Since the Communist Party in Sweden was re-established in 1977, our party has used a logo consisting of gears, wheat ears and our initials. The colors have consisted of the red color of socialism and the blue-yellow Swedish colors.
This logo comes from another time, when our movement was entering Eurocommunism, when it was adapting to an existence in national capitalism. As the party continued down the beaten track, the revolutionaries who still remained succeeded in re-establishing our party, and the logo went with it.
Now we find ourselves in a time when the communist movement is weaker than it has been for a very long time and our international movement is characterized by ideological ambiguity, where many parties have continued to adapt, while others willingly make themselves tools in the intra-imperialist struggle by take a stand for the least evil.
Reality has placed a huge task on the communists' shoulders and we see it as our duty to carry it with dignity and faith in the future.
We have now decided to do that without our old logo, we have decided to continue the fight with the most obvious symbol of the communists: the hammer and sickle.
United under this symbol, millions of workers have struggled and we are proud to be able to continue our struggle under the same symbol as those who moved the wheels of history forward and made the future more tangible."
