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Communist Party of Canada The Communist Party of Canada (, CPC/PCC) is a communist political party in Canada founded in 1921 under conditions of illegality. Although it is now a political party without any elected political representation, the party's candidates have been elected to the Parliament of Canada, the Ontario legislature, the Manitoba legislature, and various municipal governments across the country. The party has also contributed significantly to trade union organizing and labour history in Canada, peace and anti-war activism, and many other social movements. The Communist Party of Canada is the second oldest active party after the Liberal Party
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known as the Ludlow Massacre. Evans returned to Canada and continued his union activism. He was the leader of the One Big Union local of coal miners in Drumheller, Alberta, where he was sentenced to a three-year prison term for leading a strike. In 1933 he was sentenced again to 18 months for his role leading miners, this time in Princeton, British Columbia. Evans, along with other former wobblies, became a member of the Communist Party of Canada after it formed in 1921. Perhaps his greatest notoriety came in 1935 when, as leader of the Communist Party's trade union umbrella,
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Canada. In 1921, Simpson also revived the Canadian Labour Party. The CLP was intended to be an umbrella organization for the various labour parties throughout the country. It formed alliances with the Federated Labour Party, Ontario Labour Party, Dominion Labour Party and other groups, including local labour councils, (although not with the Manitoba ILP). The Alberta wing of the CLP was founded in 1922. Between 1922 and 1924, the provincial and city branches of the Workers Party of Canada (the legal face of the Communist Party of Canada) also joined the CLP. It was never a strong central organization, however,
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Communist Party of Canada The Communist Party of Canada (, CPC/PCC) is a communist political party in Canada founded in 1921 under conditions of illegality. Although it is now a political party without any elected political representation, the party's candidates have been elected to the Parliament of Canada, the Ontario legislature, the Manitoba legislature, and various municipal governments across the country. The party has also contributed significantly to trade union organizing and labour history in Canada, peace and anti-war activism, and many other social movements. The Communist Party of Canada is the second oldest active party after the Liberal Party
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of the Liberal vote in the constituency allowed the Conservative to win. The other candidates barely made a showing. The party also ran candidates in 1917 but made little impact. Many of them went on to join the Dominion Labour Party (founded in 1919) and the Canadian Labour Party (founded in 1921). Some became members of the Communist parties being established around 1920. Charles O'Brien helped found the Communist Party of the USA. Socialist Party of Alberta The Socialist Party of Alberta was a provincial branch of the Socialist Party of Canada. The party formed out of a socialist movement
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socialist and ultimately communist society. The party ran 28 candidates in the 2015 federal election under the slogan, "Dump Harper! For fundamental change, Vote Communist". Party leader Miguel Figueroa ran in the Ontario riding of Davenport. Communist Party of Canada The Communist Party of Canada (, CPC/PCC) is a communist political party in Canada founded in 1921 under conditions of illegality. Although it is now a political party without any elected political representation, the party's candidates have been elected to the Parliament of Canada, the Ontario legislature, the Manitoba legislature, and various municipal governments across the country. The party has
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formed the Communist Party of Spain. Spanish Communist Party The Spanish Communist Party (in ), was the first communist party in Spain, formed out of the Federación de Juventudes Socialistas (Federation of Socialist Youth, youth wing of Spanish Socialist Workers' Party). The founders of the party, that had belonged to leftwing within FJS, included Ramón Merino Gracia, Manuel Ugarte, Pedro Illescasm Luis Portela, Tiburicio Pico and Rito Estaban. Partido Comunista Español was formed on April 15, 1920. Its organ was called "El Comunista" (The Communist). Soon after its formation, on November 14, 1921, the party merged with Partido Comunista Obrero
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Communist Party of Canada (Manitoba) The Communist Party of Canada (Manitoba) is the provincial wing of the Communist Party of Canada for the province of Manitoba. Founded in 1921, it was an illegal organization for several years and its meetings were conducted with great secrecy. Until 1924, the "Workers Party" functioned as its public, legal face. For a period in the 1920s, the party was associated with the Canadian Labour Party. After 1920 it attracted former members of radical and syndicalist groups such as the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Many of the new members were Jews, Finns or
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in Manitoba. In 1921, the SPC lost many of its members to the newly formed Workers Party (which was the legal wing of the Communist Party of Canada) and ceased to function as a viable organization. Armstrong ran again as an SPC candidate in the 1922 election, and was frequently heckled by Workers Party candidates for his alliance with the reformist Independent Labour Party. Armstrong was defeated, and the party formally dissolved in 1925. Armstrong resurfaced as an SPC candidate in the 1932 provincial election, but fared poorly. The party does not appear to have functioned in the city for
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signatures. Rankin faced a leadership challenge from Paul Sidon in January 2004, receiving 79% delegate support against 21% for Sidon. (*) Provincial organizer, may not have been an official party leader. Communist Party of Canada (Manitoba) The Communist Party of Canada (Manitoba) is the provincial wing of the Communist Party of Canada for the province of Manitoba. Founded in 1921, it was an illegal organization for several years and its meetings were conducted with great secrecy. Until 1924, the "Workers Party" functioned as its public, legal face. For a period in the 1920s, the party was associated with the Canadian
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Vasil Mzhavanadze and Eduard Shevardnadze. Its political descendant is the Communist Party of Georgia which was formed in 1992 after Georgia declared independence in April 1991. Communist Party of Georgia (Soviet Union) Georgian Communist Party (; ) was a political party in Georgia. Georgia was incorporated into the Soviet Union as the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic after 25 February 1921 when the Red Army entered its capital Tbilisi and installed a communist government led by Georgian Bolshevik Filipp Makharadze. After the 1924 August Uprising in Georgia the country was incorporated into the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic until 1936. During
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Obrero Español. The unified PCE soon adhered to the Comintern. Later, in 1973 a group led by Enrique Líster broke away from PCE and formed a new party with the name Spanish Communist Workers Party. Spanish Communist Workers' Party (1921) The Spanish Communist Workers' Party ("Partido Comunista Obrero Español") was a communist party founded on April 13, 1921 by the "terceristas", including Virginia González Polo, Daniel Anguiano, Eduardo Torralba Beci, Manuel Núñez Arenas, Luis Mancebo and Evaristo Gil, who had been trying to persuade the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) to join the Comintern. When the PSOE Congress voted to
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viable organization until the 1930s, in an alliance with the Canadian Labour Party (see below). It elected a few MPs in Calgary in the 1921, 1925, 1926 and 1930 federal elections. In Saskatchewan, the Independent Labour Party was formed in 1931 and led by M.J. Coldwell, It merged with the United Farmers of Canada (Saskatchewan Section) to form the Farmer-Labour Group in 1932. This group became the Saskatchewan CCF in 1934. The Ontario Labour Party was created in 1922, led by James Simpson of the Independent Labour Party, and the Reverend A. E. Smith, later of the Communist Party of
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Spanish Communist Party The Spanish Communist Party (in ), was the first communist party in Spain, formed out of the Federación de Juventudes Socialistas (Federation of Socialist Youth, youth wing of Spanish Socialist Workers' Party). The founders of the party, that had belonged to leftwing within FJS, included Ramón Merino Gracia, Manuel Ugarte, Pedro Illescasm Luis Portela, Tiburicio Pico and Rito Estaban. Partido Comunista Español was formed on April 15, 1920. Its organ was called "El Comunista" (The Communist). Soon after its formation, on November 14, 1921, the party merged with Partido Comunista Obrero Español (Spanish Communist Workers' Party) and
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elected to the city's eighth position on the final count. He served in the legislature with the labour group under F. J. Dixon's leadership. Despite their philosophical differences, Dixon and Armstrong were able to cooperate with one another in this period. The Socialist Party of Canada split in 1921, with many of its members joining the newly formed Communist Party. Armstrong remained a member of the SPC, even though the party was having difficulty maintaining a national presence by this time. During the 1922 provincial election, Armstrong was frequently heckled by Communist candidates who accused him of being a "sell
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two-way race. Canada banned the Communist Party in June 1940 due to the party's opposition to the war. Nielsen, through indirect contact with Montreal-based Communist leaders who had escaped imprisonment, became a spokeswoman for the Communist Party through speeches made in the House of Commons. When the Labor-Progressive Party was officially formed in 1943 as a legal front for the still banned Communist Party, Nielsen declared her affiliation with the party and was elected to its national executive committee. She ran for re-election in the 1945 election for the Labor-Progressive Party (the name the Communist Party would use until 1959),
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Worker-communist Party of Kurdistan The Worker-communist Party of Kurdistan (Kurdish: , translit. "Hizbi Komonisti Krekari Kurdistan") is a Marxist political party in Iraqi Kurdistan. The party was established in March 2008 when the Kurdistan branch of the Worker-communist Party of Iraq was formed into a separate party. It is currently led by Osman Hajy Marouf. The party's main office is in the Suleymaniyah city. The party is also very active among Iraqi Kurdish exiles; its head of abroad committee is based in the UK. It also has branches in Australia, Canada, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Turkey.
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was supported by the majority of the participants, and the RCP(OC) re-formed itself as the Revolutionary Communist Party of Canada. The words "of Canada" are not officially part of its name, but are included to differentiate the Canadian RCP from the Revolutionary Communist Party USA. Revolutionary Communist Party (Organizing Committees) The Revolutionary Communist Party (Organizing Committees) was a Canada-based communist organization advocating the overthrow of the capitalist system. The ideology of the organization, founded in 2000, can be regarded as anti-revisionist in character. It described its ideology as "Marxism-Leninism-Maoism", which it considered the third phase of Marxism. The group did
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Communist Party of Quebec The Parti communiste du Québec (PCQ-PCC, in English: "Communist Party of Quebec (PCQ-PCC)") is the name of communist political party in Quebec registered from 1965 to 2003 in Quebec and presently acting as the Quebec autonomous branch of the Communist Party of Canada. In 2005, a sovereigntist faction, led by André Parizeau, left the PCQ-PCC and formed the Parti communiste du Québec (PCQ) which was a registered party in Quebec until 2012. Meanwhile, the Communist Party of Canada recognizes the group led by Pierre Fontaine which maintains the original programme of the PCQ including support of
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broke with the party in 1956 during the period of the "Khrushchev revelations" and allegations of antisemitism in the Soviet Union. Later allied organizations include the Greek Canadian Democratic Organization formed by leftists emigres who had fled the Greek military junta of 1967–1974 and the Portuguese Canadian Democratic Association which was formed by left-wing emigres who had left Portugal in the 1960s and early 1970s when it was still ruled by a right wing dictatorship. The Portuguese association was outspoken in its support of the 1974 Carnation Revolution. The Communist Party of Canada's 38th convention held in May 2016 elected
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Socialist Party of Canada in 1920. In the fall of that year the family moved to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan where McEwen joined the Saskatoon Workers Party which subsequently became a branch of the newly formed Communist Party of Canada. McEwen was branch secretary and leader until 1927 when he moved to Winnipeg to work full-time as the party's organizer for Manitoba an Saskatchewan. In 1929, he moved to Toronto to become the party's industrial director. He helped form the Workers' Unity League and became its general secretary. The WUL was the Communist Party's "red union" centre and focussed on organizing and
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Australia and Canada (Toronto). An earlier version of the Iranian Communist Party was formed in 1980 in the United States by Iranian exile Siamak Zaim, and dispersed after their founder was imprisoned and executed in Iran. Communist Party of Iran The Communist Party of Iran () is a banned Iranian communist party that advocates the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran's government. The Communist Party of Iran was founded in 1983 Iranian Kurdistan after Komalah (which since then became the Kurdistan branch of the organisation) merged with Union of Communist Militants. The organisation currently advocates freedom, political and social
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Party's official programme. The Revolutionary Communist Party of Canada is affiliated with several other organizations and publications. They maintain a publication called "The Red Flag", or "Le Drapeau Rouge", which is the Party's official newspaper. "The Red Flag" is printed monthly. The Party is also linked with the Committee for a Canadian Red Aid Organization. Internationally, the Party has close ties with the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement and its member organizations, although to date the Party is not a member. The Party also has contact with the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). In addition, the RCP has formed its own communist
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However, he was hurt at the fact that a conflict had arisen among the core groups of the Communist Party itself. Hence, when Communist Party of India (Marxist) was formed, he was in a confused state. However, he remained in touch with the communist party till his death. In one of his memoirs he has said: "When the party got divided into two sections, I was confused, because I was attached to the members of both, Communist Party of India or CPI, as well as the newly formed Communist Party of India (Marxist). So, I decided to remain away from
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Communist Workers' Party of Sweden Communist Workers' Party of Sweden (, SKA), initially called SKP(ml), was a communist party in Sweden, formed in 1980 after a split from the pro-People's Republic of China Communist Party of Sweden (SKP). The party was dissolved in 1993. In 1980 when a leftist minority (approx. 15% of party cadre) was expelled from the Communist Party of Sweden (SKP), the expellees founded the Communist Party of Sweden (marxist-leninists) ("Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti (marxist-leninisterna)") on November 1–2. The group that formed SKP(ml) was critical of the new leadership of the People's Republic of China, effectively under Deng
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James Litterick James Litterick (born July 15, 1901, date of death unknown) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada, and was the first member of the Communist Party of Canada to be elected to that province's legislature. Litterick was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He received an education at Clydebrooke and Glasgow, and became a member of the British Socialist Party at age sixteen (his father was also a lifelong socialist). He was jailed for his role in a rent riot at Clydebank in 1920, and joined the newly formed Communist Party of Great Britain the same year. Litterick moved to Canada
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(formerly the Polish Workers' and Farmers' Association), the Serbian People's Movement and Croatian Cultural Association (formerly the Jugoslav Workers' Clubs) and the Carpatho-Russian Society. The Russian Farmer-Worker Clubs were formed in the early 1930s but closed by the government under the Defence of Canada Regulations at the outbreak of World War II. When the Soviet Union became Canada's ally in 1942, they re-appeared as the Federation of Russian Canadians. The Canadian Slav Committee was formed in 1948 in an attempt to put party-aligned cultural associations for Ukrainians, Russians, Poles, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Yugoslavs and Carpatho-Rusyns under one umbrella. The UJPO
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CPI(ML), which was one of three founding organisations of RIM. CPI(ML) advocated armed struggle and they only recognised groups such as Communist Party of India (Maoist) as truly communist. On 1 May 2014 CPI(ML) Naxalbari merged with CPI(Maoist) and formed a single party, CPI(Maoist). Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Naxalbari Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Naxalbari was an underground Maoist political party in India. The party had its roots partially in the Maoist Unity Centre, CPI(ML) and partially in the group of Rauf in Andhra Pradesh. MUC, CPI(ML) was formed when Kerala Communist Party and Maharashtra Communist Party merged in
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Communist Party of Spain (Marxist–Leninist) (historical) The Communist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist) (in Spanish: "Partido Comunista de España (marxista-leninista)", PCE (m-l)) was a communist political party in Spain, formed in 1964 through the merger of splinter groups of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE). PCE(m-l) followed the line of the Communist Party of China and Maoism until 1976, when it took the side of the Party of Labour of Albania against the Chinese, during the events that led to the Sino-Albanian split. The PCE(m-l) party was formed by communists dissatisfied that the Communist Party of Spain, under the leadership of
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the PCE(m-l). Communist Party of Spain (Marxist–Leninist) (historical) The Communist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist) (in Spanish: "Partido Comunista de España (marxista-leninista)", PCE (m-l)) was a communist political party in Spain, formed in 1964 through the merger of splinter groups of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE). PCE(m-l) followed the line of the Communist Party of China and Maoism until 1976, when it took the side of the Party of Labour of Albania against the Chinese, during the events that led to the Sino-Albanian split. The PCE(m-l) party was formed by communists dissatisfied that the Communist Party of Spain, under the
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A new Communist Party of Slovakia was, however, founded in 1992 from a merger of the Communist Party of Slovakia – 91 and Communist League of Slovakia. Communist Party of Slovakia (1939) The Communist Party of Slovakia (, KSS) was a communist party in Slovakia. It was formed in May 1939, when the Slovak Republic was created, as the Slovak branches of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) were separated from the mother party. When Czechoslovakia was again established as a unified state, the KSS was still a separate party for a while (1945–1948). On 29 September 1948, it was
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Cup rejected their request, indicating that the trophy has had an exclusive arrangement with the NHL since 1947. Hogaboam formed the Leland-Ashdown Rescue Committee in the 1990s, and worked to save historical buildings within Winnipeg. He wrote an article for "People's Voice" in 2000, accusing rocker Ted Nugent of hate speech after Nugent reportedly told a Winnipeg audience, "if you don't know how to speak f...ing English, you don't believe in Canada." Hogaboam has campaigned for the federal Communist Party and the provincial Communist Party of Canada of Manitoba. He worked for a courier company during the 1999 election, and
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Bethune frequently sought out the poor and gave them free medical care. He challenged his professional colleagues and agitated, without success, for the government to make radical reforms of medical care and health services in Canada. Bethune was an early proponent of socialized medicine and formed the Montreal Group for the Security of People's Health. In 1935 Bethune travelled to the Soviet Union to observe firsthand their system of health care. During this year he became a committed Communist and joined the Communist Party of Canada. When returning from the Spanish Civil War to raise support for the Loyalist cause,
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Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist) (2002) Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) is a communist political party in Nepal. It was formed by Chandra Prakash Mainali when the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) reunified with Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist). Mainali had refused to go along with the merger and led a faction of the former Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) to reorganize the party. When the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) merged with the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) on 15 February 2002, Chandra Prakash Mainali along with other dissident members reorganized the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist).
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Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist) candidates in the 2000 Canadian federal election The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) fielded 84 candidates in the 2000 federal election, none of whom were elected. Fields received 61 votes, finishing tenth against Liberal incumbent Stan Keyes. Kim Roberge was born in Notre-Dame-de-Pierreville, Quebec, and majored in sociology at the University of Ottawa. She was twenty years old in 1998, when she was interviewed by the "Ottawa Citizen" newspaper about her participation in International Women's Day activities. In 1999, she represented the Communist Youth Union of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) and other youth groups at a commemoration
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South Seas Communist Party The South Seas Communist Party (abbreviated SSCP), also called the Nanyang Communist Party (), was a communist party in Southeast Asia established in 1925 when the Communist Party of China separated its exile branches in the region to make way for local communist parties. SSCP succeeded earlier efforts by the Indonesian communist Tan Malaka to build communist parties in the region. The SSCP was headquartered in Singapore. In 1930 SSCP was disbanded, and national communist parties were formed such as Communist Party of Indochina (led by Ho Chi Minh), Malayan Communist Party and Communist Party of
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Revolutionary Communist Party of Canada The Revolutionary Communist Party of Canada, or RCP Canada, is a revolutionary communist party oriented around Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. The creation of the organizational stage of the Party was adopted at what was called the "Revolutionary Communist Conference", which was held in Montreal, Quebec in November 2000 by activists and former members of the labour union movements and youth organizations of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, who felt that the revolutionary situation in Canada warranted the creation of a Party dedicated to a communist revolution. The party was initially called the Revolutionary Communist Party (Organizing Committees) (RCP(OC)).
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the Comintern were forced to form their own organisations when they were, in their turn, purged from the national sections of the Comintern. In Europe, the most important and substantial of these new organisations was the Communist Party Opposition (KPO) in Germany, led by Heinrich Brandler. In the United States, Jay Lovestone, Bertram Wolfe and their supporters founded the Communist Party (Opposition) and published the newspaper "Workers Age". In Canada, the Marxian Educational League was formed as part of Lovestone's CP(O), and it became affiliated with the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. However, by the end of 1939, both the Toronto and
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CPN (ML) only won four seats in local governments. The party also contested the 2017 legislative and provincial elections but failed to get any seats. Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist) (2002) Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) is a communist political party in Nepal. It was formed by Chandra Prakash Mainali when the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) reunified with Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist). Mainali had refused to go along with the merger and led a faction of the former Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) to reorganize the party. When the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) merged with the
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October 13, 1952 the party officially was renamed as the Communist Party of Ukraine. On August 26, 1991 the Communist Party was outlawed in Ukraine. Different sectors reconstituted themselves in different parties. One group led by moderate members under Oleksandr Moroz formed the Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU) out of most of the former members, a group of agrarians led by Serhiy Dovhan and Oleksandr Tkachenko formed the Peasant Party of Ukraine (SelPU), and another group, the Communist Party of Ukraine, was re-created in 1993 in Donetsk under the leadership of Petro Symonenko when the ban was lifted. The remaining
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by the Internationalist Communist Party (Battaglia Comunista) and in the course of them became convinced by them that the positions the latter had defended since 1943 were the best product of the left communist tradition. The two organisations formed the International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party in 1983. This organisation was eventually joined by left communist groups in France, Canada, the USA and Germany. In recognition of this expansion it moved towards a closer coordination of its activities in 2009 with the formation of the Internationalist Communist Tendency. Communist Workers Organisation (UK) The Communist Workers Organisation (CWO) is a British
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Communist Party of Canada (Saskatchewan) The Communist Party of Canada (Saskatchewan) was a communist political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It was the Saskatchewan section of the Communist Party of Canada. It nominated candidates for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan in provincial elections between 1938 and 1986. The Communists ran three popular front candidates under the name Unity in 1938, electing two MLAs. They also ran two candidates under the Communist label, who failed to get elected. After the Communist Party was banned in the early years of World War II, it established the Labor-Progressive Party as its
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Communist Party of Slovakia (1939) The Communist Party of Slovakia (, KSS) was a communist party in Slovakia. It was formed in May 1939, when the Slovak Republic was created, as the Slovak branches of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) were separated from the mother party. When Czechoslovakia was again established as a unified state, the KSS was still a separate party for a while (1945–1948). On 29 September 1948, it was reunited with the KSČ and continued to exist as an ""organizational territorial unit of the KSČ on the territory of Slovakia"". Its main organ (and thus the
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1991 when it was formally disbanded. Nevertheless, former leaders and members of the communists continued to play a role in the family- and patronage-based political system. The Azerbaijan Communist Party won the first multi-party elections in Azerbaijan that took place on 30 September and 14 October 1990 for the Supreme Soviet obtaining 280 out of 360 seats. Communist Party of Azerbaijan The Azerbaijan Communist Party (; ) was the ruling political party in the Azerbaijan SSR, making it effectively a branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It was formed on February 20, 1920, when the "Hummat Party",
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platform of Trotsky's Left Opposition. Spector was won over to Trotsky's position and returned to Canada determined to build support for Trotsky in the party. He and his supporters were expelled 1928 and, with American Trotskyists, formed the Communist League of America and then a Canadian section called the International Left Opposition (Trotskyist) of Canada in 1932. Jack MacDonald, the expelled National Secretary of the Communist Party, joined. The Canadian Trotskyist movement went through a number of splits and reincarnations through the 1930s. In 1934, most of the Montreal branch and about half a dozen members of the Toronto branch,
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Labour candidates and parties in Canada There have been various groups in Canada that have nominated candidates under the label Labour Party or Independent Labour Party or other variations from the 1870s until the 1960s. These were usually local or provincial groups using the Labour Party or Independent Labour Party name, backed by local Labour Councils (made up of many union locals in a particular city) or individual trade unions. There was an attempt to create a national Canadian Labour Party in the late 1910s and in the 1920s, but these were partly successful. The Communist Party of Canada, formed
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the First All India Conference of CRC, CPI(ML) was held. The second conference was held in 1987. In 1984 CRC, CPI(ML) was one of the three founders of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (the others being Revolutionary Communist Party (USA) and Partido Comunista Revolucionario (Chile)). In 1987 CRC, CPI(ML) suffered a heavy setback when a major portion of the organisation broke away and formed CPI(ML) Red Flag. In October 1991 CRC, CPI(ML) was dissolved. K. Venu renounced Maoism and declared an All India communist party as an impossibility. Groups dissatisfied with the dissolution formed the Maharashtra Communist Party and Kerala Communist
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legal face, and ran candidates under that name throughout the 1940s and 1950s. It reverted to the Communist Party label in 1960. Communist Party of Canada (Saskatchewan) The Communist Party of Canada (Saskatchewan) was a communist political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It was the Saskatchewan section of the Communist Party of Canada. It nominated candidates for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan in provincial elections between 1938 and 1986. The Communists ran three popular front candidates under the name Unity in 1938, electing two MLAs. They also ran two candidates under the Communist label, who failed to get
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Communist Party of Azerbaijan The Azerbaijan Communist Party (; ) was the ruling political party in the Azerbaijan SSR, making it effectively a branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It was formed on February 20, 1920, when the "Hummat Party", the "Adalat Party", the "Ahrar Party of Iran" and Baku Bolsheviks joined together to establish the Azerbaijan Communist Party. On April 1 of the same year, the Fifth Cabinet of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic gave its resignations and all the power to the Azerbaijan Communist Party. The party ruled the Azerbaijan SSR until 16 September
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that rarely top 100 in each electoral district contested. The Communist Party – Alberta is a full provincial wing of the federal Communist Party of Canada. Communist Party – Alberta Communist Party – Alberta is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. It is a provincial branch of the Communist Party of Canada. Alberta had recognized Communist Party speakers and activists starting at the time of the founding of the Communist Party of Canada in 1922. The first years were troubled by uncertainty of its relationship to the radical One Big Union movement, that had originated in Alberta in 1919.
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Naomi Rankin, the leader of the Communist Party of Canada - Alberta. Rankin ran in Winnipeg Centre during the 2015 federal election. All electoral information is taken from Elections Canada, Elections Ontario and Elections Manitoba. Provincial election expenditures in Manitoba refer to individual candidate expenses. Italicized expenditures refer to submitted totals, and are presented when the final reviewed totals are not available. Darrell Rankin Darrell T. Rankin (born February 14, 1957) is a Canadian peace activist and communist politician. He was briefly the leader of the Communist Party of Canada - Ontario (CPC-O) in 1995, and has led the Communist
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he was also president of the Humberlea Community Association and chairman of a Metro tax reform council. He opposed an expansion of Pearson International Airport in 1989. He was listed as sixty-six years old during the 1984 campaign. The closest he ever came to winning election was in 1978, when he was narrowly defeated for a North York school trustee position. Communist Party of Canada candidates in the 1988 Canadian federal election The Communist Party of Canada fielded several candidates in the 1988 federal election, none of whom were elected. Information about these candidates may be found on this page.
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Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist) The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist) (CPC (ML)) is a Canadian federal political party founded by Hardial Bains in 1970. The CPC (ML) has been registered with Elections Canada as the Marxist–Leninist Party of Canada since 1974 as the party is prohibited from using the Communist Party name in Canadian elections to avoid confusion among voters. The party developed separately and independently from the Communist Party of Canada (CPC) with its origins among students and intellectuals in Canada during the 1960s. After a period of alignment with Maoism and China, the CPC (ML) pursued a
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trade National constitutional reform Foreign policy Climate change Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist) The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist) (CPC (ML)) is a Canadian federal political party founded by Hardial Bains in 1970. The CPC (ML) has been registered with Elections Canada as the Marxist–Leninist Party of Canada since 1974 as the party is prohibited from using the Communist Party name in Canadian elections to avoid confusion among voters. The party developed separately and independently from the Communist Party of Canada (CPC) with its origins among students and intellectuals in Canada during the 1960s. After a period of alignment with
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Communist Party – Alberta Communist Party – Alberta is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. It is a provincial branch of the Communist Party of Canada. Alberta had recognized Communist Party speakers and activists starting at the time of the founding of the Communist Party of Canada in 1922. The first years were troubled by uncertainty of its relationship to the radical One Big Union movement, that had originated in Alberta in 1919. The post-World War I depression caused many Albertans to seek radical change of the economic system and the Communist Party was a potent force, active in
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of Britain. A small number formed the Finsbury Communist Association. Others later formed the Workers' Party of Scotland and the London Workers' Committee. In 1966 the London Workers' Committee split, becoming the Working People's Party of England. Some of the Irish members of the CDRCU later joined the Irish Communist Group in 1965. When the latter organisation split, they went on to form the Irish Communist Organisation. Noel Jenkinson, a Protestant from Meath, was another Ireland-born member of CDRCU who had joined from the Communist Party of Great Britain. He later joined the Official IRA and was convicted for carrying
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Finlay Hart Finlay Hart (1901–27 December 1989) was a Scottish communist politician. Born in Clydebank, Hart attended Clydebank High School. He became politically active when he joined the Workers International Industrial Union in 1915 while working at the William Beardmore and Company shipyard, in Dalmuir. Part of the Red Clydeside movement, in 1917, he joined the Socialist Labour Party, and he was part of the majority from that party who founded the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). In 1923, he emigrated to Edmonton in Canada in an attempt to find work, joining the Communist Party of Canada, but he
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Communist Party of Jamaica The Communist Party of Jamaica was a political party in Jamaica, founded in 1975. At the time of the foundation of the party, when the 'Preparatory Committee for a Communist Party of Jamaica' was formed, the Workers Liberation League decided to stay out of it. Instead, the WLL founded the Workers Party of Jamaica (another communist party) three years later. The two parties existed parallel to each other, but the WPJ was larger than the CPJ. Chris Lawrence was the leading personality in the CPJ. H. L. Sinclair was the chairman of the party. CPJ was
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as the Revolutionary Student Movement. These cells declared themselves to be the real Revolutionary Communist Party defending it from "the Opportunist Clique" in control of the Central Committee. On May 2, the Central Committee of the Party announced the expulsion of the party cells in Montreal and Valleyfield. Following the split, the Central Committee set up a new website, leading to two competing websites of similar names. Revolutionary Communist Party of Canada The Revolutionary Communist Party of Canada, or RCP Canada, is a revolutionary communist party oriented around Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. The creation of the organizational stage of the Party was adopted
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linked to the Independent Trade Union Action Council. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the party supported the People's National Party. Communist Party of Jamaica The Communist Party of Jamaica was a political party in Jamaica, founded in 1975. At the time of the foundation of the party, when the 'Preparatory Committee for a Communist Party of Jamaica' was formed, the Workers Liberation League decided to stay out of it. Instead, the WLL founded the Workers Party of Jamaica (another communist party) three years later. The two parties existed parallel to each other, but the WPJ was larger than
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List of political parties in India, Politics of India, List of communist parties Communist Party of India The Communist Party of India (CPI) ("Bhāratīya Kamyunisṭ Pārṭī") is the oldest communist party in India. There are different views on exactly when it was founded. The date maintained as the foundation day by the CPI is 26 December 1925. The Communist Party of India (Marxist), which separated from the CPI in 1964 following ideological rift between China and Soviet Union, continues to claim having been founded in 1925. The Communist Party of India has officially stated that it was formed on 26
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Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Naxalbari Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Naxalbari was an underground Maoist political party in India. The party had its roots partially in the Maoist Unity Centre, CPI(ML) and partially in the group of Rauf in Andhra Pradesh. MUC, CPI(ML) was formed when Kerala Communist Party and Maharashtra Communist Party merged in 1997. These two groups were surviving state units of the Central Reorganisation Committee, CPI(ML) (which was dissolved in 1991). CRC, CPI(ML) is also the group from which Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Flag broke away, after the Red Flag split in 1987 there
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Communist Party of India The Communist Party of India (CPI) ("Bhāratīya Kamyunisṭ Pārṭī") is the oldest communist party in India. There are different views on exactly when it was founded. The date maintained as the foundation day by the CPI is 26 December 1925. The Communist Party of India (Marxist), which separated from the CPI in 1964 following ideological rift between China and Soviet Union, continues to claim having been founded in 1925. The Communist Party of India has officially stated that it was formed on 26 December 1925 at the first Party Conference in Kanpur, then "Cawnpore". But as
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movement that were taking place at that time. This had also lead to a deep crisis in the CPC that followed the counter-revolution or dissolution of the Soviet Union. The Communist Party of Canada began an internal debate which would latter be described as a struggle for control of the Party or a bitter internal factional fight leading to a split. By the end of the split, the group nominally led by George Hewison had formed the Cecil-Ross Society while those asserting to be the "Leninist core of the Party" retained the name of the CPC. The Cecil-Ross Society advocated
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United Communist Party of India United Communist Party of India (UCPI), is a political party in India. It was formed in 1989 when Indian Communist Party led by Com. Mohit Sen along with Com Ramesh Sinha, M. Kalyanasundaram, D. Pandian and SU. Palanisamy; All India Communist Party led by S.A. Dange and Roza Deshpande; and Communist Party of Punjab led Com. Wadhawa Ram and Sukhinder Singh; decided to merge their formations and called for national conference of communists. The founding conference was held at Salem, Tamil Nadu in May 1989. Delegates from Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, W. Bengal, Orissa, Assam,
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Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist) (Manitoba) The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) is a now-defunct political party that espoused revolutionary communism. Its orientation is Anti-Revisionist (or Stalinist). The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) (CPC-ML) participated in Manitoba's 1973 provincial election, running candidates in three ridings. Glen Brown received 33 votes for the party in the riding of Burrows, Aili Waldman received 12 votes in Inkster and Diane Waldman received 24 votes in St. Johns. All of these ridings were in north-end Winnipeg, and all were also contested by the Communist Party of Canada-Manitoba (CPC-M), a branch of the Communist Party
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League for Socialist Action (Canada) The International Left Opposition (Trotskyist) of Canada, the Workers Party of Canada, Socialist Policy Group, Socialist Workers League, Revolutionary Workers Party, The Club, the Socialist Education League and Socialist Information Centre, and the League for Socialist Action were successive Trotskyist organisations in Canada. The Canadian Trotskyist movement originated in the late 1920s as the left faction within the Communist Party of Canada. Maurice Spector, editor of the Communist Party newspaper "The Worker", had been a Canadian delegate to the 1928 Comintern Congress in Moscow when he and American James Cannon inadvertently came across the suppressed
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Bordiga began calling for a return to the positions of the Italian Communist Left as they were in the early 1920s when he was the leader of the Communist Party of Italy. The group around Battaglia Comunista (and their theoretical journal Prometeo) disagreed and split. The solidified party with Bordiga, the International Communist Party, then launched their paper, Il Programma Comunista. In the seventies the Internationalist Communist Party around Prometeo and Battaglia Comunista organized the first of the International Conferences of the Communist Left. Out of these conferences the Internationalist Communist Party and the Communist Workers Organisation together formed the
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was quoted as saying, "The biggest misconception is that we're some kind of dictatorial party out to control people. We just support working people, a system where everyone participates." Communist Party of Canada candidates in the 2000 Canadian federal election The Communist Party of Canada (CPC) fielded a number of candidates in the 2000 Canadian federal election, none of whom were elected. Information about these candidates may be found here. Pierre Smith has been a candidate of the Communist Party of Canada and the Communist Party of Quebec. He identified as a cafeteria employee in 2000. Stewart lived in Cobourg,
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(SKP-KPSS), but when SKP-KPSS split in 2001 they joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union of Oleg Shenin. The party carried out a congress in 1999, and elected a Central Committee. Communist Party of Estonia (1990) Communist Party of Estonia (CPSU) (in Estonian: "Eestimaa Kommunistlik Partei", in Russian: "Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Estonii") was a political party in Estonia. The party, initially known as Communist Party of Estonia (on CPSU platform) (EKP (NLKP platvormil)), and was formed in 1990 through a split in the original EKP. The split occurred at the 20th congress of EKP in March 1990, as a reaction
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itself with the Party. These initial attempts quickly dissolved; their main efforts were often centered upon anti-globalization and international solidarity. In fall of 2003 a conference in Vancouver was held which formed a Young Communist League Preparatory Committee. When interest was expressed by youth across the country, the YCL expanded to Alberta, Manitoba and southern Ontario. In 2004-2005, the YCL was among a leading group which came together to organized a delegation to the 16th World Youth Festival in Caracas. Soon after the YCL requested to be readmitted to the World Federation of Democratic Youth, and began re-organizing in Quebec.
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of prominent Estonians who had grown up in Russia, see "Yestonians". When the AUCP(b) changed its name in 1952 to CPSU, the EK(b)P removed the (b) from its name. EKP was divided in 1990, as the pro-sovereignty majority faction of EKP separated itself from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and became the Estonian Democratic Labour Party. The remaining pro-Soviet faction reconstituted themselves as the Communist Party of Estonia (CPSU platform). Communist Party of Estonia Communist Party of Estonia (, EKP; ) was a political party in Estonia. EKP was formed November 5, 1920, as the Central Committee of
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that an opposition party won control over an Indian state. E. M. S. Namboodiripad became Chief Minister. At the 1957 international meeting of Communist parties in Moscow, the Communist Party of China directed criticism at the CPI for having formed a ministry in Kerala. Ideological differences lead to the split in the party in 1964 when two different party conferences were held, one of CPI and one of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). There is a common misconception that the rift during the Sino-Indian war, when Communist Party Of India proudly supported China in the war led to the
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Communist Unity (Marxist–Leninist) Communist Unity (Marxist–Leninist) (Icelandic: "Einingarsamtök kommúnista (marx-lenínistar)") was an Icelandic Maoist Party formed in the late 1973, mainly by Icelandic student who had studied in Norway. The party viciously opposed what it deemed as Soviet social-imperialism as well as American imperialism, opposed other Icelandic communist parties which it found to be revisionist and held a staunchly pro-China line, until the Sino-Albanian split, when it sided with Albania. The party's chairman was Ari Trausti Guðmundsson. In 1979 the party was integrated into the Communist Union ("Kommúnistasamtökin") together with the other Icelandic Maoist party, the Communist Party of Iceland
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and Revolutionary Communist Centre of India (Maoist). Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Central Team Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Central Team was formed in 1977 when activists from Punjab, Maharashtra and West Bengal of Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) (CPI(ML)) of Satyanaryan Singh revolted against the party leadership. CPI(ML) Central Team reaffirmed the legacy of Charu Majumdar. The principal strength of the party was in Punjab. In Punjab the new party started publishing "Surkh Rekha". The party built up the Punjab Kisan Union, and led struggles particularly in the Jalandhar and "Ludhiana" districts. During the Khalistani days, the Punjab unit
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Nepal (United) and formed the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist). Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist) (1991–2005) Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist) was a Nepalese political party. It was formed on November 1, 1991 by a group of former leaders of the original Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist) that had been expelled from the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist). Initially it was known as Communist Party of Nepal (15 September 1949), but it took the name 'Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist)' after approximately one year of existence. Prabhunaryan Chaudhary was the chairman of the party. Ahead of the 1992
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the Labour Party to the newly formed communist party, which was formed following a conflict on the membership in Komintern. In the 1930s, the youth league worked together with the communist party against strikebreakers, fascism and for the establishing of a national front to defend the country against fascism and nazism. When World War II came to Norway 9 April 1940, the youth communists prepared its organization for illegal work in case the Nazi occupation lead to communist organizations being illegalized. This happened in August the same year, a month before the illegalization of the other political parties. In addition
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Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist (in Turkish: "Türkiye Komünist Emek Partisi/Leninist") is an illegal communist party in Turkey. TKEP/L was founded on September 1, 1990, following a split in the Communist Labour Party of Turkey (TKEP). Whereas TKEP had started orientating itself towards legal work, TKEP/L wanted to continue armed struggle. It formed an armed wing, the Leninist Guerrilla Units ("Leninist Gerila Birliği"). LGB carries out occasional attacks, but does not engage in regular guerrilla warfare. The latest major action by LGB was on December 19, 2000 when LGB attacked a MHP party office in
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Socialist-Communist Union The Socialist-Communist Union (, U.S.-C.), later renamed the Socialist-Communist Party (), was a socialist political party in France between 1923 and 1932. The party was founded in Boulogne-sur-Seine on April 29, 1923, through the merger of two splinter groups of the French Communist Party; the Federal Socialist Union (formed in December 1922, formed by the Raoul Verfeuil-led rightist tendency of the Communist Party which opposed the integration of the party into the Communist International) and L-O Frossard's United Communist Party. Frossard had been the First Secretary of the Communist Party but left the party and founded the United
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Communist Party of Canada candidates in the 1984 Canadian federal election The Communist Party of Canada fielded several candidates in the 1984 federal election, none of whom were elected. Information about these candidates may be found on this page. McDonald was a frequent candidate for public office, campaigning for the Communist Party and the federal, provincial and municipal levels. She was a social worker in private life, and was the Central Women's organizer for the Communist Party in 1979. In 1986, she was listed a representative of the organization Consumers Against Rising Prices. During the same year, she criticized the
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Government. But party have rejected several times to get any budget from the government. Worker-communist Party of Kurdistan The Worker-communist Party of Kurdistan (Kurdish: , translit. "Hizbi Komonisti Krekari Kurdistan") is a Marxist political party in Iraqi Kurdistan. The party was established in March 2008 when the Kurdistan branch of the Worker-communist Party of Iraq was formed into a separate party. It is currently led by Osman Hajy Marouf. The party's main office is in the Suleymaniyah city. The party is also very active among Iraqi Kurdish exiles; its head of abroad committee is based in the UK. It also
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Labor-Progressive Party The Labor-Progressive Party (French: "Parti ouvrier-progressiste") was a legal political organization in Canada between 1943 and 1959. In the 1940 federal election, the Communist Party led a popular front in various several constituencies in Saskatchewan and Alberta under the name Unity, United Progressive or United Reform and elected two MPs, one of whom, Dorise Nielsen, was secretly a member of the Communist Party. After the Communist Party of Canada was banned in 1940, under the wartime Defence of Canada Regulations, it refounded itself as the Labor-Progressive Party (LPP) in 1943 after the release of Communist Party leaders from
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the election, party members took part in negotiations with the New Democratic Party of Quebec, the Green Party of Quebec, the Workers Party and the Communist Party in a bid to create a united left party. By 1991, the Mouvement had disappeared. Mouvement socialiste (Canada) The Mouvement socialiste was a left-wing political party in the Canadian province of Quebec. Formed in 1981, it ran candidates in the 1985 and 1989 provincial elections. The Mouvement socialiste emerged from discussions among six prominent Quebec academics and unionists: Yvon Charbonneau, Marcel Pepin, Raymond Laliberté, Albert Dubuc, Jacques Dofny, and Lucie Dagenais. After meeting
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Dominion Communist–Labor Total War Committee The Dominion Communist–Labor Total War Committee was a front organization of the then-banned Communist Party of Canada. The Committee originated as the "Tim Buck Plebiscite Committees" which were organized by the party in 1942 to campaign for a "yes" vote in the 1942 referendum on conscription (see Conscription Crisis of 1944). The Communist Party in Canada was under the control of Tim Buck (1891-1973), who was loyal to the Kremlin. Buck came to prominence as a supporter of Joseph Stalin, and became General Secretary of the Communist Party of Canada in 1929 after the old
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also indicates that he has been a municipal candidate in Orillia. He is a member of Fair Vote Canada, a group advocating electoral reform. Note: The results from 1980 are taken from the "Toronto Star" newspaper, 11 November 1980, A12 (146 out of 148 polls reporting). Communist Party of Canada candidates in the 2008 Canadian federal election This is list of Communist Party of Canada 2008 federal election candidates by riding and province. Kabitsis was 76 years old at the time of the election, and was a retired real estate salesman. He joined the Communist Party of Canada in 1962.
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McCreery, who formed the Committee to Defeat Revisionism, for Communist Unity. This tiny group left the CPGB by 1963. McCreery himself died in 1965 in New Zealand. Later a more significant group formed around Reg Birch, an engineering union official, established the Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist). Initially, this group supported the position of the Communist Party of China. Divisions in the CPGB concerning the autonomy of the party from Moscow reached a crisis in 1968, when Warsaw pact forces intervened in Czechoslovakia. The CPGB, with memories of 1956 in mind, responded with some very mild criticism of Moscow, refusing
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Workers Party of Scotland The Workers Party of Scotland or Workers Party of Scotland (Marxist-Leninist) was a small anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist political party formed in 1966 and based in Scotland. The Workers Party of Scotland (Marxist-Leninist) was formed in October 1966, by seven members of the Scottish branch of the Committee to Defeat Revisionism, for Communist Unity, including party chairman Tom Murray, a veteran of the International Brigades. The party campaigned for Scottish independence and took part in elections, including the 1969 Gorbals by-election, when they came last behind the Communist Party. They published a long-term journal "Scottish Vanguard" and others
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Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Class Struggle Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) is a communist party in India. The party is one of many working under the name of CPI(ML). The party general secretary was Kanu Sanyal. The name of the party is identical to the original Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) formed in 1969, of which Sanyal was also a key leader, but Sanyal has stated that his party is not the same as this party . The present party was formed through a merger of Sanyal's Communist Organization of India (Marxist–Leninist) and Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Unity
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Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) The Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) () is the Ontario provincial wing of the Communist Party of Canada. Using the name Labor-Progressive Party from 1943 until 1959, the group won two seats in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario: A.A. MacLeod and J.B. Salsberg were elected in the 1943 provincial election as "Labour" candidates but took their seats as members of the Labor-Progressive Party, which the banned Communist Party launched as its public face in a convention held on August 21 and 22, 1943, shortly after both the August 4th provincial election and the August 7th
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2 August 1891 on Buzludzha peak by Dimitar Blagoev, designated in 1903 as the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Narrow Socialists) and later as the Bulgarian Communist Party. The party was formed after the political changes of 1989, when the Communist Party abandoned Marxism–Leninism and refounded itself as the "Bulgarian Socialist Party" in April 1990. The party formed a government after the Constitutional Assembly elections of 1990, but was forced to resign after a general strike that December. A non-partisan government led by Dimitar Popov took over until the next elections in October 1991. In the aftermath the party was
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Communist Party of Canada candidates in the 1988 Canadian federal election The Communist Party of Canada fielded several candidates in the 1988 federal election, none of whom were elected. Information about these candidates may be found on this page. Line Chabot was a Communist Party candidate in two federal elections and one provincial election. She described herself as a bookseller in 1984. Da Silva received 208 votes (0.52%), finishing fifth against Liberal candidate Joe Volpe. He later became a cabinet minister in Guyana. Mike Phillips was a perennial candidate for the Communist Party at the federal and provincial levels. He
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contested for Municipal Corporator for 49th ward with the symbol of congress party (As UCPI has no recognition with EC).Out of total 3500(Approximately) total voters polling percentage was about 65% and Mr. Jagannadham won with a majority of approximately 700 votes over his nearest rival from the TDP party. Five years he have served as Corporation Education and Library Committee Chairman and corporations representative in the committee of Hindu college. United Communist Party of India United Communist Party of India (UCPI), is a political party in India. It was formed in 1989 when Indian Communist Party led by Com. Mohit
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Darrell Rankin Darrell T. Rankin (born February 14, 1957) is a Canadian peace activist and communist politician. He was briefly the leader of the Communist Party of Canada - Ontario (CPC-O) in 1995, and has led the Communist Party of Canada - Manitoba (CPC-M) since 1996. His partner, Cheryl-Anne Carr, is also active with the Communist Party. Rankin (actual family name Renka, of Ukrainian ethnic origin) was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, and became involved in radical left politics through an early opposition to the Vietnam War. His grandparents were active in the Communist Party of Canada, which Rankin
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Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Central Team Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Central Team was formed in 1977 when activists from Punjab, Maharashtra and West Bengal of Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) (CPI(ML)) of Satyanaryan Singh revolted against the party leadership. CPI(ML) Central Team reaffirmed the legacy of Charu Majumdar. The principal strength of the party was in Punjab. In Punjab the new party started publishing "Surkh Rekha". The party built up the Punjab Kisan Union, and led struggles particularly in the Jalandhar and "Ludhiana" districts. During the Khalistani days, the Punjab unit developed cooperation with one splintergroup of the
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In 1948, the newspaper became the "de facto" organ of the United Jewish People's Order. Gershman served as general secretary of UJPO. UJPO cut its ties and financial relationship with the newspaper when it severed its affiliation to the Communist Party of Canada (then known as the Labor-Progressive Party) at the end of 1956. In its later years, "Vochenblat" was published biweekly, rather than every week. Vochenblatt The Keneder yiddishe vochenblatt (), known as the Vochenblatt, was a Yiddish-language communist newspaper in Canada, published from Toronto from 1926 to 1979. "Vochenblatt" was one of the major communist Yiddish newspapers in
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the Progressive Student Network. Initially, RWH activity was almost exclusively found in urban areas of the Midwest and the East; it expanded to the West Coast when it absorbed the Bay Area Communist Union in 1979. While the RWH was structured according to the principles of democratic centralism, it did not consider itself a communist party "per se", but rather a "pre-party organization." New Communist Movement Revolutionary Workers Headquarters Revolutionary Workers Headquarters (RWH) was a U.S. Marxist-Leninist organization that formed out of a split from the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) in 1977. After Mao Zedong, leader of the Communist Party
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The party is led by Dave McKee. Source: Elections Ontario Vote Summary Notes Ran under the label "Labour" or "Socialist-Labour" In addition, in 1945, the Labor-Progressive Party and Liberal Party of Ontario jointly endorsed 6 Liberal-Labour, 3 of whom were elected, in an effort to marginalize the CCF. The party has three constituency associations registered with Elections Ontario: Source: Elections Ontario, Yearly Financial Statements, Political Parties, Constituency Associations Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) The Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) () is the Ontario provincial wing of the Communist Party of Canada. Using the name Labor-Progressive Party from 1943 until 1959,
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Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Janashakti Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Janashakti, abbreviated CPI(ML) Janashakti, is a communist political party in India. CPI(ML) Janashakti was formed in 1992 when six revolutionary communist groups merged. The seven groups were: CPI(ML) Janashakti is mostly based in the revolutionary tradition of Andhra Pradesh, with the mass line developed by Chandra Pulla Reddy and T. Nagi Reddy, legends of the Telangana Rebellion. The party followed a combination of both armed underground and parliamentary methods of struggle. Initially things went well for the party, and in the 1994 assembly elections of Andhra Pradesh Vidhan Sabha
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Joseph Zuken Joseph (Joe) Zuken (December 12, 1912 – March 24, 1986) was a popular Communist politician in Winnipeg and the longest serving elected Communist party politician in North America. Joe Zuken's family immigrated to Canada from the Ukraine when he was still an infant. Raised in a secular Jewish environment in Winnipeg's working class North End he was educated at a secular Yiddish school in a socialist environment. He joined the Communist Party of Canada as a young lawyer and intervened in struggles for workers rights and in anti-fascist movements during the Great Depression. Prior to the Second World
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in Manitoba from 1948 to 1981. Joseph Zuken Joseph (Joe) Zuken (December 12, 1912 – March 24, 1986) was a popular Communist politician in Winnipeg and the longest serving elected Communist party politician in North America. Joe Zuken's family immigrated to Canada from the Ukraine when he was still an infant. Raised in a secular Jewish environment in Winnipeg's working class North End he was educated at a secular Yiddish school in a socialist environment. He joined the Communist Party of Canada as a young lawyer and intervened in struggles for workers rights and in anti-fascist movements during the Great
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Communist Party of Canada candidates in the 2008 Canadian federal election This is list of Communist Party of Canada 2008 federal election candidates by riding and province. Kabitsis was 76 years old at the time of the election, and was a retired real estate salesman. He joined the Communist Party of Canada in 1962. Kabitsis ran for a seat on the Toronto City Council in 1980, calling for a reduction in the cost of the Toronto Transit Commission's Metropass, a shorter term of the Metro Toronto Chairman, and the recognition of day care as a right. His 2008 election biography
Communist Party of Canada candidates in the 2008 Canadian federal election