The Communist Party of Sweden (Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti) is the continuation of Workers' Party - the Communists (Arbetarpartiet Kommunisterna, abbreviated APK). 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Solna (population 57,994, 2004) is a Municipality in Stockholm County, in central Sweden, located north of Stockholms city centre. ... This article is about communism as a form of society built around a gift economy, as an ideology that advocates that form of society, and as a popular movement. ... Red is a color at the lowest frequencies of light discernible by the human eye. ...

History

Flamman group, an orthodox pro-Soviet section with Vänsterpartiet Kommunisterna (Left Party - the Communists) that emerged as an internal fraction when C.-H. Hermansson took over as party leader and distanced the party from Moscow. The group was centered around the party newspaper Norrskensflamman (The Flame of the Aurora Borealis, usually just called Flamman), the regional party publication in Norrbotten. The fraction worked as a parallel party centre, and relations between them and the party leadership soared. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Russian: (СССР)  listen; tr. ... The Left Party (Vänsterpartiet) is a political party in Sweden. ... Norrbotten is the name of an unofficial Province (landskap) in Sweden, originally a part of Westrobothnia, which gradually grow apart from Westrobothnia after the creation of Norrbotten County in 1810. ...

At the party congress in 1975, when Hermansson stepped down as party leader, the Flamman group launched Rolf Hagel as their candidate for party leadership. Hagel was defeated by Lars Werner with 162 votes against 74. In the same year the Flamman-sympathizers were expelled from Kommunistisk Ungdom (Communist Youth), the youth league of the party. 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Ung Vänster Logo Young Left (Ung Vänster) is the youth organisation of the Swedish Left Party. ...

In 1977 the group broke away, and formed Arbetarpartiet Kommunisterna (Workers Party - the Communists, abbreviated APK). A founding congress took place in the Swedish Riksdag. A large number of foreign delegated participated in the congress, indicating that APK had a strong moral support from CPSU and the orthodox sector of the World Communist Movement. Two MPs (and party central committee members), Rolf Hagel and Alf Löwenborg, were leading the split. Rolf Hagel was elected party president. Norrskensflamman became the central party organ. 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... Riksdag is also the Swedish name of the Parliament of Finland. ... The Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( Russian: Коммунисти́ческая Па́ртия Сове́тского Сою́за = КПСС) was the name used by the successors of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party from 1952 to 1991, but the wording Communist Party was present in the partys name since 1918 when... The World Communist Movement is an informal community of certain parties around the world. ...

In many places entire VPK party units joined APK, including in Malmö, Göteborg and Mälardalen. The foremost stronghold of the new party was Norrbotten. In total, up to 25% of the entire VPK party membership (other sources claim between 10 to 15%) joined APK. To a large extent it was the trade union cadres of VPK who joined APK. Shortly thereafter, the entire KU district in Gävleborg joined APK. Malmö (  listen) is the largest of the cities in the province of Scania (Skåne) in southern Sweden; and the third largest of the cities in Sweden. ... Gothenburg ( Swedish: Göteborg  listen? ) is a city and a municipality on the western coast of Sweden, in the County of Västra Götaland. ... Mälardalen (Swedish, literally the Lake Mälaren Valley) is the easternmost part of Svealand. ... Norrbotten is the name of an unofficial Province (landskap) in Sweden, originally a part of Westrobothnia, which gradually grow apart from Westrobothnia after the creation of Norrbotten County in 1810. ...

Sveriges Kommunistiska Ungdomsförbund (Young Communist League of Sweden) was created as the youth league of the party. A student wing, Marxistiska Studenter (Marxist Students), was founded although it never attained any importance. Sveriges Kommunistiska Ungdomsförbund (Young Communist League of Sweden), was the name of the organization presently known as Ung Vänster (Young Left) 1921-1943. ...

APK failed to make any electoral breakthrough, and gradually the party declined. The fall of the Soviet Union came to have a very negative impact on the party. Many members left it, either to politics completely or to rejoin Vänsterpartiet. SKU broke away in 1990, and had a shortlived period as an independent communist youth organization. The Left Party (Vänsterpartiet) is a political party in Sweden. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1995 APK was declared financially bankrupt by state authorities, the first political party in Sweden to suffer that fate. 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Directly after the bankruptcy of APK, the core around Hagel regrouped and reconstituted their party as Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti (Communist Party of Sweden). In 2000 SKU was reorganized as the party youth league. The party participates in elections under the nomenclature of Kommunisterna (The Communists). 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

See also:

• Municipal election results of APK 1994
• Communist Party of Sweden

Municipality: Eskilstuna: 110 votes, 0,2% (+0%), 0 seats Fagersta: 126 votes, 1,4% (-2,6%), 0 seats (-2) Gnosjö: 123 votes, 2,1% (+2,1%), 1 seat (+1) Gällivare: 346 votes, 2,5% (+0,7%), 1 seat Järfälla: 83 votes, 0,2% (+0,1%), 0 seats... Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti (Communist Party of Sweden) is a name used by several different political organizations in Sweden. ...

External links

• Communist Party of Sweden (http://www.skp.se/extra/engelska/index.htm) - Official site