Communist Party of Finland (1994)

Communist Party of Finland Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue (Finnish) Finlands kommunistiska parti (Swedish)
Abbreviation	SKP
Chairperson	Liisa Taskinen
General Secretary	Tiina Sandberg
Vice chair	Jiri Mäntysalo
Founded	1984 (SKP organizations) 1986 (SKP Unity) 1994 (new SKP)
Registered	1997
Split from	Communist Party of Finland
Headquarters	Viljatie 4 B, 00700 Helsinki
Newspaper	Tiedonantaja
Youth wing	Communist Youth of Finland
Membership (2013)	c. 2,000–3,000[1]
Ideology	Communism Marxism-Leninism
Political position	Far-left
European affiliation	Party of the European Left
International affiliation	IMCWP[2]
Colors	White   Red   Crimson
Eduskunta	0 / 200
European Parliament	0 / 15
Municipalities	0 / 8,859
County seats	0 / 1,379
Website
www.skp.fi/english
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The Communist Party of Finland (Finnish: Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue, abbr. SKP; Swedish: Finlands kommunistiska parti, abbr. FKP) or New Communist Party of Finland (Finnish: Uusi Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue, abbr. USKP; Swedish: Finlands nya kommunistiska parti, abbr. FNKP) is a political party in Finland. It was founded in the mid-1980s as Communist Party of Finland (Unity) (Finnish: Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue (yhtenäisyys), abbr. SKPy; Swedish: Finlands kommunistiska parti (enhet), abbr. FKP(e)) by the former opposition of the old Communist Party of Finland (1918–1992). SKP has never been represented in the Parliament of Finland, but the party has had local councillors in some municipalities, including the city councils of major cities such as Helsinki and Tampere. SKP claims 2,500 members.

The party has been officially registered since 1997. In the 1980s, when the opposition and the organizations it controlled were expelled from the SKP led by Arvo Aalto, the SKPy, however, chose not to register since they considered themselves the real SKP and claimed Aalto had illegally taken control of the party. The courts later ruled all the expulsions illegal.^{[citation needed]}