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Provincial sections of the Communist Party of Canada Province Section name Founded Leader Best result Alberta: Communist Party – Alberta: 1930 (95 years ago) Naomi Rankin: 1944 (4.26% of pop. vote) British Columbia: Communist Party of British Columbia: 1945 (80 years ago) Kimball Cariou 1945 (3.52% of pop. vote) Manitoba: Communist Party of ...
The following communist states were socialist states committed to communism. Some were short-lived and preceded the widespread adoption of Marxism–Leninism by most communist states. Russia. Chita Republic (1905–1906) Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1917–1991) Amur Socialist Soviet Republic (1918)
In 1896 the Canadian sections – which remained loyal to the American party's orthodox principles — were spun off to form a new national organisation, the Socialist Labour Party of Canada. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The SLP was particularly strong in the Eastern provinces of Ontario and Quebec but by 1898 also had local units in Winnipeg, Manitoba , and ...
The Communist Party of Canada sees itself as being "Canada's party of socialism" and with its origins going back to 1921 the CPC is the second oldest existing political party in Canada after the Liberal Party of Canada. The Communist Party has active branches in Alberta, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia.
The Communist Party opposed the United States involvement in the early stages of World War II (until June 22, 1941, the date of the German invasion of the Soviet Union), the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the invasion of Grenada, and American support for anti-Communist military dictatorships and movements in Central America.
Communist organizations in North America (2 C, 1 P) * ... Communism in Canada (6 C, 14 P) Communism in Costa Rica (2 C, 1 P) Communism in Cuba (3 C, 5 P) D.
The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) is an American political party with a communist platform that was founded in 1919 [1] Its history is deeply rooted in the history of the American labor movement as it played critical roles in the earliest struggles to organize American workers into unions, in leadership of labor strikes, [2] as well as prominent involvement in later civil rights and anti-war ...
The federal government, worried about its latent strength, banned the Communist Party of Canada (and its Alberta wing) in the early 1930s and again at the start of World War II. Communist Party candidates did not take any seats even when Alberta used Single Transferable Vote system, between 1924 and 1959. Its candidates were among the first to ...