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In the News (Thu 16 Oct 08)

  
  CIN Europe:  ComInterNet Listing of World Communist & Workers Parties   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
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 Ireland, Submission to National Forum for Peace and Reconciliation
By the Communist Party of Ireland, 4 February 1955
The combined GNP for Ireland as a whole, minus the British subvention and European funds, is approximately 40 billion.
The Economic and Social Regeneration Fund should be administered by a new All-Ireland Economic Council comprising representatives of both governments, the trade union movement, employer bodies, farming organisations and community organisations (particularly those from the most deprived areas of Belfast and from the border counties).
www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/61/006.html   (2912 words)

  
 The Communist International
In France, it was the majority that became the Communist Party, whereas in Italy it was the minority, resulting in the secession of the mass Italian Socialist Party from the Comintern.
The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), formed in London of diverse groups that came together in August 1920, while the 2nd congress was still in session, held another congress in Leeds in January 1921, at which it accepted the 21 conditions and adhered to the Comintern.
On top of this, various parties were in open conflict with the leadership of the Comintern, and directives condemning the "right wing" leadership of the polish patty, the "right deviations" of the british party, and the "ultra-leftism" of the italian party constantly emanated from Moscow.
www.comms.dcu.ie /sheehanh/comintern1.htm   (3320 words)

  
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Ireland's 5 million population is divided into 3.5 million in the south and 1.6 million in the north.
Communists and other progressives were frequently arrested in the 1930s because of their leadership in the strike movement.
In the north was the Communist Party of Northern Ireland (CPNI).
www.angelfire.com /md/TobyTerrar/Ireland.html   (2379 words)

  
 Canada Election 2004 Voter Guide: Political Parties - Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) is registered with Elections Canada by the name "Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada" only so as to avoid confusion with the other Communist Party of Canada.
This party ultimately became the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) of which Bains was the founding leader; it was also the origin of anti-revisionist parties in Britain and Ireland.
Bains was a leader of the anti-revisionist movement internationally and founded or helped found anti-revisionist parties around the world including the Hindustani Ghadar Party (Organisation of Indian Marxist-Leninists Abroad), the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist), and the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist) and the Communist Ghadar Party of India.
www.mondopolitico.com /elections/canada2004/parties/marxist.htm   (355 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   (444 words)

  
 Communist Party of Britain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) was established in 1968 by a leading engineering union official, Reg Birch, who had been a prominent member of the CPGB and at that time a supporter of the Beijing line in the Sino-Soviet dispute.
The Communist University of Britain has become an annual three-day event from 2005, joined by weekend universities in Scotland and Wales in 2006 and with plans for a Communist University of the Midlands - to be organised jointly with the Association of Indian Communists (Marxist) - in 2007.
Among the speakers at the Communist University of Britain at Ruskin House in November 2006 were Labour MP John McDonnell, RMT general secretary Bob Crow, CND chair Kate Hudson, Communist Party USA vice-president Jarvis Tyner, French Communist Party economist Paul Boccara and PLO ambassador Dr Noha Khalef.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Communist_Party_of_Britain   (2428 words)

  
 WALES CPB CYMRU
The Communist Party's agent was refused election documents and a copy of the electoral register by the local council clerk.
Communists should therefore decide their stance in immediate political clashes (including elections) from the perspective of how the left's influence can be strengthened and consolidated until the point where it can exercise decisive pressure and bring about the overthrow of capitalism.
When there is a communist candidate, this is part of an ongoing programme of work to build the left and strengthen the labour movement in the area, rather than being a purely parliamentary attempt to split the Labour vote.
welshcommunists.co.uk /election2001.htm   (4333 words)

  
 Eugene Downing, interviewed on Sept. 24th 2000
Eugene was a member of the Communist Party of Ireland and attended the 1934 and 1935 Wolfe Tone Commemorations at Bodenstown.
When the party banners were blocked, as were those of the Republican Congress, the party members joined the Congress supporters at the initial assembly point for a meeting, which was addressed by George Gilmore.
Michael McInerney:- The CP in Ireland was so weak it was decided by the British party to assist them by sending some of their leading people who were Irish back home.
www.geocities.com /irelandscw/ibvol-EDInterview1.htm   (2667 words)

  
 Communist Party of Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was founded as the Socialist Party of Ireland, and was renamed the Communist Party in 1921 upon its affiliation to the Communist International.
In 1941 the party was separated into two, the Irish Workers' Party and the Communist Party of Northern Ireland.
The party's aim is to win the support of the majority of the Irish people for ending the capitalist system and for building socialism.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ireland   (444 words)

  
 The revolutionary dialectic of Republicanism - Part seven
Immediately the Communist Party of Ireland was faced in late 1921 with the national question in all its force.
The Communist Party of Ireland stood for the establishment of a Workers' Republic.
Although the Irish Communists were heroic people who fought against the fascist Blueshirts both in Ireland and in Spain, under the baleful influence of Stalinism, the Party was unable to penetrate the masses and remained a sect.
www.marxist.com /ireland/republicanism7.html   (3190 words)

  
 Recent Events in Ireland
Such is the case in Ireland where British imperialism, the master of divide and rule has put in place measures to update its occupation of part of Ireland for the 21st century.
New studies at the former Central Party Archive of the CPSU indicate that the promotion of the syndicalist Jim Larkin by Harry Pollit of the CPGB to leadership of the nascent communist movement in Ireland was a serious mistake.
The Unionist veto - derived from their artificial majority built in to Northern Ireland at partition (in the language of diplomacy 'consent'), was accepted by the Dublin government who at the same time would not drop the definition in their 1937 constitution that the nation consisted of the whole island.
www.revolutionarydemocracy.org /rdv6n1/ireland.htm   (1548 words)

  
 Bob Armstrong: Ulster in Transition - Part 2 (May 1945)
It is instructive to study the fluctuating fortunes of the Labour Party during the crisis and its aftermath.
For instance, during the period of the Stalin-Hitler pact the Communist Party’s flirtation with the nationalists organisations had the double consequence of sustaining the worst illusions of the Republican proletariat ant at the same time, hopelessly alienating the Protestant workers.
In Northern Ireland, where there is not as yet even the nucleus of an avowedly fascist movement, the colossal body of regular and auxiliary police – well drilled and equipped with arms, and anti-socialist to the marrow – is a constant menace overhanging the working class.
www.marxists.org /history/etol/newspape/win/vol05a/no09/armstrong.htm   (5721 words)

  
 Socialist Party Archive - History: Ireland: 1798 - The Contribution of James Connolly
Connolly is well known in Ireland (although his life and ideas are often distorted beyond recognition by a wide variety of class interests and ideologies hostile to socialism and the working class), so he would always figure high in a similar poll run by the Irish broadcasting services, for example.
The party has a long record of fighting for workers' unity in the North against sectarian division, in the unions, in the communities and amongst youth.
The Socialist Party puts forward a socialist solution, calling for the struggle against the bosses, the sectarian-based political parties and for a new society as the way to overcome the deep sectarian divisions.
www.socialistparty.net /pub/archive/histconnolly.htm   (3750 words)

  
 THE BLANKET * Index: Current Articles
He was President of the CSEU in Northern Ireland from 1957 until he retired in 1978.
He was elected to the Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions in 1954 and to ITUC Executive in 1956.
Communists were playing a very important role in the mass demonstrations, the discussions that took place over the place, Communists were involved in them all and tried to influence the Civil rights Movement along sensible lines that could be accepted by the Protestant population.
lark.phoblacht.net /andybarr.html   (2537 words)

  
 An Phoblacht: Oil and water: Soviet Communism and the Irish Revolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Ireland is surely fortunate in having escaped most of the horrors of the 20th Century.
Thus, in 1931, communists took part in the founding of Saor Éire but with the avowed objective of undermining it, as it was regarded as a threat to the prospects for a Communist Party.
The IRA responded to communist machinations in 1934, when it made membership of the Communist Party incompatible with membership of the Army.
www.anphoblacht.com /news/detail/7194   (787 words)

  
 portland imc - 2006.05.28 - Michéal “Mick” O’Riordan: Irish leader dies
Michéal "Mick" O'Riordan, Spanish Civil War veteran and the former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Ireland, died in Dublin on May 18 at age 88.
Born in west Cork in 1917, O'Riordan was a member of the Fianna, the Irish Republican Army, and joined the Communist Party of Ireland in 1935.
The CP of Ireland later on took an erroneous position against the Irish anti-colonial struggle against the British Empire.
portland.indymedia.org /en/2006/05/340131.shtml   (367 words)

  
 statement by cps
A number of communist, workers and left parties from across the globe have issued the following statement, expressing their strong condemnation of the US-UK attempts to unleash a deadly war against Iraq for the sake of their global imperialist domination.
These parties are also determined to contribute their best to rousing the people against the looming menace of a war.
Communist Network of Italy; Coordination Communist, France; the Cercle Barbusse, France; Convergence Communist Patricia Latour, France; Vifs Rouge, France; Israeli Communist Forum; and United Communists of the Netherlands.
pd.cpim.org /2003/0223/02232003_iraq4.htm   (731 words)

  
 The Struggle of the Unemployed in Belfast, Oct. 1932
The puppet state of Northern Ireland is entirely subordinated to Britain in fiscal policy, and is unable to introduce any protectionist policy which would enable local industries to compete with the imported commodities from Britain.
That is why the Labour Party politicians in the British parliament whine before the die-hards, and plead with them to give them some concessions, otherwise the workers will be more convinced, that not the Labour Party policy, but the revolutionary policy of the Communist Party alone can bring them success in their struggle against starvation.
Only the failure of the Communists to take advantage of the favourable objective situation can prevent the lessons of the mass struggle of the Belfast unemployed being made clear to the workers, making a great step towards the formation of the Communist Party of Ireland.
www.irsm.org /history/struggle.html   (2897 words)

  
 Once Upon a Time in the West
Note that both the continuing Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of Israel, which operates as a nationally self-denying cancer in Israel's body politic, supported this declaration of solidarity with the Palestinians and Lebanese.
On July 15, 2006 the two parties dispatched delegates to Minsk, the Belarusian capital, to a congress, the main purpose of which was to unite the two organizations within the restored/continuing Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The NPD is a far-right party that harbored West Germany’s neo-Nazis in a fashion similar to that of NDPD in East Germany.
www.russiastory.com   (12187 words)

  
 Socialist Voice - IRELAND'S SHAME: Torture Flights Continue
The recent report published by the Council of Europe on the collaboration by fourteen European countries, including Ireland, in CIA torture flights has exposed what most people believed to be happening for some time; and the Shannon revelation is the smoking gun that they have tried hard to conceal.
The political elite of Ireland are now well integrated in both the US and EU imperialist camps, having a foot in both.
It is now clear that Shannon will be allowed to continue with this use so long as the United States requires it, as well as to allow torture flights and the refuelling of the US war machine on its way to Iraq or Afghanistan.
www.mltoday.com /Pages/CPs/CPIreland-IrelandsShame.html   (774 words)

  
 The Irish left (politics)
Michael D. Higgins of the Labour Party is the leader of undergraduate, anti-American politics in the Irish parliament.
When you read these awful Israel-condemning debates in the Irish Senate, remember that Ireland is a country that was neutral during the Holocaust, that sent condolences to Germany on the death of Hitler, and that refused to allow almost any Jewish refugees in, either before, during or after the war.
The Workers Party sought funding from the Soviet Government (this was openly admitted in the Proinsias De Rossa libel case).
markhumphrys.com /irish.left.politics.html   (4234 words)

  
 ireland
Ireland is situated in the Atlantic Ocean and separated from Great Britain by St. George's Channel on the southeast, the Irish Sea on the east and the north channel on the northeast.
Ireland resembles a basin—a central plain rimmed with mountains, except in the Dublin region.
Politically, the island is divided into Northern Ireland, a constituent part of the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland, formerly known as Eire.
www.american.edu /carmel/ed0166a/ireland.htm   (578 words)

  
 Communism versus Reform by Sylvia Pankhurst
This programme is not a Communist one: we urge the Irish Communists to withdraw it and put forward a genuine Communist programme in its place.
Such isolation is inevitable to a country which becomes Communist, since capitalism will not assist in the maintenance of a Communist community.
Encouragement of Communists in other countries to bring to Ireland such raw materials and manufactured articles as she may lack, and to give also their personal service if required.
www.marxists.org /archive/pankhurst-sylvia/1922/ireland.htm   (2894 words)

  
 3rd Anniversary of the Iraq War - CSP
We call upon the working people to strengthen their struggle and solidarity with the Iraqi people and to stop the threat of new military imperialist interventions in the region.
As communist and workers' parties struggling for peace, social justice, progress and socialism, we support the legitimate right of the Iraqi people to resist occupation.
Communist Workers' Party of Russia - Party of the Russian Communists
www.chicagosocialistparty.com /politics/kkeiraq.html   (231 words)

  
 Communist Party of Britain - for peace and socialism
A pamphlet which provides an examination of the case against capitalism; how Marx saw the creation of a communist society; Arguments against Communism; The record of socialist countries and Communist parties and What Communists believe must be done in Britain.
Reprint of the classic Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and & Frederick Engels.
The Communist Party has republished Wages Price & Profit by Karl Marx — one of the most powerful and perceptive statements ever made in support of the fight for higher wages.
www.communist-party.org.uk /index.php?file=propaganda   (612 words)

  
 Communist Party of Ireland
To see the work of the party in detail, the publications of the party should be read.
The congress recognises the necessity for a women’s movement fighting for democratic rights outside the party to deal specifically with women’s problems and to raise the consciousness of Irish women of their position in society.
     The conditioning of women in Ireland to an acceptance that once married their place is in the home, as mother and wife, has been a major factor in keeping them politically backward.
www.communistpartyofireland.ie /mna-en.html   (1084 words)

  
 Communist Party of Ireland / Páirtí Cumannach na hÉireann
The CPI has written a letter of protest to the Czech ambassador in Ireland following the news that the Czech government has banned the Communist Youth Union (KSM).
Paper presented by Gareth Murphy (general secretary of the Connolly Youth Movement) to a public meeting on Cuba organised by Labour Youth in the National University of Ireland, Dublin, October 2006.
The Communist Party of Ireland is an all-Ireland Marxist party founded in 1933.
www.communistpartyofireland.ie   (864 words)

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