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China Dogs' Rescue Shows Growing Animal Activism

Apr 21st 2011 – 7:39AM
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AP

BEIJING -- After spotting a truck packed with hundreds of whimpering dogs on a Beijing highway, a man put out a call on a microblogging site, begging fellow animal lovers to help him force the driver to release the animals. Around 200 people responded, blockading the truck at a toll booth for 15 hours until they finally...

Cuba's Communist Party Approves Sweeping Changes

Apr 18th 2011 – 10:02PM
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AP

HAVANA -- Communist Party delegates gave their blessing to a sweeping slate of economic changes designed to breathe life and a bit of free-market spirit into Cuba's moribund economy, and also voted in a new party leadership at a historic summit Monday. State television announced the unanimous approval of about 300...

Fidel Castro: I Quit as Party Chief 5 Years Ago

Mar 22nd 2011 – 7:56AM
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HAVANA -- Fidel Castro said Tuesday he resigned five years ago from all his official positions, including head of Cuba's Communist Party, a position he was thought to still hold. It was the first time the 84-year-old revolutionary icon has said he no longer heads the Communist Party, which he has led since its creation in...

Opinion: Hu's Visit Clouded by Lingering Oppression

Jan 18th 2011 – 9:56AM
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When Chinese President Hu Jintao visits Washington this week, he can expect a gracious welcome and a state dinner that he was denied on his first visit in 2006. But he can also expect tough discussions on trade, foreign exchange, national security and, hopefully, human rights. As head of the Chinese Communist Party, Hu...

US Pomp Meant to Improve Tone of China Relations

Jan 16th 2011 – 8:27PM

BEIJING -- Chinese leader Hu Jintao is being feted in Washington this week with a lavish state banquet at the White House and other pomp usually reserved for close friends and allies - all intended to improve the tone of relations between a risen, more assertive and prosperous China and a U.S. superpower in a tenuous...

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  • 05/02/12 Origins of Indian communism Source: Frontline S.V. Ghate, one of the founders of the Communist Party of India spoke to Dr Hari Dev Sharma about the formation and early years of the Communist Party in India as part of the Oral History Project of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in New Delhi.

Background on communist party

A political party described as a Communist party includes those that advocate the application of the social principles of communism through a communist form of government.

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