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.
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“By many a legendary tale of violence and wrong, as well as by events which have passed before their eyes, these people have been taught to look upon white men with abhorrence.... I can sympathize with the spirit which prompts the Typee warrior to guard all the passes to his valley with the point of his levelled spear, and, standing upon the beach, with his back turned upon his green home, to hold at bay the intruding European.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
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—Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)