The Red Party is a communist political party in Norway. It was founded in March 2007 by a merger of the Red Electoral Alliance and the Workers' Communist Party. A marxist party, it has been described as left-wing and far-left on the political spectrum. In its political programme, the Red Party sets the creation of a classless society to be its ultimate goal, which the party says is "what Karl Marx called communism". The party's other goals are replacing capitalism with socialism, an expansive public sector and nationalisation of large enterprises. It has a revolutionary socialist ideology, which aims towards new legislatures taking power on behalf of the workers, though the party does not support violent armed revolution as espoused by its predecessors in the 1970s and 1980s. It strongly opposes Norway becoming a member of the European Union.
Dahle, the former leader of the Red Party
Marie Sneve Martinussen (left) together with former leader Bjørnar Moxnes (right)
Image: Torstein dahle
Image: Turid thomassen
2013 Norwegian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 8 and 9 September 2013 to elect all 169 members of the unicameral Storting. The centre-right coalition obtained 96 seats, while the incumbent red–green coalition government obtained 72 seats and the Green Party obtained one. The Labour Party won the largest share (30.8%) of the votes cast, with the Conservatives coming second (26.8%), after increasing its share by 9.6 percentage points.
Image: Norges statsminister Jens Stoltenberg vid Nordiska Radets session i Helsingfors 2008 10 28 (1)
Image: Erna Solberg, Wesenberg, 2011 (1)
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Image: Knut Arild Hareide (Kr F)