It was founded in 2010, when almost the entire Västerbotten County section of the Socialist Justice Party (RS) broke off ahead of the 2010 general election.
The goal is to participate in building a new workers' party that establishes democratic control over the capitalist financial institutions and corporations that direct the economy.
[3] Party members have a history of conducting policies that benefit workers employed in public services such as healthcare and elderly care.
Elderly care workers and party members cooperated in organising four waves of warning strikes against cutbacks in 2000, 2001 and 2005.
Since the 2010 elections, a regular part in the party's policies has been to push for the need for investment in green industrial production.