This national government-based on proportional representation similar to that which existed in the former socialist regime-is charged with conducting foreign, economic, and fiscal policy.

He was a former socialist activist, and many feared that his approach to politics might be impractical.

As in other former East German cities, a small number of GDR-era names commemorating socialist heroes have been preserved, such as Karl-Marx-Allee, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and Karl-Liebknecht-Straße ; this followed a long process of review in which many such street names were deemed inappropriate and were changed.

Since real political power belongs to the sole legal party, in certain states under Marxist constitutions of the constitutionally socialist state type inspired by the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR ) and its constitutive Soviet republics, there was no formal office of head of state, but rather the leader of the legislative branch was considered to be the closest common equivalent of a head of state as a natural person.

The hammer is used in some coat of arms in ( former ) socialist countries like East Germany.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and more recently, the 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the European Union, the main waves of migration came from the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe ( especially Romania, Albania, Ukraine and Poland ).

After the worldwide dissolution of the Soviet Union and Congo's adoption of multi-party democracy in 1991, Congo's bilateral relations with its former socialist allies have become relatively less important.

* partial or total expulsion of the former ruling classes from the public life at early stages of existence of each socialist state ; however, in all socialist states this policy gradually changed into the policy of " one socialist nation without classes "

" Consequently, some former Communist parties have rebranded themselves as democratic socialist, as with the Party of Democratic Socialism in Germany.

In 1948 some liberal members, led by former VDB leader Pieter Oud, left the PvdA because they were unhappy with the socialist course of the PvdA.

* East of the West – films from the former socialist bloc.

Law 7 / 1985, passed by the former Spanish President Felipe González Márquez ( socialist ), lays down the procedure of the Local Government.

The cold war was defined by animosity between capitalist and socialist world powers, and though there was never an outright military conflict between the former and the latter, each respectively funded counterinsurgency movements against governments they disfavored.

Politically, since the fall of the Wall, the successor party of the former East German socialist state party has become a major force in German politics.

In a case that attracted international attention, Lori Berenson, a former MIT student and U. S. socialist activist living in Lima, was arrested on 30 November 1995, by the police and accused of collaborating with the MRTA.

As in other former socialist countries, few citizens hesitate to steal from the government when given opportunity.

Agricultural production cooperatives are relatively rare in the world, and known examples are limited to collective farms in former socialist countries and the kibbutzim in Israel.

The former sought to bring socialist principles to bear on the arts by including the more commonplace crafts of the masses within the realm of the arts, while the modernists sought to keep artistic endeavor as exclusive and esoteric.

Haverhill became the first American city with a socialist mayor in 1898 when it elected former shoe factory worker and cooperative grocery store clerk John C. Chase.

In 1995, some Northern based former Official IRA members in the Newry area launched a " re-founded " Official Republican Movement, intended to pursue the socialist republican politics which the Officials espoused in the 1970s.

* Alfred Gusenbauer, Austrian socialist leader and former chancellor of Austria

The NDP have retained many of the socialist tendencies of the former CCF and remain to the left of some other social democratic parties in the Western world, such as Britain ’ s Labour Party.

The party also gained the support of the Guild Communists faction of the National Guilds League, assorted shop stewards ' and workers ' committees, socialist clubs and individuals and many former members of the Hands Off Russia campaign.

Isidore Franckel wanted a well known non-Jewish lawyer as co-counsel and engaged Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, a flamboyant Corsican, leading anti-fascist activist and a former Education Minister in Radical government of Édouard Herriot and a Yiddish-speaking lawyer, Serge Weill-Goudchaux, as his associate.

During the war, he and his wife Anne Draper, the former Anne Kracik, lived in Los Angeles where they were active among shipyard workers and in anti-fascist and anti-racist campaigns.

The English Democrats has come under fire from anti-fascist groups Unite Against Fascism and Hope not Hate and from the unions NASUWT and Unite the Union over the number of former BNP members standing for election for the party.

A former professor of Marcello ’ s, named Quadri, is now an anti-fascist agitator, and the Italian government would like to infiltrate his organization.

Rupel was born in Ljubljana, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, into a bourgeois family of former anti-fascist political emigrants from the Julian March ( his grandfather was the last Slovene mayor of Duino in Austria-Hungary ).

The anti-fascist Partisan movement in Bosanska Krajina region had one of the most ethnically mixed compositions than in any other part of former Yugoslavia during WWII.

The squatters, who describe the EKH as an " international, multi-cultural, anti-fascist centre ", named the building after Ernst Kirchweger ; a former concentration camp inmate and member of the anti-fascist resistance, who was killed in 1965 by a right-wing protester during a demonstration against Taras Borodajkewycz, a former member of the NSDAP.

The Soviet journalist Yevgenia Ginzburg was a former long-term political prisoner who spent time in the Soviet prisons, Gulag camps and settlements from 1938 to 1955.

* A. M. Rosenthal ( 1949 ), former executive editor of The New York Times who championed the publication of the Pentagon Papers ; Pulitzer prize winning journalist expelled from Poland in 1959 for his reporting on the nation ’ s government and society

Henry Rollins ( born 13 February 1961 ) is an American spoken word artist, writer, journalist, publisher, actor, radio DJ, activist and former singer-songwriter.

The same year he appeared in The Odessa File, based on Frederick Forsyth's thriller, as Peter Miller, a young German journalist who discovers a conspiracy to protect former Nazis still operating within Germany.

During this period Fayed was represented publicly by public relations expert and former BBC journalist Michael Cole.

The beginnings of Raëlism are rooted in the claims of a former French automobile journalist and race car driver Claude Vorilhon.

The rest of the hearings were presented on television each Sunday from April 1996 to June 1998 in hour-long episodes of the " Truth Commission Special Report " by progressive Afrikaner journalist Max du Preez, former editor of the Vrye Weekblad.

After the death of former president of Estonia Lennart Meri on 14 March 2006, journalist Argo Ideon from Eesti Ekspress proposed to honor the president's memory by naming Tallinn Airport after him – "" ( Lennart Meri International Airport ), drawing parallels with JFK Airport, Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, Istanbul-Atatürk Airport etc.

* March 11 – Dejan Stojanović, Serbian-American poet, writer, essayist, philosopher, businessman, and former journalist

Smith also had a daughter, Catherine H. Smith of Los Angeles, by his March 1942 marriage to the former Benedicte " Bennie " Traberg ( September 25, 1921 — October 29, 2008 ), then a 20-year-old journalist originally from Denmark, whom Smith called the most impressive person he had ever known " far above presidents and generals ".

He is a playwright, a former journalist, and author of The Complete Book of Scriptwriting.

In 2005, journalist Oliver Benjamin founded The Church of Latter-Day Dude, a website-philosophy and mock religion inspired by the character " the Dude ", a former hippie, in the 1998 movie The Big Lebowski.

The race was founded by the former Olympic champion and journalist Chris Brasher and Welsh athlete John Disley.

Clare Majella Martin ( born 15 June 1952 ) is a former Australian journalist and politician.

There will be a female protagonist, an investigative journalist who, thirty years after the conference, sets out to locate Édouard Daladier, the former French Council president.

In the 2009 presidential elections, FMLN candidate Mauricio Funes, a former journalist, won the presidency.

Charles Joseph " Joe " Clark, ( born June 5, 1939 ) is a Canadian statesman, businessman, and university professor, and former journalist and politician.

It came under intense scrutiny in July 2002 when the Washington Post alleged in an editorial that the program was vaguely defined, and investigative political journalist Ritt Goldstein observed in Australia's Sydney Morning Herald that TIPS would provide America with a higher percentage of ' citizen spies ' than the former East Germany had under the notorious Stasi secret police.

According to the journalist Paul Routledge, Donald Bruce, a former MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary and adviser to Bevan, had told him that Bevan's shift on the disarmament issue was the result of discussions with the Soviet government where they advised him to push for British retention of nuclear weapons so they could possibly be used as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the United States.

* Paul Foot, campaigning journalist and nephew of former Labour Party leader Michael Foot

Blankers, a former triple jumper ( participant in the 1928 Olympics ) was a sports journalist and the coach of the Dutch women's athletics team, even though he originally thought women should not compete in sports — not an unusual opinion at the time.

Talabani, a former student leader, lawyer, journalist and resistance leader, has been the Secretary General of the PUK since its founding in 1975.

* Bernard Ingham, British journalist and former press secretary to Margaret Thatcher

John Lustig ( born January 25, 1953 ) is an American comics writer ( former journalist ) principally known for his comic book scripts featuring Donald Duck and other members of Disney's Duck family.

* Nick Clooney, a Cincinnati journalist and former newsanchor, and his wife Nina live in Augusta.