Kommunistiska Partiet i Sverige ( en, Communist Party in Sweden) was a pro-
Albanian
Albanian may refer to:
*Pertaining to Albania in Southeast Europe; in particular:
**Albanians, an ethnic group native to the Balkans
**Albanian language
**Albanian culture
**Demographics of Albania, includes other ethnic groups within the country ...
communist party in Sweden. KPS was formed in 1982. It was dissolved in 1993.
In 1978 a pro-
Albanian group had broken away from the
Communist Party of Sweden The name Communist Party of Sweden ( sv, Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti, link=no, abbreviated SKP) has been used by several political parties in Sweden:
* Left Party (Sweden), known as the Communist Party of Sweden from 1921 to 1967
** Communist Part ...
. This group formed ''
Norrköpings Kommunistiska Förening'' (Communist Association of Norrköping). In 1979 NKF merged with
Stockholms Kommunistiska Enhetsgrupp to form ''Sveriges Kommunistiska Förbund - ml'' (Communist League of Sweden - ml). The magazine ''Kommunisten'' started publication in 1979. SKF-ml founded ''Organisationen för skapandet av Kommunistiska Partiet i Sverige'' (Organization for the creation of the Communist Party in Sweden) in October 1981. This organization later gave birth to KPS.
The leader of KPS was Anders Persson.
The youth league of KPS was called ''Ungkommunisterna i Sverige'' (Young Communists in Sweden). KPS maintained a publishing house called ''Kommunistiska Arbetarförlaget'' (Communist Workers Publishing House).
A series of expulsions 1983-1984 led to the refoundation of the
NKF.
KPS considered parties like
VPK,
APK and
KPML(r)
The Communist Party ( sv, Kommunistiska partiet, K) is a Marxist–Leninist political party in Sweden started in 1970. From 1970 to 1977, it was known as the Communist League Marxist–Leninists (Revolutionaries) (, KFML(r)) and from 1977 to 2 ...
as
revisionist. The latter was described as the "left-wing alibi of Moscow in Sweden". KPS urged communists to struggle against both the United States and the
USSR.
Gradually KPS started to distance itself from the Albanian line, somewhat similar to the development of the
Nicaraguan
MAP-ML.
In 1989 KPS suffered a major split, with a large section leaving the party. The splinters started a magazine called ''
Vänstertidningen'' (Left Magazine), which was supposed to be a broader non-party marxist, socialist and ecologist forum. It disappeared rapidly.
The publication ''Kommunisten'' was later fused with ''Kommunistiska Arbetartidningen'' of ''
Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti (Marxist-Leninisterna)'' to form ''Nya Arbetartidningen''.
External links
Nya Arbetartidningen{{Authority control
Political parties established in 1982
Defunct communist parties in Sweden
Anti-revisionist organizations
Political parties disestablished in 1993
1982 establishments in Sweden
1993 disestablishments in Sweden