While it is commonly accepted by nearly all biographical accounts ( including those of the Lucy Parsons Center, the IWW, and Joe Knowles ) that Parsons joined the Communist Party in 1939, there is some dispute, notably in Gale Ahrens ' essay " Lucy Parsons: Mystery Revolutionist, More Dangerous Than A Thousand Rioters ", which can be found in the anthology Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality, Solidarity.

Having spent time as a clandestine organiser in South Africa in the mid-1970s, he permanently returned to South Africa following the unbanning of the ANC in 1990, and took over from Joe Slovo as head of the South African Communist Party in 1991.

Joe Slovo ( 23 May 1926 – 6 January 1995 ) was a South African politician, long-time leader of the South African Communist Party ( SACP ), and leading member of the African National Congress.

József " Arizona Joe " Barsi had fled Communist Hungary after the 1956 Soviet occupation at age 19.

Joseph ( Joe ) Zuken ( December 12, 1912 – March 24, 1986 ) was a popular Communist politician in Winnipeg and the longest serving elected Communist party politician in North America.

In April 1953, during the Korean War, a company of American infantry, led by Lieutenant Joe Clemons ( Gregory Peck ) are to recapture Pork Chop Hill from a larger Communist Chinese army force ; they recapture the hill, but are depleted, only 25 of a 135-man unit are left.

Penner rejected this suggestion, however, saying, " There's a fundamental difference between Joe and myself in that I'm not a member of the Communist Party.

Perhaps the major reason for the Republican defeat was the fallout from the Army-McCarthy Hearings, in which prominent Republican Senator Joe McCarthy accused countless political and intellectual figures of having Communist ties, usually with no evidence.

We know that one New York Times reporter, who always portrayed Stalin as Good Old Uncle Joe, was in fact a Communist and operated for decades on the Times staff.

Joe Matthews of the South African Communist Party ( founded 1953 ) financed the launch of the Lesotho party but later supported the ANC-allied Marematlou Freedom Party.

The first is Communist Alert !, in which Joe Bob singles out and derides someone, somewhere, for an act that goes against Job Bob's principles ( such as the banning of a breast calendar for breast cancer awareness ).

Victor Perlo, leader of the group, asked if the material was going to " Uncle Joe " ( Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ).

Being Jewish and a Communist, Slovo was a demonised figure on the far right of Afrikaner society.

The Communist coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948 was followed immediately by the conclusion of the Brussels Treaty, a 50-year alliance among Britain, France and the Benelux countries.

The Twenty-second Soviet Communist Party Congress opens in Moscow today in a situation contrasting sharply with the script prepared many months ago when this meeting was first announced.

President Kennedy's latest warning to the Communist world that the United States will build up its military strength to meet any challenge in Berlin or elsewhere was, somewhat surprisingly, reported in full text or fairly accurate excerpts behind the Iron Curtain.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

It could have continued testing to the full on the grounds that the radiation danger was far less than the danger of Communist world domination.

These never ceased to suggest that if, in the eyes of Marx and Lenin `` full communism '' was still a very distant ideal, the establishment of a Communist society had now, under Khrushchev, become an `` immediate and tangible reality ''.

The Republicans some weeks ago served notice through Senator Thruston B. Morton ( R ) of Kentucky, chairman of the Republican National Committee, that the Kennedy administration would be held responsible if the outcome in Laos was a coalition government susceptible of Communist domination.

This was the biggest annual outlay since the Communist program for the under-developed countries made its modest beginning in 1954.

He was particularly struck by a course on Communist brainwashing.

There was reason to believe that Premier Khrushchev was also concerned about a possible spread of nuclear weapons, particularly to Communist China.

At the same time, there was increased reason for a quick meeting lest the Soviet leader, as a result of those episodes, come to a dangerously erroneous conclusion about the West's ability and determination to resist Communist pressure.

Russian tanks and artillery parading through the streets of Havana, Russian intrigue in the Congo, and Russian arms drops in Laos ( using the same Ilyushin transports that were used to carry Communist agents to the Congo ) made it plain once more that the cold war was all of a piece in space and time.

( However, there is little evidence that the late Lumumba was a Communist.

A suspicion was growing that Fidel Castro was a Communist.

And Harry Dexter White, implicated in F.B.I. reports in Communist associations, was one of the architects of the Morgenthau Plan, which had it ever been put into full operation, would have simply handed Germany to Stalin.

He wrote a mainstream novel that was set in Communist China, The Violent Man ( 1962 ); he said that to research this book he had read 100 books about China.

BZNS was made into a Communist puppet group until 1989, when it reorganized as a genuine party.

During the Cold War, the ACLU headquarters was dominated by anti-communists, but many local affiliates defended members of the Communist Party.

In cooperation with the South African Communist Party, MK was founded in 1961.

The treaty was signed in Moscow on May 26, 1972 by the President of the United States, Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev ; and ratified by the US Senate on August 3, 1972.

A resistance movement called Otechestven front ( Fatherland front, Bulgarian: Отечествен фронт ) was set up in August 1942 by the Communist Party, the Zveno movement and a number of other parties to oppose the elected government, after a number of Allied victories indicated that the Axis might lose the War.

Politically, the Sena was anti-communist, and wrested control of major trade unions in Mumbai from the Communist Party of India and demanded protection money ( extortion ) from mainly Gujarati and marwari business leaders.

The practice of only one bishop ordaining was normal in countries where the Church was persecuted under Communist rule.

In 1955, the Workers-Peasant Party, Communist Party, and the Marxist-Leninist Party named Abu Hussain Sarkar as the Chief minister of the State who ruled the state in two non-consecutive terms until 1958 when the martial law was imposed.

On 27 June 1941, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia appointed Tito Commander in Chief of all project national liberation military forces.

Like virtually all governing institutions in mainland China, the politics of Shanghai is structured in a dual party-government system, in which the Communist Party Chief, officially termed the Communist Party of China Shanghai Municipal Committee Secretary ( currently Yu Zhengsheng ), outranks the Mayor ( currently Han Zheng ).

Until February 2008, Cuba was led by President Fidel Castro, who was Chief of State, Head of Government, Prime Minister, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba ( CPC ), and Commander in Chief of the armed forces.

K. Karunakaran, Congress Chief Minister of Kerala, a political adversary of his, informed Narayanan that he was not made a minister because of him being a " Communist fellow-traveller ".

However, in the province's dual party-government governing system, the Governor has less power than the Shandong Communist Party of China Provincial Committee Secretary, colloquially termed the " Shandong CPC Party Chief ".

However, in the province's single party-government governing system, the Governor has less power than the Liaoning Communist Party of China Provincial Committee Secretary (), colloquially termed the " Liaoning CCP Party Chief ".

However, in the province's dual party-government governing system, the Governor has less power than the Guizhou Communist Party of China Provincial Committee Secretary, colloquially termed the " Guizhou CPC Party Chief ".

However, in the Autonomous Region's dual party-government governing system, the Chairman has less power than the Communist Party of China Ningxia Committee Secretary, colloquially termed the " Ningxia CPC Party Chief ".

Elamkulam Manakkal Sankaran Namboodiripad, (, 13 June 1909 – 19 March 1998 ), popularly known as E. M. S., was an Indian Communist leader, Socialist-Marxist theorist, revolutionary, author, historian, social commentator and the first Chief Minister of Kerala state.

As the first non-Indian National Congress Chief Minister in Republic of India, he became the leader of the first democratically elected Communist government in India ( San Marino being first in the world ).

As President, he is Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces ( Army, Navy, and Air Force ) and has also been First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba ( PCC ) since 2011.

* Andrew Murray, StWC chair, Chief of Staff of Unite the union, Communist Party of Britain member

In October 2007, the Communist Party of China announced that Li would serve another term as Propaganda Chief.

But he continued to remain a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of India ( Marxist ) until a few months before his death in January 2010 and was consulted on all matters related to governance by the Chief Minister and his Cabinet as well as his other party colleagues.

He served as Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1965, and as unofficial Chief Ideologue of the Party until his death in 1982.

It was during the Brezhnev Era that Suslov was given the unofficial title " Chief Ideologue of the Communist Party ".

Chief of Staff General Wheeler told CINCLANT General Palmer that " Your unannounced mission is to prevent the Dominican Republic from going Communist.

He went on to serve as the Vice Chief Editor of the People's Daily ( Nhân Dân, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Vietnam ), responsible for the Sunday People's ( Nhân Dân Chủ Nhật ).

When his police force raided political offices and worker organizations after the strike, Rossi issued a statement: " I pledge to you that as Chief Executive in San Francisco I will, to the full extent of my authority, run out of San Francisco every Communist agitator, and this is going to be a continuing policy in San Francisco.

The Kannur district was host to many Kerala politicians, including A. K. Gopalan, founder of the Communist Party of Kerala, E. K. Nayanar, three time Chief Minister of Kerala, K. Karunakaran, former Chief Minister of Kerala and Congress leader, E. Ahamed, Minister of State for Railways, M. V. Raghavan, former Minister, P. K. Sreemathy, Health Minister, and Pinarayi Vijayan, former Minister.