Maoist Movement Launched in Iceland
How One Icelander Remembers 1976 – China’s Year of the Fire Dragon by Sofia McFarland
The modern anti-revisionist movement in Iceland was born out a radical left organization known as the Communist Movement (M-L) (Kommúnistahreyfingin M-L) (KHML). It became the Kommúnistasamtökin marxistarnir-lenínistarnir (KSML). on August 5th-7th 1972. Then, in April 1976 it was dissolved at the founding convention of the Communist Party of Iceland (M-L) / KFI (ML) / Kommunistaflokkurb Islands (M-L). In July 1976 30 delegates produced the Programme of the Communist Party of Iceland Marxist-Leninist.
In 1980 the KFI (ML) fused with Communist League of Union (ML) EIK (ML) to form the Communist Union/Kommúnistasamtökin / KS.
Maoist Movement Launched in Iceland
Communist Party of Iceland (ML) On the Passing of Chairman Mao
Interview with Kristjan Gúdlaugsson
The Communist League of Union (Marxist–Leninist) Einingarsamtök kommúnista (marx-lenínistar)) was formed in 1974, mainly by Icelandic students who had studied in Norway. The party's chairman was Ari Trausti Guðmundsson.
From 1975 the EIK (ML)/KS published the newspaper Verkalýðsblaðið (the Working People's paper).
1980 saw the fusion of EIK (ML) with the Communist Party of Iceland (Marxist–Leninist) to form the Communist Union/Kommúnistasamtökin / KS.