Communist Party of Luxembourg
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Communist Party of Luxembourg
Kommunistesch Partei Lëtzebuerg |
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| Founded | 2 January 1921 |
| Headquarters | B.p. 403, Esch-sur-Alzette |
| Newspaper | Zeitung vum Lëtzebuerger Vollek www.zlv.lu |
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| Ideology | Communism |
| Official colors | Red |
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| Website http://www.kp-l.org/ |
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The Communist Party of Luxembourg (Luxembourgish: Kommunistesch Partei Lëtzebuerg, French: Parti Communiste Luxembourgeois, German: Kommunistische Partei Luxemburg), abbreviated to KPL or PCL, is a political party in Luxembourg.
Ali Ruckert is the current chairman of the party.
[edit] History
Founded on 2 January 1921 in the town of Niederkorn, the KPL was launched, making it one of the oldest parties in Luxembourg.
Following the end of the Second World War, the party joined the National Union Government (1945 – 7). Its first minister was Charles Marx. After Marx's death, in a car accident in 1946, he was replaced by Dominique Urbany. However, after the death of the leader of the LSAP, the coalition collapsed. With the principle of an all-inclusive government gone, the KPL was excluded from the next government, and never returned another member to the cabinet.
In 1964, the United States State Department estimated the party membership to be approximately 500.[1] In legislative elections held in the same year, the party registered 12.4% of the vote, and won 5 of the Chamber of Deputies' 56 seats. The party's representation in the Chamber peaked at the following election, with six deputies, but fell, until the KPL lost its last remaining deputy in 1994.
In 1999, many party members were co-founders of the Left (Luxembourgish: Déi Lénk). Accordingly KPL members ran on the Déi Lénk lists in the 1999 and 2000 elections and no separate KPL lists existed. After disputes between leading KPL members and a majority within Déi Lénk shortly before the 2004 elections the party again ran separate lists. A number of Déi Lénk members were subsequently expelled from the Communist Party.
[edit] References
- ^ Benjamin, Roger W.; Kautsky, John H. (March 1968). "Communism and Economic Development". American Political Science Review 62 (1): 122.
[edit] External links
- kp-l.org (Party website)
- Zeitung vum Lëtzebuerger Vollek (newspaper aligned with the Communist Party of Luxembourg)
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