Pyongyang Declaration
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Pyongyang Declaration was a declaration signed by communist, workers, socialist and progressive parties, on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Kim Il-Sung
in April 1992. It is entitled 'Let Us Defend and Advance the Cause of Socialism. The Declaration was initially signed
by the following parties:
To date up to 250 parties and organizations have signed the Declaration.http://harikumar.brinkster.net/AllianceIssues/AppendicesFinal.html
Kim Il-sung
Kim Il-sung was a Korean communist politician who led the Democratic People's Republic of Korea from its founding in 1948 until his death in 1994. He held the posts of Prime Minister from 1948 to 1972 and President from 1972 to his death...
in April 1992. It is entitled 'Let Us Defend and Advance the Cause of Socialism. The Declaration was initially signed
by the following parties:
- The Workers Party of BangladeshWorkers Party of BangladeshThe Workers Party of Bangladesh is a Communist party in Bangladesh.WPB was founded in 1980 by the Bangladesh Communist Party , Revolutionary Communist League, Majdur Party and another group. Amal Sen was the founding general secretary....
- The Jatiyo Samjatantrik Dal, BangladeshBangladeshBangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
- The Progressive Party of Working PeopleProgressive Party of Working PeopleThe Progressive Party of Working People is a communist party in Cyprus. It supports an independent, demilitarized and non-aligned Cyprus, and a federal solution of the internal aspect of the Cyprus problem. It places particular emphasis on rapprochement with the Turkish Cypriots. It supported...
, CyprusCyprusCyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the... - The Communist Party of India (Marxist)Communist Party of India (Marxist)The Communist Party of India is a political party in India. It has a strong presence in the states of Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura. As of 2011, CPI is leading the state government in Tripura. It leads the Left Front coalition of leftist parties in various states and the national parliament of...
- The Communist Party of IndiaCommunist Party of IndiaThe Communist Party of India is a national political party in India. In the Indian communist movement, there are different views on exactly when the Indian communist party was founded. The date maintained as the foundation day by CPI is 26 December 1925...
- The Jordanian Communist PartyJordanian Communist PartyThe Jordanian Communist Party is a communist political party in Jordan, founded in 1948. Its current general secretary is Dr. Munir Hamarana...
- The Workers' Party of KoreaWorkers' Party of KoreaThe Workers' Party of Korea is the ruling Communist party of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , commonly known as North Korea. It is also called the Korean Workers' Party...
- The Syrian Social Nationalist PartySyrian Social Nationalist PartyThe Syrian Social Nationalist Party , is a secular nationalist political party in Lebanon and Syria. It advocates the establishment of a Syrian nation state spanning the Fertile Crescent, including present day Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, the Palestinian Territories, Israel, Cyprus, Kuwait,...
- The Mongolian People's Revolutionary PartyMongolian People's Revolutionary PartyThe Mongolian People's Party formerly the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party is an ex-communist political party in Mongolia. The party is abbreviated MPP in English and ' in Mongolian...
- The Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)The Communist Party of Nepal , also known as CPN-UML, CPN, is one of the largest communist parties in Nepal. It was created on January 6, 1991 through the unification of the Communist Party of Nepal and the Communist Party of Nepal...
- The Communist Party of Nepal (Unity Centre)Communist Party of Nepal (Unity Centre)Communist Party of Nepal , was a communist party in Nepal. CPN was formed on November 19-20 1990, through the merger of Communist Party of Nepal , Communist Party of Nepal , Proletarian Workers Organisation and Communist Party of Nepal . Soon thereafter a group led by Dr...
- The Nepal Workers and Peasants Party
- The Nepalese Communist Party
- The Communist Party of Sri LankaCommunist Party of Sri LankaThe Communist Party of Sri Lanka is a communist political party in Sri Lanka. At the last legislative elections, on 2 April 2004, the party was part of the United People's Freedom Alliance that won 45.6% of the popular vote and 105 out of 225 seats....
- The Arab Socialist Baath Party
- The Socialist Party of Turkey
- The Communist Party of AlbaniaCommunist Party of Albania (1991)The Communist Party of Albania is a communist, and anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist, political party in Albania. It is led by Hysni Milloshi. The party was formed in 1991, as a split from the Albanian Party of Labour which converted itself into the Socialist Party of Albania...
- The Communist Party of BulgariaCommunist Party of BulgariaThe Communist Party of Bulgaria is a communist political party in Bulgaria. It is led by Alexander Paunov.The party was founded in 1996 as the Communist Party. Since 2001 it is part of the Coalition for Bulgaria, an alliance led by the Bulgarian Socialist Party...
- The Bulgarian Communist Party - MarxistsBulgarian Communist Party - MarxistsBulgarian Communist Party – Marxists is a political party in Bulgaria. БКП - марксисти was founded in 1990. The chairman of the Executive Committee of the party is Boris Petkov.БКП-м took part in the 1991 parliamentary elections...
- The Workers Party of BelgiumWorkers Party of BelgiumThe Workers' Party of Belgium is a Marxist political party in Belgium. It is one of the few parties that operates as a single Belgian party...
- The Communist Party of BritainCommunist Party of BritainThe Communist Party of Britain is a communist political party in Great Britain. Although founded in 1988 it traces its origins back to 1920 and the Communist Party of Great Britain, and claims the legacy of that party and its most influential members Harry Pollitt and John Gollan as its...
- The New Communist Party of BritainNew Communist Party of BritainThe New Communist Party of Britain is a communist political party in Britain. The origins of the NCP lie in the Communist Party of Great Britain from which it split in 1977.-Formation:...
- The Workers Party Common Course, DenmarkDenmarkDenmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
- The Communist Forum of DenmarkCommunist Party in DenmarkCommunist Party in Denmark , a political party in Denmark. KPiD was founded in 1990, as a split from the Communist Party of Denmark . The founders of KPiD opposed the merger of DKP into the Unity List. KPiD can be seen as more ideologically orthodox than DKP....
- The For Peace and Socialism - Communist Workers PartyFor Peace and Socialism - Communist Workers PartyCommunist Workers' Party – For Peace and Socialism is a political party in Finland. It was founded in 1988 to secure the existence of an independent Marxist-Leninist party...
, FinlandFinlandFinland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside... - The German Communist PartyGerman Communist PartyThe German Communist Party is a Marxist-Leninist party in Germany.-History:The DKP was formed in West Germany in 1968, in order to fill the place of the Communist Party of Germany , which had been banned by the Federal Constitutional Court in 1956...
- The Hungarian Socialist Workers Party
- The Communist Party of IrelandCommunist Party of IrelandThe Communist Party of Ireland is a small all-Ireland Marxist party, founded in 1933. An earlier party, the Socialist Party of Ireland, was renamed the Communist Party of Ireland in 1921 on its affiliation to the Communist International but was dissolved in 1924. The present-day CPI was founded in...
- The Movement for Peace and SocialismMovement for Peace and SocialismMovement for Peace and Socialism is a Marxist-Leninist political party in Italy, founded 30 November 1986 by retired NATO general and senator Nino Pasti. Pasti served as MPS president, taking special interest in the struggle against nuclear weapons, until his death in 1992. The party is currently...
, ItalyItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and... - The New Socialist Party of Romania
- The Communist Party of MaltaCommunist Party of MaltaCommunist Party of Malta , is a Communist political party in Malta. PKM was founded in 1969 at a secret congress in the town of Gwardamangia, following the departure from the Malta Labour Party of a group of left-wing militants that had been active in the struggle for national independence. Anthony...
- The Communist Party of NorwayCommunist Party of NorwayThe Communist Party of Norway is a political party in Norway without parliamentary representation. It was formed in 1923, following a split in the Norwegian Labour Party. The party played an important role in the resistance to German occupation during the Second World War, and experienced a brief...
- The League of Communists of Poland "Proletariat"
- The All-Union Communist Party BolsheviksAll-Union Communist Party BolsheviksThe All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks is a Marxist-Leninist and...
- The Russian Communist Workers PartyRussian Communist Workers PartyThe Russian Communist Workers' Party was a communist party in Russia...
- The "Communists League" of Russia
- The Communist Party of the Peoples of SpainCommunist Party of the Peoples of SpainCommunist Party of the Peoples of Spain is a communist political party in Spain. PCPE was founded out of the unification of several Marxist-Leninist factions. The youth organization is called the Collectives of Communist Youth.On December 13–15 of 1984 a "Communist Unity Congress" was held...
- The Workers Party - CommunistsCommunist Party of Sweden (1995)The Communist Party of Sweden is the continuation of Workers' Party – The Communists .- History :...
, SwedenSwedenSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund.... - The League of Communists - Movement for Yugoslavia
- The Communist Party of ArgentinaCommunist Party of ArgentinaThe Communist Party of Argentina is a communist party from Argentina. It was founded in 1918.At the 2005 legislative elections, the Party joined the Encuentro Amplio with other left-wing parties in Buenos Aires and Buenos Aires Province...
- The Workers Party of BarbadosWorkers Party of BarbadosThe Workers Party of Barbados was a Marxist political party in Barbados. The party was established in 1985 by George Belle and contested the 1986 elections. However, it received just 40 votes and failed to win a seat. It did not run in any further elections....
- The Communist Party of VenezuelaCommunist Party of VenezuelaThe Communist Party of Venezuela is a Marxist-Leninist political party, and the oldest continuously existing party in Venezuela...
- The New Alternative of Venezula
- The Progressive Labour PartyProgressive Labour PartyThe Progressive Labour Party is a minor political party in Australia. The party is a broad left-wing party started by, among others, dissident former members of the Australian Labor Party in 1996. The party alleges that Labor has abandoned its traditional working-class supporters as it has moved...
of BermudaBermudaBermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida... - The Communist Party of BoliviaCommunist Party of BoliviaThe Communist Party of Bolivia is a communist party in Bolivia. It was founded in 1950 by Raúl Ruiz González and other former members of the Revolutionary Left Party . It remained small and did not hold its first national party congress until 1959....
- The Brazilian Communist PartyBrazilian Communist PartyBrazilian Communist Party is the oldest political party still active in Brazil, founded in 1922, and one of the only Brazilian parties with a Stalinist orientation...
- The Caribbean National Movement
- The Communist Party of ChileCommunist Party of ChileThe Communist Party of Chile is a Chilean political party inspired by the thoughts of Karl Marx and Lenin. It was founded in 1922, as the continuation of the Socialist Workers Party, and in 1934 it established its youth wing, the Communist Youth of Chile .In the last legislative elections in Chile...
- The Socialist Party of ChileSocialist Party of ChileThe Socialist Party of Chile is a political party, that is part of the center-left Coalition of Parties for Democracy coalition. Its historical leader was the late President of Chile Salvador Allende Gossens, who was deposed by General Pinochet in 1973...
- The Colombian Communist PartyColombian Communist PartyThe Colombian Communist Party or PCC is the legal communist party of Colombia. It was founded in 1930, as the Colombian section of the Comintern...
- The Costa Rican People's PartyCosta Rican People's PartyCosta Rican People's Party is a communist party in Costa Rica. PPC was founded in April 1985 by a faction of the Popular Vanguard Party that had split in March 1984. Its founder was Eduardo Mora Valverde.Its current leader is Pablo Morales Rivera.PPC publishes Libertad....
- The Dominican Communist PartyDominican Communist PartyThe Dominican Communist Party was a political party in the Dominican Republic. The party was founded in 1944 under the name Dominican Revolutionary Democratic Party. The party worked under the name Dominican Popular Socialist Party 1946-1965. In August 1965 the name was again changed, to Dominican...
- The United Left Movement of Dominica
- The Dominica Labour PartyDominica Labour PartyThe Dominica Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Dominica.-History:Founded in 1955 by Phyllis Shand Allfrey and Emmanuel Christopher Loblack, it is the oldest political party in Dominica. It first contested general elections in 1961, winning seven of the eleven seats. In the next...
- The Communist Party of EcuadorCommunist Party of EcuadorCommunist Party of Ecuador is a political party in Ecuador. It was formed in 1925 as the Socialist Party...
- The Maurice Bishop Patriotic MovementMaurice Bishop Patriotic MovementThe Maurice Bishop Patriotic Movement was a socialist political party in Grenada. It was established by George Louison and Kendrick Radix, supporters of slain Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, after the US invasion of Grenada. However, despite the popularity of the revolution with many Grenadians,...
, GrenadaGrenadaGrenada is an island country and Commonwealth Realm consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea... - The Communist Party of Martinique
- The Socialist People's Party of Mexico
- The Paraguayan Communist PartyParaguayan Communist PartyParaguayan Communist Party is a communist political party in Paraguay. PCP was founded on February 19, 1928. Later it was recognized as a section of the Communist International. It was brutally suppressed during the military regimes of the country. It gained legality for a brief period in 1936 and...
- The Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour PartySaint Kitts and Nevis Labour PartyThe Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party is a centre-left political party in Saint Kitts and Nevis. It is currently the ruling party in the country after winnign six of the eleven seats in the 2010 general election.-History:...
- The National Democratic PartyNational Democratic Party (Suriname)The National Democratic Party is a political party in Suriname. It was founded in 1987 shortly before the downfall of military dictator Dési Bouterse....
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- The Communist Party USACommunist Party USAThe Communist Party USA is a Marxist political party in the United States, established in 1919. It has a long, complex history that is closely related to the histories of similar communist parties worldwide and the U.S. labor movement....
- The Socialist Workers PartySocialist Workers Party (United States)The Socialist Workers Party is a far-left political organization in the United States. The group places a priority on "solidarity work" to aid strikes and is strongly supportive of Cuba...
, USA - The Workers World PartyWorkers World PartyWorkers World Party is a far-left political party in the United States, founded in 1959 by a group led by Sam Marcy. Marcy and his followers split from the Socialist Workers Party in 1958 over a series of long-standing differences, among them Marcy's group's support for Henry A...
, USA - The Popular Movement for the Liberation of AngolaPopular Movement for the Liberation of AngolaThe People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola - Labour Party is a political party that has ruled Angola since the country's independence from Portugal in 1975...
- The South West Africa People's Organisation, NamibiaNamibiaNamibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...
- The South African Communist PartySouth African Communist PartySouth African Communist Party is a political party in South Africa. It was founded in 1921 as the Communist Party of South Africa by the joining together of the International Socialist League and others under the leadership of Willam H...
- The Popular Unity PartyParty of People's UnityThe Party of People's Unity is an opposition political party in Tunisia. It is socialist and had 7 members in the 1999 Tunisian parliament. At the 2004 legislative elections, the party won 3.6 % of the popular vote and 11 out of 189 seats. The same day, its candidate Mohamed Bouchiha, won 3.8 % at...
, TunisiaTunisiaTunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...
To date up to 250 parties and organizations have signed the Declaration.http://harikumar.brinkster.net/AllianceIssues/AppendicesFinal.html
External links
- Full text of the 'Pyongyang Declaration' at Proletarian On Line website , Communist Party Of Great Britain ( Marxist Leninist), 18 June 2007. Accessed March 2011