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In 1978 a pro- Albania n group had broken away from the Communist Party Of Sweden . This group formed '' Norrköpings Kommunistiska Förening '' (Communist Association of Norrköping). In 1979 NKF merged with Stockholms Kommunistiska Enhetsgrupp to form ''Sveriges Kommunistiska Förbund - ml'' (Communist League of Sweden - ml). The magaizne ''Kommunisten'' started publication in 1979 . SKF-ml founded ''Organisationen för skapandet av Kommunistiska Partiet i Sverige'' (Organization for the creation of the Communist Party in Sweden) in October 1981 . This organization later gave birth to KPS.

The leader of KPS was Gösta Torstensson.

The youth league of KPS was called ''Ungkommunisterna i Sverige'' (Young Communists in Sweden). KPS maintained a publishing house called ''Kommunistiska Arbetarförlaget'' (Communist Workers Publishing House).

A series of expulsions 1983 - 1984 led to the refoundation of the NKF .

KPS considered parties like VPK , APK and KPML(r) as Revionist . The latter was described as the "left-wing alibi of Moscow in Sweden". KPS urged communists to struggle against both USA and USSR .

Gradually KPS started to distance itself from the Albanian line, somewhat similar to the development of the Nicaragua n MAP-ML .

In 1989 KPS suffered a major split, with a large section leaving the party. The splinters started a magazine called '' Vänstertidningen '' (Left Magazine), which was supposed to be a broader non-party marxist, socialist and ecologist forum. It disappeared rapidly.

The publication ''Kommunisten'' was later fused with ''Kommunistiska Arbetartidningen'' of '' Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti (Marxist-Leninisterna) '' to form ''Nya Arbetartidningen''.


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