Norway's Reds
Sub-title:
Electoral Work & Revolutionary Politics
Date & Time:
01/16/2008 - 19:30
Co-sponsor:
Co-sponsor: Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Description:
Rødt (translation: Red) is a new Norwegian political party, formed in March 2007 through a merger of the Workers Communist Party (AKP), the leading organization of the revolutionary left in Norway since the 1970s, and the Red Electoral Alliance (RV), a front initiated by the AKP but with a strongly independent character for the last two decades. The merger drew in other Norwegian radicals, and in the local elections in September had the strongest showing by the red left in a long time, increasing its share of municipal council seats from 57 to 66, retaining its 8 county council seats, and electing a mayor in the town of Risør. Rødt may well place representatives in the Storting, Norway's parliament, in the 2009 national elections.
Bios:
Arnljot Ask, the international representative of Rødt, and Peter M. Johansen, a reporter at Klassekampen (Class Struggle), the revolutionary socialist daily newspaper, will speak on the formation and role of the new party. They will address several topics of importance to revolutionaries here in the US, particularly how a party with a strong electoral component and elected officials can maintain a revolutionary approach in a wealthy country of the global North.
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