A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term "communist party" was popularized by the title of The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. As a vanguard party,the communist party guides the political education and development of the working class (proletariat). As a ruling party,the communist party exercises power through the dictatorship of the proletariat. Vladimir Lenin developed the idea of the communist party as the revolutionary vanguard,when the socialist movement in Imperial Russia was divided into ideologically opposed factions,the Bolshevik faction and the Menshevik faction. To be politically effective,Lenin proposed a small vanguard party managed with democratic centralism which allowed the centralized command of a disciplined cadre of professional revolutionaries. Once a policy was agreed upon,realizing political goals required every Bolshevik's total commitment to the agreed-upon policy.
A pioneer movement is an organization for children operated by a communist party. Typically children enter into the organization in elementary school and continue until adolescence. The adolescents then typically join the Young Communist League. Prior to the 1990s there was a wide cooperation between pioneer and similar movements of about 30 countries,coordinated by the international organization,International Committee of Children's and Adolescents' Movements,founded in 1958,with headquarters in Budapest,Hungary.
The Communist Party of Australia (CPA),known as the Australian Communist Party (ACP) from 1944 to 1951,was an Australian communist party founded in 1920. The party existed until roughly 1991,with its membership and influence having been in a steady decline since its peak in 1945. Like most communist parties in the West,the party was heavily involved in the labour movement and the trade unions. Its membership,popularity and influence grew significantly during most of the interwar period before reaching its climax in 1945,where the party achieved a membership of slightly above 22,000 members. Although the party did not achieve a federal MP,Fred Paterson was elected to the Parliament of Queensland at the 1944 state election. He won re-election in 1947 before the seat was abolished. The party also held office in over a dozen local government areas across New South Wales and Queensland.
Little Octobrists was a youth organization for elementary school children in grades 1 through 3 in the Soviet Union. After the age of nine,in the 3rd grade,Little Octobrists would typically join the Young Pioneer organization.
The Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation,consisting of the Young Pioneers and the Thälmann Pioneers,was a youth organisation of schoolchildren aged 6 to 13 in East Germany. They were named after Ernst Thälmann,the former leader of the Communist Party of Germany,who was executed at the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Union of Pioneers of Yugoslavia also known as Tito's Pioneers was the pioneer movement of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Its members,basically all children of age seven and older,attended an annual ceremony and wore uniforms.
Non-aligned Scouting organizations is a term used by the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM),World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) and their member national organizations to refer to Scouting organizations that are not affiliated with them. See List of non-aligned Scouting organizations.
The Union of Communist Youth was the Romanian Communist Party's youth organisation. Like many Young Communist organisations,it was modelled after the Soviet Komsomol. It aimed to cultivate young cadres into the party,as well as to help create the "new man" envisioned by communist ideologues.
The Socialist Patriotic Youth League is a North Korean youth organization. It is the main youth organization in North Korea. Directly under the party Central Committee,it is the only mass organization expressly mentioned in the charter of the Workers' Party of Korea. Youth under 15 may join the Young Pioneer Corps,itself a part of the larger Korean Children's Union. The organization,modeled after the Komsomol in the former Soviet Union,includes all North Koreans without party membership between the ages of 15 and 30,although married women who opt to become housewives are transferred to the Socialist Women's Union. Officially,the guiding ideology of the organization is Kimilsungism–Kimjongilism.
The Pioneer Organization was a pioneer movement in Communist Romania,founded on April 30,1949.
Pionýr,officially Pioneer Organization of the Socialist Youth Union,was a youth Marxist-Leninist organization in communist Czechoslovakia that was a subdivision of the Socialist Youth Union. Although the organisation proclaimed to be voluntary,every child was expected to join from the age of six.
The red scarf is a neckerchief worn by young pioneers of several countries during the socialist (“communist”) era. In the Soviet Union it was known as pionerskiy galstuk,in Vietnam as khăn quàng đỏ,in China as hóng lǐngjīn,in Cuba as pañoleta roja,and in Hungary as úttörőnyakkendő. Blue scarves were also used by youngsters before coming of age to wear the red one,and are still seen in some countries.
The Young Pioneers of China,often shortened to the Young Pioneers and sometimes translated into English as Red Pioneers,is a mass youth organization for children aged six to fourteen in the People's Republic of China. The Young Pioneers of China is run by the Communist Youth League,an organization of older youth that comes under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The Young Pioneers of China is similar to Pioneer Movements that exist or existed in many Communist countries around the world.
The World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) is an international youth organization,and has historically characterized itself as left-wing and anti-imperialist. WFDY was founded in London,United Kingdom in 1945 as a broad international youth movement,organized in the context of the end of World War II with the aim of uniting youth from the Allies behind an anti-fascist platform that was broadly pro-peace,anti-nuclear war,expressing friendship between youth of the capitalist and socialist nations. The WFDY Headquarters are in Budapest,Hungary. The main event of WFDY is the World Festival of Youth and Students. The last festival was held in Sochi,Russia,in October 2017. It was one of the first organizations granted general consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
Youth organizations in the United States are of many different types. The largest is the government run 4-H program,followed by the federally chartered but private Scouting movement groups:the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) and the Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA). Another somewhat smaller but co-ed Scouting derived group is Camp Fire. Other youth groups are religious youth ministries such as the evangelical Christian Awana,Seventh-day Adventist Pathfinders,and Assemblies of God Royal Rangers.
The Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization abbreviated as the Young Pioneers,was a compulsory youth organization of the Soviet Union for children and adolescents ages 9–14 that existed between 1922 and 1991.
The Young Communist International was the parallel international youth organization affiliated with the Communist International (Comintern).
Red Youth Guards is North Korea's youth paramilitary organization. The Red Youth Guards' official anniversary is September 12,1970. It was established under the direction of Kim Il Sung and acts as a student military organization targeting male and female students aged 14 to 16 at the time.
