SAMAK
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Cooperation Committee of the Nordic Workers' Movement | |
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| Abbreviation | SAMAK |
| President | Mette Frederiksen[1] |
| General Secretary | Antti Rinne |
| Chair of the Board | Kjersti Stenseng |
| Founded | 1886 |
| Headquarters | Youngstorget 2, 0181 Oslo |
| Ideology | Social democracy |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| European affiliation | Party of European Socialists |
| European Parliament group | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats |
| Nordic Council affiliation | The Social Democratic Group |
| Colours | Red |
| Nordic Council | 24 / 87 |
| Website | |
| samak.info | |
The Cooperation Committee of the Nordic Workers' Movement (Danish: Arbejderbevægelsens nordiske samarbejdskommitté, Finnish: Pohjoismaiden työläisliikkeen yhteistyökomitea, Norwegian Bokmål: Arbeiderbevegelsens nordiske samarbeidskomité, Swedish: Arbetarrörelsens nordiska samarbetskommitté), better known by its abbreviation SAMAK, is a social democratic European political alliance gathering parties and labour councils in Nordic countries.
SAMAK consists of all social democratic parties and trade union organisations in the Nordic countries, including in Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Åland. The current president of the committee as of 2024 is Mette Frederiksen, the leader of the Social Democrats and Prime Minister of Denmark. Antti Rinne is the general secretary, and Kjersti Stenseng the chair of the board.
The committee was formed during the first Scandinavian Workers' Congress in Gothenburg in 1886.
SAMAK holds a congress every four years, while the board meets four to six times per year.
Member organisations
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File:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark
File:Flag of the Faroe Islands.svg Faroe Islands
• Social Democratic Party
File:Flag of Greenland.svg Greenland
• Forward
File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland
File:Flag of Åland.svg Åland
• Åland Social Democrats
File:Flag of Iceland.svg Iceland
Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Mirja Österberg. 2019. "‘Norden’ as a Transnational Space in the 1930s: Negotiated Consensus of ‘Nordicness’ in the Nordic Cooperation Committee of the Labour Movement." in Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star: The Nordic Countries, 1700-2000. Berghahn.
See also
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[edit | edit source]External links
[edit | edit source]- Official website (in English)
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