Nordic green left refers to a specific brand of socialism from the Nordic countries that incorporates elements of environmentalism and feminism. Nordic green left parties are organized in:
- a subgroup of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left-group (EUL–NGL) in the European parliament called Nordic Green Left, in this the Finnish Left Alliance and the Swedish Left Party participate as full members, the Norwegian Socialist Left Party participates as an observer and the Danish Socialist People's Party has participated in the past.
- an alliance of political parties called Nordic Green Left Alliance (NGLA), which consists out of all aforementioned parties and the Left-Green Movement. The NGLA participates as an observer in the Party of the European Left, which is the other subgroup of the UEL/NGL.
Famous quotes containing the words green and/or left:
“I’ll dance above your green, green grave
Where you do lie beneath.””
—Unknown. The Brown Girl (l. 59–60)
“We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
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