COMMUNIST PARTY (SWEDEN)

The 'Communist Party' (''Kommunistiska Partiet'') is a Marxist-Leninist political party in Sweden.
1970-1977 it was known as the 'Communist League Marxist-Leninists (the revolutionaries)' (''Kommunistiska Förbundet Marxist-Leninisterna (revolutionärerna)'', abbreviated KFML(r)) and during 1977-2004 it had the name 'Communist Party Marxist-Leninists (the revolutionaries)' (''Kommunistiska Partiet Marxist-Leninisterna (revolutionärerna)'', abbreviated KPML(r)).
KFML(r) was founded through a split in the pro-Beijing KFML. "The (r)s" (''"(r)-arna"'') considered that KFML had approached reformism and was not a genuine workers' movement. In 1970 it began publishing the weekly ''Proletären'' (The Proletarian). In 1977 the a group known as the Communist Workers' League of Sweden broke away from KPML(r).
During the 1980s, KPML(r) achieved representation in some munipicalities, including Gothenburg, Sweden's second largest city. The Gothenburg region has always been the strongest point of KPML(r). During the period of 1970 to 1999 the party chairman was Frank Baude. Today, he's still a CC member. The current chairman is Anders Carlsson.
The 14th Party Congress, held in Gothenburg January 6-8 2005 decided to change the name of the party to the 'Communist Party'.
The party does not participate in elections to the national nor the European parliaments. It doesn't contest national parliament elections due to tactical reasons, whereas it advocates boycott of the European parliament elections. It contests municipal elections in some municipalities.
Its supporters include actor Sven Wollter.

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Front organizations

Espionage against the party

Footnotes and references

External links

Front organizations

In the early days of the party, the pro-KFML(r) fractions of the United FNL Groups (DFFG) and the Swedish Clarté League broke away and set up the Solidarity Front for the People of Indochina and Clarté (m-l) respectively. In 1972 these two structures were dissolved and merged into the Young Communist League of Sweden (marxist-leninists), the new KFML(r) youth wing. Later a new students organisation, SKS(ml), was formed. Both SKU(ml) and SKS(ml) were disbanded towards the end of the 1970s, as the party itself consisted mainly of young people.
In 1994 the party again launched a youth organization, Revolutionary Communist Youth (RKU).

Espionage against the party

KFML(r)/KPML(r), as well as other organizations close to it, was subject to political surveillance from SÄPO. (Numbers come from SÄPO's own report)

'Year:'	'No. of registered individuals:'
1980	1499
1985	2012
1990	1943
1995	1819
1996	1618
1997	1561
1998	1346

==Electoral results^[1]==

'Municipality:'	'Votes 2006:'	'% 2006:'	'Seats 2006:'	'Votes 2002:'	'% 2002:'	'Seats 2002:'	'Votes 1998:'	'% 1998'	'Seats 1998:'
Alingsås	243	1.07%	0	204	0.9%	0	164	0.77%	0
Gislaved	794	4.68%	2	1099	6.51%	3	1545	8.96%	4
Göteborg	3701	1.27%	0	4296	1.54%	0	3797	1.44%	0
Helsingborg	211	0.29%	0	427	0.6%	0	-	-	-
Jönköping	300	0.40%	0	328	0.44%	0	-	-	-
Karlshamn	847	4.33%	2	2092	10.86%	6	2469	12.71%	7
Kristianstad	231	0.50%	0	308	0.68%	0	177	0.4%	0
Lysekil	525	5.72%	2	429	4.66%	2	414	4.44%	2
Malmö	451	0.29%	0	477	0.32%	0	319	0.22%	0
Stockholm	449	0.09%	0	511	0.1%	0	765	0.17%	0
Uppsala	497	0.43%	0	451	0.4%	0	196	0.17%	0
Växjö	323	0.66%	0	301	0.65%	0	-	-	-

Footnotes and references

:''All links retrieved and checked as of March 10 2007.
1. Valmyndigheten, "Allmäna val 17 september 2006", (September 17 2006).

External links

★ Kommunistiska Partiet - Official site

★ The ''Proletären'' magazine