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  European Left - Letter of the CP of Bohemia and Moravia
During the EL foundation congress in Rome, the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia asked for a meeting with the leadership of the European Left Party.
Communist parties cannot be privileged compared to others because of their name.
In the European parliament the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia holds 25% of the seats of Czech Republic.
www.european-left.org /positions/statements/stat/elstatement.2005-03-28.7568741845   (4182 words)

  
  Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia Information
The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (Czech: Komunistická strana Čech a Moravy) is a communist party in the Czech Republic.
It was formed in 1989 by the Extraordinary Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia which decided to create a party for the territories of Bohemia and Moravia, the areas that were to become the Czech Republic.
In 1990 the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia became a federation of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia and the Communist Party of Slovakia.
www.bookrags.com /KSCM   (441 words)

  
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The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (Czech Republic) condemns NATO's brutal aggression in the Balkans in the strongest terms.
This was the reason for the communist party of Bohemia and Moravia to organise demonstrations (the first was on Saturday, March 27th, 1999 in the Wenceslas Square, Prague.
Miloslav Ransdorf, vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
www.eroj.org /urbiorbi/Yugoslavia/bohemia.htm   (618 words)

  
 People's Weekly World - More election successes for Czech communists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
She said the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (CPBM) was one of the few parliamentary parties to improve its position and it had also "significantly strengthened its position" in the biggest towns.
The CPBM’s most important gains were in the Czech Republic’s 16 biggest towns, where it increased its 1998 vote by 131,314 votes on a lower poll (down from 45 percent in 1998 to 43.4 percent).
The Communists also held all of their eight seats on the old Prague City Council in the first elections to Prague’s new regional council, but only one of their three seats in the Senate (the Czech parliament’s upper house).
www.pww.org /article/articleprint/2362   (470 words)

  
 Bohemia: History
In 1939, Bohemia was invaded by German troops and proclaimed part of the German protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia: a post-communist socialist or a neo-communist party?
The heretic saint: Guglielma of Bohemia, Milan, and Brunate (1).
www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0856951.html   (1027 words)

  
 Radio Prague - the international service of Czech Radio
Background: The KSCM is one of the few largely unreconstructed Communist parties on the political scene in the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
The party in its current form was not founded until March 1990, but it is effectively the heir to the KSC (Communist Party of Czechoslovakia), in power from 1948-1989.
Several groups splintered from the party in the early 1990s and founded their own parties - such as Left Block and later the Party of Czechoslovak Communists, but while they have faded into obscurity the KSCM has sustained its firm position in parliament consistently winning over ten percent of the vote.
www.radio.cz /en/html/kscm.html   (406 words)

  
 Central Europe Review - Author Archive: Sean Hanley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The answer is, I think, in both cases no. The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia's sudden conversion to the virtues of democracy, pluralism, the market and the rule of law in December 1989 was rightly a cause for cynicism at the time.
There is, of course, a less acceptable side to the party's beliefs: it sees the 1948-89 period of Communist rule as one of development and tranquillity and its attitude to the past is deeply ambiguous.
Grebenicek Senior is a former interrogator in the Communist security police during the 1950s, who is currently on trial for his involvement in one of the most notorious cases of torture of political prisoners in the period.
www.ce-review.org /authorarchives/hanley_archive/hanley20old.html   (1121 words)

  
 Message to the 5th Congress of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Japanese Communist Party Central Committee brings you its heartfelt greetings of solidarity on the occasion of the 5th Congress of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia.
Your party is working hard for the defense of the people’s living conditions and democratic rights in the face of the deepening contradictions of the economic policy at the cost of the broad spectrum working people as well as people’s increasing distrust of politics.
We hope that your congress will be an important opportunity for your party’s further step forward, a party which firmly defends the interests of all strata of the people, and a party which leads the struggle to build a peaceful and democratic country.
www.agitprop.org.au /stopnato/20000101cpbmjcpa.htm   (659 words)

  
 15th ICS • Czech Republic, Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia - English
He said that his party choose a method of gradual maturing from the social democratic into communist party, a method of teaching and experiencing the workers and winning them for the communist ideas organically and en masse.
He also stated that it was not beneficial for a revolutionary party to go into open struggle and to takeover of the state power in the situation that was not, as he said internationally mature.
The internal pressure from inside of the revolutionary movement in Czechoslovakia combined with the influence of the Communist International soon led to unification of all the communist organizations within the Communist party of Czechoslovakia in October and November 1921.
www.ptb.be /scripts/article.phtml?section=A3AAAE&obid=31600   (1920 words)

  
 Czech Communist and European Left -- Spectrezine
But representatives of some 20 parties attending a meeting in Berlin on January 11/12 hosted by Germany’s Party of Democratic Socialism were seriously divided over the plan, especially the new party’s statutes, which have to be approved by the EU as a condition of the party receiving funds from Brussels.
On November 14 last year the CPBM’s executive committee issued a statement opposing the formation of a new Europe-wide Left party and criticising behind-the-scenes moves to sideline the Czech party and parties sharing its view that the forming of such a party would harm their attempts to build sustainable long-term unity on the Left.
Both the PDS and the French Communists argue that the EU is reformable from within and support the founding of a European Left party funded by Brussels and geared to operate solely in the context of the European Parliament.
www.spectrezine.org /europe/CPBM.htm   (865 words)

  
 Czech Communists shrug off Marx, look to future - Boston.com
Once considered a pariah for any party to cooperate with, the Communists are slowly moving toward the mainstream of politics, ruling out nationalizing property while talking about more liberal economic policies that ensure personal freedoms as well as a strong social welfare network.
The party has changed its logo to red cherries and a white star from the brooding hammer and sickle and red star of one-party rule under communism.
At a recent exhibition on Communist crimes in Prague, dozens of former political prisoners and their families gathered amid a display of documents and photographs depicting the brutality and loss suffered during the hardline Communist era.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/04/12/czech_communists_shrug_off_marx_look_to_future?mode=PF   (692 words)

  
 Communists shrug off Marx, look to future -DAWN - International; April 10, 2006
Once considered a pariah for any party to cooperate with, the communists are slowly moving toward the mainstream of politics, ruling out nationalising property while talking about more liberal economic policies that ensure personal freedoms as well as a strong social welfare network.
The communists are still against Czech membership of their Cold War foe Nato, but no longer mind European Union membership, and say they can accept adoption of the euro currency in 2010 so long as the economy is ready.
The party has changed its logo to red cherries and a white star from the brooding hammer and sickle and red star of one-party rule under communism.
www.dawn.com /2006/04/10/int7.htm   (324 words)

  
 Contemporary Czech Contradictions
Their inability to rectify some of the mistakes which were made and which were undermining the confidence of the working class in the correctness of their political line, were also partly to blame for this transformation.
It is very little wonder therefore that Communists are gaining acceptance and also defying attempts at isolating the two Communist parties to the point of almost outright banning.
The general secretary of this party is the former member of the presidium of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Miroslav Stepan.
www.northstarcompass.org /nsc0003/czech.htm   (1082 words)

  
 New European Party Of The Left Founded
Eleven leftist and communist parties, meeting in Berlin on January 11th, finally agreed after ten years of discussion and debate to found a party called the European Left.
The parties agreed on a common program but planned further debate on the statute, which will probably call for a chairperson, an executive committee and a council of party leaders.
These include the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (the Czech Republic), the Communist Party of Slovakia, the Estonian Social Democratic Workers' Party and the AKEL of Cyprus, though the last named, proportionately the strongest, was one of those deciding to maintain an observer status.
notendur.centrum.is /~einarol/epl.htm   (791 words)

  
 Czech Communists attempt to cast off old image | csmonitor.com
But she has one huge political handicap – she is a devoted communist, and in the Czech Republic that means political isolation, ostracism, and exile to the extreme left.
Konecna is not a formal member of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM), the only unreformed communist party in Central Europe, but she does stand by its program of limiting privatization and increasing social benefits, and she openly calls herself a communist.
Both of Konecna's parents were party officials, meaning she grew up with privileges in travel, education, and even grocery shopping while the party was in power.
www.csmonitor.com /2002/0524/p07s01-woeu.htm   (1041 words)

  
 CIN Europe:  ComInterNet Listing of World Communist & Workers Parties
Communist Party in Denmark (Kommunistisk Parti i Danmark (KPiD)
Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Greece (Marxistiko-Leninistiko Kommounistiko Komma Elladas, M-L KKE)
Norges Kommunistiske Parti (NKP) (Communist Party of Norway)
www.angelfire.com /la/cominternet/cineurope.html   (435 words)

  
 Communist Party of Britain - for peace and socialism
The Young Communist League is the youth wing of the Communist Party of Britain and member of the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY).
Moldova - Communist Party of the Republic of Moldova
Britain's communists are proposing a left wing programme for consideration by the labour and progressive movements.
www.communist-party.org.uk /index.php?file=links   (485 words)

  
 Civic Democratic Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The party was founded in 1991, after the Civic Forum split, by Václav Klaus and it is currently led by Mirek Topolánek.
In the 2002 elections, it went from being the largest seat holder to being the second largest party in the Chamber of Deputies with 58 of 200 seats, and for the first time in its history, assumed the role of a true opposition party.
Internationally, it is aligned with the International Democratic Union, the party itself claims to have similar ideas along the lines of the British Conservative Party, the Polish Civic Platform and the Spanish Partido Popular.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Civic_Democratic_Party   (519 words)

  
 The Prague Post Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It is, after all, the successor to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSC), which held the country in its iron grip for 40 years.
Party leaders said that a breakthrough in June would be a significant step on the party's road to rehabilitation.
Party leaders said they expect support to be much higher at the ballot box.
www.praguepost.com /P02/2002/20522/news2.php   (1264 words)

  
 The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia: a post-communist socialist or a neo-communist party? German Policy Studies ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This paper examines the evolution of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (CPBM) with special attention given to its identity and programmatic and policy positions in the 1990s.
It is neither a "social-democra-tized" ex-communist party, nor an ultra-orthodox communist or genuine neo-communist party.
The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (CPBM) is an interesting and, in some respects, unique subject of study in the context of post-communist successor parties in Central and Eastern...
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_go2906/is_200204/ai_n7046732   (173 words)

  
 Central Europe Review - Mixed Czech Nuts
This is partially due to the relentless pressure of the right-wing press, which wields enormous influence in the Czech Republic, partially because the Social Democratic government is rather ham-fisted in dealing with the public and the media and partially due to the fact that some members of Zeman's government are not very competent.
Twenty-four per cent of the population still support the Civic Democratic Party of Vaclav Klaus, in spite of its recent spectacular failure in the Senate by-election in the Prague 1 constituency (which is made up of the historic centre of the city).
The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia is quickly gaining ground among the disaffected, of which there are many, especially in the rust belt industrial areas where unemplyoment is nearing 20 per cent.
www.ce-review.org /99/13/culik13.html   (3050 words)

  
 Party Politics Vol. 1, Issue 4, p. 565
Against it, the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (CPBM) is widely perceived to occupy an ideologically extreme position on the left of the political spectrum,symbolized by the fact that, alone among the successor parties in the region, it chose to retain its old name (Wightman, 1993; Ishiyama, 1995;Mansfeldova and Kitschelt, 1995).
Clearly, the most successful electoral performance has been that of the former communist party in Hungary which, as the Hungarian Socialist Party (HSP), has stood on a platform of support for a social safety net while continuing in a more competent manner with marketization,which it can claim to have begun while still in power.
In the Czech lands, the CPBM appears to face the greatest obstacles and must either move much further to the right - which might be difficult given its current support and the reputation it has established with voters - or await a very significant reorientation of public opinion in the light of economic failure.
www.partypolitics.org /volume01/v01i4p565.htm   (520 words)

  
 Communist Party of Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Letter from the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (Czech Republic)
     We are sending you an English translation of the Decision of the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic on official dissolution of the Communist Youth Union (KSM) in the Czech Republic.
The KSM is still expecting the reply of the court and beginning of the trial.
www.communistpartyofireland.ie /ksm.html   (397 words)

  
 Publius Pundit - Blogging the democratic revolution
Five parties are projected to win seats in the lower house of parliament, but none will have a majority and therefore will need at least one partner to form a cabinet.
The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia is the successor party to the old Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and is the only party in Eastern Europe that did not change its name after the collapse of the Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact.
The party has been trying to change its image and attract younger voters, who do not remember the history of the Communist Party, and the older voters whose living conditions have worsend, and who nostalgically recall the times when there were quaranteed jobs, cheap housing and the government supposedly took care of the citizen’s needs.
www.publiuspundit.com /?cat=122   (597 words)

  
 Untitled
The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (The Czech Republic) and the Communist Party of Slovakia jointly hosted a conference of (mainly European) Communist and left parties in Prague on May 11-12.
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation is like your own party living now through the period of evaluating its achievements as well as errors, mistakes, defeats and retreats.
It should be emphasized that the achievements of the socialist economies and the struggles waged by Communist parties in Western Europe exerted great pressure on both the ruling class and the social democrats.
www.communist-party.ca /english/spark/html/prague8.html   (3236 words)

  
 Polity IV Country Report 2003: Czech Republic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Lacking a parliamentary majority after the elections of 1998, the ruling Social Democratic Party (CSSD) has had difficulties promoting its agenda and passing legislation, e.g., the 2001 budget was only approved on 5 December 2000, after the CSSD garnered support from some opposition parties, including the communists.
CT employees claimed that the new appointee of the parliamentary media commission was too close to the main opposition party, and this appointment would result in increased political control over their work.
In the June 2002 legislative elections, only the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM) was able to increase its number of seats (to 41 from 24 in 1998), its best showing since 1989.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Czr1.htm   (715 words)

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