Jim, George, Charles, Per and others...
I've been away from this list for a while, but I checked in from time to
time, and decided to rejoin..
I'll contribute first by fleshing out some of Per's points in regard to
Norway.
>Dear Comrade!
>Just first fast answer - I will be back...
>1. Strong working class and unions - Just going down for the last 10-20
>years...
This is in a way a doubleedged sword... the socialdemocrats have been VERY
strong in Norway (and Sweden and Denmark, too).
>2. Strong tradition in united in the working class.
This is even more correct in Norway than Denmark. The major splits in the
communist/socialist Parties have been:
192? Rightwing split form Labour Party (DNA) (Which was in the Comintern!)
1923 Norwegian Communist Party (NKP) established, split from Labour Party,
retained many cadre and newspapers etc.
1949 Party crisis in NKP, many expulsions - significantly no new party est.
1961 Socialist Peoples' Party (SF) est. Split from Labour Party.
1960's Marxist-leninist opposition in NKP leads to expulsions, creation of
internal/external group Marxist-Leninist Front (MLF)
1968 The youth league of the SF, the SUF changes name to SUF (m-l), and is
expelled from SF. This is very significant: in Swe and Den the ML-movement
came out of the CP's, not so in Norway. SUF (m-l) establishes The
Marxist-Leninist Groups (MLG) with the MLF. The MLF cadre split out/were
expelled and made another group called Communist' Workers' League (KAF).
KAF has more contact with KFML (r) (later KPML (R)).
1971 Socialist People's Party and NKP work towards a united left party,
Socialist Left Party (SV).
1973 MLG establishes Workers' Communist Party (ML), AKP (m-l). SF and NKP
stand together in elections. AKP (m-l) sets up election alliance Red
Election Alliance.
1975 NKP breaks with SV.
Well, since then KAF has turned in to a one-man crew, with a one-sheet
publication on IWD and May Day. The group Revolution came out of the
mergers and splits of the Hoxhaists, and also contain some elements who
left the AKP / Red Youth around Sino-Albania split.
In the early eighties some people sympathising with SWP (UK) were expelled
from the SV youth org. They formed Workers' Power Groups (AMG). These later
split into International Socialists (Cliffites) and AMG proper. AMG joined
the Red Election Alliance after it became a membership organisation in the
nineties.
In 1990 the AKP (m-l) went through a crisis and ditched the (m-l)+++ This
led to a split in the leadership of the youth wing, Red Youth (RU), where
the MAJORITY(!!!) of the leadership nationally and in the two largest
regions left. They formed two new groups, Revolutionary Assosiation (RF) in
Bergen and (m-l) in Oslo and Akershus. They began publishing a paper with
the Revolution group, but they soon broke ranks. The (m-l) group is now
defunct, and some members have rejoined the AKP. The RF has joined with a
split from the IS, the Socialist Working Groups (SAG) and the AMG to form
the Association for the International, which is a part of FI.
Ther is a minor split from the AKP, the Serve the people group (Tjen
Folket). They adhere to the 1976 program of AKP.
The main point of this is that although there have been some splits, the
unity on the left in Norway has been exceptional compared to Sweden and
Denmark, and more so o the UK/Germany/France etcetera.
>3. More kids form the working class in higher schools...
>4. The nationalism is not so strong = hateful...
I don't know what Per means by this.
>5. Self-criticism
>6. In Scandinavia Comintern was strong.
Yes, the Labour party was one of the largest sections, both relatively and
absolute, in the Comintern.
>7. It was mainly working-class kids who went from anti-imperialism to the
>"new" ml-movement in the 70th.
>8. The "last stupid split" between the China and Albania was not so
hateful
>in Scandinavia as in other countries.
Well, the sino-albanian split wreaked havoc on the inter-nordic unity. EIK
(m-l) (Iceland), Oyggjaframji (m-l) (Fareo islands) went with Hoxha and
disintegrated, SKP imploded (more due to extreme right-opportunism), MLG in
Finland went quite strange. KAP (Denmark) and AKP stayed close, but KAP
dwindled fast and dissolved into Enhedslisten in 1990, because of the DKP
refusing them to join as a party, I believe.
>9. In Denmark, Sweden and Norway we had strong tradition to want to learn
>form the people.
Well, yes. The "turn to industry" in fact worked quite well in Norway.
Probably because of point 3 and 7.
Magnus Bernhardsen
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