Communist Party of Iceland
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The Communist Party of Iceland (Icelandic: Kommnistaflokkur slands) was a political party in Iceland from 1930 to 1938.
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History
In the early 1920s a group of young militants of the Social Democratic Party (Aluflokkur) came into contact with the international communist movement. Their ideology 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 (Flag ungra kommnista) in November 1922. The group evolved into the Sparta Social Democratic Association (Jafnaarmannaflagi Sparta) in 1926 but eventually they left the social democrats to form their own party as suggested by Comintern in 1928. The Communist Party of Iceland (KFI) was formed in November 1930 and became a member of Comintern.
KFI published Verkalsblai.
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 (Sameiningarflokkur alu - Ssalistaflokkurinn). 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 People's Alliance as an electoral alliance with yet another splinter-group from the Social Democratic Party. The People's Alliance became a political party in 1968.
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The Icelandic Communist League is a grouping affiliated with the Socialist Workers Party (USA), a part of its international network of affiliates, the so-called Pathfinder Tendency. The Icelandic Communist League is unique in this tendency in that, while like its sister parties it too is very small, it is the only, and hence dominant, communist grouping in its country.
Its origins lie in the Young Socialists. Some members formed the Organizing Committee for a Communist League in 2001, and in 2002 declared the "Communist League".[1]
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Communist Party of Iceland (marxist-leninist) (in Icelandic: Kommnistaflokkur slands (m-l)), was a political party in Iceland. It was established in April 1976 by 30 delegates. Initially known as Communist Movement M-L (Kommnistahreyfingin M-L; KHML), from 1972 until 1976 Kommnistasamtkin marxistarnir-lennistarnir (KSML). Published Stttabarttan (Class Struggle). Publication was initiated in 1972 and ceased in 1980. Chairman was Gunnar Andrsson and General Secretary Kristjn Gulaugsson.
The party was linked to the Swedish KPML(r).
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Communist Unity (Marxist-Leninist) (Icelandic: Einingarsamtk kommnista (marx-lennistar)) was an Icelandic Communist Party existing since the 1970s when it was started by students. It ceased to exist in the 1980s. They had close relations with the Workers' Communist Party (Norway). It upheld the line of the Albanian Party of Labour after the Sino-Albanian Split.
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People's Alliance (Iceland)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia People's Alliance
Alubandalagi
Leader Hannibal Valdimarsson (1956-68)
first leader
Margrt Frmannsdttir (1995-98)
last leader
Founded 4 April 1956
Dissolved 1998
Ideology Democratic socialism
International affiliation None
The People's Alliance (Icelandic: Alubandalagi) was an electoral alliance in Iceland from 1956 to 1968 and a political party from 1968 to 1998.
In 1916 the Social Democratic Party (Aluflokkurinn) was formed in Iceland. In 1930 a split surged, thus forming the Communist Party of Iceland (Kommnistaflokkur slands), recognised as the Icelandic section of the Communist International. In 1937 the social democrats suffered another split, and the splintergroup unified itself with the communists forming the Socialist Party (Ssalistaflokkurinn). However, the new party did not become a ComIntern member as its forerunner.
On April 4, 1956 the Socialist Party created an electoral alliance with yet another left-wing split of the Social Democratic Party led by Hannibal Valdimarsson, thus forming the People's Alliance with Hannibal as its chairman.
In 1963 National Preservation Party (jvarnarflokkurinn) contributed people to the joint electoral alliance, resulting in Gils Gumundsson, a former member of parliament (1953-1956) for jvarnarflokkurinn gaining a seat in the parliament, which he held until 1979. In 1968 the People's Alliance officially became a political party. At that time Hannibal left and formed his own Union of Liberals and Leftists.
In the mid 1960s the U.S. State Department estimated the party membership to be approximately 1000 (1% of the working age population of Iceland).[1]
In 1998 it joined forces with the Social Democrat Party, the Womens's Alliance (Samtk um kvennalista) and the National Movement (jvaki) in forming the Social Democratic Alliance (Samfylkingin), a broad center-left party. However the People's Alliance continues to exist on papers until its debts are paid.
The party was not a communist party, but it used to be the Icelandic referent of the World Communist Movement. It was opposed to NATO and the presence of U.S. military forces in Iceland. It was also opposed to Icelandic membership of the European Union and the EEA agreement in 1993 between the EFTA and the EU, Iceland being a member of EFTA.
Some members of the People's Alliance did not conciliate the forming of the Alliance, including some MPs of the party, and formed the Left-Green Movement (Vinstrihreyfingin - grnt frambo), a socialist-green party, in 1999. The first chairman of the People's Alliance was Ragnar Arnalds. The existent president of Iceland, lafur Ragnar Grmsson, was chairman of the party from 1987 to 1995 after joining it coming from Union of Liberal and Leftist after he broke away from the Progressive Party (Iceland).
It participated in 5 coalition governments from 1956 to 1991, beginning in Hermann Jnasson's last government 1956-1958, then in both of lafur Jhannesson's governments 1in 1971-1974 and in 1978-1979, then in Gunnar Thoroddsen's only government 1980-1983 and finally in Steingrmur Hermannsson's latter government in 1988-1991.
The youth league of the People's Alliance was known as FAB.
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