Communist Parties in Finland - Communist Party of Finland, Communist Workers' Party - For Peace and Socialism, League of Communists (Paperback)

Chapters: Communist Party of Finland, Communist Workers' Party - for Peace and Socialism, League of Communists. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Communist Party of Finland (Finnish:, SKP) is a Finnish political party. It was founded in the mid-1980s as Communist Party of Finland (Unity) (Finnish:, SKPy) by the former opposition of the old Communist Party of Finland (19181990). SKP is not currently represented in the Finnish parliament, but the party has local councillors in some municipalities, including the city councils of Helsinki and Tampere. SKP claims 3,000 members. The party has been officially registered since 1997. In the 1980s, when the opposition and the organizations it controlled were expelled from the SKP led by Arvo Aalto, the SKPy, however, chose not to register since they considered themselves the real SKP and claimed Aalto had illegally stolen the party. The internal conflict of Finnish communists began in the mid-1960s, when the party, led by the new chairman Aarne Saarinen, began to modernize the party line. A minority of the party cadre didn't accept this and they accused the SKP leadership of being revisionist. SKP didn't break up in the 1960s and the party was formally united until the mid-1980s. After the 20th party congress in 1984 things, however, changed as Arvo Aalto was elected chairman, after which the opposition didn't participate in (or was left out of) the SKP central committee. The opposition, which was also known as taistoists, called supporters of Aalto axe liners. The central committee of the SKP expelled eight opposition district organizations from the party October 13, 1985. Also, 494 other basic organizations and 17 city or regional organizations were expelled June 13, 1986, which the expelled then dubbed Bla...http: //booksllc.net/?id=1958275