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 | | Communist monopolies in publishing and distribution of news were fostered. | | | The "Round Table Talks" ended the communist monopoly of the news media; abolishment of censorship followed in 1990; the communist monopoly of publishing and distributing publications began to breakup with privatization. | | | However, according to the Library of Congress Study, the Soviet Union's election of Mikhail Gorbachev and his new policies of openness and reform unwittingly contributed to the fall of the communist government in Poland where reforms were not only welcomed but demanded. |
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http://www.uiowa.edu/intlinet/projects/kaletkar/government.htm
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| | Communists argued that King's policies had the effect of encouraging the rise of fascism in Europe: by failing to act against the Italian fascist invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, by refusing to support the Spanish Republican government from 1936-39 against General Franco's fascist uprising, and by supporting the British policy of appeasing Hitler's territorial ambitions. | | | The party's sudden volte-face resulted in an indefensible policy which isolated communists in the labour movement and in the court of public opinion. | | | After the Comintern was disbanded in June 1943, the CCF asked Justice Minister Louis St Laurent whether the ban on the CPC would be lifted. |
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http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7078/frazer.txt
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| | Glossary of Organisations: Co |
| | The legislative body of the Soviet government, the Council of Peoples Commissars was formed by the Second Congress of Soviets; the first members elected to the council by the congress: | | | By the 1930s the CPC was no longer elected by the Congress of Soviets, but instead by the Politburo of the Communist party. | | | The commission intended to influence and lobby in the provisional government, predominately serving a reformist role, though without any power. |
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| | Tony Cliff: Portugal at the crossroads (The workers' parties) |
| | He even threatened to resign from the government over certain right-wing measures that the Communist Party supported (the press law of summer 1974 and the slow pace of decolonisation allowed by Spinola). | | | That is why the row over the union law has not led it to campaign against the labour law. | | | They all accept, to some degree or other, a Stalinist stages theory, by which the first task in Portugal is “national democratic&; revolution. |
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http://www.marxists.org/archive/cliff/works/1975/portugal/4-parties.htm
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| | COMMUNISM ON WEB |
| | In a fight for liberty, a slave must be brave enough to lay down his life in return for freedom when necessary. | | | This newfound fear will paralyze our political dissent against the Vientiane government unless we stem its tide at its source. | | | If a ‘politician’ concerns so much for his personal safety, perhaps it is more profitable for him to enter a less strenuous profession. |
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http://freelao.tripod.com/id32.htm
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| | The Events That Produced a Communist Government in China |
| | One of the earliest graduates was Lin Piao, born in 1908, and now an eighteen year old son of a textile-factory owner, in Hupeh province, ruined by extortionate warlord taxation. | | | At the end of January, 1949, Chiang Kai-shek was forced to resign as President. | | | From top to bottom, the structure of his government is riddled with open corruption. |
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| | CNN.com - Economics strain South African government, union, communist alliance - September 20, 2000 |
| | A Communist Party official is leading South Africa's privatization drive, while a former union leader is pushing through a restructuring plan almost certain to cause mass layoffs. | | | The dispute flared up last August with COSATU leading a mass strike against the government's refusal to negotiate pay increases for public employees. | | | As President Thabo Mbeki looked on, Madisha told the delegates Monday they must protect South Africa from a "neo-liberal onslaught" and warned that the government was in danger of becoming "a business chattel." |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/africa/09/20/safrica.alliance.ap
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| | Chemical and Biological Warfare in Laos |
| | One family member of Vue Mai confirmed and believed that he is "100 percent sure his father was arrested by the Lao government" (Philadelphia Inquirer, November 18, 1994). | | | On February 13, 1998, Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Richard K. Armey, and 53 other members of the U.S. Congress wrote and signed a letter to His Excellency Khamtai Siphandon, Prime Minister of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR). | | | Vue Mai, stated that, "In Washington, Vue Mai met with officials of the State Department such as Sarah E. Moten, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Refugee Assistance; Doug H. Hunter, Office of Policy and Budget Coordinator; and Robert Funseth, Senior Deputy Assistant. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~laohumrights/98embass.html
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| | Romanian Government |
| | Romania's top government official is the president, who is elected by the people. | | | The president appoints a prime minister, who selects a Cabinet to help carry out the operations of government. | | | Free multiparty elections to select a president and members of a national legislature were held in mid-1990. |
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http://www.public.asu.edu/~orlich/gov.html
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| | The Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto Translated |
| | Posted below is a comparison of the original ten planks of the Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx in 1848, along with the American adopted counterpart of each of the planks, The American people have truly been "buried in Communism" by their own politicians of both the Republican and Democratic parties. | | | Free education for all children in government schools. | | | With the last vestiges of Christian law having been removed from "American government" over the last twenty years, there is no longer a threat of resistance against world Communism. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7006/com-man.html
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| | VHeadline.com - Oscar Heck: Communist Chavez? Communist Venezuelan government? |
| | This means that the present Venezuelan government is a legitimately elected majority government with an elected house of representatives (the National Assembly) which had 56% of the seats and now stands at about 51% of the seats. | | | Backed by the US government and the US State Department, Pedro Carmona Estanga, the anti-Chavez dictator and ex-president of Venezuela’s Fedecamaras, unilaterally and dictatorially abolished the National Assembly in April 2002 when he swore himself in as the new President of Venezuela. | | | I had been wondering why it is that the US government supported the Pedro Carmona Estanga dictatorship (during the April 2002 coup against Chavez) and why the US State Department continues to speak as if Chavez is a dictator and a “threat” to “democracy” in the western hemisphere. |
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| | Vietnam Government 2000 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ... |
| | Judicial branch: Supreme People's Court, chief justice is elected for a five-year term by the National Assembly on the recommendation of the president | | | head of government: Prime Minister Phan Van KHAI (since 25 September 1997); First Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan DUNG (since 29 September 1997); Deputy Prime Ministers Nguyen Cong TAN (since 29 September 1997), Nguyen Manh CAM (since 29 September 1997), and Pham Gia KHIEM (since 29 September 1997) | | | Political parties and leaders: only party - Communist Party of Vietnam or CPV [Le Kha PHIEU, general secretary] |
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http://www.photius.com/wfb2000/countries/vietnam/vietnam_government.html
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| | Communism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | However, Trotskyist ideas have occasionally found an echo among political movements in countries experiencing social upheavals, particularly in Venezuela, where Alan Woods' Trotskyist Committee for a Marxist International is often in contact with President Hugo Chávez and labor militants across the country. | | | For issues regarding Communist Party-run states, see Communist state. | | | This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. |
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| | Hungarian Soviet Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | After less than six months in power, Károlyi admitted the failure of his policies, resigning in favor of the young Hungarian Communist Party. | | | The new government decreed the abolition of aristocratic titles and privileges, the separation of church and state, and guaranteed the freedom of speech and assembly, free education, language and cultural rights to minorities. | | | The Budapest Workers' Soviet elected a new government, headed by Gyula Peidl, which only lasted a few days before it was eliminated by the Romanians. |
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http://www.hartselle.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Hungarian_Soviet_Republic
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| | The Hindu : Early days of Communist Government |
| | Even after early results showed that the Congress was on a losing wicket, he only spoke of an alternative government in which the Communists would have the upper hand. | | | The Namboodiripad government's first step lowered the revenue and raised the expenditure. | | | The Chief Minister outlined three steps to improve the state's finances — augmenting the earnings of public sector units, bringing some private sector units into the public sector and imposing new levies. |
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http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/br/2002/02/12/stories/2002021200170503.htm
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| | Modern China: Communist China |
| | The government established by the Communists was centralized in a single body, the Central People's Government Council, which exercised all executive, legislative, and judicial powers. | | | When the Central People's Government Council, which met twice a month, was not in session, its powers were assumed by a twenty member body called the State Administrative Council headed by a premiere (Chou En-lai); when this body was not in session, the state powers fell to the chairman of the state (Mao). | | | Mao claimed the t'ien ming, or Mandate of Heaven, for his new government. |
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http://www.wsu.edu:8001/~dee/MODCHINA/COMM2.HTM
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| | Human Rights Violations and War in Laos |
| | On January 27, 1997, Congressman Radanovich sent a letter to Lao Ambassador in Washington, D.C. The purpose of this letter is to ask the Lao government to end human rights violations against Hmong people in Laos immediately. | | | The communist Lao government is a Communist Marxist Leninist state. | | | Thanks to Congressman Radanovich and other members of the Congress of the United States who have addressed the issues of human rights violations against Hmong and Lao people in Laos. |
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| | In China, communist government finds new ways to tighten grip on Internet users |
| | Complete enforcement is virtually impossible in a country with 100 million Internet users -- second only to the United States -- but the rules will let the government "cherry pick" the most troubling cases, said Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. | | | Though protesters were supporting the government line, Xiao said, the use of technology served as a wake-up call to its potential threat to government control. | | | Online dissidents who post items critical of the government, or those expressing opinions in chat rooms, are regularly arrested and charged under vaguely worded state security laws. |
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| | The Internet: A Threat To The Communist Government |
| | No one in government has been able yet to refute his masterful research and documentation. | | | This is not the first time China’s government has been so humbled by the Internet; its government does not like it at all. | | | The leaders who run the government have been able to tame all other threats to their power, except the Internet. |
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| | Communist Government Forbids Chinese Bishops to Attend Vatican Meeting |
| | Canadian Government Ignored Warnings Leading to Deaths of Two Young Americans | | | In early September, Rome announced that four Chinese bishops, two of whom were appointed by the communists’ Chinese Patriotic Association and not officially recognized by Rome, were to attend the October meeting in which internal Church matters were to be discussed. | | | Communist Government Forbids Chinese Bishops to Attend Vatican Meeting |
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| | Thank you so much for the effort and time which you spent meeting and talking with me and my delegation on April 8, 1997, at 1-2 p.m. | | | The case of Vue Mai and the cases of more than 1,000 returnees in Van Vieng repatriation site, Laos are credible evidence that the Communist Lao government has been committing human rights violations, racial discrimination and persecution against Hmong people and returnees in Laos. | | | Those refugees must have the right to choose freedom of residence and freedom of movement according to international human rights laws and other international laws. |
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| | Comparative Government (Post-Communist Regimes) 1997 Fall |
| | Michta, Andrew A. The Government and Politics of Postcommunist Europe. | | | Government Capabilities in the United States and Abroad, ed. | | | Multiparty Government: The Politics of Coalition in Europe. |
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| | Lesson 5 - Comparing the Governments of China and the United States |
| | Lesson 5 - Comparing the Governments of China and the United States | | | Distinguish between American constitutional government and Chinese communist government (III.1.MS.2). | | | In this lesson students compare and contrast the communist government of China and the constitutional government of the United States. |
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http://www.michigan.gov/scope/0,1607,7-155-13497_13503_13507-55325--,00.html
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| | Hanoi Government's Plan To Exterminate Hoa Hao Buddhism |
| | However, the Court, to this day, has not issued its judgement on the case after 4 years of litigation. | | | This appeal demands the Communist Government allow freedom of worship to all religions and rescind Article 4th of the Constitution. | | | From 1994 to 1998, every year Elder Le Quang Liem sent letters to the Communist Government, asking permission to hold a religious ceremony to commemorate the birth of Hoa Hao Buddhism, which falls on May 18 of lunar calendar; however, his request had consistently been denied, similarly to all of his other requests and appeals. |
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| | Communist Psychological Warfare |
| | The Communists are being abetted in their brainwashing program in the United States, Mr. | | | The Communist interrogators, as the brainwashers called themselves, sought to remove a man’s trust in his own side, and to convince him that he was being let down and even betrayed by his own country and relatives, especially by his wife or girl friend. | | | It should be obvious to anyone who has observed the so-called cold war that the United States is the principal target. |
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| | MURDER BY COMMUNISM |
| | So would government created famines that then are ignored or knowingly aggravated by government action be murder of those who starve to death. | | | It means for governments what murder means for an individual under municipal law. | | | Democidal famine is that which is purposely caused or aggravated by government or which is knowingly ignored and aid to its victims is withheld. |
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http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM
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| | Moldova's Communist Government Looks Westward |
| | After a decade of ineffective reformist governments, the Party of Communists of Moldova (PCRM) was elected to power by a large margin, in February 2001, on a platform of pro-Russian policies. | | | Forming government in 2001 after large gains in parliamentary elections, the PCRM's rise to power was eagerly welcomed by Moscow. | | | Following Voronin's backflip on the federalization plan, Moldovan-Russian relations noticeably soured, impelling Chisinau's communist government to appeal for international support from the West to end the "Russian military occupation of a part of Moldova," according to Moldovan Foreign Affairs Minister Andrei Stratan. |
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http://politicom.moldova.org/comentarii/eng/64
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| | Under the Communist regime, reports by almost all agencies, installations, units, branches at all levels in the government are not reliable. | | | The VCP governments at all levels have to provide large budgets to support the operation of the secret political security and to maintain the party activities. | | | It is clear that the VCP government in Hanoi has taken the right direction, but whether it will be successful is another story. |
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| | Catholic World News : Communist Government Arrests Chinese Archbishop |
| | Kung recalled that a secret Communist government document released by his group in 1997 urged local leaders to employ "resolute, decisive, and organized measures... | | | The Cardinal Kung Foundation said Archbishop John Yang Shudao of Fuzhou, 80, was arrested by about 150 police near midnight at his home and his whereabouts are unknown. | | | Joseph Kung, president of the Cardinal Kung Foundation and nephew of the foundation's namesake, said: "Contrary to the claims by the Chinese totalitarian government that there is religious freedom in China, there are at least eight Roman Catholic underground bishops, scores of priests, and laypersons now in jails." |
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| | SOSIG: Communist Government |
| | You are here : Home > Politics > Political Systems > Authoritarian Government > Communist Government | | | Politics > Political Systems > Authoritarian Government > Communist Government"--> | | | Beijing Drama: China's Governance Crisis and Bush's New Challenge |
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| | AFP: Philippines government and communist rebels take a step closer to peace |
| | OSLO (AFP) — The Philippine government and communist guerrillas wrapped up four days of peace negotiations with a compromise on the thorny issue of whether the rebels should continue to be labeled as "terrorists". | | | The talks, which formally resumed in Oslo this week after nearly three years away from the negotiating table, concluded Saturday morning. | | | "After four days of rigorous and sometimes heated discussions which threatened to disrupt our negotiations over some very contentious issues (...), we are very happy to announce that we have just made a big bold step in our journey for peace," Silvestre Bello, the chief government negotiator, said at a press conference. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200402/ai_kepm376132
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| | Zbigniew Brzezinski (Harvard University Press, 1967) D847.B7 1967 Surge to Freedom: The End of Communist Rule in Eastern Europe. | | | Andrej Marat (Polska Agencja Informacyjna, 2000) Chapter Two, “Decades of Solidarnosc (1980-2000),” by Antoni Dudek is a valuable overview of the rise of Solidarity and its contribution to Poland’s transformation and the end of the Cold War, and in the extraordinary collection of photographs. | | | J.F. Brown (Duke University Press, 1991) DJK50.B78 1991 The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe. |
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