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Dogs On Acid
13th March 2012, 00:16
After looking it up in Wikipedia, I learned that Cyprus' President is a Communist, and their second strongest party is the Progressive Party of Working People (Marxist-Leninist).

What is the current leftist situation there?
The CPSU Chairman
13th March 2012, 06:26
Christofias will be Cyprus's first communist president and the only one in the 27-member EU. Although proud to be a communist, he says he will leave the free market economy alone.

His AKEL party boasts busts of Lenin and red flags at its headquarters but it also owns a number of large businesses on the island. It has been instrumental in electing presidents but had never fielded its own candidate.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2008/02/24/uk-cyprus-election-idUKL2442130720080224?sp=true

In other words, he's not a Communist and his party is not Communist any more than Hu Jintao and the Chinese Communist Party are Communists. Just another typical liberal European Social Democratic party waving meaningless red flags.
Dogs On Acid
13th March 2012, 09:53
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2008/02/24/uk-cyprus-election-idUKL2442130720080224?sp=true

In other words, he's not a Communist and his party is not Communist any more than Hu Jintao and the Chinese Communist Party are Communists. Just another typical liberal European Social Democratic party waving meaningless red flags.

Why do they even bother with the communist insignia? It's annoying and misleading.
Sasha
13th March 2012, 11:53
in other news, turkey is threathing to anex "their" part of the island, i doubt they would really risk going to war with the greeks again and lossing all hope on EU membership though...
The CPSU Chairman
13th March 2012, 13:22
Why do they even bother with the communist insignia? It's annoying and misleading.

I think it's because it helps stave off actual revolution. It helps people think that this is either the logical consequence of Communism or this is just what Communism is. Which obviously is very useful to the ruling class.
Crux
13th March 2012, 13:26
After looking it up in Wikipedia, I learned that Cyprus' President is a Communist, and their second strongest party is the Progressive Party of Working People (Marxist-Leninist).

What is the current leftist situation there?
Here's a report on the general strike on the 29th of January, which also details some of the policies of the 'communist' government:
Cyprus (http://www.socialistworld.net/doc/5552)
Partial general strike paralyses public sector (http://www.socialistworld.net/doc/5552)