Party of Labour of Austria

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Party of Labour of Austria
Partei der Arbeit Österreichs
Leader[1]
Founded12 October 2013[1]
HeadquartersBennoplatz 6, Vienna Austria
NewspaperZeitung der Arbeit
Youth wingNone (coordinates with the Communist Youth of Austria)
Membership2013: approx. 100[2]
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism-Leninism
Euroscepticism
Political positionFar-left
European affiliationINITIATIVE
International affiliationIMCWP
ColoursRed
Website
http://www.parteiderarbeit.at/

The Party of Labour of Austria (German: Partei der Arbeit Österreichs, PdA) is a communist political party in Austria. PdA was founded on 12 October 2013 by the Communist Initiative, a Marxist-Leninist breakaway faction of the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ), who were dissatisfied with the party's ideological orientation.[1]

History[]

Communist Initiative was an internal group in the Communist Party of Austria, founded in 2004 to promote Marxist-Leninist ideas in the party.[1] The Initiative broke with the KPÖ in 2005, citing a lack of internal democracy.[1]

PdA's founding conference was attended by delegates from the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), Hungarian Workers' Party (Munkáspárt), German Communist Party (DKP), Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE), and Communist Party of Turkey (TKP).[2] The party has particularly close fraternal relations with the KKE. The founding conference was also attended by , the ambassador to Austria from Cuba.[2]

Elections[]

The PdA contested the elections for the Vienna City Council in 2015 in six different districts, namely Leopoldstadt, Favoriten, Simmering, Meidling, Ottakring and Donaustadt. All together the PdA gained 441 votes (between 0,1 and 0,18%). This was insufficient to gain a seat in any of the district councils. In 2020 the PdA only contested the Ottakring district, gaining 79 votes (0,21%).[3]

Party chairpersons[]

Name Period Notes
2013–2019
2019–

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e ""Wechsel in der Partei der Arbeit" (in German)". Young World. 20 January 2020. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Party of Labour of Austria founded! (in German)". labournetaustria.at. 14 October 2013. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
  3. ^ "16., Ottakring - Bezirksvertretungswahlen 2020, Ergebnisse der Wiener Wahlbehörden". www.wien.gv.at. Retrieved 14 October 2020.

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