Communist Party of Finland

Communist Party of Finland
Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue
AbbreviationSKP
Founded29 August 1918 (1918-08-29)
Legalized1944
Dissolved1992 (1992)
Split fromSocial Democratic Party of Finland
Succeeded by
Youth wingYoung Communist League of Finland
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism–Leninism (until 1970s)
Eurocommunism (from 1970s)
Factions:
Taistoism (until 1980s)
Political positionFar-left
National affiliationFinnish People's Democratic League
International affiliationComintern
ColorsRed

The Communist Party of Finland (Finnish: Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue, SKP; Swedish: 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 the state from its founding[1] and did not participate in any elections with its own name. Instead, front organisations were used. In the 1920s, the communists took part in the Socialist Workers' Party of Finland (1920–1923) and the Socialist Electoral Organisation of Workers and Smallholders (1924–1930). Both of them were also banned. In 1944, a new front, the Finnish People's Democratic League was formed. The SKP controlled these fronts but they always had a prominent minority of non-communist socialists.

  1. ^ Saarela, Tauno (1996). Suomalaisen kommunismin synty 1918–1923 (in Finnish). Kansan Sivistystyön Liitto. pp. 23–24, 161. ISBN 951-9455-55-8.