Marie-Sophie Nielsen was a Danish

Denmark

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 communist leader who was a founding member of the Danish Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Party of Denmark.

Political career

From 1916 to 1918 Nielsen was a key member of the Danish Social Democratic Party

Social Democrats (Denmark)

The Social Democrats , is a Danish political party committed to the political ideology of social democracy. It is the major coalition partner in Denmark's government since the 2011 parliamentary election, and party leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt is the current Prime Minister of Denmark...

, sitting on that organization's directing committee.

In March 1918, Nielsen was a participant in the establishment of the Danish Socialist Workers Party, a left-wing offshoot of the Social Democratic Party which favored affiliation with the Communist International.

Neilson became a founding member of the Communist Party of Denmark

Communist Party of Denmark

Communist Party of Denmark is a communist political party in Denmark which was founded as Venstresocialistiske Parti in 1919. VSP was a split from the Danish Social Democratic Party. The party assumed its present name in 1920...

 (CPD) in 1920. The same year she was a delegate representing the Communist Teachers Club to the 2nd World Congress of the Comintern

2nd World Congress of the Comintern

The 2nd World Congress of the Comintern was a gathering of approximately 220 voting and non-voting representatives of Communist and revolutionary socialist political parties from around the world, held in Petrograd and Moscow from July 19 to August 7, 1920...

, held in Petrograd

Saint Petersburg

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 and Moscow

Moscow

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.

In 1928 she was expelled by the Communist Party for not supporting the campaign against Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky , born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army....

.

Nielsen was readmitted to the CPD in 1932 but was expelled again in 1936.

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