Communist Party (Atlantica)
Communist Party | |
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| File:Kommúnistaflokkurinn.png | |
| Leader | Bjarni Árnason |
| Founded | 6 February, 1880 |
| Headquarters | Red House, Stórkostlegurborg, Atlantica |
| Student wing | Communist Students |
| Youth wing | Communist Youth |
| Union Wing | Revolutionary Confederation of Labour |
| Ideology | Communism Anarcho-communism Republicanism Internal Factions: DeLeonism Council communism Autonomism Left communism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation | Red-Green-Socialist Alliance |
| International affiliation | Revolutionary Federation of Esquarian Workers' Parties Republican Coalition Political internationals i _EsquariumAnarchist Federation International |
| Colors | Red |
| Althing | 33 / 300 |
| Website | |
| http://www.kommúnistaflokkurinn.al | |
The Communist Party (Atlantican: Kommúnistaflokkurinn) is a large Communist party in Atlantica, and is currently the third-largest political party in Atlantica and a junior partner in a governing coalition with the Socialists (who are the senior partner in the coalition) and the Greens (who are fellow junior partner in the coalition, although the Greens have less cabinet positions than the Communists). Founded in 1880 as the Socialist Labour Party as the left-wing faction of the Socialist-Farmer-Labour Party split as the SFL entered into a confidence and supply agreements with the Liberals, from the 1880s to the 1910s the SLP was a catch-all party of the Atlantican radical left, ranging from Anarcho-communists to Orthodox Marxists, loosely united under DeLeonism, and the Communist-affiliated union federation the Revolutionary Confederation of Labour was the main challenger to the Socialist-affiliated union federation the Atlantican Federation of Labour (ASA); the RCL continues to be the second-largest national trade union centre in Atlantica after the ASA, although ironically the RCL opened to door for right-wing parties such as the Liberals and the Blues to create their own unions not affiliated with left-wing parties like the Socialists and Communists. In the 1910s and 1920, however, the SLP changed its name to the Communist Party and became more ideologically rigid and Communistic in nature, although non-Communist radical leftists such as anarcho-syndicalists and to a lesser extent Mutalists continued to be welcome in the Communist Party; since the 1980s, the Communist Party has become quite open to Mutualists and left-wing market anarchists, although all non-socialists are banned from entering into the Communist Party, and most Mutalists tend to join the Radical Anarchists and Pirates
The Atlantican Communist Party is considered to be one of the most successful Communist political parties in liberal democracies, and every time the Socialist-Farmer-Labourites or Communists have gotten into power, the SFL and Communists have been governing together in a Coalition.. The Communists are also notable for being one of the few non-Vanguardist and fundamentally libertarian socialist Communist parties in the world; the current Communist Party Constitution bans Marxist-Leninists (except Titoists) from entering the party and contains numerous references to anarchism and anarcho-communism, which it endorses. The current Communist Party is also the only Atlantican political party that supports Atlantican becoming a republic instead of the crowned republic it is today (although numerous factions in other parties endorse Republicanism) and as such is a member of the Republican Coalition.
The party's main support base includes blue-collar and pink-collar workers, as well as students (who the Communists are quite popular with). The Communists have also achieved something of a following among intellectuals, who the Communists are also quite popular with; leftist intellectuals have historically played prominent positions within the Communist Party.