The Communist Party of Iceland () was a Marxist–Leninist communist party in

Iceland Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...

from 1930 to 1938.

History

In the early 1920s, a group of young militants of the

Social Democratic Party The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology. Active parties Form ...

() came into contact with the international communist movement. Their

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, and that of their party leader, was quickly growing apart. The communists formed a radical section within the party which they called the "Association of Young Communists" () in November 1922. The group evolved into the "Sparta Association of Socialists" () in 1926, but they eventually left the social democrats to form their own party as suggested by

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in 1928. The Communist Party of Iceland (KFI) was formed in November 1930 and became a member of Comintern. KFI published . In 1938, another splinter group, which had left the social democrats the year before, unified itself with the communists forming the Popular Unity Party - Socialist Party (). The new party did not continue the Comintern membership. However, the communists were dominant in the party and it was mostly the same as its predecessor. In 1956 the Socialist Party formed the

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as an electoral alliance with yet another splinter group from the Social Democratic Party. The People's Alliance became a

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in 1968.

Election results

External links

English Extract of H. H. Gissurarson’s book
Defunct political parties in Iceland

Communist parties in Iceland Defunct communist parties 1930 establishments in Iceland Political parties established in 1930 1938 disestablishments in Iceland Political parties disestablished in 1938 {{Europe-communist-party-stub

History

Election results

Further reading

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