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Communist Party of Poland
The Communist Party of Poland (KPP) was a communist party in the Second Polish Republic, founded in 1918 and dissolved by the Communist International in 1938 during the Great Purge.
Communist Party of Tajikistan
The Communist Party of Tajikistan (CPT) was the ruling party of Soviet Tajikistan from 1929 until 1991, then revived as a legal opposition party that did well in the 1995 elections.
Communist Party of the Philippines
Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), also CPP-NPA-NDF: Maoist party founded 26 December 1968 by Jose Maria Sison, waging the world's longest-running communist insurgency through the New People's Army since 1969; peak 26,000 fighters, now below 900.
Communist Party of the Russian Federation (Коммунистическая партия Российской Федерации)
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF, КПРФ), re-founded 13 February 1993 as successor to the CPSU and led by Gennady Zyuganov, is Russia's main systemic opposition party, holding Duma seats and winning 18.93% in 2021.
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза)
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Kommunisticheskaia partiia Sovetskogo Soiuza, CPSU) was the Marxist-Leninist ruling party of Russia and the USSR from 1917 to 1991, organized on democratic centralism, dissolved and outlawed in 1991.
Communist Party of Uzbekistan
The Communist Party of Uzbekistan, founded in 1924, ruled Soviet Uzbekistan as a branch of the CPSU until independence, when it became the People's Democratic Party in 1991.
Communist Party of Vietnam
Communist Party of Vietnam (Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam, CPV), founded 1930 in Hong Kong, is Vietnam's ruling Marxist-Leninist party; led Đổi Mới reforms since 1986, four-pillar collective leadership now consolidating under General Secretary Tô Lâm.
Communist Party of Western Belarus
The Communist Party of Western Belarus (Камуністычная партыя Заходняй Беларусі) was an illegal communist party active among Belarusians in interwar Poland from 1923 to 1938.
Communist Party of Western Ukraine
The Communist Party of Western Ukraine (Комуністична партія Західної України, KPZU) was an underground communist party active among Ukrainians in interwar Poland from 1919 to 1938.
Communist Party USA
Communist Party USA (CPUSA), founded 1919 from a Socialist Party split after the Russian Revolution; largest US revolutionary socialist organization, Popular Front era peak of 66,000 members in 1939, declined in the 1950s McCarthy era.
Communist Refoundation Party
Communist Refoundation Party (Partito della Rifondazione Comunista, PRC, later PRC-SE): Italian communist party founded 1991 from the PCI minority opposing dissolution. Peaked at 8.6% in 1996, split in 1998 (PdCI), lost all parliamentary seats in 2008.
Communist society
Communist society, in Marxist theory the classless, stateless, moneyless society after capitalism with needs-based distribution, also called the higher phase of communism; distinct from actually existing socialist states and from market socialism or Parecon proposals.
Communist state
Communist state: a country ruled by a communist party on Marxist-Leninist lines, with party monopoly, democratic centralism, and state ownership; typologies, breakdown, and surviving cases like China and Cuba.
Communist symbolism
Communist symbolism is the imagery used by communist parties and states, chiefly the hammer and sickle, red star, and red flag, first defined in Soviet Russia after 1917.
Communist Uprisings of 1926–1927
The Communist Uprisings of 1926–1927 (Peristiwa 1926) were PKI-led armed revolts against Dutch colonial rule in the East Indies, beginning in West Java in November 1926.
Communist Youth League of China
The Communist Youth League of China (中国共产主义青年团) is the youth organization of the Chinese Communist Party, founded in 1922 as the Socialist Youth League and serving as the party's assistant and reserve force.
Communitarianism
Communitarianism: 1980s political philosophy holding that communities shape identity and should inform politics; arose as critique of Rawls via MacIntyre, Sandel, Taylor, Walzer.
Community
Community (sociology): a group sharing activities, experiences, and belonging, from Tönnies's Gemeinschaft/Gesellschaft dichotomy to place-, interest-, and practice-based types and today's online communities.
Community 001
Community 001 (社区001) was a Chinese online grocery delivery platform founded in 2012, which delivered supermarket goods within one hour before collapsing in September 2015.
Community Broadcasting Association of Australia
Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA), formerly Public Broadcasting Association of Australia, founded 1974: national peak body for Australian community radio and TV licensees, over 90% membership, advocacy, research, Roadmap 2033, AMRAP.
Community broadcasting in Australia and New Zealand
Community broadcasting in Australia and New Zealand is the not-for-profit, community-owned third tier of broadcasting, with over 450 licensed Australian stations and 12 New Zealand access stations.
Community college
Community college: US public two-year institutions offering associate degrees, certificates, and transfer preparation; began as junior colleges with Joliet Junior College in 1901, named by the 1947 Truman Commission.
Community colleges in the United States
Community colleges in the United States are public two-year institutions awarding associate degrees and certificates, open to all students; the first, Joliet Junior College, opened in 1901 in Illinois.
Community crime prevention
Community crime prevention is the organized involvement of residents, in partnership with police or local organizations, in activities to reduce neighborhood crime, including neighborhood watch schemes and citizen patrols.
Community development
Community development is a practice-based profession and academic discipline that promotes participative democracy, sustainable development, and social justice by organizing, educating, and empowering communities; its roots reach back over a century.
Community Granary System
The Community Granary System (社仓法) was a Song dynasty famine-relief policy built on Zhu Xi's village granaries, first trialed at Wufuli and ordered by the court down to all circuits.
Community mapping
Community mapping is a participatory research method in which community members collaboratively create maps of local assets, resources, and issues, used in public health, land-use planning, and disaster risk work.
Community of Christ
Community of Christ, formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, is a Restoration denomination headquartered in Independence, Missouri, with over 250,000 members in about 60 countries.
Community of Democracies
Community of Democracies (CoD), intergovernmental coalition founded in Warsaw June 27, 2000 by 106-107 nations via the Warsaw Declaration's 19 democratic principles; initiated by Albright and Geremek; Governing Council, Secretariat, civil society pillar.
Community of Latin American and Caribbean States
CELAC (Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños) is an intergovernmental dialogue mechanism uniting all 33 Latin American and Caribbean countries, founded 2010-2011 as successor to the Rio Group and CALC, with a rotating pro tempore presidency and non-binding consensus decisions.