The Communist Party of Iceland ( is, Kommúnistaflokkur Íslands) was a political party in

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from 1930 to 1938.

History

In the early 1920s a group of young militants of the

Social Democratic Party The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology. Active parties For ...

(''Alþýðuflokkur'') came into contact with the international communist movement. Their

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, and that of their party leader, was quickly growing apart. The communists formed a radical section within the party which they called the "Association of Young Communists" (''Félag ungra kommúnista'') in November 1922. The group evolved into the "Sparta Social Democratic Association" (''Jafnaðarmannafélagið Sparta'') in 1926, but they eventually left the social democrats to form their own party as suggested by

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in 1928. The Communist Party of Iceland (KFI) was formed in November 1930 and became a member of Comintern. KFI published ''Verkalýðsblaðið''. In 1938 another splinter group, which had left the social democrats the year before, unified itself with the communists forming the Popular Unity Party - Socialist Party (''Sameiningarflokkur alþýðu - Sósíalistaflokkurinn''). The new party did not continue the Comintern membership. However, the communists were dominant in the party and it was mostly the same as its predecessor. In 1956 the Socialist Party formed the People's Alliance as an electoral alliance with yet another splinter group from the Social Democratic Party. The People's Alliance became a

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in 1968.

Election results

Sources

*Arnór Hannibalsson: ''Moskvulínan.'' Reykjavík 1999: Nýja bókafélagið. *Einar Olgeirsson: ''Kraftaverk einnar kynslóðar.'' Jón Guðnason skráði. Reykjavík 1983: Mál og menning. *Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson: ''Íslenskir kommúnistar 1918–1998.'' Reykjavík 2011: Almenna bókafélagið. *Jón Ólafsson: ''Kæru félagar.'' Reykjavík 1999: Mál og menning. *Þór Whitehead: ''Sovét-Ísland. Óskalandið.'' Reykjavík 2010: Ugla. *Hannes H. Gissurarson
''Communism in Iceland, 1918–1998''
Social Science Research Institute at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik 2021.

External links

English Extract of H. H. Gissurarson’s book
Defunct political parties in Iceland

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