Socialist Justice Party
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| Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna | |
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| Leader | Per-Åke Westerlund |
| Founded | 1973 |
| Political ideology | Trotskyism |
| International affiliation | Committee for a Workers International |
| Colour(s) | Red |
| Website | www.socialisterna.org |
| See also the politics of Sweden series | |
The Socialist Justice Party (Swedish: Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, RS) is a Trotskyist political party in Sweden. RS is the Swedish section of the Committee for a Workers' International.
The forerunner organization of RS was called Arbetarförbundet Offensiv (Workers' League - Offensive). AFO developed out of the Offensiv group that had practiced entryism in the Swedish Social Democratic Party during the 1970s and 1980s. In the early 1980s the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League (SSU, Sveriges Socialdemokratiska Ungdomsförbund: the youth organisation of the Swedish Social Democratic Party) initiated expulsions against young socialists associated with Arbetarförbundet Offensiv and their bulletin, named Offensiv. Activists of Offensiv defined these expulsions as witchhunts arranged by the right-wing leadership of SSU. On the other hand, the leadership of SSU saw the Offensiv-tendency as an ambition to carry out a communist take-over of SSU.
In the early 1990s, Arbetarförbundet Offensiv started to relinquish their former tactics of entryism into other movements. The organisation also gradually distanced themselves from the Swedish Social Democratic Party and even further from SSU, who's members often saw them as infiltrators. The bulletin, Offensiv, ran harsh criticism on the Social Democratic Party's policies, claiming that this party no longer represented the interests of the working class. Instead they started to promote the building of a new labour party to take this role.
In 1997, Arbetarförbundet Offensiv changed name to Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (Socialist Justice Party or Justice Party - the Socialists), to take this role upon themselves. Today, RS promotes itself as the only genuine labour party in Sweden. The bulletin, still with the name Offensiv, now releases an issue every week instead of every month.
The Justice Party is represented in the municipal councils of Umeå (3 seats), Luleå (3 seats) and Haninge (2 seats).
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