The group that formed SKP (ml) was critical of the new leadership of the People's Republic of China, effectively under Deng Xiaoping.
SKP (ml) began publishing the magazine Kommunistiska Arbetartidningen in January 1981.
It had bilateral contacts with other maoist groups such as MLPD (Germany), AKP (m-l) (Norway) and KFML (Denmark).
SKP (ml)/SKA considered USA and the Soviet Union as equal threats to the revolutionary forces.
It supported the Solidarity movement in Poland, the mujahedin struggle in Afghanistan and opposed Vietnamese intervention in Cambodia.