The name Communist Party of Sweden (Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti, abbreviated SKP) has been used by several political parties in Sweden:
- Left Party (Sweden), known as the Communist Party of Sweden between 1921 and 1967
- Communist Party of Sweden (1924), split off by SKP leader Zeth Höglund in 1924 (which later merged with the social democrats in 1926)
- Socialist Party (Sweden, 1929), "Kilbohmarna", the majority of the SKP main branch, expelled from the Communist International in 1929, dissolved in 1948,
- Communist League Marxist-Leninists (Sweden), KFML, a Maoist party called the Communist Party of Sweden between 1973 and 1987,
- Communist Party (Sweden), Kommunistiska Partiet, an anti-revisionist party still active.
- Communist Workers' Party of Sweden, SKA, an anti-Deng Xiaoping, split-off from the former, formed in 1980 but dissolved in 1993,
- Communist Party in Sweden, KPS, a pro-Albanian, dissenter group from the former, formed in 1982 but dissolved in 1993,
- Communist Party of Sweden (1995), name used since 1995 by the group previously known as the Workers' Party - the Communists (APK), the party is still alive,
- Communist Party of Sweden (Takman), a short-lived party founded by party veteran John Takman when APK was declared financially bankrupt in 1995,
- Communist Party of Sweden (1995) (III), another group, led by Sten Gunnarsson, Jonas af Roslagen and Ingvar Lööv, that emerged out of APK in 1995
Famous quotes containing the words communist and/or party:
“The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one’s personal integrity.”
—Milovan Djilas (b. 1911)
“No political party can ever make prohibition effective. A political party implies an adverse, an opposing, political party. To enforce criminal statutes implies substantial unanimity in the community. This is the result of the jury system. Hence the futility of party prohibition.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)