Communist Party of Switzerland


Communist Party of Switzerland, known as the "Old Communists", was a historical Communist party, section of the Communist International.
The Party originated from a group of dissidents who were expelled from the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland in 1918. Fritz Platten was a central leader in the new Party. Bulgarian communist Solomon Goldstein was among the founders.
The Swiss Communist Party was banned in 1940 because of their support of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and the Third Reich. In 1944 some of its leading members founded the Swiss Party of Labour to replace the old Communist Party.

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