SAMAK
SAMAK (Arbejderbevægelsens nordiske samarbejdskommitté), or the Joint Committee of the Nordic Social Democratic Labour Movement,[1] assembles the social democratic parties and labour councils in the 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 President of the committee is Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the Prime Minister of Denmark and chairman of the Danish Social Democrats.[1] Inger Segelström is the General Secretary.[1]
The committee was formed during the first Scandinavian Workers' Congress in Gothenburg in 1886.
SAMAK holds a congress every four years.
Member organisations
The red rose, a common symbol of social democracy. Nearly all member parties use the red rose as their logo or symbol.
- Denmark
- Danish Trade Union Confederation
- Siumut (Greenland)
- Social Democratic Party (Faroe Islands)
- Social Democrats
- Finland
- Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions
- Social Democratic Party of Finland
- Åland Social Democrats (Åland)
- Iceland
- Norway
- Sweden
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.
References
- "The Joint Committee of the Nordic Social Democratic Labour Movement (SAMAK)". Party of European Socialists. Archived from the original on 13 February 2013. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
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