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  Peasants and New Democratic Party Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Peasants and New Democratic Party Union' or Union of Farmers and New Democratic Parties (Lithuanian: Valstiečių ir Naujosios demokratijos partijų sąjungos), or VNDS, is an agrarian-conservative political party in Lithuania led by former Prime Minister Kazimiera Prunskienė.
Its candidate Kazimiera Prunskienė gained 21.4 % of the vote (first round) and 47.4 % in the second round at the presidential elections of 13 June 2004.
At the last legislative elections, 10 October 2004, the party won 6.6 % of the popular vote and 10 out of 141 seats.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peasants_and_New_Democratic_Party_Union   (164 words)

  
 Union for Europe of the Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Union for Europe of the Nations is a nationalist and (mostly) euro-sceptic party grouping with seats in the European Parliament.
Valstiečių ir Naujosios demokratijos partijų sąjungos (Peasants and New Democratic Party Union) (1 MEP)
Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe "Piast" (Polish Peasant Party "Piast") (3 MEPs)†
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Union_for_Europe_of_the_Nations   (299 words)

  
 Modern China: The Chinese Communist Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Thus the New Culture Movement began to gestate the seeds of the Chinese Communist Party.
Leadership in the Soviet Union was divided: Josef Stalin believed that the Communists should continue to cooperate with the KMT while Leon Trotsky, in a competition for power with Stalin, argued that the communists should begin setting up communist-style local governments and initiate land reform.
In 1938, the Soviet Union recognized him as the leader of the CCP, and in 1945, he was elected teh Chairman of the CCP Central Committee, Chairman of the Politburo, Chairman of the Secretariat, and Chairman of the Military Commission.
www.wsu.edu:8001 /~dee/MODCHINA/COMM.HTM   (1820 words)

  
 Russia - The Era of the New Economic Policy
Party members perceived as less committed periodically were purged from the rosters.
A minor member of the party's Central Committee at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution, Stalin was thought to be a rather lackluster personality and therefore well suited to the routine work required of the general secretary.
His party, while still permitting intraorganizational debate, insisted that its members adhere to the organization's decisions once they were adopted, in accordance with the principle of democratic centralism.
countrystudies.us /russia/9.htm   (1796 words)

  
 ON NEW DEMOCRACY
The Chinese democratic republic which we desire to establish now must be a democratic republic under the joint dictatorship of all anti-imperialist and anti-feudal people led by the proletariat, that is, a new-democratic republic, a republic of the genuinely revolutionary new Three People's Principles with their Three Great Policies.
The struggle between the new and the old in Chinese society is a struggle between the new forces of the people (the various revolutionary classes) and the old forces of imperialism and the feudal class.
The new political force of the proletariat and the Communist Party entered the Chinese political arena, and as a result, the new cultural force, in new uniform and with new weapons, mustering all possible allies and deploying its ranks in battle array, launched heroic attacks on imperialist culture and feudal culture.
www.marxists.org /reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_26.htm   (15224 words)

  
 New Left Review - Alexander Cockburn: The Year of Surrendering Quietly
Back in 1964, the Democratic convention that nominated Lyndon Johnson saw the party platform scorn the legitimate claim of Fannie Lou Hamer and her fellow crusaders in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to be the lawful Mississippi delegation.
The fiercest political fighting of the 1980s saw Democratic party leaders and pundits ranged shoulder to shoulder against the last coherent left-populist campaign to be mounted within the framework of the Democratic Party: that of Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition.
He was a founder member of the Democratic Leadership Council, the camarilla of neoliberals that reshaped the image of the Democratic Party as a hawkish and pro-business party with a soft spot for abortion—essentially a stingier version of the Rockefeller Republicans.
newleftreview.org /A2523   (6481 words)

  
 AIPAC | Danger to Democracy | Democratic Precedents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The fascist party or any reconstituted groups of a similar nature is banned by article XII of the Constitution’s Transitory and Final Disposition, a law that was applied in 1974 against the party Ordine Nuovo.
The popular Welfare Party, which garnered 22% of the votes in the 1995 elections and 148 seats in the Turkish parliament (out of a total number of 550 seats), was banned in 1998.
Other conservative yet democratic parties, such as the Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants, were prevented from resuming activities in the postwar period.
www.aipac.org /hamas/democraticPrecedents.htm   (893 words)

  
 Freedom Socialist Party 1997 Political Resolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The new combativeness of U.S. workers, demonstrated by everyone from reporters to seamstresses, is a boon for workers all over -- because without revolution in the nerve center of imperialism, revolutions elsewhere face a struggle of Himalayan proportions.
Union demands here, too, are encompassing all sorts of social problems; multi-issue politics have become the norm in both the union and other mass movements.
A partial snapshot of just the month of December 1996 shows a nationwide strike by the Coal Workers Union involving 400,000 miners, a hunger strike and occupation of the control room of a St. Petersburg nuclear power plant by employees, and strikes or protests by more than 90,000 teachers in 27 regions.
www.socialism.com /fsarticles/vol18no2/polres182.html   (7730 words)

  
 German Social Democratic Party
The German Social Democratic Party (SDP) was established in 1875 with the publication of its Gotha programme.
After the anti-socialist law ceased to operate in 1890, the SDP grew rapidly and in 1912 the party won 110 seats in the Reichstag.
The Nazi Party banned the SDP in June 1933 and most of its leaders were arrested and sent to concentration camps.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /GERsdp.htm   (1030 words)

  
 The Italian Communist Party: Social Democrats or Trojan Horse?
The Party's policy toward Fascism changed diametrically twice during Mussolini's dictatorship, and always in response to the Moscow Party line, which in turn was based on what was deemed to be the most ex pedient means of gaining power for the Communists, not on what was necessary to destroy Fascism or restore a free society.
Under democratic centralism, the lower-level members of the Party debate and discuss the positions to be adopted by the higher echelons, which in turn debate, discuss, and adopt a Party line.
For a political party, the test should consist of whether it has genuinely democratized its internal structure (i.e., discarded "democratic centralism whether its financing is open to the public and in dependent of foreign sources, and whether its ideology, statements and performance are irrevocably rooted in time-tested concepts of Western political pluralism.
www.heritage.org /Research/Europe/bg50.cfm   (4804 words)

  
 Contemporary Communism and the Relation of the Party to Political Power   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In particular, it led to the conversion of the dictatorship of the proletariat into the dictatorship of the party of the new bourgeoisie.
From the negative experience in the Soviet Union, the bourgeoisie and its ideologues draw the self-serving conclusion that: socialism is equal to ‘one party dictatorship’, which is the negation of democracy.
A party that fights for power in its own hands, whether through the parliament or through the barrel of the gun, objectively works against the establishment of the rule of the working class and peasantry.
www.revolutionarydemocracy.org /rdv11n2/ghadar.htm   (1222 words)

  
 AEN Site |
We consider the reactions of Minister of the Interior Vladimír Palko to the police protest meeting held in Bratislava to be inadequate (especially as regards the discharge of chairman of the Police Union Miroslav Litva from his rank within the police force).
Instead of factual negotiations with the representatives of the Police Union, minister Palko is obviously trying to solve the situation by using the policy of iron hand against the protesting policemen, he intimidates, obstructs the execution of their legal right to protest (e.g.
After a short welcome to the various representatives of the different Party Member Parties of the Alliance, the Secretary General, Mrs Cristiana Muscardini reminded in her opening speech the functions, the targets, the ideals as well as the recent stages of the Alliance for Europe of the Nations.
www.aensite.org   (439 words)

  
 ZNet |Brazil | Brazil: Between Hope and Fear
A party really built from below, with very strong links with the new union movement, the left wing of the Catholic Church, the new social movements such as the neighborhood movements and the left wing of the middle class.
All that put together in one party, oriented to supporting the movements struggling outside the parliament and with a wide spectrum of leftist political trends living together in a hard-to-find internal party democracy.
The centralization of the party structure led to a few left wing splits (especially from trotskyist trends) and to subjugating local autonomy to the interest of the party's central authority.
www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=48&ItemID=2665   (1577 words)

  
 CNRT leaders form new social democratic party
Carrascalao, founder of the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and formerly governor of East Timor under Indonesia, is chairperson of the PSD.
The Timor Post reported that the secretary general of the Socialist Party of Timor (PST), Avelino da Silva, attended the PSD founding ceremony, welcoming the PSD because the formation of many parties was an indication of democracy in East Timor.
He said the PST was distinct from the PSD, using “Marxism as a tool of analysis” and seeking “the liberation of people as a whole, especially the poor and the weak” through socialism.
www.etan.org /et2000c/september/24-30/27cnrt.htm   (561 words)

  
 Poland: Democratic Left Party heads new coalition government
The Peasants Party, which won 9 percent, is “against the entry of Poland into the EU at any price”.
In addition, the party demands that Polish entry into the EU must be accompanied by subsidies for Polish agriculture-a demand that the EU would never agree to.
The party is a source of attraction for ultra-nationalist patriots, Catholics and anti-Semites.
www.wsws.org /articles/2001/oct2001/pole-o12_prn.shtml   (1310 words)

  
 On New Democracy
V.     The new historical characteristic of the Chinese revolution is its division into two stages, the first being the new-democratic revolution.
    In the foregoing we have explained the historical characteristics of Chinese politics in the new period and the question of the new democratic republic.
    Everything new comes from the forge of hard and bitter struggle This is also true of the new culture which has followed a zigzag course in the past twenty years, during which both the good and the bad were tested and proved in struggle.
www.marx2mao.com /Mao/ND40.html   (15782 words)

  
 What's New   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The new texts added to the Stalin collection include a rethinking of the National Question as it pertains to countries oppressed by imperialism and a series of pieces dealing with the state of the Chinese Revolution in the late 1920s.
Except for Lenin's "Notes of a Publicist", which deals with the struggle within the Party and should be read in conjuction with his "The Historical Meaning of the Inner-Party Stuggle in Russia", the subject matter addressed in the new material for both Lenin and Stalin is clear from the titles.
Published in France in 1976, the text was part of the struggle waged inside the Communist Party of France against the Party's decision (at the 22nd Party Congress) to "abandon" the dictatorship of the proletariat in favor of the "peaceful, democratic road to socialism." This text is well worth studying.
www.marx2mao.com /WN.html   (10022 words)

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