After the fall of communism he became a leader of the left-wing Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland, successor to the former ruling Polish United Workers Party, and a co-founder of the Democratic Left Alliance.

His son Kim Jong-un was promoted to a senior position in the ruling Workers ' Party and is his successor.

It also invited contributions from the Workers ' Socialist League in Britain, developing a relationship which led to WSL's successor organisation joining the International in 1987.

It is the partial successor of the communist Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ( or MSZMP ), which ruled Hungary between 1956 and 1989.

The party is not to be confused with the Workers ' Party, a marginal party of hardline communists and another successor to the MSZMP.

Observers said successor William Green, who was the secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, " lacked the aggressiveness and the imagination of the AFL's first president ".

The Bulgarian Socialist Party is recognised as the successor of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers ' Party created on 2 August 1891 on Buzludzha peak by Dimitar Blagoev, designated in 1903 as the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers ' Party ( Narrow Socialists ).

In 1940, he met a woman selling Socialist Appeal at an Engineering Apprentices College where he was on day release and he joined the Trotskyist Workers International League in 1940 and then its successor organisation the Revolutionary Communist Party while still a young worker during the Second World War.

He remained within the IS when the ISO's members were expelled, becoming a leading figure in its successor organisation, the Socialist Workers Party, until his retirement from active politics, due to ill health, in 1995.

After university he joined the National Union of General and Municipal Workers trade union as a research officer in 1973 and remained employed by the union ( and its successor the GMB Union ) until he was elected to parliament 24 years later.

After the " Heidelberg " split of the Communist Party of Germany ( KPD ; a successor to the Spartacist League ) and the formation for the Communist Workers Party of Germany ( KAPD ) in the spring of 1920, he entered the KAPD and worked in the youth organization Rote Jugend, writing for its journal.

Although the SHF was originally meant as a successor organisation of the banned anti-Czech German National Socialist Workers ' Party and German National Party, it soon became a big tent right-wing movement in order to achieve a status of autonomy for the German minority, rivalling with the German Social Democratic Workers Party.

During the years 1978 – 89, she was a member of Polish United Workers ' Party, the name used by the Communist Party ruling Poland between 1948 and 1989 and, in 1993, joined its successor party, the Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland, becoming, in 1996, its leader in Poznań.

In the past he used to be member of the communist Polish United Workers ' Party ( PZPR ) ( 1970 – 1990 ) and later its social-democratic successor, Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland.

The movements were: the Estonian Democratic Labour Party, the Estonian Social Democratic Independence Party, the Russian Social Democratic Party of Estonia and the Estonian Socialist Party's Foreign Association ( successor of Estonian Socialist Workers Party in exile ).

Seamus Lynch was elected for the Republican Clubs and their successor parties between 1977 and 1993 and a social club for supporters of the Workers Party and Official IRA survived until the late 80s.

The party was the main of the two successor parties to the Polish United Workers Party ( PZPR ).

He promoted close ties between the union and the Labour Party, which have not persisted with its successor National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers.

* Workers Suffrage Federation or its successor the Workers Socialist Federation

IWUSP was founded on February 27, 1921, at a conference in Vienna, Austria, by ten parties, including the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany ( USPD ), the French Section of the Workers ' International ( SFIO ), the Independent Labour Party ( ILP ), the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland ( SPS ), the Social Democratic Party of Austria ( SPÖ ), and the Federation of Romanian Socialist Parties ( FPSR, successor to the Socialist Party of Romania ).

The party was founded in 1921 when the Bolshevik-inspired maximalist faction won control of Romania's Social-Democratic party — the Socialist Party of Romania, successor to the defunct Romanian Social-Democratic Workers ' Party and the short-lived Romanian Social Democratic Party ( the latter was refounded in 1927, reuniting those opposed to communist policies ).

He also served on the board of Auto Union, the successor to Audi Automobilwerke GmbH.

BWF ( Broadcast Wave Format ) is a standard audio format created by the European Broadcasting Union as a successor to WAV.

After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Burkina Faso recognized Russia as the USSR's successor.

It is the successor organization to the Consultation on Church Union.

CUIC is the successor organization to the Consultation on Church Union ( COCU ), which had been founded in 1962.

Eritrea is a member of the African Union ( AU ), the successor of the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) and is an observing member of the Arab League.

Russia accepted obligations under these treaties as successor to the Soviet Union.

By the 1860s, the Russian Empire – continued as the Soviet Union – became the largest contiguous state in the world, and the latter's main successor, Russia, continues to be so to this day.

After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Honduras recognized Russia as the USSR's successor on January 3, 1992.

The Russian Federation was recognized as the legal successor to the Soviet Union on the international stage.

Jamaica is a beneficiary of the Lome Conventions, through which the European Union ( EU ) grants trade preferences to selected states in Asia, the Caribbean, and the Pacific, and has played a leading role in the negotiations of the successor agreement in Fiji in 2000.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Nepal had exteneded full diplomatic recognition to the Russian Federation as its legal successor.

The Russian Federation is recognized in international law as successor state of the former Soviet Union.

Russia gained international recognition as the principal successor to the Soviet Union, receiving the Soviet Union's permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council and positions in other international and regional organizations.

Like the Siad Barre regime and every Somali administration before it, the Islamic Courts Union and its successor Islamist groups are also proponents of Greater Somalia.

Before the Soviet Union collapsed, a supersonic VTOL aircraft was developed as the Yak-38's successor, the Yak-141, which never went into production.

The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, the successor to British colonial rule, had diplomatic relations with many nations, but its major links were with the Soviet Union and other Communist countries.

Soon thereafter, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia dissolved, the latter violently over several years, into successor states, many rife with ethnic nationalism.

* December 24 – Russian SFSR President Boris Yeltsin sends a letter to UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, stating that Russia should be a successor to collapsing Soviet Union within the United Nations Organization.

* February 12 – African and Malagasy Common Organization ( OCAM ) ( Organization Commune Africaine et Malgache ) formed as successor to the Afro-Malagasy Union for Economic Cooperation ( Union Africaine et Malgache de Cooperation Economique ; UAMCE ), formerly the African and Malagasy Union ( Union Africaine et Malgache ; UAM )).

* The Federation of Malaya ( 1948-1963 ), the successor to the Malayan Union ( also excluding Singapore ), which gained independence within the Commonwealth of Nations in 1957.

Her successor, Eric of Pomerania ( King of Denmark from 1396 to 1439 ), lacked Margaret's skill and thus directly caused the breakup of the Kalmar Union.