Communist Party of Denmark
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DKP election poster
1945 DKP election programme 'Will of the People - the Law of the Country'
Land og Folk from 1945
Communist Party of Denmark (Danish: Danmarks Kommunistiske Parti or simply DKP) is a communist political party in Denmark which was founded as Venstresocialistiske Parti (Left Socialist Party) in 1919. VSP was a split from the Danish Social Democratic Party. The party assumed its present name in 1920. In 2008, the party had no representation in the Danish parliament (Folketinget).
The party's chairmen were:
Aksel Larsen (1932-1958)
Knud Jespersen (1958-1977)
Jrgen Jensen (1977-1987)
Ole Sohn (1987-1991)
After 1991 the party had collective leadership until 2003 when Henrik Stamer Hedin assumed chairmanship.
In 1941, during the German occupation of Denmark in World War II, DKP was banned and its members arrested. After this DKP played a leading role in organizing the resistance through KOPA, later renamed BOPA. From 1945 to 1990 DKP had a daily publication, Land og Folk. Until 1990, DKP had a youth wing, Danmarks Kommunistiske Ungdom.
In the mid 1960s the U.S. State Department estimated the party membership to be approximately 5000.[1]
In 1989 DKP founded, together with Venstresocialisterne and Socialistisk Arbejderparti, Red-Green Alliance or The Unity List (Danish: Enhedslisten). The Unity List won parliamentary representation in 1994.Contents [hide]
1 Famous members
2 References
3 Bibliography
4 External links
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Famous members
Martin Andersen-Nex
Ruth Berlau
Herluf Bidstrup
Jens-Peter Bonde
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Communist Party in Denmark (Danish: Kommunistisk Parti i Danmark), a political party in Denmark. KPiD was founded in 1990, as a split from the Communist Party of Denmark (DKP). The founders of KPiD opposed the merger of DKP into the Unity List. KPiD can be seen as more ideologically orthodox than DKP.
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The Communist Party (Danish: Kommunistisk Parti) is a political party in Denmark. The party was formed in 2006 through the merger of Communist Party of Denmark (Marxist-Leninist) (DKP/ML) and Communist Unification (KS).[1]
The party publishes Dagbladet Arbejderen, a daily newspaper.
