Socialist Workers Party (Denmark)

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Socialist Workers Party
Socialistisk Arbejderparti
Ideology Trotskyism
Communism
Political position Far-left
National affiliation Red–Green Alliance
International affiliation Fourth International
Colours Red

Socialist Workers Party (Danish : Socialistisk Arbejderparti), now known as Socialist Workers Politics (Danish: Socialistisk Arbejderpolitik), is a Trotskyist political party in Denmark. SAP is the Danish section of the (reunified) Fourth International, and was founded in 1979 as a continuation of Revolutionære Socialisters Forbund (RSF) - Revolutionary Socialists' League. [1]

SAP was a co-founder of the Red-Green Alliance in 1989 and its members are active within the Alliance.

SAP publishes the quarterly Socialistisk Information (SI).

In 2014 SAP replaced "Party" with "Politics" in their name, as they no longer contested elections. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Kristensen, Kim (1 December 2014). "Socialistisk Arbejderparti skifter navn". Information (in Danish). Retrieved 17 June 2019.