Communist Unity (Icelandic

Icelandic language

Icelandic is a North Germanic language, the main language of Iceland. Its closest relative is Faroese.Icelandic is an Indo-European language belonging to the North Germanic or Nordic branch of the Germanic languages. Historically, it was the westernmost of the Indo-European languages prior to the...

: Einingarsamtök kommúnista (marx-lenínistar)) was an Iceland

Iceland

Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...

ic Maoist Party

Communist party

A political party described as a Communist party includes those that advocate the application of the social principles of communism through a communist form of government...

 formed in the late 1970s

1970s

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 by students. The party viciously opposed what it deemed as Soviet social-imperialism

Social-imperialism

Social-imperialism is a Marxist expression, typically used in a derogatory fashion, to describe people, parties, or nations that are "socialist in words, imperialist in deeds"...

 as well as American imperialism, opposed other Icelandic communist parties which it found to be revisionist and held a staunchly pro-China

Maoism

Maoism, also known as the Mao Zedong Thought , is claimed by Maoists as an anti-Revisionist form of Marxist communist theory, derived from the teachings of the Chinese political leader Mao Zedong . Developed during the 1950s and 1960s, it was widely applied as the political and military guiding...

 line, until the Sino-Albanian split

Sino-Albanian split

The Sino-Albanian split in 1978 saw the parting of the People's Republic of China and People's Socialist Republic of Albania, which was the only Eastern European nation to side with the PRC in the Sino–Soviet split of the early 1960s.-History:...

, when it sided with Albania. The Party's Chairman was Ari Trausti Guðmundsson. The Party ceased to exist in the late 1980s

1980s

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.

The party maintained fraternal relations with Workers' Communist Party (Norway)

Workers' Communist Party (Norway)

The Workers' Communist Party was a Norwegian communist party . AKP was a maoist party and one of two communist parties in Norway; the other was the older Communist Party of Norway which has remained pro-Soviet. The relationship between the two parties was characterized by strong hostility.AKP was...

, Communist Party of Germany/Marxists–Leninists, Marxist-Leninist League of Denmark, Communist Party of Sweden

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:...

, amongst other parties.