The Socialistiska Partiet is a Swedish

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....

 political party

Political party

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, the Swedish section of the Fourth International. The party was formed at a congress in 1971, through the merger of the Revolutionary Marxists (RM) and the Bolshevik Group (BG). Initially it was called League of Revolutionary Marxists (Revolutionära Marxisters Förbund, RMF). One section of RM did not agree with the formation of RM, and formed the Communist Working Groups

Communist Working Groups

Communist Working Groups was a political organization in Sweden. KAG was formed in January 1971, at the time of the merger of the Bolshevik Group and the Revolutionary Marxists into the League of Revolutionary Marxists . The founders of KAG wanted a less well-knit group than RMF. KAG was based in...

 (KAG). KAG would later reconcile with RMF, and merged into it in 1972.

At the 5th party congress, held in 1975, the name was changed to Communist Workers League (Kommunistiska Arbetarförbundet). In 1982 the party adopted its current name.

In the early 1990s, the party suffered a small split that went on to form the Swedish section of the Pathfinder tendency

Pathfinder tendency

The Pathfinder tendency is the unofficial name of a group of historically Trotskyist organizations that are politically and organizationally allied with the Socialist Workers Party of the United States and its perspective of solidarity with the Cuban Revolution and the Cuban Communist Party.The...

. In 1994, a smaller group left the SP to form a Swedish section of what is now the League for the Fifth International

League for the Fifth International

The League for the Fifth International is an international grouping of revolutionary Trotskyist organisations around a common programme and perspectives. The group has sections in Europe, South Asia, and North America as well as supporters in the Middle East.-Early years:L5I was founded as the...

, Arbetarmakt.

The party publishes the weekly paper Internationalen

Internationalen

Internationalen is a Swedish Trotskyist weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party. It was established in 1971 originally by the name Mullvaden , and changed its name to Internationalen in 1974....

.

The party is currently represented in four local authorities.