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Communist Party in Sweden Kommunistiska Partiet i Sverige | |
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| Founded | 1982 |
| Dissolved | 1993 |
| Newspaper | Kommunisten |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism-Leninism Anti-revisionism Hoxhaism |
Kommunistiska Partiet i Sverige (English:Communist Party in Sweden) was a pro-Albanian communist party in Sweden. KPS was formed in 1982. It was dissolved in 1993.
In 1978, a pro-Albanian group had broken away from theCommunist Party of Sweden due to disagreements arising from theSino-Albanian split.[1] This group formedNorrköpings Kommunistiska Förening (Communist Association of Norrköping). In 1979 NKF merged withStockholms Kommunistiska Enhetsgrupp to formSveriges Kommunistiska Förbund - ml (Communist League of Sweden - ml). The magazineKommunisten started publication in 1979. SKF-ml foundedOrganisationen 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 calledUngkommunisterna i Sverige (Young Communists in Sweden). KPS maintained a publishing house calledKommunistiska Arbetarförlaget (Communist Workers Publishing House).
A series of expulsions 1983-1984 led to the refoundation of theNKF.
KPS considered parties likeVPK,APK andKPML(r) asrevisionist. The latter was described as the "left-wing alibi of Moscow in Sweden". KPS urged communists to struggle against both the United States and theUSSR.
Gradually KPS started to distance itself from the Albanian line, somewhat similar to the development of theNicaraguanMAP-ML.
In 1989, KPS suffered a major split, with a large section leaving the party. The splinters started a magazine calledVänstertidningen (Left Magazine), which was supposed to be a broader non-party marxist, socialist and ecologist forum. It disappeared rapidly.
At its height the party only reached in the low hundreds of members and sympathisers, and eventually dissolved in 1993.[2][3]
The publicationKommunisten was later fused withKommunistiska Arbetartidningen ofSveriges Kommunistiska Parti (Marxist-Leninisterna) to formNya Arbetartidningen.[1]
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