Communist Workers' Party – For Peace and Socialism (Finnish: Kommunistinen Työväenpuolue – Rauhan ja Sosialismin puolesta, abbr.

[3][4] The final decision to find a new communist party was made in the autumn 1987 seminar held in Matinkylä.

The Central Committee of the KTP rejected after voting (18–9) a proposed membership in a new (electoral) party, Forces for Change in Finland (MVS), in which clearly right-wing elements were also going to participate.

The man behind the alliances, Esko Luukkonen, was discharged from all party responsibilities, and he along with the KTP Turku district organization later joined the League of Communists.

Many of Kim Jong-Il's writings have also been published by the KTP, and the party members have participated in the Finnish Society for the Study of the Juche Idea [fi].

[citation needed] The KTP holds party congresses in which the official delegates choose the members of the important Central Committee.

The candidates of the KTP in the parliamentary elections have failed to get the attention of voters and the party has managed to gather only a few thousand votes.

Työkansan Sanomat [fi] (TKS), which appears fifteen times a year, is the official print publication of the KTP.

[6] On the Helsinki area Lähiradio radio station, the KTP has a weekly program called Työväen puolituntinen.