicalities, including Gothenburg
, Sweden's second largest city. The Gothenburg region has always been the strongest point of KPML(r). During the period of 1970 to 1999 the party chairman was Frank Baude
. The current chairman is Anders Carlsson
.
The 14th Party Congress, held in Gothenburg January 6–8, 2005 decided to change the name of the party to the Communist Party.
The party does not participate in elections to the national
nor the European parliament
s. It doesn't contest national parliament elections due to tactical reasons, whereas it advocates boycott of the European parliament elections. It contests municipal elections in some municipalities.
Its members and sympathisers includes - or included - several Swedish celebrities, such as actors Sven Wollter
, Lasse Brandeby
and Kent Andersson
and musicians Ken
, Totta Näslund
and Fred Åkerström
, all of whom have participated in events and gatherings arranged by the party.
and Clarté (m-l) respectively. In 1972 these two structures were dissolved and merged into the Young Communist League of Sweden (marxist-leninists)
, the new KFML(r) youth wing. Later a new students organisation, SKS(ml), was formed. Both SKU(ml) and SKS(ml) were disbanded towards the end of the 1970s, as the party itself consisted mainly of young people.
In 1994 the party again launched a youth organization, Revolutionary Communist Youth
(RKU).
. (Numbers come from SÄPO's own report)
Marxism-Leninism
Marxism–Leninism is a communist ideology, officially based upon the theories of Marxism and Vladimir Lenin, that promotes the development and creation of a international communist society through the leadership of a vanguard party over a revolutionary socialist state that represents a dictatorship...
political party
Political party
A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...
in Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
.
1970-1977 it was known as the Communist League Marxist-Leninists (the revolutionaries) (Kommunistiska Förbundet Marxist-Leninisterna (revolutionärerna), abbreviated KFML(r)) and during 1977-2004 it had the name Communist Party Marxist-Leninists (the revolutionaries) (Kommunistiska Partiet Marxist-Leninisterna (revolutionärerna), abbreviated KPML(r)).
KFML(r) was founded through a split in the pro-Beijing KFML
Communist Party of Sweden (1967)
Kommunistiska Förbundet Marxist-Leninisterna was formed at the 1967 party congress of VPK, when a pro-Chinese group left the party.-1967–1980:...
. "The (r)s" ("(r)-arna") considered that KFML had approached reformism and was not a genuine workers' movement. In 1970 it began publishing the weekly Proletären
Proletären
Proletären, in full Marxist-leninist Proletären, is a Swedish Marxist-Leninist weekly newspaper published by the Communist Party. It was founded in 1970.Circulation is about 3 000 every week, of which about a third is sold in the streets....
(The Proletarian).
During the 1980s, KPML(r) achieved representation in some munipicalities, including Gothenburg
Gothenburg
Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...
, Sweden's second largest city. The Gothenburg region has always been the strongest point of KPML(r). During the period of 1970 to 1999 the party chairman was Frank Baude
Frank Baude
Frank Baude is a Swedish politician, bricklayer and former chairman of the Communist Party Marxist-Leninists , KPML, from 1970 to 1998.- References :...
. The current chairman is Anders Carlsson
Anders Carlsson (Politician)
Anders Carlsson is a Swedish politician and chairman of the Communist Party since 1999.- References :...
.
The 14th Party Congress, held in Gothenburg January 6–8, 2005 decided to change the name of the party to the Communist Party.
The party does not participate in elections to the national
Parliament of Sweden
The Riksdag is the national legislative assembly of Sweden. The riksdag is a unicameral assembly with 349 members , who are elected on a proportional basis to serve fixed terms of four years...
nor the European parliament
European Parliament
The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...
s. It doesn't contest national parliament elections due to tactical reasons, whereas it advocates boycott of the European parliament elections. It contests municipal elections in some municipalities.
Its members and sympathisers includes - or included - several Swedish celebrities, such as actors Sven Wollter
Sven Wollter
Sven Wollter is a Swedish actor. He was born and grew up in Gothenburg.Sven Wollter is an actor in Sweden and has starred in many films such as, The Man on the Roof, The Man from Majorca, Änglagård and Jerusalem, based on the novel by Selma Lagerlöf...
, Lasse Brandeby
Lasse Brandeby
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and Kent Andersson
Kent Andersson (playwright)
Kent Andersson , was a Swedish actor, theatre director and playwright....
and musicians Ken
Ken (artist)
-Career:Ken Kiprono Ring is a Swedish rap artist of Kenyan descent. He was born in Hässelby, a suburb west of Stockholm, Sweden. He got his breakthrough with the song "Mamma", which is about how his mother got sick and died of cancer when he was 13. He released his first studio album "Vägen...
, Totta Näslund
Totta Näslund
Erik Torsten "Totta" Näslund was a Swedish rock and blues musician, with leftist political views.- Biography :...
and Fred Åkerström
Fred Åkerström
Fred Åkerström was a Swedish folk guitarist and singer particularly noted for his interpretations of Bellman's music, and his own work of the typically Swedish song segment named visa. These songs, visor, are traditionally very narrative and the performance is "acted" to some degree. The singer is...
, all of whom have participated in events and gatherings arranged by the party.
Front organizations
In the early days of the party, the pro-KFML(r) fractions of the United FNL Groups (DFFG) and the Swedish Clarté League broke away and set up the Solidarity Front for the People of IndochinaSolidarity Front for the People of Indochina
Solidarity Front for the People of Indochina was an organization in Sweden, created by KFML to mobilize support for the liberation struggles of the Indochinese people...
and Clarté (m-l) respectively. In 1972 these two structures were dissolved and merged into the Young Communist League of Sweden (marxist-leninists)
Young Communist League of Sweden (marxist-leninists)
Young Communist League of Sweden was the youth organization of the KFML/KPML during 1972-1978...
, the new KFML(r) youth wing. Later a new students organisation, SKS(ml), was formed. Both SKU(ml) and SKS(ml) were disbanded towards the end of the 1970s, as the party itself consisted mainly of young people.
In 1994 the party again launched a youth organization, Revolutionary Communist Youth
Revolutionary Communist Youth (Sweden)
The Revolutionary Communist Youth is the youth wing of the Swedish Communist Party. It was founded in 1994 as a successor of the Young Communist League of Sweden , which existed 1972-1978. RKU publishes a magazine called Rebell....
(RKU).
Espionage against the party
KFML(r)/KPML(r), as well as other organizations close to it, was subject to political surveillance from SÄPOSAPO
SAPO , Servidor de Apontadores Portugueses, is a brand and subsidiary company of the Portugal Telecom Group...
. (Numbers come from SÄPO's own report)
| Year: | No. of registered individuals: |
| 1980 | 1499 |
| 1985 | 2012 |
| 1990 | 1943 |
| 1995 | 1819 |
| 1996 | 1618 |
| 1997 | 1561 |
| 1998 | 1346 |
Electoral results
| Municipality: | Votes 2006: | % 2006: | Seats 2006: | Votes 2002: | % 2002: | Seats 2002: | Votes 1998: | % 1998 | Seats 1998: |
| Alingsås Alingsås Alingsås is a locality and the seat of Alingsås Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 22,919 inhabitants in 2005.-Geography:... |
243 | 1.07% | 0 | 204 | 0.9% | 0 | 164 | 0.77% | 0 |
| Gislaved Gislaved Gislaved may refer to:*Gislaved Municipality in Sweden*Gislaved, Sweden, the seat of Gislaved Municipality*Gislaved , a former Swedish tyre manufacturer*Gislaveds IS, a Swedish football club... |
794 | 4.68% | 2 | 1099 | 6.51% | 3 | 1545 | 8.96% | 4 |
| Göteborg | 3701 | 1.27% | 0 | 4296 | 1.54% | 0 | 3797 | 1.44% | 0 |
| Helsingborg Helsingborg Helsingborg is a city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 97,122 inhabitants in 2010. Helsingborg is the centre of an area in the Øresund region of about 320,000 inhabitants in north-west Scania, and is Sweden's closest point to Denmark, with the Danish city... |
211 | 0.29% | 0 | 427 | 0.6% | 0 | - | - | - |
| Jönköping Jönköping -Notable people:*Lillian Asplund, RMS Titanic survivor*John Bauer, illustrator, painter*Amy Diamond, singer*Agnetha Fältskog, ABBA*Carl Henrik Fredriksson, editor-in-chief and co-founder of Eurozine*Anders Gustafsson, kayaker, Olympian... |
300 | 0.40% | 0 | 328 | 0.44% | 0 | - | - | - |
| Karlshamn Karlshamn Karlshamn is a locality and the seat of Karlshamn Municipality in Blekinge County, Sweden with 12,957 inhabitants of the city core and 30 918 in the municipality .... |
847 | 4.33% | 2 | 2092 | 10.86% | 6 | 2469 | 12.71% | 7 |
| Kristianstad Kristianstad Kristianstad is a city and the seat of Kristianstad Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 35,711 inhabitants in 2010.-History:The city was founded in 1614 by King Christian IV of Denmark, the city's name literally means 'Town of Christian', as a planned city after the burning of the town of Vä... |
231 | 0.50% | 0 | 308 | 0.68% | 0 | 177 | 0.4% | 0 |
| Lysekil Lysekil Lysekil is a locality and the seat of Lysekil Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 7,568 inhabitants in 2005.The picturesque coastal town of Lysekil is a major tourist destination during the Swedish summer period from June to the end of August.Lysekil is known as originator of the... |
525 | 5.72% | 2 | 429 | 4.66% | 2 | 414 | 4.44% | 2 |
| Malmö Malmö Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County... |
451 | 0.29% | 0 | 477 | 0.32% | 0 | 319 | 0.22% | 0 |
| Stockholm Stockholm Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area... |
449 | 0.09% | 0 | 511 | 0.1% | 0 | 765 | 0.17% | 0 |
| Uppsala Uppsala - Economy :Today Uppsala is well established in medical research and recognized for its leading position in biotechnology.*Abbott Medical Optics *GE Healthcare*Pfizer *Phadia, an offshoot of Pharmacia*Fresenius*Q-Med... |
497 | 0.43% | 0 | 451 | 0.4% | 0 | 196 | 0.17% | 0 |
| Växjö Växjö Växjö is a city and the seat of Växjö Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden with 64 200 inhabitants in 2010. It is the administrative, cultural and industrial centre of Kronoberg County. Furthermore it is the episcopal see of the Diocese of Växjö. It has a population of about 64 200, out of a... |
323 | 0.66% | 0 | 301 | 0.65% | 0 | - | - | - |