The New Communist Party of Yugoslavia ( sr-cyrl, Нова комунистичка партија Југославије, Nova Komunistička Partija Jugoslavije, NKPJ) is an

anti-revisionist Anti-revisionism is a position within Marxism–Leninism which emerged in the 1950s in opposition to the reforms of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Where Khrushchev pursued an interpretation that differed from his predecessor Joseph Stalin, ...

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communist party A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A ...

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...

. Its goal is the

reunification A political union is a type of political entity which is composed of, or created from, smaller polities, or the process which achieves this. These smaller polities are usually called federated states and federal territories in a federal governmen ...

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

as a

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according to

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. The party boycotted the 2007 parliamentary election, because of its position that the electoral law violated fundamental democratic principles and the

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. In 2010 the party was removed from the list of registered parties after failing to re-register under the new electoral law. Due to the removal from the list of registered parties NKPJ decided to

boycott A boycott is an act of nonviolent, voluntary abstention from a product, person, organization, or country as an expression of protest. It is usually for moral, social, political, or environmental reasons. The purpose of a boycott is to inflict som ...

the 2014 parliamentary election as well as all local elections and not join any coalitions. They interrupted several meetings of other

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urging for

of the elections and claiming they were illegal.

History

The founding congress of the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia (NKPJ) was held on 30 June 1990 in Belgrade. The Congress (Founding Assembly) was held in the hall of the Association of Engineers and Technicians of Serbia, with the participation of 265 delegates from all republics of the

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as SFR Yugoslavia or simply as Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe. It emerged in 1945, following World War II, and lasted until 1992, with the breakup of Yug ...

. The delegates present decided that the party should be named the New Communist Movement of Yugoslavia (NKPJ). That name was valid until 1995, when it was changed to today's New Communist Party of Yugoslavia (NKPJ).

Modern period (2017–present)

In March 2020, NKPJ announced their participation in the 2020 parliamentary election. They submitted their list on 5 June, and they failed to give signatures after its deadline was extended for two days. In late December 2021, they announced their participation in the upcoming

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. Belgrade was the host of the 2022 (MECYO) which the NKPJ's SKOJ is member of. Delegates of 22 youth communist organizations agreed on a declaration that denounced

anti-communist Anti-communism is Political movement, political and Ideology, ideological opposition to communism. Organized anti-communism developed after the 1917 October Revolution in the Russian Empire, and it reached global dimensions during the Cold War, w ...

repression in the European Union, reissued solidarity with Ukrainian communist activists Mikhail and Aleksander Kononovich who were arrested and detained as political prisoners by the SBU on charges of "pro-Russian views and pro-Belarusian views", denounced "capitalist exploitation and imperialist wars" as well as the "NATO occupation of

Kosovo and Metohija The Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija ( sr, Косово и Метохиja, Kosovo i Metohija; sq, Kosova dhe Metohija), commonly known as Kosovo and abbreviated to Kosmet or KiM, is an autonomous province defined by the constituti ...

"; having taken part in a protester march along central Belgrade chanting anti-NATO slogans the day earlier.

Ideology

NKPJ is a

communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

party that endeavors the re-unification of Yugoslavia according to

Stalinist Stalinism is the means of governing and Marxist-Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union from 1927 to 1953 by Joseph Stalin. It included the creation of a one-party totalitarian police state, rapid industrialization, the theory o ...

model.

Organization

It had sister parties in neighboring

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, and

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. It also tried to organize sister parties in

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and

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, but failed at doing so. Its current

general secretary Secretary is a title often used in organizations to indicate a person having a certain amount of authority, power, or importance in the organization. Secretaries announce important events and communicate to the organization. The term is derived ...

is Aleksandar Banjanac, he has served the role since January 2017.

Electoral performance

Parliamentary elections

Federal elections

Parliamentary elections

Notes

References

External links

Webpage of the New Communist Party of YugoslaviaWebpage of the League of Yugoslav Communist Youth (SKOJ)
{{Authority control 1990 establishments in Yugoslavia Anti-revisionist organizations Stalinist parties Communist parties in Serbia Far-left politics in Serbia Marxist parties Political parties established in 1990 Political parties in Yugoslavia International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties

History

Modern period (2017–present)

Ideology

Organization

Electoral performance

Parliamentary elections

Federal elections

Parliamentary elections

See also

Notes

References

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