The People's Alliance (Icelandic: Alþýðubandalagið) was an electoral alliance in Iceland from 1956 to 1968 and a political party from 1968 to 1998. Peoples Alliance (Iceland) This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... 1998 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

In 1916 the Social Democratic Party (Alþýðuflokkurinn) was formed in Iceland. In 1930 a split surged, thus forming the Communist Party of Iceland (Kommúnistaflokkur Íslands), 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 United People's Socialist Party (Sameiningarflokkur alþýðu, sósíalistaflokkurinn). However, the new party did not become a ComIntern member as its forerunner. 1916 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... The Communist Party of Iceland (Icelandic: Komm nistaflokkur slands) was a political party in Iceland from 1930 to 1938. ... The first edition of Communist International, journal of the Comintern published in Moscow and Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg) in May 1919. ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The United Peoples Socialist Party (Icelandic: Sameiningarflokkur alþýðu, sósíalistaflokkurinn) was a political party in Iceland from 1938 to 1968. ...

In 1956 the UPSP 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 Valdimarsson as chairman. The Peoples Alliance ran as such in the general Elections in 1956 and twice in 1959. In 1963 The National Preservation Party (Iceland) (Þjóðvarnarflokkurinn) contributed people to the joint elctorial alliance, resulting that Gils Guðmundsson former member of pairlament (1953-1956) for The National Preservation Party (Iceland) (Þjóðvarnarflokkurinn) gained a seat in the pairlament which he held until 1979. In 1968 the People's Alliance was became officially a political party. In 1998 it joined forces with the Social Democrat Party, the Womens's Alliance (Samtök um kvennalista) and the National Movement (Þjóðvaki) in forming the Alliance (Samfylkingin), a broad center-left party. However the People's Alliance continues to exist on papers until its debts are paid. Hannibal Valdimarsson b. ... Hannibal Valdimarsson b. ... The National Preservation Party (Icelandic: Þjóðvarnarflokkurinn) Founded and supported by the same group that edited the Weekly paper Free Nation (Iceland) (Icelandic: Frjáls Þjóð) on March 15th 1953. ... The National Preservation Party (Icelandic: Þjóðvarnarflokkurinn) Founded and supported by the same group that edited the Weekly paper Free Nation (Iceland) (Icelandic: Frjáls Þjóð) on March 15th 1953. ... The Alliance (Samfylkingin) is a political party in Iceland. ...

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. The flag of NATO NATO 2002 Summit The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), sometimes called North Atlantic Alliance, Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation for defence collaboration established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, D.C., on April 4, 1949. ... The European Economic Area (EEA) came into being on January 1, 1994 following an agreement between the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and the European Union (EU). ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) was established on May 3, 1960 as an alternative for European states that were not allowed or did not wish to join the European Community (now the European Union). ...

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 - grænt framboð), a socialist-green party, in 1999. The first chairman of the People's Alliance was Ragnar Arnalds. The existent president of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, 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). A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... The Left-Green Movement (Vinstrihreyfingin - grænt framboð) is a political party in Iceland. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Ragnar Arnalds (born July 8, 1938), former Icelandic MP and cabinet minister. ... Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson (born 14 May 1943, in Ísafjörður, Iceland) is the fifth and current President of Iceland, from 1996 to present, re-elected unopposed in 2000, and was re-elected for a third term in 2004. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Left political party in Iceland, founded by Hannibal Valdimarsson and his supporters in 1969. ... Categories: Politics stubs | Liberal related stubs | Icelandic political parties | Liberal parties ...

It particapated in 5 coalition governments from 1956 to 1991, begining in Hermann Jónasson's last government 1956-1958, then in both of Ólafur Jóhannesson's governments 1in 1971-1974 and in 1978-1979, then in Gunnar Thoroddsen's only government 1980-1983 and finally in Steingrímur Hermannson's latter government in 1988-1991. Hermann Jónasson (December 25, 1896–January 22, 1976) was an Icelandic politician of the Progressive Party, who was Prime Minister of Iceland on two occasions. ... Ólafur Jóhannesson (March 1, 1913–May 20, 1984) was Prime Minister of Iceland for the Progressive Party on two occasions. ... Gunnar Thoroddsen was Prime Minister of Iceland from 8 February 1980 to 26 May 1983. ...

The youth league of the People's Alliance was known as ÆFAB.

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• The ComIntern Experience: How it affected the Icelandic left