Workers Power ( sv, Arbetarmakt) is the
Swedish
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section of the
League for the Fifth International
The League for the Fifth International (L5I) is an international grouping of revolutionary Trotskyist organisations around a common programme and perspectives.
History
L5I was founded as the Movement for a Revolutionary Communist International ...
, a small
Trotskyist
Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Ukrainian-Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and some other members of the Left Opposition and Fourth International. Trotsky self-identified as an orthodox Marxist, a rev ...
organisation.
It was founded in 1994, as a split from
Socialistiska Partiet
The Socialistiska Partiet ( en, Socialist Party) was a Swedish Trotskyist political party, the Swedish section of the Fourth International.
History
The party was formed at a congress in 1971, through the merger of the Revolutionary Marxists (RM ...
(the Swedish section of
USFI). In 1998 it fused with another Trotskyist organisation, the Marxist Left (a split in 1996 from the
CWI).
Arbetarmakt has been much involved in the anti-globalisation movement, but also in anti-racist struggles. It has an affiliated youth organisation, called
Revolution
In political science, a revolution (Latin: ''revolutio'', "a turn around") is a fundamental and relatively sudden change in political power and political organization which occurs when the population revolts against the government, typically due ...
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and a book store in Stockholm called Radika
As part of the League for the Fifth International they consider themselves to be
orthodox Trotskyism, orthodox Trotskyists.
External links
Official website Far-left politics in Sweden
League for the Fifth International
Trotskyist organizations in Sweden