Fascism Gets Boost from Communists

Dubois Patrick. FLOT (Léon). In: , . Le dictionnaire de pédagogie et d'instruction primaire de Ferdinand Buisson : répertoire biographique des auteurs. Paris : Institut national de recherche pédagogique, 2002. pp. 72-73. (Bibliothèque de l'Histoire de l'Education, 17

Volume 34, Number 1 - December 1954

Volume 34, Number 1 - December 1954. 33 pages including covers and advertisements. Editorials Reverend Chu-Công, Joseph, Communists and Christmas in Viet-nam McLarney, James J., Mr. Spindly Tousignant, Louis, The Beauty of Simplicity McLarney, James J., Redress and Grievance McLarney, James J., Ques

Beyond The Myth: The Truth About Le Quattro Giornate di Napoli

The thesis discusses the myth behind the resistance movement, commonly known as the \u27Four Days\u27, focusing on the \u27scugnizzi\u27, women and communists. It then debunks the various aspects of the myth and gives a factual account of what occurred during September 28th - October 1st 1943

Poland\u27s Ex--Communists: From Pariahs to Establishment Players

The Polish United Workers\u27 Party (Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza [PZPR]) suffered what seemed to be a terminal blow in 1989. In elections rigged so that the communists and their old allies were guaranteed 65 percent of the seats in the main house of parliament, the communists did so badly that their old allies deserted them. After what appeared to be a total defeat, all the communist reformers could do was turn the government over to the men and women of Solidarity they had interned and harassed for more than a decade. Then they had to disband themselves and form a new party to inherit the tattered remains of their mantle and resources. Less than four years after what looked like a complete rejection, in the 1993 free parliamentary elections, the successor party to the PZPR, the Social Democrats of Poland (Socjaldemokracja Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej [SdRP]), and its coalition, the Democratic Left Alliance (Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej [SLD]), did well enough to dominate the parliament and form a government. Two years later, in 1995, the leader of the SdRP and its coalition\u27s presidential candidate, Aleksander Kwasniewski (a junior member of that last communist government), soundly defeated the Solidarity leader and incumbent president, Lech Wałesa. By 1999, when the coalition turned itself into a party, the SLD was, by far, both the most popular and the most stable party in democratic Poland. As a result, it dominated the parliamentary elections of 2001, leaving Solidarity\u27s old parties so fragmented that they did not get enough of the votes to get seats. In the process, it raised the population\u27s hopes that it could solve Poland\u27s economic problems and bring the same economic boom Poles remembered from 1993 to 1997

Killing Communists in Havana: The Start of the Cold War in Latin America

The Cold War started early in Cuba, with anti-communist purges of the trade unions already under way by 1947. Corruption and government intervention succeeded in removing the left-wing leaders of many unions but, in those sectors where this approach failed, gunmen linked to the ruling party shot and killed a dozen leading trade union militants, including the General Secretary of the Cuban Sugar Workers’ Federation.// Based on material from the Cuban archives and confidential US State Department files, this SHS Occasional Publication examines the activities of the US government, the Mafia and the American Federation of Labor, as well as corrupt Cuban politicians and local gangsters, in this early episode of the Cold War

Remarks about the activity of Polish communists in Soviet Russia 1918-1922

There were a few thousand Polish communists in Soviet Russia in the first years after the October Revolution. The Polish Bureau of Agitation and Propaganda at the Russian Communist Party [Bolsheviks] – the so-called Polbiuro – was the most important agenda of Polish communists. This article concerns the position of Polish communists in the Soviet state, their role in the Polish-Bolshevik War, activity amongst the Polish population in post-revolutionary Russia as well as amongst Polish POWs. The article is an attempt to answer the question: how to evaluate the activity of Polish communists in the Soviet country in the first years after the revolution? Text is based mainly on archival material from the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI) in Moscow and collections of a few Ukrainian and Polish archives (Donetsk, Warsaw)

Bolshevizing communist parties: The Algerian and South African experiences

In 1924 and 1925 the Comintern introduced its policy of Bolshevization. A goal of Bolshevization was the creation of mass-based communist parties. In settler societies this meant that the local communist party should aim to be demographically representative of the entire population. This article traces the efforts of the communist parties in Algeria and South Africa to indigenize, seeking to explain why their efforts had such diverse outcomes. It examines four variables: the patterns of working-class formation; the socialist tradition of each country; the relationship between the Comintern and the two communist parties; and the level of repression against communists in both societies. The cumulative weight of the variables in the Algerian case helps to explain why communist activity in the 1920s - including the communist party's ability to indigenize - was far more difficult in Algeria than South Africa