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as well as American imperialism, opposed other Icelandic communist parties which it found to be revisionist and held a staunchly pro-China line, until the Sino-Albanian split, when it sided with Albania. The party's chairman was

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. In 1979 the party was integrated into the Communist Union (''Kommúnistasamtökin'') together with the other Icelandic Maoist party, the Communist Party of Iceland (Marxist–Leninist) (''Kommúnistaflokkur Íslands (m-l)''). From 1975 to 1985 Communist Unity published the newspaper ''Verkalýðsblaðið'' (the working people's paper). The party maintained fraternal relations with Workers' Communist Party (Norway),

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, Marxist–Leninist League of Denmark,

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,Verkalýðsblaðið Vol. 1, No. 4-5
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Verkalýðsblaðið Archive
Anti-revisionist organizations Defunct political parties in Iceland Communist parties in Iceland Maoist organizations in Europe Political parties established in the 1970s 1970s establishments in Iceland Political parties disestablished in the 1980s 1980s disestablishments in Iceland {{Europe-communist-party-stub