Socialist Workers' Party ( fi, Sosialistinen Työväenpuolue, sv, Socialistiska Arbetarepartiet) was a political party 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 ...
. The STP was founded in 1973 as split from
Social Democratic Union of Workers and Smallholders
Social Democratic Union of Workers and Smallholders ( fi, Työväen ja Pienviljelijäin Sosialidemokraattinen Liitto, TPSL) was a political party in Finland. TPSL originated as a fraction of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, headed by Emil ...
(TPSL). STP emerged from a group that did not approve of the return of TPSL to 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
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STP had electoral alliances with
Finnish People's Democratic League
Finnish People's Democratic League ( fi, Suomen Kansan Demokraattinen Liitto, SKDL; sv, Demokratiska Förbundet för Finlands Folk, DFFF) was a Finnish political organisation with the aim of uniting those left of the Finnish Social Democratic Pa ...
(SKDL), the mass front dominated by the
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 with little success. When SKP (and SKDL) split in 1985-1986 STP cooperated with
Democratic Alternative which was founded by
Communist Party of Finland (Unity)
The Communist Party of Finland ( fi, Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue, SKP sv, Finlands kommunistiska parti, FKP) or New Communist Party of Finland ( fi, Uusi Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue, USKP sv, Finlands nya kommunistiska parti, FNKP) is a political ...
(SKPy).
In February 1990, STP chairman
Pentti Waltzer Pentti is a Finnish male given name and surname, a form of Bengt (Swedish for Benedict).
Pentti name is also used in fiction and music.
Given name A–J
*Pentti Aalto (1917–1998), Finnish linguist
* Pentti Alonen (1925–2017), Finnish alpine s ...
said the party would join the new
Left Alliance if Democratic Alternative decided to merge with it,
[Marja Haapio & Matti Virtanen]
Vasemmistoliiton "torikokous" kerää monenlaisia sosialisteja
(Helsingin Sanomat 8.2.1990) which later happened.
Elections
See also
*
List of Social Democratic Party (Finland) breakaway parties
Since the founding of Social Democratic Party of Finland in 1899 it has seen a steady number of splits and breakaway factions. Some of the breakaway organisations have thrived as independent parties, some have become defunct, while others have mer ...
References
External links
STP party program (1973)(in Finnish)
1973 establishments in Finland
Defunct political parties in Finland
Left Alliance (Finland)
Political parties established in 1973
Political schisms
Socialist parties in Finland
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