{{short description|Nordic social-democratic European political alliance}} {{More citations needed|date=March 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}} {{Infobox political party | name = Cooperation Committee of the Nordic Workers' Movement | native_name = {{native name|da|Arbejderbevægelsens nordiske samarbejdskommitté}}<br>{{native name|nb|Arbeiderbevegelsens nordiske samarbeidskomité}}<br>{{native name|nn|Arbeidarrørsla si nordiske samarbeidskomité}}<br>{{native name|sv|Arbetarrörelsens nordiska samarbetskommitté}}<br>{{native name|fi|Pohjoismaiden työläisliikkeen yhteistyökomitea}} | logo = SAMAK logo.png{{!}}class=skin-invert | logo_size = 180px | colorcode = {{party color|SAMAK}} | abbreviation = SAMAK | headquarters = Youngstorget 2, 0181 Oslo | president = Mette Frederiksen<ref>https://samak.info/</ref> | leader1_title = Chair of the Board | leader1_name = Kjersti Stenseng | general_secretary = Antti Rinne | founded = 1886 | ideology = Social democracy | position = Centre-left | colours = {{color box|{{party color|SAMAK}}|border=darkgray}} Red | seats1_title = Nordic Council | seats1 = {{composition bar|24|87|hex={{party color|SAMAK}}}} | european = Party of European Socialists | europarl = Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats | affiliation1_title = Nordic Council affiliation | affiliation1 = The Social Democratic Group | website = [https://samak.info/ samak.info] | country = the European Union }}
The '''Cooperation Committee of the Nordic Workers' Movement''' ({{langx|da|Arbejderbevægelsens nordiske samarbejdskommitté}}, {{langx|fi|Pohjoismaiden työläisliikkeen yhteistyökomitea}}, Norwegian {{langx|nb|Arbeiderbevegelsens nordiske samarbeidskomité}}, {{langx|sv|Arbetarrörelsens nordiska samarbetskommitté}}), better known by its abbreviation '''SAMAK''', is a social democratic European political alliance gathering parties and labour councils in 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 2024 is Mette Frederiksen, the leader of the Social Democrats and Prime Minister of Denmark. Antti Rinne is the general secretary, and Kjersti Stenseng the 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== [[File:Red rose 02.svg|thumb|right|175px|The red rose, a common symbol of social democracy. Nearly all member parties use the red rose as their logo or symbol.]]
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{{flag|Denmark}} * Danish Trade Union Confederation * Social Democrats
{{flag|Faroe Islands}}<br> • Social Democratic Party
{{flag|Greenland}}<br> • Forward
{{flag|Finland}} * Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions * Social Democratic Party of Finland
{{flag|ALA|name=Åland}}<br> • Åland Social Democrats
{{flag|Iceland}} * Icelandic Confederation of Labour * Social Democratic Alliance
{{flag|Norway}} * Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions * Labour Party
{{flag|Sweden}} * Swedish Trade Union Confederation * Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party {{div col end}}
==Further reading== * Mirja Österberg. 2019. "[https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvw048qk ‘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== *The Social Democratic Group
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{official website|https://samak.info}} {{in lang|en}} *{{cite web|title=The Joint Committee of the Nordic Social Democratic Labour Movement (SAMAK)|url=http://www.pes.eu/en/content/joint-committee-nordic-social-democratic-labour-movement-samak|publisher=Party of European Socialists|access-date=20 December 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130213063813/http://www.pes.eu/en/content/joint-committee-nordic-social-democratic-labour-movement-samak|archive-date=13 February 2013}}
{{Political organisations at European Union level}}
Category:Social democratic parties in Europe Category:Social Democrats (Denmark) Category:Social Democratic Party of Finland Category:Social Democratic Alliance Category:Labour Party (Norway) Category:Swedish Social Democratic Party Category:Nordic organizations Category:Nordic politics Category:European political alliances
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