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      • To accomplish these tasks, the CCP tried to discipline the labor force, win over the confidence of the capitalists, and implement drastic fiscal policies so as to undercut inflation. These policies brought such remarkable successes that by late 1950 many urban Chinese viewed the CCP leadership as needed reformers.
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  2. 2 days ago · A Suppression of Counterrevolutionaries campaign dealt violently with many former leaders of secret societies, religious associations, and the KMT in early 1951. In late 1951 and early 1952, three major political campaigns brought the revolutionary essence of the CCP home to key urban groups.

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    The Communist Party of Canada had its beginnings in 1921 at a secret meeting in a barn in Guelph, Ontario, attended by 21 Canadians and three representatives from Communist International — an organization dedicated to the creation of a global state led by the Soviet Union. This group established the Workers’ Party in February 1922. Two years later,...

    In the party's early years, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police harassed it, broke up its meetings, raided its offices, confiscated its literature, and in 1931 arrested its main leaders. The RCMP was acting under Section 98 of the Criminal Code, a vaguely worded section created in 1919 following outbreaks of violent labour unrest in Canada. The secti...

    Many members of the Communist Party became leaders of Canadian trade unions and organizers of new unions, especially among industrial and unskilled workers. During the 1930s, Communists in Canada and the United States were successful in organizing a number of industries under the new Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). They were also instru...

    The Canadian Communist Party supported the aims of the Second World Warinitially, but within 10 days, on orders from Moscow, reversed its position. As a result of its anti-war policy, the party was officially banned in Canada, and more than 100 leading members were imprisoned. On 22 June 1941, Germany attacked the Soviet Union, and war erupted acro...

    After Lenin’s death in January 1924, a bitter struggle ensued inside the Soviet Communist Party in Russia, which ended in a victory for Josef Stalin in 1928 and a crushing defeat for the other leading members of the Soviet government. Stalin then ruled the Soviet Union and was the recognized leader of the Communist parties of the world until his de...

    Those who remained in the party began publishing a monthly periodical called The Peoples Voice. They also fielded candidates in elections, but their numbers were small. When the party failed to run more than the required minimum of 50 candidates in the 1993 election, Elections Canada de-registered the party. Its angry members retaliated with a laws...

    In recent decades, there has been a slight resurgence of interest in the party, including a revival of interest in the Young Communist League. The party continues to run a number of candidates in federal general elections, and holds annual conventions that attract approximately 60–70 delegates from all regions of Canada. In 2016, the party elected ...

  3. 2 days ago · At first the CCP adopted the Soviet model for development and closely allied itself with the Soviet Union. However, the CCP and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) soon found themselves increasingly at odds over foreign policy and ideology, and, as the 1950s

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  4. Starting in the 1950s, a lasting political and military stand-off between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait has ensued, with the ROC in Taiwan and the PRC on the mainland both claiming to be the legitimate government of all China.

  5. One of the CCP’s first major social reforms was the Marriage Law of 1950. In theory, this law offered all citizens, particularly women, new rights, including the freedom to choose their own partner, choose their employment path and have equal ownership.

  6. 2 days ago · China - Civil War, Revolution, Mao Zedong: In a little more than four years after Japan’s surrender, the CCP and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA; the name by which communist forces were now known) conquered mainland China, and, on October 1, 1949, the People’s Republic of China was established, with its capital at Beijing (the city’s ...

  7. In October 1949, communist revolutionaries led by Mao Zedong seized control of China. The Chinese Community Party (CCP) was a relatively young group, formed in 1921 and inspired by the success of the Russian Revolution.

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