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32-532: It was formed in 1994 as a successor party to the Communist Party of Latvia , which was banned in 1991. According to the "programme of the party", the LSP was founded as an organization upholding socialist ideas after the 1991 events that the party describes as a "counter-revolutionary bourgeois-nationalist coup". The current CEOs of the party are Bokišs Fridijs, Burlaks Ingars and Frolovs Vladimirs. Between 1999 and 2015,

64-789: A major change in the current law, which only gives automatic citizenship to descendants of people who were citizens of the Republic of Latvia before it was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940, and requires the Soviet citizens who moved to Latvia between 1940 and 1990 (mainly Russians), to go through a naturalization process. In the election held on 5 October 2002, the party was part of the For Human Rights in United Latvia ( Latvian : Par cilvēka tiesībām vienotā Latvijā ) coalition that won 19.0% of

96-575: The Democratic Labour Party of Latvia ( Latvian : Latvijas Demokrātiskā darba partija , LDDP) and adopted nominally social-democratic platform. Following Latvia's renewed independence from the Soviet Union, the LKP was banned by a decision of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Latvia on 10 September 1991 as an organisation deemed hostile to Latvia's independence. In October of that year,

128-727: The Latvian Central Council resistance group. When many Latvians left Latvia during World War II , the LSDSP was restored as an "exile organization", operating in Sweden since 1945, and later in other Western countries. The Swedish-based section - the LSDSP Foreign Committee (LSDSP ĀK) - managed to secure its observer status at the Socialist International during its existence. When Latvia became independent again in 1991,

160-622: The Social Democracy of the Latvian Territory in 1915. Once Latvia became independent, LSDSP was one of the two most influential political parties (along with the Latvian Farmers' Union ). LSDSP held 57 out of 150 seats in the 1920 Constitutional Assembly (Satversmes Sapulce). It won the most seats in each of four parliamentary elections of that period (31 out of 100 in 1922 , 33 in 1925 , 26 in 1928 and 21 in 1931 ). The leader of

192-531: The "Left Trade Unions". The list won five seats, but was banned in 1930. They reformed the following year to contest the next elections as the "Trade Union Workers and Peasants Group", winning six seats. However, in 1933 the Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of the party, and its MPs were arrested and charged with treason. In 1936, a youth organization parallel to the LKJS, Workers' Youth League of Latvia (LDJS),

224-517: The 1940s and '50s: Padomju Latvijas Boļševiks ), with a parallel edition in Russian ( Kommunist Sovetskoi Latvii , ISSN   0321-2092 ). The journal ceased publication in 1990. Latvian Social Democratic Workers%27 Party The Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party ( Latvian : Latvijas Sociāldemokrātiskā strādnieku partija , LSDSP) is a social-democratic political party in Latvia and

256-572: The 1990s later became Neatkarīgā Rīta Avīze . The Russian-language sister publication to Cīņa published by the LKP was the daily Sovetskaya Latviya (Soviet Latvia); while the daily Padomju Jaunatne (Soviet Youth) was the newspaper of the Latvian Young Communist League. In the Latvian SSR, the LKP also published a monthly political journal Padomju Latvijas Komunists (Communist of Soviet Latvia, ISSN   0132-6430 ; in

288-902: The CPSU(b) was renamed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1952, the Latvian branch was reconstituted under the old name LKP. Article 6 of the Latvian SSR Constitution (1978) made the LKP's monopoly on political power in Soviet Latvia explicit. In 1990, the Supreme Council of the Republic of Latvia (formerly the Latvian SSR Supreme Soviet , now dominated by the Latvian Popular Front ) voted to remove Article 6 from

320-589: The Constitution. On 14 April 1990, a pro-independence faction under Ivars Ķezbers split off from the LKP to form the Independent Communist Party of Latvia ( Latvian : Latvijas Neatkarīgā komunistiskā partija ). The main body of the LKP, under the chairmanship of Alfrēds Rubiks , remained loyal to Moscow and the CPSU leadership. Later that same year, on 14 September, Ķezbers's party was officially renamed

352-536: The LSDSP returned to Latvia. In the early 1990s, it struggled with internal splits. At one point, Latvia had three social democratic parties, two of them being descendants of the LSDSP, and the third being the reformed faction of the former Communist Party of Latvia ( LSDP ). Eventually, all three parties merged, under the name of the LSDSP. The merged party enjoyed some success in the parliamentary election of 1998 , winning 14 seats out of 100; and in local elections in 2001, when one of its members, Gundars Bojārs , became

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384-489: The LSDSP, Pauls Kalniņš , was speaker of the Latvian parliament from 1925 to 1934. The party itself, however, would often be in opposition because of many smaller right-wing parties forming coalition governments , typically led by the Latvian Farmers' Union . The party was a member of the Labour and Socialist International between 1923 and 1940, and was admitted into the modern Socialist International in 1994. The LSDSP

416-486: The LSDSP, as the party got 3.5% of votes and thus got no representation in the parliament once again. For the 2010 parliamentary election , the LSDSP formed the Responsibility Alliance with smaller parties, but their performance was poor, receiving less than 1% of the vote. In January 2011, Aivars Timofejevs  [ lv ] , who was supported by the outgoing leader Jānis Dinevičs  [ lv ] ,

448-579: The Saeima representing the Socialist Party, elected on a joint list with Harmony . The LSP is more popular among the Russian-speaking population of Latvia. It places a high priority on issues important to ethnic Russians , such as language and citizenship laws. The party also believes that Latvian citizenship should be granted to all citizens of the former USSR living in Latvia in 1990. This would entail

480-500: The Socialist Party. In 2011, HC won 31 seats, with the Socialists receiving three seats ( Artūrs Rubiks , Raimonds Rubiks and Igors Zujevs ). The party did not contest the 2014 parliamentary election , however, all three of its outgoing MPs were placed on the SDPS list and were members of the "12th Saeima" (2014–2018). The same strategy was used in the 2018 election , but only Artūrs Rubiks

512-545: The Soviet occupation of 1940, nearly instantly being banned and driven underground by the Soviet and, later, Nazi occupiers. Some Social Democrats briefly collaborated with the Soviets (e.g. Ansis Rudevics  [ lv ] ), however, many, including leaders Fricis Menders  [ lv ] and Brūno Kalniņš , joined with other democratic politicians and called for the restoration of democratic Latvian statehood. LSDSP members, like Pauls Kalniņš and others, were involved with

544-493: The Soviet staged 1940 elections , which it did under the aegis of the "Latvian Working People's Bloc" ( Latvian : Latviešu darba tautas bloks ) installed by the Communists themselves. The party later merged into the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) . As the Latvian branch of CPSU(b) it was renamed as Communist Party of Latvia (Bolshevik) ( Latvian : Latvijas Komunistiskā (boļševiku) partija , (LK(b)P). When

576-508: The aftermath of the Latvian War of Independence , the LKP was banned in Latvia. Its leadership resided in exile in the USSR , while the organisation in Latvia operated clandestinely, either through underground cells , or via proxy organisations, such as "Red" leftist trades unions. In 1928 the party started operating more openly, and contested the 1928 Saeima elections through a proxy list known as

608-568: The mayor of Riga . It was less successful in the next legislative election , held on 5 October 2002, where it got only 4% of the vote, and did not make the 5% minimum to get seats. The decline of the LSDSP's popularity continued as the party lost the mayor's seat in Riga in the 2005 municipal election (keeping 7 seats in the Riga City Council but forced into the opposition). The parliamentary election of 2006 brought even more dissatisfying results for

640-564: The official newspaper of the Communist Party of Latvia Cīņa , was shut down and banned. Later, an organization by the name of the League of Communists of Latvia was created by Albert Lebedev. However, registration to this organization was denied. In 1993, it was indicated that the League of Communists of Latvia became affiliated to the Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union . Since then

672-645: The party has operated underground and under "certain conditions". In 1994, the Socialist Party of Latvia was founded as the successor to the LKP. Cīņa (Struggle) was a newspaper founded in March 1904 as the Central Organ of the Latvian Social-Democrats. It was published periodically in Riga, Brussels and Petrograd. From 1919 it was the organ of the Communist Party of Latvia. While the LKP leadership

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704-717: The party, when on June 1 it joined the Union of Greens and Farmers (ZZS) after the Latvian Green Party had left the alliance, as the second member of ZZS is the Farmer's Union, LSDSP's main rival in the 1920s and 1930s. In the 2022 elections , the party managed to get two of its members elected on the ZZS list, marking a return to the Saeima after an absence of 20 years. In 2012, the Socialist International demoted LSDSP to observer member for not paying membership fees. The party

736-589: The popular vote and 25 out of 100 seats, 5 of those seats went to Socialist Party. The party was a member of this alliance of predominantly Russian-speaking parties from 1998 to 2003. Today, the party's platform is centered on anti-corruption and promoting an independent Latvia that is outside the European Union . In 2005, the LSP entered the Harmony Centre coalition, which won 17 seats in the 2006 election. Four of these 17 parliament members were representatives of

768-653: The position was held by Alfrēds Rubiks , once mayor of Riga and later, leader of the unionist movement and head of the Latvian Communist Party (CPSU platform). He was imprisoned for six years in 1991, on charges of participating in a coup d'état against the Latvian authorities in August 1991. He is not one of the party's members in the Saeima (Latvian Parliament) since he is not allowed to contest elections. However, his sons Artūrs Rubiks and Raimonds Rubiks are members of

800-472: The second oldest existing Latvian political party after the Latvian Farmers' Union . It is currently represented with two seats in the parliament of Latvia as a part of the Union of Greens and Farmers alliance after an absence of 20 years. The party tends to hold a less Russophilic view than fellow social-democratic party "Harmony" . The Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party was founded on 17 June 1918, by Menshevik elements who had been expelled from

832-531: Was banned after the 1934 coup by Kārlis Ulmanis , together with all other political parties. Around 320 prominent members were briefly interned in the Liepāja Concentration Camp and then released. After the coup, the party loosely merged with the Latvian Communist Party from 1937 to 1940 as the Socialist Workers and Peasants Party of Latvia and went underground, only to re-emerge briefly after

864-417: Was elected as party chairman. He defeated Ansis Dobelis , who was more aligned with youth activist circles and later formed The Progressives . His tenure did not improve the party's performance, with the LSDSP not running in the 2014 parliamentary election . By 2017, Dinēvičs had returned to lead the party. At the 2018 election , the party received just 0,21% of the vote. 2022 brought a historic turn for

896-547: Was elected. The party gained a seat within the Harmony list for the 2020 Riga City Council election , with Artūrs Rubiks' older brother Raimonds Rubiks being elected. Communist Party of Latvia The Communist Party of Latvia ( Latvian : Latvijas Komunistiskā partija , LKP) was a political party in Latvia . The party was founded at a congress in June 1904. Initially the party

928-559: Was formed as a cooperative effort by the LKP and their former rivals, the erstwhile Menshevik Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party , outlawed following the Ulmanis coup d'état in 1934 . After the Soviet occupation of Latvia in June 1940 and the ousting of the Ulmanis government, the LKP and LDJS were legalised again and could operate openly. It was the only party de facto allowed to contest in

960-694: Was founded by the Menshevik elements who had been expelled from the LSD. The party briefly governed the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic in 1919; and changed its name to the Communist Party of Latvia in March 1919; 7,500 members in 1919. The youth wing of the party was the Young Communist League of Latvia (LKJS). The LKP was a member of the Comintern (Third International) from 1919. In

992-792: Was in exile in the USSR during the interwar years and the Nazi occupation in World War II, Cīņa was published in the Russian SFSR . From 1940 onwards it was published in Riga. In the Latvian SSR, Cīņa was one of the main Latvian-language dailies. In 1990, when the Ķezbers faction split from the main LKP to form the Independent Communists, they changed the name of the newspaper to Neatkarīgā Cīņa (The Independent Struggle), which after privatisation in

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1024-855: Was known as the Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party (LSDSP). During its second party congress in 1905 it adopted the programme of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) as its own. At the Fourth Congress of the RSDLP in 1906, the LSDSP entered the RSDLP as a territorial organisation, and after the congress its name was changed to Social-Democracy of the Latvian Territory . The party held its fourth congress in Brussels from 26 January to 8 February 1914. In May 1918 Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party

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