| Marxist-Leninist Struggle League for the Communist Party of Sweden (M-L) | |
| Colorcode: | Red |
| Foundation: | 1970 |
| Dissolved: | 1981 |
| Ideology: | Marxism–Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought |
| Country: | Sweden |
Swedish: '''Marxist-Leninistiska Kampförbundet'''|italics=no (pronounced as /sv/; MLK; en|'''Marxist-Leninist Struggle League'''), full name Swedish: Marxist-leninistiska kampförbundet för Sveriges kommunistiska parti (m-l; en|"Marxist-Leninist Struggle League for the Communist Party of Sweden"), was a communist political organization in Sweden formed in 1970 by Swedish: Vänsterns Ungdomsförbund (Left Youth League), the youth organization of VPK. Within VUF several ultraleftist tendencies had surged during the 1960s, orientating it toward Maoism. VUF broke with VPK in 1968; in 1970, they formed MLK. MLK was ideologically almost identical with the larger KFML/SKP, with Marxism–Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought as the ideological backbone. MLK supported KFML/SKP in elections.
Notable former members include later Left Party leader Gudrun Schyman.[1]
MLK suffered a major split in 1972 when a group under leadership of Anders Carlberg (had been the chairman of VUF) left MLK and formed Swedish: [[Förbundet KOMMUNIST]] (League COMMUNIST).
MLK published Swedish: [[Stormklockan]], Swedish: Kommunistisk Tidskrift för marxistisk-leninistisk teori och praktik and Finnish: Suomalainen Stormklockan (in Finnish). The two latter ones were published between 1971 and 1978. Between 1980 and 1982, MLK and Kommunistisk Ungdom, the new VPK youth organisation, were involved in a legal dispute over the right to publish newspapers using the name Stormklockan, with MLK winning the dispute in the Court of Appeal for Western Sweden.[2]
MLK maintained four bookstores, named after Set Persson, in Stockholm, Trollhättan, Sundsvall and Kiruna.
In 1981, MLK unified itself with Röd Ungdom, the youth organization of SKP.