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Mike Nelson here.
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So I was thinking about French politics and how the main party is now "République en marche" (Republic on the Move) and how the Mélenchon organization is called France insoumise (Unbowed France). These seem more like corporate brands than political parties. I do like the French tendency to focus on movement and collectivity rather than organization, though. For example, "Rally" (Rassemblement) is still used in many African parties.

In 1941, Stalin told Dimitrov:

(Communist Parties) should be made absolutely autonomous and not sections of the Comintern. They must be transformed into national communist parties with diverse denominations: workers’ party, Marxist party, etc. The name is not important. What is important is that they put down roots in their people and concentrate on their own specific tasks . . . The International was created in Marx’s time in the expectation of an approaching international revolution. The Comintern was created in Lenin’s time at an analogous moment. Today, national tasks emerge for each country as a supreme priority. Do not hold on tight to what was yesterday.

The focus is on 'democratic' tasks, not the building of an advanced form of communism, so names like "Labour Party" are entirely fine from this perspective. Trotskyists denounced this as national chauvinism. A related question is whether the party is actually a party, or if it is a front for a party or collection of movements, or even a pre-party or non-party organization.

My favourite name of a US organization is the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. It doesn't claim to be a party, since it is small. It doesn't use the name of a specific person and doesn't try to be all-encompassing. I don't like "Worker's World Party", which sounds like 30 Rock's "Rural Juror", and is also too ambitious. Democratic Socialists of America is fine for a generic organization, like if you were buying flour in bulk, since it is essentially a mass organization and not a specific party. "Red Guards" sounds more like you're flipping over tables at your uncle's wedding because they won't let you put on nu-metal.

Anyway I am the leader and sole member of the Toilers Party.

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Black Panthers
Weather Underground
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Also ran: ISIS
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Deus Ex Machinist
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from wikipedia

Sarah Kyolaba met Idi Amin when she was a 19-year-old go-go dancer in the so-called Revolutionary Suicide Mechanised Regiment Band of the Ugandan Army. That led to her nickname, "Suicide Sarah". The couple married in Kampala in 1975 in a ceremony where Yasser Arafat was the best man.


mods plz change my name to slip_n_suicide@no_flex_zome

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black lives matter, op
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1) M-L KKE
2) KKE M-L
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committee for a 69th international
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Dont Mess With Sucess
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Wages for Housework is a pro name
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is it the party of the workers world or the world party of the workers?
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im partial to anti-revisionist/maoist org names from the 70s. 'the so and so communist organization', tacking 'm-l' onto anything, naming your org after a specific date is also pro. the universal-ness of 'workers party' i also respect a great deal. i also enjoy 'progressive' when its used in a communist context e.g. progressive youth organization, the AKEL in cyprus etc.

but ultimately the best names are attached to the most correct line so i have to say its a tie between the Maoist Internationalist Movement Ministry of Prisons and the Maoist Communist Group
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YOUNG LORDS
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consider the positive correlation between parties that have cool names that could just as easily belong to a rad band, and parties that successfully mobilize and engage with people instead of huddling in a forgotten corner of the university campus huffing their own farts
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Mike Nelson here.
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sometimes i think that the names of brazilian political parties would cause american reformists to self-harm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Brazil#Current_parties
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YUNG JIRO AKA SHOWA STUNNA AKA
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Moro Islamic Liberation Front
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Dont Mess With Sucess
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I guess the implication is that those were areas where the NYPD tended to murder lots of kids. When they would kill a couple Chinese kids they'd say oh yeah... the Tikwando Brothers are beefing with these kids..... too bad. Kill two ethiopian kids, yeah it was a shootout with B'nai Zaken, Inc, beat a group of transgender Dominicans to death and it was a Latin Secret Bachelors atrocity... Some of the sites that have reposted that image over the years take it as evidence that The Warriors was historically accurate
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Swampman sees something cool. His eyes narrow. Not on his watch.
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Dont Mess With Sucess
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You just posted an image from the New York Times citing the New York Police Department and you think my reaction should be "Black Stabbers. That's cool. I wonder what it must have been like to be a Black Stabber..." Also I checked and Back Stabbers was released by the O'Jays only 2 years earlier in 1972....
Owned
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Swamp man, 70s NYC gang culture was real. You're taking a vibrant and exciting part of our national history and saying it's a cop psyop. This is, as they say in politics, "bad optics."
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If I doubt a single newspaper clipping you found in the garbage I'm somehow denying all of human history
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I guess the n word was just the start of swampmans attempt to erase the black experience on the rhizzone. Insanely fucked up but hell, thats what the people want. I can't argue with it.
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Dont Mess With Sucess
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This hysterical derail is a type more suited to a 2011 National Woodcutters Rally - Rally for Gabon post-election strategy conclave
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Wow, your opposition is "hysterical"? what's next, lobotomizing Keven for being too sexually active? maybe just dope up everyone who disagrees with laudanum. i guess victorian era patriarchal domination is alive and well here at tHE rHizzonE...
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i've always found "The 26th of July Movement" evocative, even independent of its historical context
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UNUSUALY COOL
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let's start a street gang.
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Deus Ex Machinist
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cars posted:

let's start a street gang


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party of anime (marxist-leninist)