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In the News (Tue 29 Dec 09)

  
  CIN Europe:  ComInterNet Listing of World Communist & Workers Parties
Communist Party in Denmark (Kommunistisk Parti i Danmark (KPiD)
Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Greece (Marxistiko-Leninistiko Kommounistiko Komma Elladas, M-L KKE)
Norges Kommunistiske Parti (NKP) (Communist Party of Norway)
www.angelfire.com /la/cominternet/cineurope.html   (435 words)

  
 CHARLES BRAY's Swede Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Sweden its one of the most extensive social welfare programmers on earth, and endless stretches of untouched nature, Sweden is in many respects the envy of Europe.
Dairy farmers in northern Sweden and cattle farming in the south predominate, even though all cattle have to be housed during the winter.
Sweden conducted extensive trade with the Nazis, primarily in iron ore and ball bearings that were critical parts of Germany's war effort.
www.greatestcities.com /users/cbray5003/Europe/Sweden   (6323 words)

  
 Communist Party of Sweden (1995) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Communist Party of Sweden (Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti) is the continuation of Workers' Party - the Communists (Arbetarpartiet Kommunisterna, abbreviated APK).
The foremost stronghold of the new party was Norrbotten.
In 2000 SKU was reorganized as the party youth league.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Communist_Party_of_Sweden_(1995)   (564 words)

  
 Sweden History & Sweden Culture | iExplore.com
Sweden’s contact with the rest of Europe is first recorded in the Viking period, when the country traded furs and arms with Russia, along the eastern passage.
Sweden won the last remaining Baltic territories not under their control – Prussia and Pomerania – but Gustav was killed at the battle of Lützen in 1632.
Sweden chose not to join the European single currency at its inception in 1999, public support was lacking and the government felt that economic conditions were not right.
www.iexplore.com /dmap/Sweden/History   (1326 words)

  
 Sweden - dKosopedia
Sweden or the Kingdom of Sweden is the largest of the Scandanavian social democracies in territory, population and size of the economy.
The Left Party in Sweden came into being as the Social Democratic Left Party of Sweden (SSV) in the spring of 1917 with both fear and hope of revolution.
The SSV was an anti-militaristic and internationalist party.
www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Sweden   (695 words)

  
 Sweden: Short history of Swedish Stalinism
In the middle of the war, in 1943, Stalin unilaterally closed down the Communist International, but the formally independent "communist" parties still carried on with all the Stalinist rubbish and their eyes were constantly directed towards Moscow.
In December 1981, the new leader of the Communist Party, general Jaruzelski, organised a military coup which smashed the uprising of the workers.
One of the honoured guests at the KU congress that Spring was a representative of the Chinese Communist Party.
www.socialistworld.net /eng/2004/11/18swe.html   (1647 words)

  
 Elections in Sweden - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
A party must thus receive at least 4 % of the votes in the entire country or 12 % in a single electoral district to qualify for any seats.
Every five years there is also an election to the European Parliament.Sweden has a multi-party system, with numerous parties which seldom receive a simple majority of votes in parliament, and parties must therefore work with each other to form coalition governments.
A party must also pass a set limit of 4 % nationally, or 12 % in one of the 29 electoral districts, in order to be awarded seats in parliament.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Elections_in_Sweden   (513 words)

  
 Sweden : In Depth : History | Frommers.com
Sweden's ties with the Hanseatic ports of Germany grew stronger, and trade with other Baltic ports flourished at the city of Visby on the island of Gotland.
Sweden's greatest medieval statesman was Birger Jarl, who ruled from 1248 to 1266; during his reign, he abolished serfdom and founded Stockholm.
Sweden evoked long-lived resentment from its neighbor, Norway, whose cities were leveled by the Nazi troops that had been granted free passage across Swedish territory.
www.frommers.com /destinations/sweden/0243020044.html   (3281 words)

  
 Swedish referendum reveals class divide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Campaigning against entry into the Euro were the Greens, the Left Party (the former Communist Party Stalinists now turned left reformist), the left wing of the Social Democratic party and the Centre Party (a small farmers' party).
Sweden generally has an image internationally as being a country with a very advanced welfare state, with the greatest degree of equality anywhere in the world.
An influx of a new layer of working class youth into the party would strengthen the left, for they would be joining to support the left against the right This would prepare the ground for a powerful left wing to emerge in the future.
www.marxist.com /sweden-euro-referendum160903.htm   (1856 words)

  
 Communism - Uncyclopedia
Communist philosophy can be traced back to the ancient writings of Proletariat (not to be confused with The proletariat, which also has connections with The Red Menace).
Communists also adhere to a strict typographical style which forbids all capitalization, punctuation, and spacing, so that all letters may be brought together as equals.
Communists begin life as small rodents, but later they alter their physical being to resemble the devil, robots or Dolph Lundgren.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Communist   (1412 words)

  
 Feminists poised to create own political party in Sweden
Rumors of the planned feminist party have been circulating ever since one of Sweden's most high-profile feminists, Gudrun Schyman, resigned as head of the previously communist Left Party last year to focus on making gender equality the main theme of the upcoming 2006 general elections.
Despite Sweden's exemplary track record when it comes to gender equality in politics (45 percent of Swedish parliamentarians are women), there is much anger against what is perceived as society's lackluster response to increased violence against women.
While a new feminist party could draw votes from both right and left, the ruling Social Democrats appear to have the most to lose, which is perhaps why party chairwoman Marita Ulvskog was also scheduled to announce a number of new feminist proposals on Tuesday.
www.awakenedwoman.com /swedenfeminists.htm   (551 words)

  
 Sweden Government Information
The 2002 election results for Sweden’s major parties were as follows: the Social Democratic Party (39.8%; 144 seats), the Moderate Party (15.2%; 55 seats), the Liberal Party (13.3%; 48 seats), the Christian Democrats (9.1%; 33 seats), the Left Party (8.3%; 30 seats), the Center Party (6.1%; 22 seats), and the Green Party (4.6%; 17 seats).
The Left Party, formerly the Communist Party, is today a party which expresses some of the traditional values of the social democrats but which also is focused on the environment and opposes Swedish membership in the EU.
While some argued that it went against Sweden's historic policy of neutrality (Sweden had not joined the EU during the Cold War because it was incompatible with neutrality), others viewed the move as a natural extension of the economic cooperation that had been going on since 1972 with the EU.
www.traveldocs.com /se/govern.htm   (1125 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Exit polls: Sweden's ruling socialists beat opposition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Left and the Green parties, which have supported the minority government in the 349-seat parliament, also had threatened to withdraw their support if they did not get stronger roles in the next administration.
But analysts said the non-socialist parties, which are divided on many issues and have not yet named a candidate for prime minister, benefited from increased election coverage in the media and a switch in focus from foreign policy to domestic matters.
Sweden lacks a strong anti-immigration party of the kind that has caused a tilt to the right in several other EU nations, and the debate has not been clear-cut.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002-09-15-sweden_x.htm   (719 words)

  
 Communist Party of Britain - for peace and socialism
The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) is a mass militant party which has played a leading role in the anti-war movement in that country.
The Communist Party of Turkey emerged from decades of illegality and internal division to contest national elections in November 2002, withstanding official pressure and violent attacks from the extreme right which left one comrade shot dead and others wounded.
Most of the parties present identified the deeply reactionary nature of all these developments and reiterated their commitment to mass activity, national and popular sovereignty and to international working-class and communist solidarity to combat them.
www.communist-party.org.uk /index.php?file=newsTemplate&story=43   (1043 words)

  
 Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (Czech: Komunistická strana Čech a Moravy) is a political party in the Czech Republic.
It was formed in 1989 by the Extraordinary Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia which decided to create a party for the territories of Bohemia and Moravia, the areas that were to become the Czech Republic.
In 1990 the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia became a federation of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia and the Communist Party of Slovakia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Communist_Party_of_Bohemia_and_Moravia   (513 words)

  
 Sweden (07/06)
Sweden suffered further territorial losses during the Napoleonic wars and was forced to cede Finland to Russia in 1809.
Sweden's predominantly agricultural economy shifted gradually from village to private farm-based agriculture during the Industrial Revolution, but this change failed to bring economic and social improvements commensurate with the rate of population growth.
Sweden has devoted particular attention to issues of disarmament, arms control, and nuclear nonproliferation and has contributed importantly to UN and other international peacekeeping efforts, including the NATO-led peacekeeping forces in the Balkans.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2880.htm   (3663 words)

  
 CNN.com - Sweden looks set to stay left - August 27, 2002
While centre-left parties all across Europe are in retreat, he is hoping to steer his Social Democrats to victory in the September 15 general election.
The election background in Sweden should not be a promising one for a governing party.
But while Sweden has its problems with second- and third-generation immigrant groups which have failed to integrate, there is no significant far-right group making an electoral advance in Sweden on that issue.
archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/08/27/sweden.election.oakley   (664 words)

  
 Socialism Today - Sweden's social democrats lose
Under his decade-long tenure the party’s share of the vote has stayed under 40%, historically low for a party that has ruled Sweden for 65 of the last 74 years, often with an absolute majority.
The social democrats are today a bourgeois party, a process symbolised by the retiring party leader becoming a landowner.
In all likelihood, the party will be forced to ape the Moderates and purge its top ranks in favour of a new younger generation.
www.socialismtoday.org /104/sweden.html   (1428 words)

  
 Communist Party of Sweden (1967) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Sigtuna the seat of the party was retained, and the vote-share increased from 300 to 350.
Ahead of the party congress in November 4-5 1989 the central committee had proposed that the party be disbanded.
By this time the party had only a handfull of functioning local units, and there was a strong trend towards dissolving the national organization and let the local units continue to function on the municipal left in cooperation with other forces.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/KFML   (942 words)

  
 Communist Party of Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was founded as the Socialist Party of Ireland, and was renamed the Communist Party in 1921 upon its affiliation to the Communist International.
In 1941 the party was separated into two, the Irish Workers' Party and the Communist Party of Northern Ireland.
The party's aim is to win the support of the majority of the Irish people for ending the capitalist system and for building socialism.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ireland   (433 words)

  
 CNN.com - Victory for Sweden's ruling party - September 15, 2002
Led by Prime Minister Goran Persson, the Social Democrats garnered 40.1 percent of the vote and remain the largest party in the Scandinavian country.
The environmentalist Greens received 4.6 percent and the ex-Communist Party of the Left won 8.4 percent, giving the ruling left-wing coalition a clear majority.
The main issue facing the newly confirmed government is Sweden's adoption of the euro.
archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/09/15/sweden.election/index.html   (405 words)

  
 GayandRight: Sweden's Feminist Party Gets More Publicity...
Spare a thought for Swedish feminists whose newly formed party is disintegrating after hardliners presented a manifesto advocating a “man tax”, the abolition of marriage and the creation of “gender-neutral” names.
Sweden already boasts one of the highest levels of female participation in the workplace and some observers questioned the need for a feminist party in a country whose women account for half the seats in parliament.
A former Swedish Communist party leader and author of erotic verse, Schyman once demonstrated her sense of fun by posing naked for a newspaper behind a red umbrella.
gayandright.blogspot.com /2005/10/swedens-feminist-party-gets-more.html   (479 words)

  
 Vänsterpartiet (Left Party)
History: Vänsterpartiet (Left Party) was founded as a left-wing split from the Social Democratic Party in May 1917 by the Social Democratic Youth League and the left opposition of the Social Democrats.
SKP suffered a major splits in 1921 and 1924, but especially in 1929 when the majority of the party membership were expelled by the ComIntern and formed an independent communist party with Karl Kihlbom and Nils Flyg as the leaders of their party.
The communist press was practically illegalized and communist militants were sent to work camps because of their political affliation.
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/1884/e-se-v.htm   (929 words)

  
 Communist Party (Sweden) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Communist Party (Kommunistiska Partiet) is a Marxist-Leninist political party in Sweden.
During the period of 1970 to 1999 the party chairman was Frank Baude.
The 14th Party Congress, held in Gothenburg January 6-8 2005 decided to change the name of the party to the Communist Party.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Communist_Party_(Sweden)   (391 words)

  
 Once Upon a Time in the West   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Note that both the continuing Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of Israel, which operates as a nationally self-denying cancer in Israel's body politic, supported this declaration of solidarity with the Palestinians and Lebanese.
On July 15, 2006 the two parties dispatched delegates to Minsk, the Belarusian capital, to a congress, the main purpose of which was to unite the two organizations within the restored/continuing Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The NPD is a far-right party that harbored West Germany’s neo-Nazis in a fashion similar to that of NDPD in East Germany.
www.russiastory.com   (12187 words)

  
 TIME.com: Split & Splinter -- Apr. 20, 1953 -- Page 1
Sweden's Communist Party set up business by splitting away from the Social Democrats in 1919 and never got over its splintering ways.
In each case, the cause of the breakup was opposition to Soviet domination of the party.
This left Sweden's dwindling Communist Party (which is down to 20,000 members, one-third its peak postwar strength) in the hands of Hagberg and Lager—until the next split.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,822749,00.html   (436 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Communist Party of Sweden (SKP) condemns the attacks against the US civil society that occurred on September 11, 2001.
We grieve for the victims of this act of terror, and for the great human suffering it caused, just as we express sympathy and anger in connection with terror and injustice elsewhere in the world.
Sweden must act in the interest of long-term solutions under the leadership of the UN, which should include appointing an international UN commission to inves-tigate terrorism wherever it occurs.
www.wpb.be /press/WTC/CPSweden.htm   (673 words)

  
 Communist Party of Sweden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
73 communist and workers’ parties from all continents met in Athens from the 18th to the 20th at the International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties, November, 2005, with the topic “Current Trends in Capitalism.
Protests against the amendment to the law on foreign exchange that was adopted in the Diet of Japan on January 29 of this year.
Statement by the Communist Party of Sweden (SKP)
www.skp.se /extra/engelska/index.htm   (83 words)

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