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.

The most surprising thing about the Twenty-second Congress of the Soviet Communist Party is that it is surprising -- perhaps quite as much, in its own way, as the Twentieth Congress of 1956, which ended with that famous `` secret '' report on Stalin.

* 1982 – Estonian Communist Party bureau declares " fight against bourgeois TV "— meaning Finnish TV — a top priority of the propagandists of Estonian SSR

* 1927 – April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.

Ter-Petrosyan had been elected head of government in 1990, when the National Democratic Union party defeated the Armenian Communist Party.

A new party, the Republic Party, is headed by ex-Prime Minister Aram Sargsyan, brother of Vazgen Sargsyan, and has become the primary voice of the opposition, which also includes the Armenian Communist Party, the National Unity party of Artashes Geghamyan, and elements of the former Ter-Petrosyan government.

* 1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China.

* 1937 – Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution " Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH " to the constitutive congress of KPH ( Croatian Communist Party ) in woods near Samobor.

* 1920 – The congress of the Communist Party of Bukhara opens.

* 1950 – Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium is assassinated by far-right elements.

* 1945 – Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.

* 1912 – Pravda, the " voice " of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.

* 1991 – Collapse of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.

* 1991 – Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.

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

* 1969 – Czechoslovakian Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.

* 2011 – Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding the title.

* 1922 – Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

* 1941 – World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols ( also known as " National Democrats ") and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People.

No consistent investigation has been put forth against the violent protesters, mainly due to the difficulties encountered in identification of the many masked protesters and the fierce opposition at Congress held by most of the left-wing parties, such as the Communist Party and current PM Romano Prodi's Union coalition.

The African National Congress ( ANC ) is South Africa's governing political party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions ( COSATU ) and the South African Communist Party ( SACP ), since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994.

In 1955, the Congress of the People officially adopted the Freedom Charter, stating the core principles of the South African Congress Alliance, which consisted of the African National Congress and its allies the South African Communist Party ( SACP ), the South African Indian Congress, the South African Congress of Democrats ( COD ) and the Coloured People's Congress.

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

The ANC holds a historic alliance with the South African Communist Party ( SACP ) and Congress of South African Trade Unions ( COSATU ), known as the Tripartite Alliance.

* Communist Party of Honduras

* Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Honduras

PTH was earlier known as Partido Comunista Marxista-Leninista de Honduras ( Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Honduras ).

The Communist Party of Honduras ( Partido Comunista de Honduras — PCH ) was outlawed, but the Liberal Party continued to function, and even the leaders of a small uprising in 1935 were later offered free air transportation should they wish to return to Honduras from their exile abroad.

# REDIRECT Communist Party of Honduras

Communist Party of Honduras ( in Spanish: Partido Comunista de Honduras ) was a communist party in Honduras.

Communist Party of Honduras

The Republican government was supported by a number of factions with conflicting aims, including the Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM – Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista ), the anarcho-syndicalist Confederación Nacional del Trabajo and the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia ( a wing of the Spanish Communist Party, which was backed by Soviet arms and aid ).

* Mexican Communist Party ( Partido Comunista Mexicano ), a former communist political party in Mexico

The exhaustion of most opposition forces enabled Stroessner to crush the Paraguayan Communist Party ( Partido Communista Paraguayo-PCP ) by mercilessly persecuting its members and their spouses and to isolate the exiled Colorado epifanistas ( followers of Epifanio Méndez Fleitas ) and democráticos, who had reorganized themselves as the Popular Colorado Movement ( Movimiento Popular Colorado-Mopoco ).

In 1964, the FARC – EP were established as the military wing of the Colombian Communist Party ( Partido Comunista Colombiano, PCC ), after the Colombian military attacked rural Communist enclaves in the aftermath of The Violence ( La Violencia, ca.

The Colombian Communist Party ( Partido Comunista Colombiano, PCC ) was formally accredited by the Comintern in 1930.

The Communist Party of Peru ( Spanish: Partido Comunista del Perú ), more commonly known as the Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ), is a Maoist organization in Peru.

* Partido Comunista de Andalucía ( Communist Party of Andalusia )

* Partido Comunista de Aragón ( Communist Party of Aragon )

* Partido Comunista de la Argentina ( Communist Party of Argentina )

* Brazilian Communist Party, Partido Comunista Brasileiro

* Communist Party of Bolivia, Partido Comunista de Bolivia

Raúl was a committed socialist and joined the Socialist Youth, an affiliate of the Soviet-oriented Cuban Communist Party, Partido Socialista Popular ( PSP ).

Along with the Socialist People's Party ( Partido Popular Socialista-PPS ), a dissidence of the Brazilian Communist Party ( Partido Comunista Brasileiro-PCB ), they form the centre-right opposition to the Lula administration.

* Communist Party of Chile ( also Partido Comunista de Chile, PCC )

* Communist Party of Cuba ( also Partido Comunista de Cuba, PCC )

* Partido Socialista Popular ( Cuba ), the original " internationalized " Communist Party of Cuba, later renamed the Popular Socialist Party

It was perceived to be the military arm of the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas ( Communist Party of the Philippines ), that brought about the beginning of the early organized resistance of the Filipino people.

The PCE was the result of a merger between two organisations: the original Spanish Communist Party ( Partido Comunista Español or PCE ) and the Spanish Communist Workers ' Party ( Partido Comunista Obrero Español or PCOE ).

* Partido Comunista de España, the Communist Party of Spain