The Socialist League ( fi, Sosialistiliitto) was a
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 in
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
. It was affiliated to the
International Socialist Tendency. From 1995 until 1998 the organisation was known as Communist Youth (Kommunistinuoret).
At its founding the Communist Youth was close to the "new"
Communist Party of Finland
The Communist Party of Finland ( fi, Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue, SKP; sv, Finlands Kommunistiska Parti) was a communist political party in Finland. The SKP was a section of Comintern and illegal in Finland until 1944.
The SKP was banned by ...
(SKP) but supporters of the SKP left the organisation after the name change. They founded
Communist Youth League of Finland in 2000.
The Socialist League published the magazines ''Murros'' and ''Antikapitalisti''. The organisation was active in different
left
Left may refer to:
Music
* ''Left'' (Hope of the States album), 2006
* ''Left'' (Monkey House album), 2016
* "Left", a song by Nickelback from the album ''Curb'', 1996
Direction
* Left (direction), the relative direction opposite of right
* L ...
led protests.
See also
External links
Sosialistiliitto(Finnish)
Murros -lehti(Finnish, the Murros magazine)
Communist parties in Finland
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