Socialist Party (Sweden, 1971)

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The Socialistiska Partiet is a Swedish political party, the Swedish section of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International. The party was formed at a congress in 1971, through the merger of Revolutionary Marxists (RM) and the Bolshevik Group (BG). Initially it was called League of Revolutionary Marxists (Revolutionära Marxisters Förbund, RMF). One section of RM did not agree with the formation of RM, and formed the Communist Working Groups (KAG). KAG would later reconcile with RMF, and merged into it in 1972.

At the 5th party congress, held in 1975, the name was changed to Communist Workers League (Kommunistiska Arbetarförbundet). In 1982 the party adopted its current name.

The party publishes the weekly paper Internationalen.

The party is currently represented in four local authorities.

[edit] See also

• Socialistiska Partiet (1929)

[edit] External links

• http://www.socialistiskapartiet.se
• http://www.internationalen.se

Political parties in Sweden
Represented in the Riksdag (349)	Social Democrats (130) | Moderate Party (97) | Centre Party (29) | Liberal People's Party (28) | Christian Democrats (24) | Left Party (22) | Green Party (19)
Represented in the European Parliament (19 out of 732)	Social Democrats (5) | Moderate Party (4) | Christian Democrats (2)* | June List (2)* | Left Party (2) | Centre Party (1) | Feminist Initiative (1)** | Green Party (1) | Liberal People's Party (1)** *Three MEPs were elected for the June List, but one defected to Christian Democrats. **Two MEPs were elected for the Liberal People's Party, but one defected to Feminist Initiative.
Minor parties:	Sweden Democrats (2.93%) | Pirate Party (0.63%) | Senior Citizen Interest Party (0.52%) | Health Care Party (0.21%)