Communist Party of Denmark
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Communist Party of Denmark
Danmarks Kommunistiske Parti |
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| Leader | Henrik Stamer Hedin |
| Founded | 9 November 1919 |
| Headquarters | Frederikssundsvej 64, 2400 Copenhagen NV |
| Newspaper |
Arbejderbladet (The Worker's Paper), 1922-1941. Land og Folk (Land and People), 1941-1990. Skub (Push), 2001 to present. |
| Youth wing |
Communist Youth of Denmark (1919-1990) Young Communist League (Denmark) |
| Membership |
1919: approx. 2,000 1945: approx. 60,000 1960: approx. 5,000 2009: approx. 300 |
| Ideology |
Communism, Marxism-Leninism |
| National affiliation | Red–Green Alliance |
| European affiliation | None |
| International affiliation |
Comintern (1920-1943), International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties International Communist Seminar |
| Colours | Red |
| Website | |
| http://www.dkp.dk/ | |
The Communist Party of Denmark (Danish: Danmarks Kommunistiske Parti, DKP) is a communist political party in Denmark. DKP was founded on November 9, 1919 as the Left-Socialist Party of Denmark (Danish: Danmarks Venstresocialistiske Parti, VSP) through a merger of the Socialist Youth League and Socialist Labour Party of Denmark, both of which had broken away from the Social Democrats in March 1918. The party assumed its present name in November 1920, when it joined the Comintern. Currently, the DKP is represented in the Danish parliament through the Red-Green Alliance.
DKP is one of four active communist parties in Denmark.
Marie-Sophie Nielsen led the breakaway faction from the Social Democrats in 1918 that founded the Socialist Labour Party of Denmark, due to an accumulation of conflicts with the reformist leadership of the Social Democrats. In particular, they opposed cooperation with the Radical Liberal Party, with whom the Social Democrats allied themselves in general elections. The Socialist Labour Party of Denmark began laying the foundations for a new party in March 1918, soon after its establishment.
In 1919, the party cooperated with the syndicalist movement, primarily organized in the Trade Union Opposition Coalition (Danish: Fagoppositionens Sammenslutning, FS) and the Socialist Youth League, a left-wing Social Democratic breakaway group from the Social Democratic Youth (the youth wing of the Social Democrats), to found the Left-Socialist Party of Denmark on November 9, 1919.
The party participated in the 2nd Comintern Congress in 1920. The party approved the admission requirements, and changed its name to the Communist Party of Denmark and joined the Comintern the same year. This, however, led to a split within the party, with the syndicalist faction, led by FS, withdrawing the party.
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