1997 Georges Marchais, Sec Gen of French Communist Party (1972-94), dies
1997 Zdenek Mlynar, Sec of Czech Communist Central Committee (1968), dies
1997 Deng Xiaoping, head of the Chinese Communist Party, dies at 92
1996 Patience Edney, nurse/communist, dies at 85
1995 Phillip Piratin, communist, dies at 88
1994 Man Mohan Adhikary sworn in as 1st communist premier of Nepal
1994 Nepal Communist party Dutch Communist Party-UML wins election
1994 Fabio Grobart, founder (Cuban Communist Party), dies
1994 Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Machina Mondiale), dies at 70
1994 Tawfik Ziad, Palestinian communist/Israeli MP/mayor of Nazareth, dies
1993 Sanzo Nosaka, co-founder of Japanese Communist Party (1922), dies
1993 Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/communist, dies at 80
1993 Gerben Wagenaar, Dutch resistance fighter (communist), dies at 80
1993 Deng Yingchao, high ranking communist China official, dies at 88
1993 Chris Hani, sec-gen South Africian Communist Party, assassinated at 50
1992 Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Communist Party (1973-76), dies
1992 Viktor Grishin, hardline soviet communist, dies at 78, dies
1991 CPN, Communist Party of Netherland, last day of existance
1991 Russian president Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party
1991 U.S.S.R. suspends Communist Party activities
1991 Gorbachev resigns as head of U.S.S.R. Communist Party
1991 Communist coup is crushed in U.S.S.R. in 2 days
1990 South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference
1990 Boris Yeltsin quits Soviet Communist Party
1990 Last issue of Dutch communist daily De Waarheid (The Truth)
1990 U.S.S.R. Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties
1990 Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so)
1989 East Germany drops communist monopoly from its constitution
1989 Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia
1989 Dolores Ibarruri, [Pasionaria], Basque/Spanish communist, dies at 93
1989 Hungary proclaims itself a republic and declares communist rule ended
1989 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms
1988 Polish Communist Party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM
1987 Rewi Alley, NZ author, pro Chinese communist, dies at 90 in Beijing
1986 Paul [Saul] de Groot, chairman Dutch Communist party, dies at 87
1985 "Communist" bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels
1984 Yuri Andropov, Gen Sec of Soviet Communist Party (1982-84), dies at 69
1982 Hanneke Jelgersma installed as Netherlands 1st Communist mayor
1981 Poland Communist Party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek
1981 China's Communist Party condemns late Mao Tse-tung's policy
1979 John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a communist country (Poland)
1977 Communist party in Spain allowed legally after 40 years
1976 Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party
1976 Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese Communist Party chairman (1949-76), dies at 82
1975 Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People's Democratic Rep proclaimed
1975 Italy's Communist party PCI, wins
1974 Romanian Communist Party names party leader Ceausescu president
1974 Hertha Kuusinen, Finnish communist/daughter of Otto K, dies at 70
1973 Earl Browder, leader U.S. Communist Party (1930-45), dies at 82
1972 Japan and Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations
1972 Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves Communist Party
1970 UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist
1969 Czechoslovakia's Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek deposed
1969 Communist New People's Army found in Philippines
1968 Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission
1968 J Borremans, Belgian politician (Communist), dies at 56
1968 Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83
1966 Leonid Brezhnev elected Secretary-General of Communist Party
1966 Lyndon Baines Johnson says U.S. should stay in South Vietnam until communist aggression ends
1965 Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional
1964 Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Italian Party)/min of Just, dies
1964 Maurice Thorez, sec-general French Communist Party, dies at 64
1963 1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist)
1962 Hungarian Communist Party expels Rakosi and Gero
1962 U.S. promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression
1961 Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovitsj kicked out of Russia's Communist Party
1961 U.S. members of Communist Party obliged to report themselves to Police
1961 William S Foster, chairman (U.S. Communist Party, 1945-57), dies at 80
1961 Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes President of U.S. Communist Party
1960 Harry Pollitt, England, Britsh communist chairman (1956-60)
1960 Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands
1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier and 1st sect of Communist Party
1958 Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist) begins transmitting
1958 Greek Clandestine Radio (communist), Voice of Truth 1st transmission
1958 Marcel Cachin, 1st communist French senator, dies at 88
1957 Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganowitsj and Sjepilov leave U.S.S.R. Communist Party
1957 Mosa Pijade, Yugoslavian MP (communist), dies at 67
1957 Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"
1956 Dutch Communist Party office of Felix Meritis seized
1956 Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison
1956 U.S. seizes U.S. communist newspaper "Daily Worker"
1954 SE Asia Treaty Org (SEATO) forms to stop communists in Asia
1954 Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party
1954 Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ years of fighting in Indochina between French and Communist Vietminh
1954 Robert Oppenheimer accused of being a communist
1953 General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired
1953 Nikita Khrushchev becomes 1st Secretary of U.S.S.R. Communist Party
1953 Communist offensive in Korea
1953 Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as secretary Communist Party
1952 Paul Eluard, French communist/poet, dies at 56
1952 19th congress of Communist Party meets in Moscow
1952 Communist offensive in Korea
1951 Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants
1951 Communist troops driven out of Seoul
1950 Truman proclaims state of emergency against "Communist imperialism"
1950 U.S. President Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat
1950 Belgian government dismisses all communist civil servants
1950 General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist
1950 Julien Lahaut, chairman Belgian Communist Party, murdered
1950 Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees
1950 Britain recognizes Communist government of China
1949 Traitsjo Kostov, Bulgarian communist vice-premier, executed
1949 14 U.S. Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition
1949 Sam Wood, U.S. communist fighter/director (Night at Opera), dies at 66
1949 Chinese Communist leaders proclaims People's Republic of China
1949 Pope Pius XII excommunicates communist catholics
1949 Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, Indon communist, executed at 54
1948 Communist Madiun-uprising in Dutch Indies (Muso/Sjarifudin)
1948 Communist form North China People's Republic
1948 Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent
1948 Franklin D. Roosevelt advisor Alger Hiss accused to be a "communist"
1948 U.S. Communist Party chairman William Forster arrested
1948 Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; President Bernes resigns
1948 43 communist rebels, executed in Athens
1948 Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia
1948 Trial of 11 U.S. Communist party members begins in New York City
1947 HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood
1947 Hungarian Communist Party wins election
1946 Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president
1945 U.S.S.R. establishes a communist government in North Korea
1945 U.S. Communist Party forms
1945 Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy
1945 King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government
1944 Ernst Thalmann, German communist, dies in Buchenwald
1944 U.S. Communist Party dissolves
1944 33 communist resistance fighter sentenced to death
1944 Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death
1944 5 leaders of Indonesia Communist Party sentenced to death
1942 12, Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter/3 NVV-hostages, executed
1942 Nikola J Vaptsarov, Bulgaria poet/communist, executed at 32
1942 "Chris" Martin Thembisile Hani, sec-gen, South Africa Communist Party
1941 Politburo of Yugoslav Communist Party reorganizes
1941 British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned
1940 Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in Netherlands
1940 Communist government installed in Lithuania
1940 Tina Modotti, [Maria del Carmen], Ital/Mexican communist, dies at 46
1935 CPH becomes Dutch Communist Party
1935 Mao Tse Tung and his Communist forces ended their "Long March" at Yan'an, in Shaanxi China
1934 French socialist/communist party of People's Front forms
1934 Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist, beheaded in Berlin at 24
1933 Clara Zetkin, German feminist/communist, dies
1933 Austrian Communist Party banned
1933 Hitler disallows German Communist Party (KPD)
1933 Final demonstration of German Communist Party in Berlin
1933 Karl Radek praises invincible force of German Communist Party
1933 Goring bans communist meetings/demonstrations in Germany
1932 Stalin forces Zinoviev and Kamenev out of Communist Party
1932 Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees
1929 Ahmed "Kathy" Kathrada, leader of South Africa Communist Party
1927 Communist uprising in West Java
1926 Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) uprising in Bantam West Java
1926 Dutch Communist Party expels David Wijnkoop
1925 Communist Party of Holland splits
1925 Estonia forbids communist Party
1924 Henk J Hoekstra, president, Dutch Communist Party
1924 Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted
1924 Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author, Road to Rome
1923 Saxony gets Social Democratic and Communist coalition government
1923 Dipa Nusantara Aidit, Indonesian communist/leader of PKI, 1951-65
1923 KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies
1923 Workers Party of America (New York City) becomes official Communist Party
1922 Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party
1921 Alexander Dubcek, headed Czech Communist Party, 1968-69
1921 Fre [Frederik] Meis, Dutch MP, Communist
1921 KPB, Communist Party of Belgium forms
1921 Chinese Communist Party forms under Henk Sneevliet
1920 Yugoslav government bans Communist Party
1920 USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany
1920 Georges Marchais, political leader, French Communist Party
1920 U.S. President Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal
1920 Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms
1919 Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago
1919 John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago
1919 Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike
1919 1st congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin
1919 3 year old German Communist Party (Spartacus) crushed
1918 Bela Can forms Hungarian Communist Party
1918 Stahlhelm forms (anti communist/Polish/French) in Magdenburg
1918 Rowley I Arenstein, South African attorney/communist/ANC'er
1918 Baku-Turkish Communist Party forms
1918 Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
1918 Alessadro Natta, Italian political leader, Communist Party
1916 Communist party "Spartacus Letters" 1st published in Berlin
1913 Alvaro Cunhal, Portuguese communist
1913 Ben[jamin S] Polak, Neth, physician/communist/resistance fighter
1912 Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/Dutch Communist MP
1912 Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS)
1911 Wilfred Burchett, Australia, communist/writer, Catapult to Freedom
1911 Patience Edney, nurse/communist
1911 J Borremans, Belgian politician, communist, /MP
1909 Kwame Nkrumah, communist/premier Gold Coast/president Ghana, 1960-66
1909 Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist
1908 Jan Brasser, Dutch resistance fighter, Witte Ko, /communist
1907 Phillip Piratin, communist
1906 Herbert Wehner, German communist/anti-communist politician, SPD
1904 Hertha Kuusinen, Finnish communist
1900 Maurice Thorez, Secretary-General, French Communist Party
1899 Paul de Groot, Dutch communist politician, CPN, /Editor, The Truth
1899 Arvid Pelshe, Latvian Communist leader, CPSU Politburo member
1898 Herbert Marcuse, Berlin, communist philosopher, Eros and Civilization
1895 Paul Eluard, French communist/poet/resistance fighter, Le Phenix
1894 Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, founder, Indonesian Communist
1893 Palmiro Togliatti, founder, Communist Party of Italy
1893 Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romania, communist/foreign minister, 1945-52
1890 Harry Pollitt, chairman British communist (1956-60), dies
1890 Mosa Pijade, Yugoslavia, MP, communist
1888 Li Ta-chao, co-founder with Mao Tse-tung, Chinese Communist Party
1886 Ernst Thalmann, German communist presidential candidate
1884 Joseph Pholien, Belgian premier, 1950-52, /communist hunter
1883 Sam Wood, U.S., communist fighter/director, For Whom the Bell Tolls
1883 Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies at 64
1881 Otto V Kuusinen, Fin/Rus communist President of Karelo-Finnish SR, 1940-56
1881 William Foster, Massachusetts, Communist President candidate, 1924,28,32
1876 Wilhelm Pieck, co-founder German Communist Party/president, 1949-60
1873 Anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist, Communist Tactics
1857 Clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate/communist
1848 Marx and Engels publish "Communist Manifesto"
1818 Karl Marx, philosopher, Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital
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