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Communist Party of Finland Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue

Abbreviation	SKP
Founded	29 August 1918 (1918-08-29)
Legalized	1944
Dissolved	1992 (1992)
Split from	Social Democratic Party of Finland
Succeeded by	Left Alliance Communist Party of Finland (1994)
Youth wing	Young Communist League of Finland, Democratic Youth League of Finland
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism (until 1970s) Eurocommunism (from 1970s) Factions: Taistoism (until 1980s)
Political position	Far-left
National affiliation	Finnish People's Democratic League (SKDL)
International affiliation	Comintern
Colors	Red
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The Communist Party of Finland (Finnish: Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue, SKP; Swedish: Finlands Kommunistiska Parti) was a communist political party in Finland. The SKP was a section of Comintern and illegal in Finland until 1944.

The SKP was banned by the state from its founding^[1] and did not participate in any elections with its own name. Instead, front organisations were used. In the 1920s the communists took part in the Socialist Workers' Party of Finland (1920–1923) and the Socialist Electoral Organisation of Workers and Smallholders (1924–1930). Both of them were also banned. In 1944, a new front, Finnish People's Democratic League was formed. The SKP controlled these fronts but they always had a prominent minority of non-communist socialists.

^ Saarela, Tauno (1996). Suomalaisen kommunismin synty 1918–1923 (in Finnish). Kansan Sivistystyön Liitto. pp. 23–24, 161. ISBN 951-9455-55-8.