Communist Party of Finland

The Communist Party of Finland ( Finnish: Suomen communism Tinen Puolue, SKP; Swedish: Finlands kommunistiska parti, FKP) was a political party in Finland. It was founded in 1918 in Moscow and remained until 1944 in Finland illegal. In 1990, she became part of the newly formed Left Alliance and 1992, she was finally dissolved.

The Communist Party of Finland never came under their name to elections. Prior to their legalization in 1944 the Communists were represented later by the Socialist Worker and peasant electoral alliance in elections of the Socialist Workers Party of Finland. After its legalization, the SKP spurred the establishment of the Democratic Union of the Finnish people ( SKDL ), which should unite the progressive forces left the country.

The SKDL reached in 1945 at their first participation in the parliamentary elections, 23.5% of the vote. Up to and including the parliamentary elections in 1979 the party always achieved results between 17% and 24%. In the late 1960s it came to conflict within the SKP. During the party chairman Aarne Saarinen drove a Euro -communist course, a Moscow-backed minority presented under the leadership of Taisto Sinisalo it. The Orthodox often referred to as " Taistoisten " were called as well as the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968 was good during that Saarinen also publicly criticized. Saarinen, however, managed to maintain the unity of the party, including the fact that Sinisalo was elected in 1970 behind Saarinen as second chairman. Mid-1980s, but it did bring me to split the SKP in a moscow faithful camp and in a Euro -communist group, which retained the majority of the party. The pro-Moscow members seceded and formed the Democratic Alternative ( DeVa ). By 1980, the membership of the SKP reached the mark of 50,000, but at the beginning of the 1980s, the number dropped rapidly and the election results of the SKDL fell to last less than 10% (1987). 1990 SKDL and the SKP were finally in the newly formed Left Alliance ( Vasemmistoliitto, Vas. ) On. The SKP finally broke up in 1992 on, after she was financially bankrupt.

Within the Left Alliance came in the early 1990s for the cleavage and formation of a new Communist Party of Finland.

List of senior politicians

Party chairman

Secretaries General

Membership Development

Other well-known members

• Äikiä Armas (1904-1965), writer and journalist
• Hertta Kuusinen (1904-1974), Minister, daughter of Otto Wille Kuusinen
• Otto Wille Kuusinen (1881-1964), politician and founding member of SKP
• Eino Rahja (1885-1936), founding member of SKP

• Historic Party ( Finland)
• Communist Party
• Euro communism