The Cooperation Committee of the Nordic Worker's Movement (Danish: Arbejderbevægelsens nordiske samarbejdskommitté, Finnish: Pohjoismaiden työläisliikkeen yhteistyökomitea, Norwegian Bokmål: Arbeiderbevegelsens nordiske samarbeidskomité, Swedish: Arbetarrörelsens nordiska samarbetskommitté), better known by its abbreviation SAMAK, is an alliance of 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 current President of the Committee as of 2021 is Jonas Gahr Støre, the leader of the Norwegian Labour Party and Prime Minister of Norway. Jan-Erik Støstad is the General Secretary, and Kjersti Stenseng is 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
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
References
External links
- Official website (in English)
- "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.