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  List of Communist Parties - Simple English Wikipedia
Portugal - Communist Party of Portugal, Portuguese Communist Party
Serbia and Montenegro - New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
Cambodia - Communist Party of Cambodia (Khmer Rouge)
simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Communist_Parties   (456 words)

  
 Communist Party Statistics Sources
Its authority was particularly evident in relations with the Communist parties in Eastern Europe and with the smaller parties of Western Europe and the western hemisphere.
The party's secretary-general from 1930 until 1964, Maurice Thorez, was briefly (1946-47) vice-premier of France; the party was led by Georges Marchais (1920-97) from 1972 to 1993.
Communist parties in the western hemisphere, except for those of Cuba and Nicaragua, are generally small and sometimes illegal.
www.adherents.com /largecom/communist_parties.html   (3823 words)

  
 Cambodia - THE KPRP
On September 30, 1960, the KPRP party was renamed the Workers' Party of Kampuchea (WPK).
The party recognized the change in leadership symbolically by changing the official founding date of the KPRP from February 19, 1951, to June 28, 1951, in deference to the Vietnam Workers' Party (Dang Lao Dong Viet Nam), which was established in March 1951.
Party membership was estimated at between 600 and 1,000, a considerable increase over 1979 but still only a fraction of the number of cadres needed to run the party and the government.
countrystudies.us /cambodia/79.htm   (1624 words)

  
 Cambodia [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
During this period, Cambodia was under JapaneseJapan (日本, Nippon/Nihon, literally "the origin of the sun") is a country east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean.
Cambodia's chief colonial official, responsible to the Union's governor general and appointed by the Ministry of Marine and Colonies in Paris, was the Résident Supérieur (Resident General).
Cambodia is now a constitutional monarchy where executive power is held by the prime ministerIn a parliamentary system, such as the Westminster System, the Prime Minister is the head of the government while the head of state is largely a ceremonial position.
www.wikimirror.com /Cambodia   (13301 words)

  
 Khmer Rouge
The Communist Party of Cambodia was founded in the early 1950s, although in its early years it remained subordinate to the Communist Party of Vietnam.
On March 18, 1970, Cambodia's ruler, Prince Norodom Sihanouk was deposed while out of the country by a coup which brought to power CIA-backed General Lon Nol.
The Standing Committee of the Khmer Rouge's Central Committee ("Party Center") during its period of power comprised Pol Pot (the effective leader of the movement), Nuon Chea, Ta Mok, Khieu Samphan, Ke Pauk, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, Yun Yat, and Ieng Thirith.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/k/kh/khmer_rouge.html   (1174 words)

  
 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Between CE 802 and 1970, Cambodia was a hereditary monarchy.
However, U.S.-led bombing of NVA and VC units in Cambodia and the subsequent Cambodian casualties made Lon Nol's government unpopular, and caused support for the Khmer Rouge to grow, particularly in the countryside.
While the U.S. bombing campaign against Cambodia in the Vietnam War had a significant impact on the country's population, historians generally attribute the majority of deaths under the Khmer Rouge to their revolutionary program and refusal to accept international aid.
www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=Khmer_Rouge   (1260 words)

  
 List of Communist Parties   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The formation of communist parties in various countries was first initiated by the formation of the communist Third International by the Russian Bolsheviks.
Some Communist parties have names such as Socialist Party, Socialist Workers Party, Workers' Party, etc. The parties on this list are mostly those that were aligned with either Moscow or Beijing during the Cold War and their offshoots.
Denmark - Communist Party of Denmark, Communist Party in Denmark
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/List-of-Communist-Parties.htm   (951 words)

  
 The death of Pol Pot
The genocide in Cambodia was the outcome of a complex historical development in which the pernicious ideological influence of Stalinism came together with the military bloodbath carried out by American imperialism against the people of Indochina.
Cambodia was transformed into a battlefield with Lon Nol's troops fighting the Khmer Rouge and American and Saigon troops in combat with NLF and regular North Vietnamese forces.
The bombing of Cambodia was carried out as a secret and illegal operation--secret, at least, from the American people, if not from the victims in Cambodia, or the thousands of American military personnel who participated in the attacks, or the American reporters in Vietnam who knew of the bombing raids but kept silent.
www.wsws.org /news/1998/apr1998/plpt-a18.shtml   (1858 words)

  
 CPUSA Online - FAQ's
The Communist Party USA is in favor of socialized medicine, guaranteed retirement in the form of improved social security benefits, strengthened environmental protection, full funding of education, amnesty for immigrants, and democratization of all regulatory agencies.
Communist Parties in countries with more repressive or fascist governments have to focus more on centralism and security than we have had to over the last 30 years.
Our Party feels that the only way to get to a successful revolution is to win workers and their allies to struggles for reform, leading them to a consciousness of their own power, and to an awareness of the limits placed on real solutions by the capitalist system.
www.cpusa.org /article/static/511   (12185 words)

  
 Democratic Kampuchea (from Cambodia) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Covering a land area of 70,238 square miles (181,916 square kilometres), it is bordered on the west and northwest by Thailand, on the northeast by Laos, on the east and southeast by Vietnam, and on the southwest by the Gulf of Thailand.
Nearly 20 years after embarking on a bloody campaign to control Cambodia, during which millions of people were murdered, the Khmer Rouge in the late 20th century still represented one of the most horrifying periods in human history.
Modern Cambodia is a remnant of the powerful Khmer Empire, which at its height from the 11th to the 13th century ruled much of what is now Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand.
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=52489   (759 words)

  
 Khmer Rouge biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
According to Frank Snepp--the CIA's principal political analyst in Vietnam at the time--the CIA believed that if Lon Nol came to power, "He would welcome the United States with open arms and we would accomplish everything." The new leader rejected the neutrality of the King, and joined with the USA in fighting the North Vietnamese.
The party was accused of genocide and autogenocide, the latter term being created specifically to describe Cambodia.
While the U.S. bombing campaign against Cambodia in the Vietnam War had a significant impact on the country's population, historians typically attribute most deaths under the Khmer Rouge to their revolutionary program and refusal to accept international aid.
khmer-rouge.biography.ms   (1119 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge, the Communist Party that ruled Cambodia from 1976-1979.
The party's leaders, convinced of their own omniscience, generally dismissed the notion that they needed anyone to advise them in the science of building dikes, dams, and canals.
In Cambodia, longstanding custom called for the cremation of the remains of the dead; survivors were comforted by their possession of even a few ashes of their departed loved ones.
www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1998   (7453 words)

  
 politics
Joseph Stalin's party was the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, later to become the Byelorussian Communist Party, in Cambodia the Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party formed an alliance with the Popular Socialist Community of Prince Sihanouk.
China's party the genocide in Tibet, 1.2 million dead, and Tin-ann min square, etc. These people gained power by claiming they would improve the economy, get rid of crime, nationalize health care, nationalize industry, etc. Without absolute control over the population these people could not have murdered, and tortured the people they did.
Most politicians will follow their party lines, due partly to money for campaigns, and they have been promoted by people controlling the party that believe the particular candidate has the proper agenda.
home1.gte.net /kenmath/politics.html   (1456 words)

  
 Slavoj Žižek - When the Party Commits Suicide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
He was ready to plead guilty in public if the Party needed his confession, but he wanted it to be made clear in the inner circle, between his comrades, that he was not really guilty, but just conceded to play the necessary role in the public ritual.
In 1937 Stalin openly mobilized the ‘party masses’ against the nomenklatura as a whole; this provided an important strand in the Great Terror’s destruction of the élite.But in 1938 the Politburo changed alignments and reinforced the authority of the regional nomenklatura as part of an attempt to restore order in the party during the terror.
In short, when dissidents like Havel denounced the existing communist régime on behalf of authentic human solidarity, they (unknowingly, for the most part) spoke from the place opened up by communism itself—which is why they tend to be so disappointed when the ‘really existing capitalism’ does not meet their high expectations.
www.newleftreview.net /IssueI234.asp?Article=02   (5398 words)

  
 Yale > Cambodian Genocide Project >The Khmer Rouge regime
Considering the astonishing levels of violence which have racked Cambodia and Cambodian politics during modern history, until 1996 the core leadership of the CPK has been remarkably stable.
Several demographic analyses (by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the U.S. Bureau of the Census, and the U.N. Population Bureau) have estimated the death toll to be between 1 million and 2 million.
One of the conceits of the Khmer Rouge Party Center was that Democratic Kampuchea was capable of seizing through military conquest regions of present-day Vietnam which were lost to Cambodian control through Vietnamese expansion over the last five hundred years.
www.yale.edu /cgp/kr.html   (565 words)

  
 SAM RAINSY PARTY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Parliamentarians from the opposition Sam Rainsy Party propose that Members of Parliament retain their seat if, for whatever reason, they lose membership of their political party.
In my capacity as Opposition leader I would like to reaffirm the fundamentals of the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) at a time when Opposition parliamentarian Cheam Channy is being tried for allegedly attempting to form an illegal army with the possible objective to overthrow the government by using violent means.
The Sam Rainsy Party denounces the illogical pretext used by the Military Court authority to deny the visit of two SRP MPs to the detained MP Cheam Channy.
www.samrainsyparty.org   (860 words)

  
 Khmer.org | People's Republic of Kampuchea
This is 50 riel note that was published after 1980s by communist party of cambodia.
It is still using right now in Cambodia.
This man might be a leader of cambodia.
www.khmer.org /us/doc/doc177.htm   (31 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Left-Wing Monster: Pol Pot by John Perazzo
In 1952 he joined the French Communist Party, a move that would prove to have a profound influence on the rest of his political life.
Pol Pot returned to Cambodia in 1953 after his scholarship was revoked (due to his poor academic performance) and joined Ho Chi Minh’s Viet Minh, the antecedent of the Viet Cong.
With a nation deeply divided thanks to the pressures of the anti-war left and a Democratic Party that had turned its back on the war, Nixon was persuaded that the United States could neither win the war nor maintain its armies in the battle.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19042   (7759 words)

  
 Articles - Son Sen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
On his return to Cambodia, he became director of studies at the National Teaching Institute as well as a leading member of the reconstituted Communist Party of Cambodia.
He was a party to the political machinery set up to implement the political settlement for Cambodia and was a Khmer Rouge member of the Supreme National Council in Phnom Penh until April 1993, when its delegation withdrew in protest at the forthcoming elections.
At one time regarded as the fourth-ranking member of the Khmer Rouge hierarchy, he is believed to have engaged in factional rivalry with Pol Pot and to have been implicated in the murder of a British university teacher, Malcolm Caldwell, in Phnom Penh in December 1978.
www.sidepoint.com /articles/Son_Sen   (430 words)

  
 world changer 9
The son of a relatively well-off peasant family, he received a government scholarship in 1949 to study in Paris, where he was attracted to the ideas and vision of the French Communist Party.
He returned to Phnom Penh in 1953, worked as a teacher and was involved in the establishment of the Communist Party in Cambodia.
As Cambodia became embroiled in the Vietnam War with Viet Cong troops and American forces fighting within her borders, the country became increasingly unstable.
homepages.paradise.net.nz /woollett/polpot.htm   (597 words)

  
 Ieng Sary
In September 1960 he was present at a secret meeting of the Communist Party of Cambodia which set it on the road to revolutionary struggle and at which he was elected to its central committee.
In August 1971 his presence was announced in Beijing, ostensibly as special envoy from the liberated area of Cambodia, but he acted as watch-dog to Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who was then head of a government in exile.
Ieng Sary, who was also foreign minister in the Khmer Rouge government, said he has been contributing to national rebuilding and reconciliation since he defected to the government in 1996.
www.khmerkampongspeu.org /iengsary.htm   (953 words)

  
 Keyword   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Khmer Rouge Noun: A Cambodian Communist movement that was active as a guerrilla force from 1970 to the late 1990s and held power under the leadership of Pol Pot from 1975 to 1979.
Cambodia, UN sign deal on trials for Khmer Rouge headsAPSaturday, Jun 07, 2003,Page 1 Cambodia and the UN yesterday signed an agreement to hold a genocide trial for former leaders of the Khmer Rouge, whose brutal rule claimed about 1.7 million lives.
Sok An, Cambodia's chief negotiator of the pact, and Hans Corell, the UN deputy secretary-general for legal affairs, signed the document at Chaktomouk conference hall, which the government has set as the venue for the internationally assisted tribunal.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=khmerrouge   (4817 words)

  
 List of One-Party Regimes
This list summarizes the major one-party regimes in world history as well as the periods of their dictatorship.
The commencement time of a one-party system refers to the time when the party seized power or banned other political parties whereas the end time refers to the time when the party lost power or declared the end of one-party rule.
Communist Party (Bolshevik) (1918.3-1925.12.18), All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik) (1925.12.18-1952.10.5), Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1952.10.5- 1990.2.7)
www.geocities.com /kfzhouy/Party/Onepartye.html   (364 words)

  
 Faith In Ink: Khmer, baby.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
They're the Communist Party of Cambodia that imposed its rule on the nation from 1975 to 1979, during which an estimated 1.5 million people died.
What if the party wanted to call themselves 'Khmer Rogue' instead, but some idiot went and fucked it up with a typo?
Because i sure as hell can't imagine a real bloodthirsty, bad-ass Communist leader with pretty red cheeks.
www.20six.co.uk /weblogEntry/qn76mfbc5037   (218 words)

  
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