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Working Families Party

2025-04-07T23:29:52Z

96.236.141.83: I'm aware this is barebones and the citation uses the wrong format, but I'm gonna need a bit of help adding the logo and all that.

{{Infobox political party|name=Working Families Party|founded=1998|founder=[[Dan Cantor]]|leader1_title=Co-leaders|leader1_name=[[Andrea Serrano]] [[Jacob Feinspan]]|predecessor=[[New Party (United States)|New Party]]|political_orientation=[[Democratic socialism]] (claimed) [[Social democracy]]|seats1_title = Philadelphia City Council|seats1 = 2 out of 17 seats|website=https://workingfamilies.org/}}
The '''Working Families Party''' ('''WFP''') is a [[social democratic]] party based within the [[United States of America]]. Despite claims that it aims to serve as opposition to the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]], it effectively serves as controlled opposition, consistently supporting the party within elections.<ref>The Working Families Party Endorses Biden and Harris: Beating Trump is the priority, but the progressive group says it’ll keep pressuring Biden to move left on economic, social, and racial justice issues. (2020, July 14). The Nation. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/wfp-biden-harris/</ref>

== References ==

American Communist Party (current)

2025-03-27T01:50:28Z

96.236.141.83: Expanded infobox. Still needs logo, however.

{{Infobox political party|name=American Communist Party|founded=July 22, 2024|abbreviation=ACP|split=[[Communist Party of the United States of America]] (claimed)|newspaper=[[Red America]]|political_orientation=[[Marxism-Leninism]] (claimed) [[Patriotic socialism]] [[MAGA communism]] [[Chauvinism]]|position=[[Left-wing]] (claimed) [[Far-right]]|international=[[World Anti-imperialist Platform]]|colours=Red|seats1_title=Elected members|seats1=1 (as an independent candidate)|website=https://acp.us/|twitter=ACPMain|youtube=https://youtube.com/@AmericanCommunistParty|facebook=https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61574119774855|instagram=acp.main}}

The '''American Communist Party''' ('''ACP''') is a self described [[Patriotic socialism|patriotic socialist]] group operating within the [[United States]] and [[Canada]] that claims to have split from the [[Communist Party of the United States of America|CPUSA]] in 2024. Its plenary committee includes the patriotic socialist influencers [[Infrared|Haz Al-Din]], [[Carlos Garrido]], [[Jackson Hinkle]], [[Noah Khrachvik]], and [[Eddie Liger Smith]].<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=American Communist Party|title=Declaration of the American Communist Party|date=2024-07-22|url=https://acp.us/declaration|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241126205435/https://acp.us/declaration|archive-date=2024-11-26}}</ref>

== References ==
[[Category:Patriotic socialism]]

Green Party of the United States

2025-03-26T19:25:49Z

96.236.141.83: Fixed the article to have a more concise understanding of how the GPUS is structured. Still a stub though.

{{Infobox political party|name=Green Party of the United States|logo=Green Party Logo.png|founded=28-29 July 2001|split=Greens/Green Party USA|political_orientation=[[Green politics]] [[Democratic socialism]] [[Libertarian socialism]] [[Grassroots democracy]] [[Pacifism]] [[Anti-nuclear sentiment]] (majority) Factions [[Social democracy]] [[Anarchism]]|position=|international=[[Global Greens]] (until 2024)|colours=Green|seats1_title=Total elected officials|seats1=143|website=https://www.gp.org/}}

The '''Green Party of the United States''' is a big tent federation of statewide green political parties in the [[United States of America]], and the fourth largest political party overall within the United States. It has contested elections since its founding in 2001 and advocates for a variety of progressive and leftist causes. [[Jill Stein]] was the current Green candidate in the [[2024 United States presidential election]].<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Green Party US|title=Early History of the United States Green Party, 1984-2001|date=2017-15-05|url=https://www.gp.org/early_history}}</ref> The party follows the Ten Key Values, a set of values aimed towards unifying the party with a common ideological basis,<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Green Party of the United States|title=Ten Key Values|url=https://www.gp.org/ten_key_values|retrieved=2025-03-26}}</ref> however due to the loose interpretation that it upholds, although a majority of members lean more towards libertarian socialism, some members lean more towards social democracy.

== References ==
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[[Category:Political parties]]
[[Category:Politics of the United States of America]]
[[Category:Socialist political parties]]
[[Category:Statesian political parties]]

Japanese Communist Party

2025-03-24T23:43:35Z

96.236.141.83: Fixed indigenous name of Hokkaido, known as Yaunmosir in Ainu.

{{Infobox political party
|name=Japanese Communist Party
|native_name=<ruby> 日本共産党 <rp>(</rp> <rt>にほんきょうさんとう</rt><rp>)</rp>
</ruby>
|logo=File:Nihon Kyōsantō Logo.svg|logo_alt=Nihon Kyōsantō in Bold and Red.
|caption=''Nihon Kyōsantō''
|abbreviation=JCP
|chairperson=Tomoko Tamura|general_secretary=Akira Koike|predecessor=[[Enlightened People's Communist Party]]|headquarters=4-26-7 Sendagaya, Shibuya, 151-8586 Japan|newspaper=''[[Shimbun Akahata]]''
|youth_wing=Democratic Youth League of Japan|membership_year=2022
|membership=260,000<ref>{{Web citation|url=https://www.jcp.or.jp/english/what-jcp.html|title=A Profile of the Japanese Communist Party|date=November 1, 2022}}</ref>
|website=[https://jcp.or.jp jcp.or.jp]
|twitter=jcp_cc|youtube=https://www.youtube.com/@jcpmovie|facebook=https://www.facebook.com/kyosanto/|instagram=nihonkyosanto|footnotes=|colours=Red|slogan="The people are the protagonists."|seats1_title = House of Representatives
|seats1 = 10 seats out of 465 seats 
|seats2_title=House of Councilors
|seats2=11 seats out of 242 seats
|foundation={{birth date and age|1922|7|15}}
|legalized=September 2, 1945|banned=September 1929<ref>{{Web citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8IarAAAAIAAJ|title=The Japanese Communist Party 1922-1945|date=November 10, 2024}}</ref>|political_orientation=[[Marxism]] (de jure) [[Social democracy]] (de facto) [[Chauvinism]] [[Reformism]] '''Historical:''' [[Marxism-Leninism]]
|international=[[International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties|IMCWP]] (non-participant)}}
{{Communist Parties}}

The '''Japanese Communist Party''' ([[Japanese language|Japanese]] ''日本共産党''; [[Romanisation of Japanese|romanised]] ''Nihon Kyōsantō''), abbreviated '''JCP''' in [[English language|English]], is a self-proclaimed [[communist party]] in [[Japan]] founded in 1922. Despite calling itself '[[Communism|communist]]' and often being referred to as one of the largest non-governing communist parties in the world, it is a [[Reformism|reformist]] organisation with policies more closely aligned to [[social democracy]] and the [[Eurocommunism|Eurocommunist]] movement.

== History ==

=== Founding ===
The Japanese Communist Party was founded in 1922 by multiple members of the party's indirect predecessor, the Enlightened People's Communist Party, and was soon outlawed by the imperial government's Peace Preservation Law.<ref name=":0" /> [[Fukumoto Kazuo]] advocated for "unity in separation" and ideological purity, which the [[Communist International (1919–1943)|Comintern]] denounced as [[Ultra-leftism|ultra-left]] in 1927. The 1927 Comintern Theses argued that [[Empire of Japan (1868–1947)|Japan]] still needed a [[bourgeois-democratic revolution]] against the emperor and [[Landlord|landlordism]].<ref name=":1">{{Web citation|author=Gavin Walker|newspaper=[[MR Online]]|title=Marxist theory in Japan: A critical overview|date=2024-04-06|url=https://mronline.org/2024/04/06/marxist-theory-in-japan-a-critical-overview/|retrieved=2024-04-07}}</ref>

=== Fascist period ===
By the 1930s, two factions had emerged: the smaller ''Rōnō'' faction that defined the 1868 [[Meiji Restoration]] as a full bourgeois-democratic revolution and the larger ''Kōza'' faction that defined it as an incomplete [[bourgeois revolution]].<ref name=":1" /> In 1932 in [[Moscow]], [[Nosaka Sanzō]], the party's representative to the Comintern, wrote the 1932 Thesis,<ref name=":0" /> aligning with the ''Kōza'' position. Party leader [[Noro Eitarō]] completed the ''Lectures on the History of Development of Japanese Capitalism'' in 1932, aligning with the 1932 Thesis, and died in prison in 1934.<ref name=":1" />

During the [[Second World War]], Nosaka fled to [[China]] and joined the [[Chinese Red Army]] to fight against the Empire of Japan. He founded the [[Japanese People's Emancipation League]], which attracted Japanese deserters and POWs to fight for [[socialism]].<ref name=":0">{{News citation|author=Comrade Saoirse|title=The Japanese Communist Party during World War II|url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dw1ZTewxhvCkO-VDBhDeYqpvdP4oittFpyu0y24ScjQ/mobilebasic|retrieved=2022-05-15}}</ref>

=== Postwar period ===
[[Tokuda Kyūichi]], who had spent 18 years in prison under the Peace Preservation Law, became leader of the party after the war. In 1946, [[Douglas MacArthur]] began the Red Purges against the party due to its popular support. The party went underground and called for armed [[national liberation]] struggle against the USA. The party incorrectly focused on the countryside and attempted to start a [[People's war|protracted people's war]] led by the [[peasantry]].<ref name=":1" />

The JCP's Sixth Congress in 1955 rejected armed struggle and considered the return to the villages to be ultra-left [[adventurism]]. Due to its [[Reformism|reformist]] deviations, it failed to lead the 1960 [[Anpo protests]] against the USA-Japan Joint Security Treaty.<ref name=":1" />

== Positions ==

=== Party positions ===

* The Japanese Communist Party has displayed chauvinistic tendencies in terms of being against Russian control of the lower Kuril Islands, which were annexed by the Soviet Union following the Soviet-Japanese War. It views claims as illegitimate, and would come out with a statement in 2001 which would claim that Japan has historical rights to the entirety of the island chain, claiming that they were "historically part of Japan," completely ignoring the fact that the island chain is home to the Ainu ethnic group along with the eventually colonized island of Yaunmosir, which would eventually become to be known as Hokkaido.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Japanese Communist Party|newspaper=Japanese Communist Party|title=森・プーチン会談と「イルクーツク声明」は何を示したか (What did the Mori-Putin meeting and the "Irkutsk Statement" show?)|date=2001-04-13|url=https://www.jcp.or.jp/web_policy/2001/04/post-296.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241226034617/https://www.jcp.or.jp/web_policy/2001/04/post-296.html|archive-date=2024-12-26|retrieved=2025-03-19}}</ref>
* Although the Japanese Communist Party supports the establishment of a republic, it maintains a neutral stance on the future of the Chrysanthemum Throne. Kazuo Shii, the former chairperson, remarked that the imperial system is enshrined in the Constitution, and any decision about its continuation or abolition should be made by the people's majority will when the time comes.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Japanese Communist Party|newspaper=Japan Press Weekly|title=Shii answers reporters’ questions on JCP decision to attend opening ceremony of the Diet|date=2015-12-25|url=https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=8847|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241201233119/https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=8847|archive-date=2024-12-01|retrieved=2025-03-17|quote=As to the course of development of Japanese society, the JCP Program states: The JCP maintains that the present hereditary system allowing an individual to be the symbol of “the unity of the people” contradicts democracy and the principle that all people are equal, and that the consistent implementation of the principle of popular sovereignty calls for a political system to be established under a democratic republic. The Emperor system is a system provided for by the Constitution, and its continuation or discontinuation should be decided by the will of the majority of the people in future, when the time is ripe to do so.}}</ref>
* The Japanese Communist Party is an advocate for further [[LGBT+|LGBTQ+]] rights, advocating for the legalization of same-sex marriage within Japan alongside claiming to support protection of transgender individuals within the country.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Japanese Communist Party|newspaper=Japan Press Weekly|title=JCP submits marriage equality bill to Upper House|date=2023-03-30|url=https://www.japan-press.co.jp/s/news/?id=14588|archive-url=|archive-date=2025-03-17|retrieved=2025-03-17}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Japanese Communist Party|newspaper=Japan Press Weekly|title=JCP works toward a society where transgender individuals and women can live with peace of mind|date=2023-12-26|url=https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=15020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613040028/https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=15020|archive-date=2024-06-13|retrieved=2025-03-17}}</ref> However, there have been some accusations of members' use of problematic language such as the "trans problem" to justify [[Transphobia|transphobic]] rhetoric within the party.<ref>{{Web citation|author=@es_bd_toru|newspaper=Twitter|title=es_bd_toru on X: "共産党にはトランスジェンダーの党員が既に存在するというのに、なぜかいまだに「トランス問題」などと言って差別を正当化するような党員が存在する。その方がはるかに問題だよ。" / X|date=2025-22-03|url=https://x.com/es_bd_toru/status/1903278307363488249|retrieved=2025-22-03|quote=The Communist Party already has transgender members, yet for some reason there are still party members who justify discrimination by talking of the supposed "trans problem." That's a much bigger problem.}}</ref>

=== International relations ===
The JCP, in comparison to other self-proclaimed communist parties, is very critical of [[Actually Existing Socialism|AES countries]], having even said that the [[Communist Party of China]] does not deserve to call itself communist.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=The Japan Times|title=Japanese Communist Party slams China in first platform change since 2004|date=2020-01-18|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/18/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-communist-party-china-platform/#.Xk0AOZ3P32c|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200219093018/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/18/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-communist-party-china-platform/#.Xk0AOZ3P32c|archive-date=19 February, 2020|retrieved=10 November, 2024|quote=“The Chinese leadership’s mistake is extremely serious. That action does not deserve the name of the Communist Party,” party chief Kazuo Shii said at its convention, held for the first time in three years, referring to Beijing’s expansionary activities in the East and South China seas.}}</ref>

The party also supports the [[Palestinian genocide|Jewish colonisation of Palestine]], calling for an end to [[2023 Israel-Gaza war and genocide|the genocide in Gaza]] but nonetheless upholding the existence of the [[State of Israel|Zionist Entity]], advocating for a [[two-state solution]], and denouncing Palestinian acts of resistance as a "violation of international law."<ref>{{Web citation|author=Kazuo Shii|newspaper=Japanese Communist Party|title=JCP calls on governments concerned to work to stop genocide in Gaza|date=2023-11-06|url=https://www.jcp.or.jp/english/jcpcc/blog/2023/11/20231106-gaza.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207172202/https://www.jcp.or.jp/english/jcpcc/blog/2023/11/20231106-gaza.html|archive-date=2023-12-07|retrieved=2024-11-10}}</ref>

On October 13th 2022, the JCP opposed [[Russia]] in the [[2022 Russo-Ukranian conflict|Ukraine proxy war]]. In a statement, the party supported the [[United Nations]] resolution verbatim and ''demanded'' that "Russia accept the UNGA resolution, cancel the illegal annexation, and withdraw its troops immediately, completely, and unconditionally". The condemnation statement made no mention of the [[2014 Ukrainian coup d'etat|Euromaidan]] coup, imperialist meddling in Ukraine since 2014, or the failures of Minsk I and II.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Japanese Communist Party Executive Committee Chair Shii Kazuo|title=Responding to the UNGA resolution, Russia should stop its unlawful aggression and annexation, and immediately withdraw all of its military force. The JCP calls for maximum diplomatic efforts for a peaceful political resolution|date=2022-10-13|url=https://www.jcp.or.jp/english/jcpcc/blog/2022/10/UNGA-resolution-Ukraine.html}}</ref>

== References ==
<references />
[[Category:Communist parties]]
[[Category:Socialism in Japan]]

Japanese Communist Party

2025-03-22T15:04:20Z

96.236.141.83: Updated /* Party policies */ concerning policies with clarification. I need help finding information about what the party has said about the Buraku population with evidence, however.

{{Infobox political party
|name=Japanese Communist Party
|native_name=<ruby> 日本共産党 <rp>(</rp> <rt>にほんきょうさんとう</rt><rp>)</rp>
</ruby>
|logo=File:Nihon Kyōsantō Logo.svg|logo_alt=Nihon Kyōsantō in Bold and Red.
|caption=''Nihon Kyōsantō''
|abbreviation=JCP
|chairperson=Tomoko Tamura|general_secretary=Akira Koike|predecessor=[[Enlightened People's Communist Party]]|headquarters=4-26-7 Sendagaya, Shibuya, 151-8586 Japan|newspaper=''[[Shimbun Akahata]]''
|youth_wing=Democratic Youth League of Japan|membership_year=2022
|membership=260,000<ref>{{Web citation|url=https://www.jcp.or.jp/english/what-jcp.html|title=A Profile of the Japanese Communist Party|date=November 1, 2022}}</ref>
|website=[https://jcp.or.jp jcp.or.jp]
|twitter=jcp_cc|youtube=https://www.youtube.com/@jcpmovie|facebook=https://www.facebook.com/kyosanto/|instagram=nihonkyosanto|footnotes=|colours=Red|slogan="The people are the protagonists."|seats1_title = House of Representatives
|seats1 = 10 seats out of 465 seats 
|seats2_title=House of Councilors
|seats2=11 seats out of 242 seats
|foundation={{birth date and age|1922|7|15}}
|legalized=September 2, 1945|banned=September 1929<ref>{{Web citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8IarAAAAIAAJ|title=The Japanese Communist Party 1922-1945|date=November 10, 2024}}</ref>|political_orientation=[[Marxism]] (de jure) [[Social democracy]] (de facto) [[Chauvinism]] [[Reformism]] '''Historical:''' [[Marxism-Leninism]]
|international=[[International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties|IMCWP]] (non-participant)}}
{{Communist Parties}}

The '''Japanese Communist Party''' ([[Japanese language|Japanese]] ''日本共産党''; [[Romanisation of Japanese|romanised]] ''Nihon Kyōsantō''), abbreviated '''JCP''' in [[English language|English]], is a self-proclaimed [[communist party]] in [[Japan]] founded in 1922. Despite calling itself '[[Communism|communist]]' and often being referred to as one of the largest non-governing communist parties in the world, it is a [[Reformism|reformist]] organisation with policies more closely aligned to [[social democracy]] and the [[Eurocommunism|Eurocommunist]] movement.

== History ==

=== Founding ===
The Japanese Communist Party was founded in 1922 by multiple members of the party's indirect predecessor, the Enlightened People's Communist Party, and was soon outlawed by the imperial government's Peace Preservation Law.<ref name=":0" /> [[Fukumoto Kazuo]] advocated for "unity in separation" and ideological purity, which the [[Communist International (1919–1943)|Comintern]] denounced as [[Ultra-leftism|ultra-left]] in 1927. The 1927 Comintern Theses argued that [[Empire of Japan (1868–1947)|Japan]] still needed a [[bourgeois-democratic revolution]] against the emperor and [[Landlord|landlordism]].<ref name=":1">{{Web citation|author=Gavin Walker|newspaper=[[MR Online]]|title=Marxist theory in Japan: A critical overview|date=2024-04-06|url=https://mronline.org/2024/04/06/marxist-theory-in-japan-a-critical-overview/|retrieved=2024-04-07}}</ref>

=== Fascist period ===
By the 1930s, two factions had emerged: the smaller ''Rōnō'' faction that defined the 1868 [[Meiji Restoration]] as a full bourgeois-democratic revolution and the larger ''Kōza'' faction that defined it as an incomplete [[bourgeois revolution]].<ref name=":1" /> In 1932 in [[Moscow]], [[Nosaka Sanzō]], the party's representative to the Comintern, wrote the 1932 Thesis,<ref name=":0" /> aligning with the ''Kōza'' position. Party leader [[Noro Eitarō]] completed the ''Lectures on the History of Development of Japanese Capitalism'' in 1932, aligning with the 1932 Thesis, and died in prison in 1934.<ref name=":1" />

During the [[Second World War]], Nosaka fled to [[China]] and joined the [[Chinese Red Army]] to fight against the Empire of Japan. He founded the [[Japanese People's Emancipation League]], which attracted Japanese deserters and POWs to fight for [[socialism]].<ref name=":0">{{News citation|author=Comrade Saoirse|title=The Japanese Communist Party during World War II|url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dw1ZTewxhvCkO-VDBhDeYqpvdP4oittFpyu0y24ScjQ/mobilebasic|retrieved=2022-05-15}}</ref>

=== Postwar period ===
[[Tokuda Kyūichi]], who had spent 18 years in prison under the Peace Preservation Law, became leader of the party after the war. In 1946, [[Douglas MacArthur]] began the Red Purges against the party due to its popular support. The party went underground and called for armed [[national liberation]] struggle against the USA. The party incorrectly focused on the countryside and attempted to start a [[People's war|protracted people's war]] led by the [[peasantry]].<ref name=":1" />

The JCP's Sixth Congress in 1955 rejected armed struggle and considered the return to the villages to be ultra-left [[adventurism]]. Due to its [[Reformism|reformist]] deviations, it failed to lead the 1960 [[Anpo protests]] against the USA-Japan Joint Security Treaty.<ref name=":1" />

== Positions ==

=== Party positions ===

* The Japanese Communist Party has displayed chauvinistic tendencies in terms of being against Russian control of the lower Kuril Islands, which were annexed by the Soviet Union following the Soviet-Japanese War. It views claims as illegitimate, and would come out with a statement in 2001 which would claim that Japan has historical rights to the entirety of the island chain, claiming that they were "historically part of Japan," completely ignoring the fact that the island chain is home to the Ainu ethnic group along with the eventually colonized island of Yanumosir, which would eventually become to be known as Hokkaido.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Japanese Communist Party|newspaper=Japanese Communist Party|title=森・プーチン会談と「イルクーツク声明」は何を示したか (What did the Mori-Putin meeting and the "Irkutsk Statement" show?)|date=2001-04-13|url=https://www.jcp.or.jp/web_policy/2001/04/post-296.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241226034617/https://www.jcp.or.jp/web_policy/2001/04/post-296.html|archive-date=2024-12-26|retrieved=2025-03-19}}</ref>
* Although the Japanese Communist Party supports the establishment of a republic, it maintains a neutral stance on the future of the Chrysanthemum Throne. Kazuo Shii, the former chairperson, remarked that the imperial system is enshrined in the Constitution, and any decision about its continuation or abolition should be made by the people's majority will when the time comes.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Japanese Communist Party|newspaper=Japan Press Weekly|title=Shii answers reporters’ questions on JCP decision to attend opening ceremony of the Diet|date=2015-12-25|url=https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=8847|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241201233119/https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=8847|archive-date=2024-12-01|retrieved=2025-03-17|quote=As to the course of development of Japanese society, the JCP Program states: The JCP maintains that the present hereditary system allowing an individual to be the symbol of “the unity of the people” contradicts democracy and the principle that all people are equal, and that the consistent implementation of the principle of popular sovereignty calls for a political system to be established under a democratic republic. The Emperor system is a system provided for by the Constitution, and its continuation or discontinuation should be decided by the will of the majority of the people in future, when the time is ripe to do so.}}</ref>
* The Japanese Communist Party is an advocate for further [[LGBT+|LGBTQ+]] rights, advocating for the legalization of same-sex marriage within Japan alongside claiming to support protection of transgender individuals within the country.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Japanese Communist Party|newspaper=Japan Press Weekly|title=JCP submits marriage equality bill to Upper House|date=2023-03-30|url=https://www.japan-press.co.jp/s/news/?id=14588|archive-url=|archive-date=2025-03-17|retrieved=2025-03-17}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Japanese Communist Party|newspaper=Japan Press Weekly|title=JCP works toward a society where transgender individuals and women can live with peace of mind|date=2023-12-26|url=https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=15020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613040028/https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=15020|archive-date=2024-06-13|retrieved=2025-03-17}}</ref> However, there have been some accusations of members' use of problematic language such as the "trans problem" to justify [[Transphobia|transphobic]] rhetoric within the party.<ref>{{Web citation|author=@es_bd_toru|newspaper=Twitter|title=es_bd_toru on X: "共産党にはトランスジェンダーの党員が既に存在するというのに、なぜかいまだに「トランス問題」などと言って差別を正当化するような党員が存在する。その方がはるかに問題だよ。" / X|date=2025-22-03|url=https://x.com/es_bd_toru/status/1903278307363488249|retrieved=2025-22-03|quote=The Communist Party already has transgender members, yet for some reason there are still party members who justify discrimination by talking of the supposed "trans problem." That's a much bigger problem.}}</ref>

=== International relations ===
The JCP, in comparison to other self-proclaimed communist parties, is very critical of [[Actually Existing Socialism|AES countries]], having even said that the [[Communist Party of China]] does not deserve to call itself communist.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=The Japan Times|title=Japanese Communist Party slams China in first platform change since 2004|date=2020-01-18|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/18/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-communist-party-china-platform/#.Xk0AOZ3P32c|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200219093018/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/18/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-communist-party-china-platform/#.Xk0AOZ3P32c|archive-date=19 February, 2020|retrieved=10 November, 2024|quote=“The Chinese leadership’s mistake is extremely serious. That action does not deserve the name of the Communist Party,” party chief Kazuo Shii said at its convention, held for the first time in three years, referring to Beijing’s expansionary activities in the East and South China seas.}}</ref>

The party also supports the [[Palestinian genocide|Jewish colonisation of Palestine]], calling for an end to [[2023 Israel-Gaza war and genocide|the genocide in Gaza]] but nonetheless upholding the existence of the [[State of Israel|Zionist Entity]], advocating for a [[two-state solution]], and denouncing Palestinian acts of resistance as a "violation of international law."<ref>{{Web citation|author=Kazuo Shii|newspaper=Japanese Communist Party|title=JCP calls on governments concerned to work to stop genocide in Gaza|date=2023-11-06|url=https://www.jcp.or.jp/english/jcpcc/blog/2023/11/20231106-gaza.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207172202/https://www.jcp.or.jp/english/jcpcc/blog/2023/11/20231106-gaza.html|archive-date=2023-12-07|retrieved=2024-11-10}}</ref>

On October 13th 2022, the JCP opposed [[Russia]] in the [[2022 Russo-Ukranian conflict|Ukraine proxy war]]. In a statement, the party supported the [[United Nations]] resolution verbatim and ''demanded'' that "Russia accept the UNGA resolution, cancel the illegal annexation, and withdraw its troops immediately, completely, and unconditionally". The condemnation statement made no mention of the [[2014 Ukrainian coup d'etat|Euromaidan]] coup, imperialist meddling in Ukraine since 2014, or the failures of Minsk I and II.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Japanese Communist Party Executive Committee Chair Shii Kazuo|title=Responding to the UNGA resolution, Russia should stop its unlawful aggression and annexation, and immediately withdraw all of its military force. The JCP calls for maximum diplomatic efforts for a peaceful political resolution|date=2022-10-13|url=https://www.jcp.or.jp/english/jcpcc/blog/2022/10/UNGA-resolution-Ukraine.html}}</ref>

== References ==
<references />
[[Category:Communist parties]]
[[Category:Socialism in Japan]]

Japanese Communist Party

2025-03-19T19:26:50Z

96.236.141.83: Added more information, I gotta go so I really can't provide details rn.

{{Infobox political party
|name=Japanese Communist Party
|native_name=<ruby> 日本共産党 <rp>(</rp> <rt>にほんきょうさんとう</rt><rp>)</rp>
</ruby>
|logo=File:Nihon Kyōsantō Logo.svg|logo_alt=Nihon Kyōsantō in Bold and Red.
|caption=''Nihon Kyōsantō''
|abbreviation=JCP
|chairperson=Tomoko Tamura|general_secretary=Akira Koike|predecessor=[[Enlightened People's Communist Party]]|headquarters=4-26-7 Sendagaya, Shibuya, 151-8586 Japan|newspaper=''[[Shimbun Akahata]]''
|youth_wing=Democratic Youth League of Japan|membership_year=2022
|membership=260,000<ref>{{Web citation|url=https://www.jcp.or.jp/english/what-jcp.html|title=A Profile of the Japanese Communist Party|date=November 1, 2022}}</ref>
|website=[https://jcp.or.jp jcp.or.jp]
|twitter=jcp_cc|youtube=https://www.youtube.com/@jcpmovie|facebook=https://www.facebook.com/kyosanto/|instagram=nihonkyosanto|footnotes=|colours=Red|slogan="The people are the protagonists."|seats1_title = House of Representatives
|seats1 = 10 seats out of 465 seats 
|seats2_title=House of Councilors
|seats2=11 seats out of 242 seats
|foundation={{birth date and age|1922|7|15}}
|legalized=September 2, 1945|banned=September 1929<ref>{{Web citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8IarAAAAIAAJ|title=The Japanese Communist Party 1922-1945|date=November 10, 2024}}</ref>|political_orientation=[[Marxism]] (de jure) [[Social democracy]] (de facto) [[Chauvinism]] [[Reformism]] '''Historical:''' [[Marxism-Leninism]]
|international=[[International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties|IMCWP]] (non-participant)}}
{{Communist Parties}}

The '''Japanese Communist Party'''<ref group=lower-alpha>''Japanese: 日本共産党''</ref> ('''JCP''') is a self-proclaimed communist party in [[Japan]] that was founded in 1922. Despite its claims of being a communist party, its policies are more oriented towards achieving social democracy, and a lot of policies within the party could be considered similar to the [[Eurocommunist]] movement. It is one of the largest non-governing political parties in the world which considers itself communist.

On October 13th 2022, the JCP opposed [[Russia]] in the [[2022 Russo-Ukranian conflict|Ukraine proxy war]].<ref>{{Web citation|url=https://www.jcp.or.jp/english/jcpcc/blog/2022/10/UNGA-resolution-Ukraine.html|title=Responding to the UNGA resolution, Russia should stop its unlawful aggression and annexation, and immediately withdraw all of its military force. The JCP calls for maximum diplomatic efforts for a peaceful political resolution|author=Japanese Communist Party Executive Committee Chair Shii Kazuo|date=2022-10-13}}</ref>

== History ==

=== Founding ===
The Japanese Communist Party was founded in 1922 by multiple members of the party's indirect predecessor, the Enlightened People's Communist Party, and was soon outlawed by the imperial government's Peace Preservation Law.<ref name=":0" /> [[Fukumoto Kazuo]] advocated for "unity in separation" and ideological purity, which the [[Communist International (1919–1943)|Comintern]] denounced as [[Ultra-leftism|ultra-left]] in 1927. The 1927 Comintern Theses argued that [[Empire of Japan (1868–1947)|Japan]] still needed a [[bourgeois-democratic revolution]] against the emperor and [[Landlord|landlordism]].<ref name=":1">{{Web citation|author=Gavin Walker|newspaper=[[MR Online]]|title=Marxist theory in Japan: A critical overview|date=2024-04-06|url=https://mronline.org/2024/04/06/marxist-theory-in-japan-a-critical-overview/|retrieved=2024-04-07}}</ref>

=== Fascist period ===
By the 1930s, two factions had emerged: the smaller ''Rōnō'' faction that defined the 1868 [[Meiji Restoration]] as a full bourgeois-democratic revolution and the larger ''Kōza'' faction that defined it as an incomplete [[bourgeois revolution]].<ref name=":1" /> In 1932 in [[Moscow]], [[Nosaka Sanzō]], the party's representative to the Comintern, wrote the 1932 Thesis,<ref name=":0" /> aligning with the ''Kōza'' position. Party leader [[Noro Eitarō]] completed the ''Lectures on the History of Development of Japanese Capitalism'' in 1932, aligning with the 1932 Thesis, and died in prison in 1934.<ref name=":1" />

During the [[Second World War]], Nosaka fled to [[China]] and joined the [[Chinese Red Army]] to fight against the Empire of Japan. He founded the [[Japanese People's Emancipation League]], which attracted Japanese deserters and POWs to fight for [[socialism]].<ref name=":0">{{News citation|author=Comrade Saoirse|title=The Japanese Communist Party during World War II|url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dw1ZTewxhvCkO-VDBhDeYqpvdP4oittFpyu0y24ScjQ/mobilebasic|retrieved=2022-05-15}}</ref>

=== Postwar period ===
[[Tokuda Kyūichi]], who had spent 18 years in prison under the Peace Preservation Law, became leader of the party after the war. In 1946, [[Douglas MacArthur]] began the Red Purges against the party due to its popular support. The party went underground and called for armed [[national liberation]] struggle against the USA. The party incorrectly focused on the countryside and attempted to start a [[People's war|protracted people's war]] led by the [[peasantry]].<ref name=":1" />

The JCP's Sixth Congress in 1955 rejected armed struggle and considered the return to the villages to be ultra-left [[adventurism]]. Due to its [[Reformism|reformist]] deviations, it failed to lead the 1960 [[Anpo protests]] against the USA-Japan Joint Security Treaty.<ref name=":1" />

== Positions ==

=== Party positions ===

* The Japanese Communist Party has displayed chauvinistic tendencies in terms of being against Russian control of the lower Kuril Islands, which were annexed by the Soviet Union following the Soviet-Japanese War. It views claims as illegitimate, and would come out with a statement in 2001 which would claim that Japan has historical rights to the entirety of the island chain, claiming that they were "historically part of Japan," completely ignoring the fact that the island chain is home to the Ainu ethnic group along with the eventually colonized island of Yanumosir, which would eventually become to be known as Hokkaido.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Japanese Communist Party|newspaper=Japanese Communist Party|title=森・プーチン会談と「イルクーツク声明」は何を示したか (What did the Mori-Putin meeting and the "Irkutsk Statement" show?)|date=2001-04-13|url=https://www.jcp.or.jp/web_policy/2001/04/post-296.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241226034617/https://www.jcp.or.jp/web_policy/2001/04/post-296.html|archive-date=2024-12-26|retrieved=2025-03-19}}</ref>
* Although the Japanese Communist Party supports the establishment of a republic, it maintains a neutral stance on the future of the Chrysanthemum Throne. Kazuo Shii, the former chairperson, remarked that the imperial system is enshrined in the Constitution, and any decision about its continuation or abolition should be made by the people's majority will when the time comes.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Japanese Communist Party|newspaper=Japan Press Weekly|title=Shii answers reporters’ questions on JCP decision to attend opening ceremony of the Diet|date=2015-12-25|url=https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=8847|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241201233119/https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=8847|archive-date=2024-12-01|retrieved=2025-03-17|quote=As to the course of development of Japanese society, the JCP Program states: The JCP maintains that the present hereditary system allowing an individual to be the symbol of “the unity of the people” contradicts democracy and the principle that all people are equal, and that the consistent implementation of the principle of popular sovereignty calls for a political system to be established under a democratic republic. The Emperor system is a system provided for by the Constitution, and its continuation or discontinuation should be decided by the will of the majority of the people in future, when the time is ripe to do so.}}</ref>
* The Japanese Communist Party is an advocate for further LGBTQ+ rights, advocating for the legalization of same-sex marriage within Japan alongside supporting protection of transgender individuals within the country.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Japanese Communist Party|newspaper=Japan Press Weekly|title=JCP submits marriage equality bill to Upper House|date=2023-03-30|url=https://www.japan-press.co.jp/s/news/?id=14588|archive-url=|archive-date=2025-03-17|retrieved=2025-03-17}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Japanese Communist Party|newspaper=Japan Press Weekly|title=JCP works toward a society where transgender individuals and women can live with peace of mind|date=2023-12-26|url=https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=15020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613040028/https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=15020|archive-date=2024-06-13|retrieved=2025-03-17}}</ref>

=== International relations ===
The JCP, in comparison to other self-proclaimed communist parties, is very critical of [[Actually Existing Socialism|AES countries]], even going to say that the [[Communist Party of China]] does not deserve to call itself communist.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=The Japan Times|title=Japanese Communist Party slams China in first platform change since 2004|date=2020-01-18|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/18/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-communist-party-china-platform/#.Xk0AOZ3P32c|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200219093018/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/18/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-communist-party-china-platform/#.Xk0AOZ3P32c|archive-date=19 February, 2020|retrieved=10 November, 2024|quote=“The Chinese leadership’s mistake is extremely serious. That action does not deserve the name of the Communist Party,” party chief Kazuo Shii said at its convention, held for the first time in three years, referring to Beijing’s expansionary activities in the East and South China seas.}}</ref>

It also currently maintains a position of maintaining support for the two-state solution concerning the [[2023 Israel-Gaza war and genocide]], calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza while advocating for the existence of the Zionist Entity.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Kazuo Shii|newspaper=Japanese Communist Party|title=JCP calls on governments concerned to work to stop genocide in Gaza|date=2023-11-06|url=https://www.jcp.or.jp/english/jcpcc/blog/2023/11/20231106-gaza.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207172202/https://www.jcp.or.jp/english/jcpcc/blog/2023/11/20231106-gaza.html|archive-date=2023-12-07|retrieved=2024-11-10}}</ref>

== References ==
<references />

===Notes===
<references group=lower-alpha />
[[Category:Communist parties]]
[[Category:Socialism in Japan]]

Yamagami Tetsuya

2024-11-20T03:07:28Z

96.236.141.83: Fixed Kanji for "Unification Church" (Used simplified form instead of Shinjitai form,) fixed some punctuation, added information about his time in the JSDF.

{{Infobox person|name=Yamagami Tetsuya|native_name=山上徹也（やまがみてつや）|image=山上徹也.jpg|birth_date=10 September 1980 (aged 42)|known=Assassination of [[Shinzo Abe]]|nationality=[[Japanese]]}}

Yamagami Tetsuya (山上徹也) is a [[Japan|Japanese]]-born criminal, who rose to international fame when he murdered former [[Japan|Japanese]] Prime Minister [[Shinzo Abe]] in July 2022.

Yamagami served within the Japan Self-Defense Forces under the maritime forces from 2002-2005.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Tim Kelly|newspaper=Reuters|title=Abe killer wielded homemade gun, grudge over mother's financial ruin, police say|date=2022-07-09|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/abe-killer-wielded-homemade-gun-grudge-over-mothers-bankruptcy-police-say-2022-07-09/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220709162009/https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/abe-killer-wielded-homemade-gun-grudge-over-mothers-bankruptcy-police-say-2022-07-09/|archive-date=2022-07-09|retrieved=2024-11-19|quote=A person named Tetsuya Yamagami served in the Maritime Self-Defence Force from 2002 to 2005, a spokesman for Japan's navy said, declining to say whether this was the suspected killer, as media have reported.}}</ref>

== Death of Shinzo Abe ==
Abe had ties to the cult known as the [[Unification Church]] (統一教), accepting donations and providing political patronage to the cult. Yamagami's mother, who was an integrated member of the cult, gave the Unification Church a lot of [[money]] and even sold her house. On July 7, 2022, when Abe was giving a speech in [[Okayama]] City, Yamagami shot and killed Abe with a homemade shotgun. His assassination has excited many [[China|Chinese]] and [[Korea|Koreans]].<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=CGTN|title=Live: Former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe was shot in the chest during Friday's speech|date=2022-7-7|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_UC5jDrxuY|retrieved=2022-8-11}}</ref>

== References ==
<references />
[[Category:Assassins]]

Laowhy86

2024-11-17T03:43:21Z

96.236.141.83: Fixed some spelling mistakes and added information about his grave desecration antics in 2013.

'''Matthew Tye''', also known as '''Laowhy86''', is a [[Statesian]] [[Neoliberalism|neoliberal]] and [[Anti-communism|anti-communist]] propagandist who had formerly lived within the [[People's Republic of China|PRC]] as an expatriate. His YouTube channel, although initially meant to log his daily life while living within the PRC, nowadays is largely focused on spreading anti-PRC lies and [[Conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]].<ref>{{News citation|newspaper=Youtube|title=Laowhy86|url=https://www.youtube.com/c/laowhy86/featured|retrieved=2022-7-7}}</ref>

On 10 February 2013, Tye would post a video of him desecrating a grave site in [[Taiwan Province]], where he would tell his wife to not talk while doing the act as she cried for him to stop and leave the site alone after discovering it.<ref>{{Video citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7hyHsbGhrc|channel=laowhy86|title=China from My Eyes - I found dead people in Taiwan|date=2013-2-10}}</ref>

== See also ==

* [[China Uncensored]]
* [[Radio Free Asia]]

== References ==
<references />

Japanese Communist Party

2024-11-10T21:29:18Z

96.236.141.83: Added information in /*Positions*/.

{{Infobox political party
|name=Japanese Communist Party
|native_name=日本共産党
|logo=File:Nihon Kyōsantō Logo.svg|logo_alt=Nihon Kyōsantō in Bold and Red.
|caption=''Nihon Kyōsantō''
|abbreviation=JCP
|chairperson=Tomoko Tamura|general_secretary=Akira Koike|headquarters=4-26-7 Sendagaya, Shibuya, 151-8586 Japan|newspaper=''[[Shimbun Akahata]]''
|youth_wing=Democratic Youth League of Japan|membership_year=2022
|membership=260,000<ref>{{Web citation|url=https://www.jcp.or.jp/english/what-jcp.html|title=A Profile of the Japanese Communist Party|date=November 1, 2022}}</ref>
|website=[https://jcp.or.jp jcp.or.jp]
|twitter=jcp_cc|youtube=https://www.youtube.com/@jcpmovie|footnotes=|seats1_title = House of Representatives
|seats1 = 10 seats out of 465 seats 
|seats2_title=House of Councilors
|seats2=11 seats out of 242 seats
|foundation={{birth date and age|1922|7|15}}
|legalized=September 2, 1945|banned=September 1929<ref>{{Web citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8IarAAAAIAAJ|title=The Japanese Communist Party 1922-1945|date=November 10, 2024}}</ref>|political_orientation=[[Marxism]] (claimed) [[Social democracy]] (de facto) [[Monarchism]]
}}
{{Communist Parties}}

The '''Japanese Communist Party'''<ref group=lower-alpha>''Japanese: 日本共産党''</ref> ('''JCP''') is a self-proclaimed communist party in [[Japan]] that was founded in 1922. Currently, it's policies are more oriented towards achieving social democracy, advocating for ceremonial monarchism. It is one of the largest non-governing political parties in the world which considers itself communist.

On October 13th 2022, the JCP opposed [[Russia]] in the [[2022 Russo-Ukranian conflict|Ukraine proxy war]].<ref>{{Web citation|url=https://www.jcp.or.jp/english/jcpcc/blog/2022/10/UNGA-resolution-Ukraine.html|title=Responding to the UNGA resolution, Russia should stop its unlawful aggression and annexation, and immediately withdraw all of its military force. The JCP calls for maximum diplomatic efforts for a peaceful political resolution|author=Japanese Communist Party Executive Committee Chair Shii Kazuo|date=2022-10-13}}</ref>

== History ==

=== Founding ===
The Japanese Communist Party was founded in 1922 and was soon outlawed by the imperial government's Peace Preservation Law.<ref name=":0" /> [[Fukumoto Kazuo]] advocated for "unity in separation" and ideological purity, which the [[Communist International (1919–1943)|Comintern]] denounced as [[Ultra-leftism|ultra-left]] in 1927. The 1927 Comintern Theses argued that [[Empire of Japan (1868–1947)|Japan]] still needed a [[bourgeois-democratic revolution]] against the emperor and [[Landlord|landlordism]].<ref name=":1">{{Web citation|author=Gavin Walker|newspaper=[[MR Online]]|title=Marxist theory in Japan: A critical overview|date=2024-04-06|url=https://mronline.org/2024/04/06/marxist-theory-in-japan-a-critical-overview/|retrieved=2024-04-07}}</ref>

=== Fascist period ===
By the 1930s, two factions had emerged: the smaller ''Rōnō'' faction that defined the 1868 [[Meiji Restoration]] as a full bourgeois-democratic revolution and the larger ''Kōza'' faction that defined it as an incomplete [[bourgeois revolution]].<ref name=":1" /> In 1932 in [[Moscow]], [[Nosaka Sanzō]], the party's representative to the Comintern, wrote the 1932 Thesis,<ref name=":0" /> aligning with the ''Kōza'' position. Party leader [[Noro Eitarō]] completed the ''Lectures on the History of Development of Japanese Capitalism'' in 1932, aligning with the 1932 Thesis, and died in prison in 1934.<ref name=":1" />

During the [[Second World War]], Nosaka fled to [[China]] and joined the [[Chinese Red Army]] to fight against the Empire of Japan. He founded the [[Japanese People's Emancipation League]], which attracted Japanese deserters and POWs to fight for [[socialism]].<ref name=":0">{{News citation|author=Comrade Saoirse|title=The Japanese Communist Party during World War II|url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dw1ZTewxhvCkO-VDBhDeYqpvdP4oittFpyu0y24ScjQ/mobilebasic|retrieved=2022-05-15}}</ref>

=== Postwar period ===
[[Tokuda Kyūichi]], who had spent 18 years in prison under the Peace Preservation Law, became leader of the party after the war. In 1946, [[Douglas MacArthur]] began the Red Purges against the party due to its popular support. The party went underground and called for armed [[national liberation]] struggle against the USA. The party incorrectly focused on the countryside and attempted to start a [[People's war|protracted people's war]] led by the [[peasantry]].<ref name=":1" />

The JCP's Sixth Congress in 1955 rejected armed struggle and considered the return to the villages to be ultra-left [[adventurism]]. Due to its [[Reformism|reformist]] deviations, it failed to lead the 1960 [[Anpo protests]] against the USA-Japan Joint Security Treaty.<ref name=":1" />

== Positions ==

=== International relations ===
The JCP, in comparison to other self-proclaimed communist parties, is very critical of [[Actually Existing Socialism|AES countries]], even going to say that the [[Communist Party of China]] does not deserve to call itself communist<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=The Japan Times|title=Japanese Communist Party slams China in first platform change since 2004|date=2020-01-18|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/18/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-communist-party-china-platform/#.Xk0AOZ3P32c|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200219093018/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/18/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-communist-party-china-platform/#.Xk0AOZ3P32c|archive-date=19 February, 2020|retrieved=10 November, 2024|quote=“The Chinese leadership’s mistake is extremely serious. That action does not deserve the name of the Communist Party,” party chief Kazuo Shii said at its convention, held for the first time in three years, referring to Beijing’s expansionary activities in the East and South China seas.}}</ref>.

It also currently maintains a position of maintaining support for the two-state solution concerning the [[2023 Israel-Gaza war and genocide]], calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza while advocating for the existence of the Zionist Entity.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Kazuo Shii|newspaper=Japanese Communist Party|title=JCP calls on governments concerned to work to stop genocide in Gaza|date=2023-11-06|url=https://www.jcp.or.jp/english/jcpcc/blog/2023/11/20231106-gaza.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207172202/https://www.jcp.or.jp/english/jcpcc/blog/2023/11/20231106-gaza.html|archive-date=2023-12-07|retrieved=2024-11-10}}</ref>

=== Party program ===
The JCP's current program, created in 2004 and updated in 2020, outlines the following:

* Guaranteed protection against abusive business practices
* To not revise Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, advocating for pacifism
* Rid Japan of nuclear weapons and nuclear power

Concerning international relations, the program says as so:

* Maintain an independent position concerning international relations
* To break away from the Japanese military alliance with the United States
* Strongly condemn Russia in the Ukraine proxy war.
* Apologize for atrocities committed during World War 2 by the Empire of Japan
* Work to regain the Kuril Islands, Habomai, and Shikotan Islands, claiming it as Japan's historical territory despite the fact that the Ainu inhabited them long before Japan had took them over
* Control of transnational corporations
* Active engagement in international aid, aiming to prevent poverty and starvation
* Aim for pacifism between nations and the promotion of diversity.

== References ==
<references />

===Notes===
<references group=lower-alpha />
[[Category:Communist parties]]
[[Category:Socialism in Japan]]

Japanese Communist Party

2024-11-10T16:49:11Z

96.236.141.83: Added more information on the JCP. Positions need to be worked on.

Patriotic socialism

2024-07-22T20:49:55Z

96.236.141.83: Added information on the American Communist Party. Thanks to CriticalResist for helping with it! -_<

[[File:Haz speaking at CPI 2022.webp|thumb|416x416px|Haz (of [[Infrared]]) speaking in front of an [[Abraham Lincoln]] cutout at [[Center for Political Innovation]] general assembly in 2022.]]
'''Patriotic socialism''' (abbreviated '''Patsoc''') is an [[Opportunism|opportunist]] and [[Revisionism|revisionist]] movement, born in the [[United States of America|United States]], that advocates for [[patriotism]] within the [[imperial core]]. It is distinct from patriotism within [[Anti-imperialism|anti-imperialist]], [[Colonialism|colonized]], and [[Socialism|socialist]] countries. Patriotic socialism has grown to become its own strand of "socialist" theory, especially within the Communist movement in the United States. However, this trend is wholly different from "patriotism as applied to socialism". The confusion however is often exploited by followers of this ideology so as to associate themselves with more progressive (and successful) patriotic movements, such as are seen in the [[State of Palestine|Palestinian]] struggle or in [[Mao Zedong|Mao]]'s [[People's Republic of China|People's Republic China]].

It should be noted that the name ''patriotic socialism'' was also coined by its followers and remains the name they prefer to be called, thus marking a clear difference with ''socialist patriotism'' or other similar terms.

The people who are commonly associated as current leaders of patriotic socialism include [[Haz]], [[Caleb Maupin]], and [[Jackson Hinkle]].<ref name=":0">[https://regenerationmag.org/american-patriotism-or-national-liberation/ American Patriotism or National Liberation?]</ref><ref name=":2">[https://www.socialist.net/left-patriotism-an-opportunist-disorder.htm 'Left patriotism': An opportunist disorder]</ref><ref name=":1">{{Web citation|author=[[Infrared]]|newspaper=Youtube|title=Socialist Patriotism: America vs. America|date=2022-10-26|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eveOKE4Ones&t=915s|retrieved=2022-10-3}}</ref>

== Origin ==
Patriotic socialism originated from the [[American exceptionalism]] of [[Jay Lovestone]], the leader of a rightist faction in the [[Communist Party of the United States of America|CPUSA]] during the 1920s. He believed that [[capitalism]] was so strong in the United States that a revolution would be impossible and encouraged passively waiting for capitalism to decline.<ref name=":3">{{Web citation|author=Gaius Gracchus|newspaper=[[The Red Clarion]]|title=A True Accounting of the CPUSA In Its Members Own Words|date=2024-02-22|url=https://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/2024-02-22-cpusa-hypocrisy/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240301215326/https://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/2024-02-22-cpusa-hypocrisy/|archive-date=2024-03-01}}</ref>

After the [[Communist International (1919–1943)|Comintern]] purged Lovestone, [[Earl Browder]] took control of the party. During the 1930s, he called for a [[united front]] with the [[bourgeoisie]] and claimed that "[[Communism]] is 20th-century Americanism." In 1944, he dissolved the CPUSA, but the [[French Communist Party]] intervened to reestablish the party the next year. The 1957 party convention argued for a [[Reformism|gradual and peaceful transition]] to [[socialism]] and encouraged the CPUSA to support progressive [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] campaigns. It also rejected [[self-determination]] for the [[Black Belt]].<ref name=":3" />

==Positions==
Patriotic socialism is a rapidly evolving ideology, and as a consequence of the disorganization and cliquishness among is adherents, may change its appearance quickly and often as needed, and often lacks any sort of commonly-agreed upon theory or principles that go beyond a few basic tenets.

For instance, the patriotic socialist collective [[Infrared]] published a manifesto presenting ''[[MAGACommunism|MAGAcommunism]]'' in September 2022 as their official ideology. It should be noted that the [[Center for Political Innovation]] dissolved a month prior the publishing of this essay due to allegations of abuse brought up by members against Caleb Maupin.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Haz Al-Din|newspaper=[[Infrared]]|title=THE RISE OF MAGA COMMUNISM|date=2022-9-18|url=https://showinfrared.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-maga-communism?sd=pf|retrieved=2022-9-22}}</ref>

Other general positions can similarly be identified. Patriotic socialists advocate for an alliance with, and indeed commonly tail the interests and ideological tendency of, the [[petty bourgeoisie]] (whom they conflate with the [[proletariat]]).<ref>{{Web citation|author=[[Infrared]]|newspaper=Youtube|title=Rise of the Mecha-Tankies|date=2022-7-19|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPojH2KtLks|retrieved=2022-10-3}}</ref> They further tend to promote [[Aleksandr Dugin|Dugin]] and [[Lyndon LaRouche|LaRouche]] to their followers and align with them; two [[Anti-communism|anti-communist]], quasi-[[Fascism|fascist]] and [[Mysticism|mystic]] writers. They also align with [[right-wing]] [[Populism|populist]] protest movements, such as the Tea Party movement, or the [[2022 Truckers' Protest|2022 Trucker protests]].

Several patriotic socialists were very vocal about the 2022 Cuban constitutional referendum that abolished the monopoly of the nuclear family and recognized many other forms of family. They decried it as "degeneracy" and considered Cuba to no longer be socialist. This indicates a large share of chauvinist and reactionary opinions in the movement that are not being addressed.

Finally, they wholly reject [[decolonization]] in the United States, holding instead that if workers are liberated, it would include Native and minority workers too.<ref name=":1" />

==Praxis==
Patriotic socialism, even after several years of existence, is a movement that remains almost entirely online, focusing on the of social media to create virality and thus visibility.

Patriotic socialists initially had yet to form a political party, instead promoting the ''CPUSA 2036'' slogan: an attempt at infiltrating the [[Communist Party of the United States of America|Communist Party of the USA]] and winning the 2036 presidential election through it.

On 21 July 2024, Haz, along with several other figures such as Jackson Hinkle and Noah, Edward and Carlos from Midwestern Marx would release a declaration for the creation of a supposed new political party, the American Communist Party.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Haz Al-Din, Kyle Pettis, Rev Laskaris, Noah Khrachvik, Christopher Helali, Carlos Garrido, Eddie "Liger" Smith, Jackson Hinkle, Henry Ahmad, Grayson Pieutz|newspaper=American Communist Party|title=Declaration of the American Communist Party|date=2024-07-21|url=https://acp.us/declaration|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240722075743/https://acp.us/declaration|archive-date=2024-07-22|retrieved=2024-07-22}}</ref> The statement notably ended with the implication that several CPUSA clubs had signed off on the statement, but most of those clubs publicly denied any involvement with the ACP via [[Twitter]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=@red_help_atx|newspaper=Twitter|title=We did not sign this...|date=2022-07-21|url=https://x.com/red_help_atx/status/1815178383883452574|retrieved=2022-07-22}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=@AlbanyNY_CPUSA|newspaper=Twitter|title=We're not going to quote...|date=2024-07-21|url=https://x.com/AlbanyNY_CPUSA/status/1815200821144883350|retrieved=2024-07-22|quote=}}</ref>

Patriotic socialists tend to attack the left—including the projects and efforts of communists and [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist-Leninists]], particularly when it is internet-based, but almost never the right. In fact, they often agree with conservatives and boost their message.

== Marxist views on patriotism and nationalism ==
[[Mao Zedong|Mao]] only supported patriotism for [[Anti-imperialism|anti-imperialist]] or [[Colonialism|colonized]] countries. An example of this tactic is [[Republic of China|China]]'s United Front against [[Empire of Japan (1868–1947)|Japanese]] imperialism. Mao condemned patriotism for imperialist [[Fascism|fascist]] countries like [[German Reich (1933–1945)|Germany]] and Japan:

{{Quote|Can a Communist, who is an [[proletarian internationalism|internationalist]], at the same time be a patriot? We hold that he not only can be but must be. The specific content of patriotism is determined by historical conditions. There is the "patriotism" of the Japanese aggressors and of [[Hitler]], and there is our patriotism. Communists must resolutely oppose the "patriotism" of the Japanese aggressors and of Hitler. The Communists of Japan and Germany are defeatists with regard to the wars being waged by their countries. To bring about the defeat of the Japanese aggressors and of Hitler by every possible means is in the interests of the Japanese and the German people, and the more complete the defeat the better. This is what the [[Japanese Communist Party|Japanese]] and [[Communist Party of Germany|German Communists]] should be doing and what they are doing. For the wars launched by the Japanese aggressors and Hitler are harming their own people as well as the people of the world. China's case is different, because she is the victim of aggression. Chinese Communists must therefore combine patriotism with internationalism.|[[Mao Zedong]]|[https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_10.htm The Role of the Communist Party of China in the National War]|October 1938}}

Lenin also opposed patriotism and [[nationalism]] for oppressor nations and called for [[self-determination]] for oppressed nations:

{{Quote|Consequently, the interests of the Great-Russian proletariat require that the masses be systematically educated to champion—most resolutely, consistently, boldly and in a revolutionary manner—complete equality and the right to self-determination for all the nations oppressed by the Great Russians.|[[Vladimir Lenin]]|[https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/dec/12a.htm On the National Pride of the Great Russians]|1914}}

[[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] stated that nationalism is not inherently good or bad and that Marxists should only support national movements that weaken imperialism and not those that strengthen it:

{{Quote|This does not mean, of course, that the [[proletariat]] must support every national movement, everywhere and always, in every individual concrete case. It means that support must be given to such national movements as tend to weaken, to overthrow imperialism, and not to strengthen and preserve it. Cases occur when the national movements in certain oppressed countries came into conflict with the interests of the development of the proletarian movement. In such cases support is, of course, entirely out of the question. The question of the rights of nations is not an isolated, self-sufficient question; it is a part of the general problem of the proletarian revolution, subordinate to the whole, and must be considered from the point of view of the whole. In the forties of the last century [[Marx]] supported the national movement of the [[Poland|Poles]] and [[Hungary|Hungarians]] and was opposed to the national movement of the [[Czechia|Czechs]] and the South Slavs. Why? Because the Czechs and the South Slavs were then "reactionary peoples," "[[Russian Empire (1721–1917)|Russian]] outposts" in Europe, outposts of [[absolutism]]; whereas the Poles and the Hungarians were "revolutionary peoples," fighting against absolutism.|[[Joseph Stalin]]|[https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/ch06.htm The Foundations of Leninism: The National Question]|1924}}

==See also==

*[[National Bolshevism]]
*[[Welfare Chauvinism]]
*[[Strasserism]]
*[[Fascism]]

==References==
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[[Category:Far-right groups in the United States]]
[[Category:Reactionaries]]
[[Category:Right-wing ideologies]]

Revolutionary Communist International

2024-07-15T23:26:27Z

96.236.141.83: Accurately updated article to reflect the IMT's rebranding. It's logo and page name needs to be changed to reflect the changes.

{{Infobox political party|name=Revolutionary Communist International|logo=Logo IMT.svg|founded=1992|abbreviation=RCI|leader=[[Alan Woods]]|founder=[[Ted Grant]]|political_orientation=[[Trotskyism]]|website=www.marxist.com}}{{Trotskyism}}

The '''Revolutionary Communist International''' (RCI), formerly known as the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) is a [[Trotskyism|Trotskyist]] political international founded after [[Ted Grant]] and his followers broke from the [[Committee for a Workers' International]]. The RCI is active in over 40 countries. The RCI shares many similarities with a [[cult]] and engages in cult-building tactics to grow its influence.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Katsfoter|newspaper=Red Clarion|title=The Cult-Building Tendency|date=2024-04-02|url=https://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/2024-04-02-the-cult-building-tendency/}}</ref>

== Sections ==

* [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|UK]] - [[Socialist Appeal]] is the British section of the IMT, which renamed itself the Revolutionary Communist Party following the IMT's name change to the RCI.
* [[United States of America|USA]] - Revolutionary Communists of America is the Statesian section of the RCI.

== References ==
<references />
[[Category:Trotskyist organisations]]

Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea

2024-06-20T21:48:54Z

96.236.141.83: Updated information on page in order to be more accurate to the current state of the DFRK.

The '''Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea''' was a three party coalition (with more non-governmental organisations) existing in the [[Democratic People's Republic of Korea]]. The front was formed on 22 July 1946 and would officially be dissolved on 23 March 2024 following the abandonment of peaceful reunification following a revised stance on reunification by Kim Jong-un, which would officially lead to the coalition's eventual disbandment.

The parties and organisations that had formed the coalition during it's existence are as follows:
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Party/Organisation
!Seats in the [[Supreme People's Assembly]]
|-
|[[Workers' Party of Korea]]
|607/687
|-
|[[Korean Social Democratic Party]]
|50/687
|-
|[[Chondoist Chongu Party]]
|22/687
|-
|[[Ch'ongryŏn]]
|6/687
|}