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The Communist Party of Canada was founded in 1920 and is the oldest active socialist party in Canada, and the second-oldest active political party in Canada. During the Great Depression, the Communist Party of Canada experienced a brief surge in popularity, becoming influential in various labour unions and electing a single Member of Parliament ...
The Communist Party of Canada (French: Parti communiste du Canada) is a federal political party in Canada. Founded in 1921 under conditions of illegality, it is the second oldest active political party in Canada, after the Liberal Party of Canada .
They share a common definition of socialism, and they refer to themselves as socialist states on the road to communism with a leading vanguard party structure, hence they are often called communist states. Meanwhile, the countries in the non-Marxist–Leninist category represent a wide variety of different interpretations of the term socialism ...
Cover of a pamphlet published in Vancouver, BC, by the Socialist Party of Canada. Socialist Party of British Columbia (SPBC) — In the summer of 1901 Vancouver socialists with roots in the Canadian Socialist League decided to establish themselves as a new organisation calling itself the Socialist Party of British Columbia. [6]
Serious problems in the socialist movement, however, developed in the late 1980s with the crisis in and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. "Many [communist] parties, especially in the West, have gone over from 'because it is socialism it can have no problems' position to 'because so many problems emerged, it is socialism which does not work'!"
The Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia), which was founded in 1932 by Ernest Winch independently of the Socialist Party of Canada founded in Winnipeg, [1] joined and eventually merged with the CCF to form the British Columbia CCF, the Socialist Party of Canada remained independent of the broader socialist movement and spread its ...
Communist Party. The Communist Party of Canada changed its name multiple times in its history. It was founded as the Communist Party of Canada in 1921. It was underground until 1924, and founded a public face, Workers' Party of Canada, from 1922 until 1924 when the Communist Party was legalized.
Canada – Alberta Labor Representation League, Canadian Action Party, Cape Breton Labour Party, Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist) (Manitoba), Communist Party of Quebec, Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (Manitoba), Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (Ontario Section), Democratic Alliance ...