from NATO and the EC. On the back of rising disaffection with the EC and increased popularity amongst student movements, the DKP regained parliamentary representation in 1973 election, achieving 3.6% of the vote and 6 seats. The DKP fell out of parliament once again in the 1979 parliamentary election, and suffered several high-profile defections in the waning years of the Soviet Union, including that of party chairman Ole Sohn, who was expelled in 1991 and later joined the Socialist People's Party. After the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc In 1989, the DKP joined with two other left-wing parties, the Left Socialists and the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party, to form the Unity List – The Red-Green Alliance (). Gert Petersen, then-chairman of the Socialist People's Party, claimed at the time that cooperation between such diffuse ideological currents would fail. Not all members of the DKP anticipated the launching of the Unity List either, and some chose to split with the party in 1990 to create a new communist party, the Communist Party in Denmark (KPiD). The Unity List has been a cause of political strife in relation to Danish communists ever since. There are several issues, the two main ones being dual membership and communist unity. The DKP reorganized heavily in 1992, severing the party's links with the international communist movement and officially changing its purpose from a political organ to a network-oriented organization. At the same time, the Unity List changed from a political coalition to a regular independent membership-based political party. The Unity List achieved parliamentary representation in the 1994 parliamentary election, winning 6 seats, 2 of which were held by members who were also DKP members. The Unity List has been represented continually in parliament since. The DKP revived its former contact with the international communist movement by joining the annual International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties in 2002. Since 2009, DKP has been represented in local municipal and regional elections, often in a merge with KPiD and KP, two other Danish Communist parties. Organization Press The DKP issued the newspaper (Land and People) from 1919 to 1982. In the early 1920s, the party's newspaper was named ("The Worker's Paper") and had a circulation of approximately 6,000, but this dropped to around 4,000 by the late 1920s. Circulation began to climb again starting in the 1930s, rising to 7,000 in 1935 and 12,000 by 1940. Beginning in