SAMAK

The Cooperation Committee of the Nordic Workers' Movement (Template:Langx, Template:Langx, Norwegian Template:Langx, Template:Langx), 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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The red rose, a common symbol of social democracy. Nearly all member parties use the red rose as their logo or symbol.

• Danish Trade Union Confederation
• Social Democrats

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     • Social Democratic Party

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     • Forward

• Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions
• Social Democratic Party of Finland

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     • Åland Social Democrats

• Icelandic Confederation of Labour
• Social Democratic Alliance

• Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions
• Labour Party

• Swedish Trade Union Confederation
• Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party

Further reading

• 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

• The Social Democratic Group

External links

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