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http://students.washington.edu/dustind/essay/collapse.htm
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| | Cuba (12/05) |
| | Fidel Castro is President of the Council of State and Council of Ministers and his brother Raul serves as First Vice President of both bodies as well as Minister of Defense. | | | In response, the United States imposed an embargo on Cuba in October 1960, and, in response to Castro's provocations, broke diplomatic relations on January 3, 1961. | | | According to the Soviet-style Cuban constitution of 1976, the National Assembly of People's Power, and its Council of State when the body is not in session, has supreme authority in the Cuban system. |
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http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2886.htm
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| | The Kosovo Chronicles, by Dusan Batakovic (Part 1a) |
| | State coercion became hard to bear as the state had become Albanian. | | | Absolute loyalty to the security service, Tito and the party leadership was never questioned, and its chief Rankovic remained loyal to Tito even after his replacement in 1966 (contemporaries testified that Rankovic believed a mistake had been made and that the great leader would realize this one day; he awaited rehabilitation his entire life). | | | With the destruction of its potential classes for resistance - the bourgeoisie, the wealthy peasant layer and the town youth - Serbia's back was broken: most of its bourgeoisie and intelligentsia were abroad (officers, politicians and diplomats), while those who remained in the country were permanently marginated. |
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http://www.snd-us.com/history/dusan/kc_part1a.htm
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| | RevolutionaryLeft.com -> communist state |
| | We had a majority in both houses of the state legislature, Vermont's lone representative to Congress was a commie and both of our U.S. Senators were commies. | | | Let's imagine that "hard-core commies" were a majority of the electorate in that ice-bound state. | | | The only way to have a revolution in the us is to make a communist state gather up in a state get people on the senate and the house and slowly move out so the question is which state? |
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http://www.revolutionaryleft.com/index.php?showtopic=33778
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| | The Nazi ideal is the exact opposite - that the state is the supreme end of all. | | | As Conquest notes, at the 1939 Party Congress, "Of the 1,966 delegates to the [1934] Congress, 1,108 had been arrested for counter-revolutionary crimes." (The Great Terror) Sentences to Siberia were their typical fate. | | | There is one distinction, however, and that is as clear as black and white. |
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http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/bcaplan/museum/comfaq.htm
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| | The New American - Victory in the Granite State - March 26, 2001 |
| | Mirski also enlisted the support of state Representatives Tony Soltani and Ralph Rosen, who were on hand at the Capitol on February 12th to denounce the proposed memorial to the ALB. | | | Partisans of the ALB in New Hampshire thought they had stolen a march on potential opposition in 2000, when the state legislature’s Joint Historical Committee voted to purchase the plaque for display in the capitol building’s hall of flags. | | | ‘‘I thought the Cold War was over," whined New Hampshire state Senator Burton Cohen on February 12th after a ceremony intended to honor Granite State veterans of the Communist-controlled Abraham Lincoln Brigade (ALB) was called off. |
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http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2001/03-26-2001/vo17no07_granite.htm
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| | Declassified Documents on British Guiana |
| | During the late 1950s, the United States Government became increasingly concerned over the political and economic policies of the PPP Government led by Dr. Cheddi Jagan, even though the Government was freely elected by the people of Guyana. | | | At this meeting, State and AID agreed (a) that technical assistance be expanded immediately to approximately $1.5 million; (b) that an economic mission be sent to Georgetown by February 15; and (c) that the Jagan Government be informed of these steps. | | | Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs (Tyler to Secretary of State Rusk |
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| | Communism in Washington State - History and Memory Project |
| | Thousands of Washington State residents cycled through the Communist Party over the course of the 20th Century. | | | Here is a timeline of important events in the history of Communism in Washington state, from 1917 to 2002. | | | The Washington Commonwealth Federation, the Washington Pension Union and to some extent the state's Democratic party organization responded to these popular front initiatives. |
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http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/cpproject
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| | Communist Manifesto 10 Planks |
| | The people (politicians) who believe in the SOCIALISTIC and COMMUNISTIC concepts, especially those who pass more and more laws implementing these slavery ideas, are traitors to their oath of office and to the Constitution of the united States of America... | | | VOTE LIBERTARIAN, the only political party in America that still firmly supports and diligently abides by the Constitution of the united States of America. | | | Americans call it Federal & State estate Tax (1916); or reformed Probate Laws, and limited inheritance via arbitrary inheritance tax statutes. |
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| | CPUSA Online - |
| | President Bush’s uninspiring State of the Union speech was a smokescreen to conceal this administration’s criminal actions. | | | Click for the Resolution on Immigrant Rights from the CPUSA 26th National Convention | | | The State of the Union is in grave danger. |
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| | The Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto are the foundation of political democracy in America. |
| | The American people have truly been "buried in Communism" by their own politicians of both the Republican and Democratic parties. | | | We call it Federal & State estate Tax (1916); or reformed Probate Laws, and limited inheritance via arbitrary inheritance tax statutes. | | | Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly. |
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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, such as the case of Alan Woods' Trotskyist Committee for a Marxist International, which has had contact with President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela. | | | Communism carries a strong social stigma in the United States, due to a history of anti-communism in America. | | | For issues regarding communist party-run states, see Communist state. |
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| | China and Poland, two countries with long histories of state socialism, began reform movements in the period of 1975-85. | | | Thus the ideological motives and actions of these new communist movements, ushered by the Soviets, reflect the strong influence of the Soviet model of absolute party dominance and the inseparability of the state, party and people. | | | The objectives of the communist state parties in the third world included: the development of a strong state communist party, the ideological and technical education of its people, a push towards industrialization, and a strong stance against imperialist forces supported by military actions if needed. |
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| | State and Society in Early Socialist Transition |
| | Consequently, large portions of nonessential segments of the populace remained outside of state penetration. | | | He examines government structure, social and political controls and indoctrination, all of which center on the policies and practice of the state. | | | Diamant argues against the “strong state” thesis not only by juxtaposing it with a strong society but also by challenging assumptions that the state was effective and rational. |
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http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/chinesehistory/pgp/jihee50sessay.htm
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| | Sher Zieve: Will California Become the First Official Communist State? |
| | If California really does create many of the leftist viruses that vigorously spread to the rest of the country, as has been strongly suggested over the years, the Democrat Party truly has ended—once and for all. | | | Sheehan gleefully and flamboyantly praised Chavez and slice-and-diced the US, when she said: “I admire President Chavez | | | United States!” Sheehan is the new California type of gal! |
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| | Saudi Aramco World : Islam in a Communist State |
| | I went to the state travel agency, Intourist, and asked an employee to make an appointment for me with the mufti. | | | He had traveled in the United States, and among the five languages he's mastered, he speaks fluent English. | | | It was in 1928, after Joseph Stalin's sweeping victory at the 15th Communist Party Congress, that the massive destruction of mosques began throughout the Muslim regions of the Soviet Union - a destruction that lasted until World War II. |
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http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/199001/islam.in.a.communist.state.htm
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| | WCFIA: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs |
| | This study reconceptualizes theories of the state in light of post-communist developments. | | | Post-communist state development is characterized by the need to reconstruct public authority, or state-building. | | | Likewise, theorists of the state have largely ignored the post-communist challenge to existing theories of state capacity and development. |
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| | BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific N Korea wages war on long hair |
| | It is the strongest media campaign against men's sloppy appearances mounted in the reclusive and impoverished Communist state in recent years. | | | Hair is a "very important issue that shows the people's cultural standards and mental and moral state", argues Minju Choson, a government daily. | | | The North Korean media normally reserves the reporting of names of its citizens to exemplary individuals who show high communist virtues. |
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