User:Soman

Mission Statement

Why?

I began editing Wikipedia articles in 2004, and it rapidly became a persistent hobby of mine. As of late 2012, I have created 3,700+ articles in the English Wikipedia. Out of these, 381 have been featured in the "Did you know?" spot on the Wikipedia main page. I used to have as a target that at least 0.1% of all articles would be creations of mine, but in later stages I have shifted to a more qualitative line of work.

Sometimes friends and family ask me why I put time and energy into writing texts for which I'm not paid. The answer is quite simple: because I enjoy it. My focus lies in article creation. Researching sources and references is a bit of detective work, the key facts are often well hidden and difficult to access and decrypt. The greater the challenge, the greater the reward. Plus, it provides me with tons of anecdotal knowledge. Learning more about the history of the world helps one to understand the present better.

Purpose?

Almost all of my article creations seek to counter systematic bias. Thus my mission at Wikipedia is a political and social act. But the goal is not to preach, but rather to display complexity. I try to highlight aspects of world history that are obscured in mainstream narratives. In doing so I hope to I contribute to a better understanding and explaining the current state of the world.

The newspaper Aththa did once redefine Sinhala-language journalism, but before 2012 Wikipedia provided no information at all about it. The protest song Fano tesemara was once the battle cry of a generation of Ethiopian students, and those who sung it are now at the helm of the country. The FNLPA was once the most important trade union in Somalia and it took part in shaping the country in the early period of independence. Today there are very few traces online of its existence and the organized Somali labour movement as a whole has ceased to function long time ago.

By creating articles like these, tiny pieces of the giant puzzle of the history of peoples are recovered.

How?

A typical article of mine usually starts like this. I enter Google Books (or sometimes another search engine) and type a few sort of random words. I then begin to glance through various hits. Sometimes I come up with nothing. Sometimes I encounter a text that provides me with names of organizations, movements, people and features that lack articles of their own at Wikipedia. I then begin the process of cross-checking the information with other sources. Usually I will try not to create an article based on a single source. Generally I try to concentrate on articles that have a scope to reach the length required for a WP:DYK feature. Sometimes an article takes just a few minutes to complete, sometimes I work on a single article over several days (one example I'm quite proud of is the 1976 Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe).

I look for what is obscure, but still notable. Features that were important in past epochs but forgotten in mainstream historical narratives or that lie beyond the reach for English-speaking readers.

A good example of an excellent source is Geschichte der sozialistischen arbeiter-internationale: 1923 – 1940 by Werner Kowalski. A quite dry book from the GDR, it systematically (in a very German way...) goes through the facts and data related to the labour parties in the years between the two great wars. Some of the material was already covered in existing Wikipedia articles, but it turned out to be a gold mine of information on the political parties and movements that ceased to exist as the Second World War evolved. In some cases the constituencies that these parties sought to govern had ceased to exist as well, such as in the cases of the Soc.-Dem Workers Party of Subcarpathian Rus' or the Hungarian-German Soc.-Dem. Party. Based on Kowalski's book roughly 55 Wikipedia articles were created. In the process I learned a lot about the history of labour movements, in particular in regards to the national question.

A more recent example is Nomenclature des journaux & revues en langue française du monde entier. It is an ambitious work from 1937, that tries to compile information on all French-language publications across the world. In the years before the World Wide Web such an endeavor would have been quite an undertaking. From this book I managed to pluck data that enabled the creation of 46 articles, such as la Verité (whose spicy reporting shook the corrupted elites in interbellum Shanghai), le Cuir (who knew there was a daily publication dedicated to leather?), l'Alba (a vulgar Italian fascist mouthpiece in Tunisia), la Presse Porto-Novienne (anti-colonial press in present-day Benin), l'Écho taurin (a pro-bullfighting advocacy organ) and Vozrojdénie (anti-Bolshevik Russian daily from Paris). Particularly interesting was the case of es-Sabah. Once a major publication but today the language it carried has died out. And the once vivid social and political current that it represented, Zionism in the heart of the Arab-Muslim world, is long gone.

Beyond fiction?

I prefer researching history over reading fiction. The latter is a form of escapism, and in fact reality is often more challenging, emotional and brutal than our own imagination. In the process of research there is often a suspense, of not knowing what one will finally uncover. True tales of heroism, treachery, intrigues, despair and hope are unearthed.

In working on articles related to the 1965/1966 massacres in Indonesia horrific facts were revealed to me, some which I wished I had never learned. The account of how a random girl had been arrested and tortured to confess a fable that she was a subversive leader in Jakarta, the fate of Samikidin whose mutilated body was denied a funeral, how the children of Sarbuksi unionists continued to suffer discrimination for decades or how the currently tourist-populated beaches of Bali were scenes of mass executions are just some of the details of these events. In the end I chose not to mention every detail I encountered in the articles, my intention is not sensationalism but encouraging others to seek information by themselves.

Another case is Bauer und Arbeiter, a German-language newspaper in Soviet Azerbaijan. The publication experimented with novel forms of journalism and became increasingly popular in the German community in the Caucasus. But after a very short existence it was shut down, probably on political orders. I do not know what happened to its editors and workers during the subsequent purges, but adding one and one brings chilling assumptions. In writing the article, I felt somehow that it provided a fragment of a voice to those silenced in the grotesque machinery of human history.

Biographies of those who found themselves in the midst of history provide a special fascination. Ermenegildo Gasperoni went from being a political commissar in the Spanish Civil War to combining the duties of a government minister and auto mechanic. In contrast, Silvestre Savitski was not a particularly prominent figure in the October Revolution nor in the civil war that followed. In fact, he was but one individual in a mass of millions. The short article about him displays one of the many paradoxes of human condition, as bizarre circumstances brought him across the globe. There, the young man would become one of the pioneers of the socialist movement in Colombia. Likewise, the biography of Daniel Solod provides many question-marks. One does wonder what he discussed in meetings with Gamal Abdul Nasser in the midst of the Suez Crisis, as the future of the Middle East was debated and redefined. The evening in a moist Conakry, when armed men dragged the ambassador out from a cocktail reception to an uncertain fate could have fitted in a Hollywood script.

Or why has the life and adventures of Alejo Calatayud never been made into a movie or at least an HBO special? (maybe like a Bolivian Braveheart?) And what about the chilling morning of January 1, 1918 as the self-appointed People's Commissar Paul Wittich set foot to meet the Italian troops at the Pressburg railway station?

Not all serious?

Once in a while, even a serious Wikipedian needs to lighten up and explore the more anecdotal sides of life. It is a minor part of my labour on the encyclopedia, but I also enjoy authoring articles on topics like failed 1950s pilot shows about robots, X-factor in South Sudan and weird Scandinavian jelly.

Lastly, I hope this mission statement is not perceived as boasting or bragging. Or at least not too much of it. Apart from writing in solitude I also enjoy the company of other Wikipedians, whose knowledge and insights teaches me a lot and corrects me when I've gone astray. Forums like the Humanities desk often provides fascinating lectures. And the end, the ever-expanding encyclopedia is a product of collective efforts out of which my contributions are but a minor fragment.

Did You Know?

Here are listed my contributions to the Did You Know? feature on the Wikipedia Main Page. Flag icons are assigned somewhat arbitrarily, and the flags used are those of modern-day entities (with the exception of Russian Empire, Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Free City of Danzig, Free Territory of Trieste, Saar and Yugoslavia).

#	Date	Country	Article	Hook	Image
1	12 April, 2006		Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union	... that the Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union, an Indian farm labourers movement, claims a membership of over 2.5 million?
2	18 August, 2006		Ruplal Bishvakarma	... that the Nepalese communist leader Ruplal Bishvakarma, who introduced the current Maoist leader Prachandra to militant politics in the 1970s, opposed Prachandra's plans for an armed uprising in 1994?
3	5 January, 2007		Radha Krishna Mainali	... that Nepalese politician Radha Krishna Mainali, once a communist revolutionary and a political prisoner for 16 years, was appointed Minister of Education & Sports by King Gyanendra after the king's seizure of power in February 2005?
4	14 April, 2007		Workers Party of North Korea	... that when the Workers Party of North Korea was founded in 1946, Kim Il-sung was given the position of Vice Chairman of the party?
5	29 April, 2007		Arab Socialist Action Party – Arabian Peninsula	... that the Arab Socialist Action Party, the main secular opposition group in Saudi Arabia at the time, faced a massive crackdown in the spring of 1982?
6	21 September, 2007		1979 Nepalese student protests	... that at the peak of the 1979 student protests in Nepal, radicals tried to humiliate moderate student leaders by painting their faces black, garlanding them with shoes, and parading them on a push-cart through the streets of Kathmandu?
7	13 October, 2007		Burma Workers and Peasants Party	... that the government of Burmese Prime Minister U Nu was saved from a parliamentary no confidence vote in June 1957 by the communist Burma Workers and Peasants Party?
8	21 November, 2007		United Issarak Front	... that the United Issarak Front leader Son Ngoc Minh declared Cambodian independence on June 19 1950?
9	10 January, 2008		Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan	... that the Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan organised India's first May Day celebrations in 1923?
10	11 January, 2008		Workers and Peasants Party	... that the Workers and Peasants Party leader K.N. Joglekar successfully moved a resolution that the Indian National Congress should demand full independence for India?
11	14 January, 2008		Newa Rastriya Mukti Morcha, Nepal	... that the Nepalese Maoist Newar National Liberation Front sponsored the 'Miss Newa' beauty pageant despite having previously demonstrated against it?
12	16 January, 2008		Abani Mukherji	... that Abani Mukherji, co-founder of the Communist Party of India, was executed by the Soviet Union as part of the Great Purge?
13	27 May, 2008		Naye Prese	... that Paris-based Naye Prese was the sole Yiddish-language communist daily newspaper in Europe during the interbellum period?
14	31 May, 2008		Martinican Communist Party	... that the Martinican Communist Party became the largest political party in the French département d'outre-mer of Martinique in the 1960s?
15	5 July, 2008		Gottfried Lessing	... that senior GDR diplomat Gottfried Lessing had taken part in the founding and been a leading member of the illegal clandestine Communist Party in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) during the 1940s?
16	11 July, 2008		Keshar Jung Rayamajhi	... that the former general secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal, Keshar Jung Rayamajhi, turned royalist and became chairman of Nepal's Royal Privy Council?
17	12 July, 2008		Nara Bahadur Karmacharya	... that Nara Bahadur Karmacharya is the sole surviving founding member of the Communist Party of Nepal?
18	12 July, 2008		Proletarian Revolutionary Organisation, Nepal	... that the Proletarian Revolutionary Organisation of Nepal proposed a synthesis of Buddhism and Maoism in 1977?
19	28 July, 2008		Nepalese Rastriya Panchayat election, 1981	... that in the 1981 Nepalese national election, one candidate was elected with just 3,137 votes, less than ten percent of what the top candidate received?
20	11 August, 2008		Phospho-Energon	... that the sales of the "miracle drug" Energon, consisting of calf brain, sugar and milk, were able to establish Pharmacia as a major pharmaceutical company in Sweden in the early 1900s?
21	1 October, 2008		Socialist Workers Party (Palestine)	... that the followers of the Socialist Workers Party in Palestine, the precursor of the Communist Party of Israel, were known as mopsim?
22	3 October, 2008		Morgnshtern	... that by 1937, the Warsaw branch of the Bundist Morgnshtern was the largest sporting organisation in Poland?
23	4 October, 2008		Socialist Workers' Sport International	... that the 1931 Workers Olympiad held in Vienna, organized by the Socialist Workers' Sport International, was larger than the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics both in number of participants and spectators?
24	11 October, 2008		Zionist Socialist Workers Party	... that the Zionist Socialist Workers Party broke with the World Zionist Organization after the 1905 WZO congress had rejected the proposal to resettle Jews in East Africa?
25	15 October, 2008		Jewish Socialist Workers Party	... that the Jewish Socialist Workers Party in the Russian Empire mobilized 3,000 of its cadres in self-defense militias during 1906?
26	18 October, 2008		Folksgrupe	... that the liberal Jewish Folksgrupe played an important role in the 1917 Russian Provisional Government, but only obtained around 1% of the Jewish votes the same year?
27	23 October, 2008		Vanuatu Labour Party	... that the Vanuatu Labour Party first gained parliamentary representation in 2005, as the Minister for Ni-Vanuatu Business Joshua Kalsakau joined the party?
28	3 November, 2008		International Secretariat of National Trade Union Centres	... that Jens Jensen initiated the establishment in 1901 of the International Secretariat of National Trade Union Centres?
29	3 November, 2008		Workers Committee for National Liberation	... that the Workers Committee for National Liberation, a communist labour group, was broken up by the Egyptian government in January 1946?
30	8 November, 2008		Egyptian Communist Organisation	... that the Egyptian Communist Organisation was nicknamed "Mishmish", meaning apricot in Arabic?
31	29 November, 2008		Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine	... that the 1921 congress of the Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine endorsed all 21 conditions of Comintern, except the one demanding use of the name "Communist Party"?
32	6 December, 2008		Gewerkschaftsbund	... that the Central Commission of German Trade Unions organized 75 percent of unionized German workers in Czechoslovakia in 1921?
33	10 December, 2008		Miners' Union in the Czechoslovak Republic	... that approximately 10,000 communist miners left the Czechoslovak Miners' Union in 1923, after the union had accepted 9–13 percent cuts in salaries?
34	14 December, 2008		Odborové sdružení československé	... that the leftist Czechoslovak Chemical Workers' Union was expelled from the OSČ trade union centre in 1922?
35	14 December, 2008		Chemical Workers' Union (Czechoslovakia)	ibid
36	16 December, 2008		K. Ramani	... that communist politician K. Ramani became the speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Indian state Tamil Nadu in 1989?
37	19 December, 2008		Confédération générale du travail de Guadeloupe	... that in 2002, a Trotskyist became the general secretary of the trade union centre C.G.T.G in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe?
38	23 December, 2008		Józef Biniszkiewicz	... that Silesian socialist politician Józef Biniszkiewicz died at Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II?
39	26 December, 2008		German Socialist Labour Party in Poland - Left	... that prior to the 1930 election the Polish government declared the candidacy of Heinrich Scheibler, the leader of the German Socialist Labour Party in Poland - Left, to be invalid?
40	27 December, 2008		German Social Democratic Party of Poland	... that the German Social Democratic Party in Poland was formed in 1922 by the merger of Silesian branches of the German SPD, USPD and the Austrian SDAP?
41	29 December, 2008		Autonomous Agrarian Union	... that a 1930 proposal in the Czechoslovak parliament for greater autonomy for Transcarpathia, presented by the Autonomous Agrarian Union, gained support from the German National Socialists?
42	31 December, 2008		Kate Molale	... that South African ANC activist Kate Molale organised a pioneer movement in the struggle against the 1953 Bantu Education Act?
43	31 December, 2008		Erich Mückenberger	... that East German politician Erich Mückenberger led four district organizations of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany during his political career?
44	2 January, 2009		Kattowitzer Volkswille	... that the German-language socialist newspaper Volkswille in Katowice, Poland, went from daily to weekly publication after the 1933 Nazi takeover stopped the newspaper's financial subsidies from Germany?
45	January, 2009		Albert Norden	... that in 1965, East German politician Albert Norden accused 1,900 politicians and other prominent personalities in West Germany of having worked for the Nazi regime?
46	January 5, 2009		Paul Verner	... that Paul Verner fled Germany's nationalists and fought as a volunteer in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War?
47	January 6, 2009		Iraqi Partisan movement, 1979-1988	... that in a May 1983 attack on communist partisans, forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan killed 150 communist cadres in northern Iraq?
48	January 11, 2009		Rayat ash-Shaghilah	... that in the 1950s, the Iraqi Communist Party accused the dissident communist group Rayat ash-Shaghilah of being "royalists", "deviationists", and police agents?
49	February 15, 2009		Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party of Palestine	... that the Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party was the sole Zionist party in Mandate Palestine to advocate national rights for Palestinian Arabs?
50	February 17, 2009		Illinois Staats-Zeitung	... that the German newspaper Illinois Staats-Zeitung, published in Chicago, played an important role in building the Republican Party in Illinois in the 1850s?
51	February 21, 2009		Democratic Movement for National Liberation	... that the Democratic Movement for National Liberation was the sole communist faction in Egypt that supported the 1952 Revolution?
52	March 3, 2009		Siegmund Glücksmann	... that German socialist politician Siegmund Glücksmann initiated the first socialist protests against the Piłsudski government in Poland?
53	April 12, 2009		German Socialist Labour Party of Poland	... that in 1933, the German Socialist Labour Party of Poland supported the Bundist call for boycott of goods produced in Germany, in protest of the Hitler regime?
54	April 15, 2009		Bismarckjugend	... that in 1935, the uniform of the national-conservative Bismarckjugend was banned in Germany?
55	April 19, 2009		Jewish Anti-Zionist League	... that when Zionists and the Jewish Anti-Zionist League clashed in Cairo in 1947, Egyptian police sided with the Zionists?
56	June 1, 2009		Bangshi Badan Barman	... that in the 2009 Indian parliamentary election, Bangshi Badan Barman of the Greater Cooch Behar Democratic Party became the first undertrial prisoner to file candidate nomination papers in West Bengal?
57	June 1, 2009		Greater Cooch Behar Democratic Party	ibid
58	June 24, 2009		J. Hemachandran	... that Indian labour leader J. Hemachandran called for a ban on sales of Coca-Cola and Pepsi in the state of Tamil Nadu?
59	June 27, 2009		Georgian Socialist-Federalist Revolutionary Party	... that in 1906, Georgian Socialist-Federalists managed to seize 315,000 rubles during an attack on a Russian treasury in Dusheti?
60	June 28, 2009		Moturu Udayam	... that Indian women's activist Moturu Udayam is said to have been the first woman to ride a bicycle in the state of Andhra Pradesh?
61	June 29, 2009		Pakistan Socialist Party	... that while the Pakistan Socialist Party won several seats in 1954 in East Pakistan due to reservations for religious minorities, the party opposed such reservations in principle?
62	June 30, 2009		Asian Socialist Conference	... that the 1953 Asian Socialist Conference held in Rangoon, was an important precursor to the 1955 Bandung Conference?
63	July 21, 2009		Thevar Jayanthi	... that in 2007 the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M. Karunanidhi, took part in Thevar Jayanthi celebrations, after shunning the event for two decades?
64	July 23, 2009		Problems of Peace and Socialism	... that in the wake of the Sino-Soviet split, Albanian, Chinese and Korean editions of the journal Problems of Peace and Socialism (commemorating stamp pictured) were cancelled during 1962–1963?
65	July 28, 2009		People's Party (Cuba)	... that the Cuban People's Party was barred from contesting the 1901 elections, as the government demanded the party produce a register of thousands of members in just two hours?
66	July 29, 2009		Federal Republican Party of Las Villas	... that due to a violent intimidation campaign of the Federal Republican Party, no other political groups dared to contest the 1900 municipal elections in Las Villas, Cuba?
67	July 29, 2009		Cuban National Party	... that in 1901, two former political adversaries in Cuba, the Cuban National Party and the Republican Party of Havana, united behind the presidential candidature of Tomás Estrada Palma?
68	July 29, 2009		Republican Party of Havana	ibid
69	July 30, 2009		Cuban local elections, 1900	... that mayors elected in the 1900 Cuban local elections had to swear an oath of allegiance to the U.S. Military Government before taking office?
70	July 30, 2009		Ethiopian general election, 1973	... that the 1973 parliamentary election was the last to be held under imperial rule in Ethiopia?
71	August 1, 2009		Hyde Park Movement Party	... that a 1955 "Speaker's Corner" experiment in Bangkok inspired the launching of a Thai Hyde Park Movement Party?
72	August 1, 2009		Sukhe Bator Mongolian Pioneers Organization	... that in the late 1980s, the Mongolian pioneer movement, the Sukhe Bator Mongolian Pioneers Organization, had a membership of 360,000?
73	August 2, 2009		Ethiopia–Israel relations	... that in the 1960s, Israel trained Ethiopian forces for counterinsurgency operations against the Eritrean Liberation Front?
74	August 2, 2009		National Day of Hatred	... that in 1984, the National Day of Hatred was instituted in Kampuchea, to condemn the Khmer Rouge and their allies?
75	August 3, 2009		Daniel Solod	... that in 1961, the Soviet ambassador to Guinea Daniel Solod was accused of being involved in an anti-government plot, and was expelled from Guinea?
76	August 5, 2009		Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (Colombia)	... that in 1955, pressure from the Catholic Church and Conservatives forced the Colombian military government of Rojas Pinilla to close down the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo trade union centre?
77	August 5, 2009		National Union of Algerian Farmers	... that the National Union of Algerian Farmers, one of the six main mass organizations of the FLN period, enjoyed less political autonomy than the other mass organizations in Algeria at the time?
78	August 5, 2009		Côte d'Ivoire – Soviet relations	... that in 1969, Côte d'Ivoire severed its relations with the Soviet Union, following accusations that the Soviet ambassador had supported Ivorian student protests?
79	August 5, 2009		Moslem League of the Western Province	... that in 1953, the Eritrean Moslem League of the Western Province proposed the creation of an independent Beja state out of parts of Eritrea and Sudan, but failed to secure British support for the idea?
80	August 6, 2009		Laos–Soviet relations	... that in the final phase of its existence, the Soviet Union deprioritized relations with Laos for the sake of achieving a settlement in the Cambodian Civil War?
81	August 7, 2009		Independent Moslem League	... that the Eritrean Independent Moslem League was persuaded to support a union between Ethiopia and Eritrea, after receiving Ethiopian assurances on Arabic schooling and respect for Islamic traditions?
82	August 18, 2009		Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Flag (Unnichekkan)	... that in the 2009 Indian parliamentary election the Communist Party of India (M-L) Red Flag decided to support the Left Democratic Front, claiming that its opponents were pro-Israeli?
83	August 23, 2009		K.P. Prabhakaran	... that Indian communist politician K.P. Prabhakaran was in the forefront of a trade union of toddy tappers in Kerala for 55 years?
84	August 24, 2009		Socialist Party of Indonesia (Parsi)	... that the founders of the Socialist Party of Indonesia (Parsi) included a group of Indonesians who had participated in the anti-fascist resistance in the Netherlands during World War II?
85	August 25, 2009		Labour Party of Indonesia	...that in August of 1948 the Labour Party of Indonesia merged with the Communist Party?
86	August 31, 2009		Ibnu Parna	... that Indonesian politician Ibnu Parna, leader and the sole MP of the communist Acoma Party, was killed in the 1965 massacres?
87	August 31, 2009		Acoma Party	ibid
88	September 1, 2009|		Permai	... that the Indonesian political party Permai was also a mystical religious movement?
89	September 6, 2009		Communist Party of Indonesia (Red)	... that in 1947 a group broke away from the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) and founded the rival Red Communist Party, in protest of the PKI leadership's willingness to negotiate with the Dutch?
90	September 8, 2009		Burkinabé parliamentary election, 1992	... that 94% of the Members of Parliament elected in the 1992 election in Burkina Faso were male?
91	September 8, 2009		Dayak Unity Party	... that the Indonesian Dayak Unity Party was dissolved in 1959 when President Sukarno issued a ban on ethnic political parties?
92	September 9, 2009		Proletarian Women's Union	... that the Indonesian Murba Women's Union ran programmes to help women start batik and weaving household industries?
93	September 10, 2009		National People's Party (Indonesia)	... that in the 1950 confidence vote for the Indonesian Natsir cabinet, the National People's Party was the sole party without ministers of its own to support the government?
94	September 10, 2009		Confédération générale du travail du Burkina	... that the F.N.B.P.B. bakery workers' union, founded in 1960, is the oldest member of the Confédération générale du travail du Burkina trade union centre in Burkina Faso?
95	September 12, 2009		Murba Party	... that in the midst of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, the Indonesian Murba Party pledged to send volunteers to Cuba?
96	September 13, 2009		Valère Somé	... that Burkinabè politician and revolutionary ideologue Valère Somé was forced into exile to Congo-Brazzaville after the overthrow of Thomas Sankara?
97	September 18, 2009		Socialist Democracy of Guinea	... that the French colonial administration in Guinea opposed the founding of the political party Socialist Democracy in 1954, as they feared it would split the anti-Sékou Touré vote?
98	September 19, 2009		Senegalese Territorial Assembly election, 1957	... that unlike most other elections held in other parts of French West Africa on the same day, the 31 March 1957 assembly election in Senegal was not dominated by the African Democratic Rally (RDA)?
99	September 21, 2009		National Democratic Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arabian Gulf	... that two foiled attacks by N.D.F.L.O.A.G. guerrillas in June 1970 sparked a conspiracy to overthrow the Sultan of Oman?
100	September 23, 2009		French legislative by-election in Guinea, 1954‎	... that although the 1954 Guinean by-poll was marred with irregularities, only the communists and the African Democratic Rally voted against validating the results in the French National Assembly?
101	September 29, 2009		Marcel Oopa	... that Marcel Oopa, French National Assembly member from Tahiti and the Polynesian autonomist R.D.P.T, died on Bastille Day 1961?
102	September 29, 2009		Democratic Rally of the Tahitian People	ibid
103	September 30, 2009		Black African Students Federation in France	... that the Black African Students Federation in France (F.E.A.N.F.) opposed the French 1965 Loi Cadre, which it considered as a move to Balkanize Africa?
104	October 13, 2009		Bund (Bukovina)	... that in order to register themselves as a political association according to Austro-Hungarian regulations, the Jewish socialist Bund of Bukovina had to limit its membership to male Austrian citizens?
105	October 15, 2009		General Jewish Labour Bund in Romania	... that the socialist Romanian General Jewish Labour Bund had a strong presence in kehilla elections in Chişinău during the interbellum but largely lacked representation outside Bessarabia?
106	October 28, 2009		Satyashodhak Communist Party	... that the Satyashodhak Communist Party was founded in Maharastra, India, in 1978, seeking to combine the philosophies of Karl Marx, B.R. Ambedkar and Jyotirao Phule?
107	November 2, 2009		Independent Jewish Workers Party	... that in 1901, the head of the Russian secret police Sergei Zubatov helped found the Independent Jewish Workers Party in a bid to counter the influence of the General Jewish Labour Bund?
108	November 7, 2009		Der arbeyter	... that Leon Wasilewski of the Polish Socialist Party learned Yiddish in order to be able to edit the party's Yiddish-language newspaper Der arbeyter?
109	November 8, 2009		Hebrew Socialist Union in London	... that HaEmes, the organ of the 1876 Hebrew Socialist Union in London, was the first Jewish socialist periodical?
110	November 12, 2009		Socialist League of the New East	... that the Socialist League of the New East, founded by émigré Socialist-Revolutionaries in Czechoslovakia in 1927, called for splitting up the Soviet Union into separate national states?
111	November 14, 2009		5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party	... that the 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was held in a church in London in 1907?
112	November 15, 2009		Enlightened People's Communist Party	... that in late 1921 a series of arrests of its activists led to the break-up of the Japanese Enlightened People's Communist Party?
113	December 11, 2009		Union générale des syndicats algériens	... that the Algerian communist trade union centre UGSA disbanded itself in 1957, after the rival nationalist UGTA had participated in the Leipzig congress of the World Federation of Trade Unions?
114	December 15, 2009		Congolese Youth Union	... that the radical Congolese Youth Union, which took part in the overthrow of the Congolese President Fulbert Youlou in 1963, began as an offshoot of the youth wing of the French Communist Party?
115	December 15, 2009		Trois Glorieuses (1963)	ibid
116	December 20, 2009		LICOPA affair	... that in seeking to overcome the low in Congo–Zaire relations in the early 1970s due to the LICOPA affair, Congolese authorities sentenced a Zairean opposition member to three years' imprisonment?
117	December 24, 2009		Société Amicale des Originaires de l'A.E.F.	... that the matswaniste movement in French Equatorial Africa, l'Amicale des Originaires, developed from a self-help group into a political movement and later into a messianic religious community?
118	December 26, 2009		Congolese Progressive Party	... that in the run-up to the 1946 French legislative and 1947 Congolese territorial elections, Congolese Progressive Party leader Jean-Félix Tchicaya condemned the system of separate electoral colleges?
119	December 26, 2009		Moyen-Congo Representative Council election, 1947	ibid
120	December 26, 2009		French legislative election in French Equatorial Africa, November 1946	ibid
121	December 27, 2009		National Movement of the Revolution	... that on July 20, 1964, the National Movement of the Revolution was declared the sole legal political party by law in the Republic of the Congo?
122	December 30, 2009		Zodi Ikhia	... that Zodi Ikhia, the first Education Minister of the Republic of Niger, took part in a failed coup d'etat in 1963?
123	December 31, 2009		Amar Ouzegane	... that Amar Ouzegane, first secretary of the Algerian Communist Party until 1947, later renounced communism, arguing for a fusion of Islam and socialism?
124	January 1, 2010		Michel Zunino	... that the French resistance activist Michel Zunino was the sole former socialist Popular Front parliamentarian who was later re-elected as a communist?
125	January 1, 2010		Pierre Abelin	... that the French Minister of Cooperation Pierre Abelin initiated the process that culminated with the signing of the Lomé Convention in 1975?
126	January 3, 2010		Labour Party (Argentina)	... that the Argentinian Labour Party, which played a major role in ensuring Juan Perón's 1946 election victory, was modelled after the British Labour Party?
127	January 4, 2010		Democratic Association of Victoria	... that the Democratic Association of Victoria, the first Australian socialist organisation founded in 1872, lasted only ten months?
128	January 5, 2010		Deiva Zivarattinam	... that in the 1946 French legislative election the incumbent parliamentarian from French India, Deiva Zivarattinam, received only 18 votes?
129	January 5, 2010		Tefik Mborja	... that during the Italian occupation Tefik Mborja was, as General Secretary of the Albanian Fascist Party, included in the Albanian cabinet as an ex-officio member?
130	January 5, 2010		Federación Obrera de la Industria de la Carne	... that a massive general strike organized by the Argentinian F.O.I.C. meat-packers union secured the release of its jailed leadership in September 1943?
131	January 10, 2010		Comité de liaison de patronat de l'A.E.F.	... that the employers' organization in French Equatorial Africa, COLPAEF, was significantly weaker than its West African counterparts, as employers in Equatorial Africa were highly individualistic?
132	January 11, 2010		M 22	... that Ange Diawara, the leader of the Congolese rebel group M 22, sought inspiration from Che Guevara and the Cameroonian UPC?
133	January 11, 2010		Ardeshir Ovanessian	... that the Armenian Iranian communist leader Ardeshir Ovanessian spent eleven years in Qasr prison?
134	January 10, 2010		Ettehadiyeh-ye Sendika-ye Kargaran-e Iran	... that on December 14, 1947, a rival government-supported Iranian union, ESKI, carried out an attack on a club building of the Central Union of Workers and Peasants of Iran?
135	January 13, 2010		Central Union of Workers and Peasants of Iran	ibid
136	January 13, 2010		Emanuel Chobot	... that Emanuel Chobot, chairman of the Polish Socialist Workers Party in interbellum Czechoslovakia, was active in the cooperative movement?
137	January 13, 2010		Central Council of Trade Unions	... that May Day was first celebrated in Persia in 1922, and during the 1920s thousands of people participated in the May Day rallies of the Central Council of Trade Unions in Tehran?
138	January 14, 2010		Central Council of United Trade Unions	... that although formally banned, the Iranian communist Central Council of United Trade Unions was able to revive its activities under the rule of Mohammad Mosaddegh in the early 1950s?
139	January 14, 2010		Rahbar (newspaper)	... that workers employed at the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company were banned from reading the communist newspaper Rahbar, and could be fired if they did?
140	January 15, 2010		Karol Śliwka	... that the most prominent leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia within the Polish minority, Karol Śliwka, died in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in 1943?
141	January 15, 2010		Albanian Lictor Youth	... that soon after the annexation of Albania in 1939 Italian fascists set up the Albanian Lictor Youth, a branch of the Italian fascist youth movement?
142	January 15, 2010		Soviet Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee	... that until 1974, all visits of the Palestine Liberation Organization to the Soviet Union were hosted by the Soviet Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee rather than government representatives?
143	January 17, 2010		Arab Lictor Youth	... that in 1935, the Italian Governor-General in Libya, Italo Balbo, founded the Arab Lictor Youth, a fascist youth movement that trained Arab youth for military service?
144	January 19, 2010		Labour and Socialist International	... that in 1925 the Labour and Socialist International urged the League of Nations to accept the Rif Republic as a member?
145	January 19, 2010		Hungarian-German Social Democratic Party	... that in 1919 Hungarian and German social democrats in Slovakia formed a party of their own, as they differed with the Slovak social democrats on the Hungarian Soviet Republic?
146	January 24, 2010		Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers Party in the Republic of Austria	... that there was a Czech section of the Austrian Republikanischer Schutzbund, associated with the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers Party in Austria?
147	January 24, 2010		Social Democratic Party of the Free City of Danzig	... that in response to the growing National Socialist influence, the Social Democratic Party of the Free City of Danzig formed a 4,500-man strong paramilitary force?
148	January 24, 2010		Julius Gehl	... that Julius Gehl, the vice president of the Senate of the Free City of Danzig, was a mason by profession?
149	January 27, 2010		Old Social Democratic Party of Germany	... that National Bolshevik Ernst Niekisch played an important role in formulating the ideological line of the Old Social Democratic Party of Germany?
150	January 28, 2010		Világosság Socialist Emigrant Group	... that in 1920 Hungarian socialists such as Sándor Garbai, Zsigmond Kunfi and Vilmos Böhm, exiled after the crushing of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, founded the Világosság emigré group?
151	January 28, 2010		Portuguese Socialist Party	... that the Portuguese Socialist Party was the sole political party tolerated by the military regime after the 28 May 1926 coup d'état?
152	January 30, 2010		Socialist-Communist Union	... that the mayors of six Parisian suburbs took part in founding the Socialist-Communist Union in 1923?
153	January 30, 2010		Guyana Labour Union	... that Guyanese president Forbes Burnham was president of the Guyana Labour Union twice, from 1952 to 1956 and again from 1963 to 1965?
154	February 10, 2010		Guinea-Bissau–Sweden relations	... that Sweden established official diplomatic relations with Guinea-Bissau before Guinea-Bissau formally gained independence from Portugal in 1974?
155	February 10, 2010		Onésimo Silveira	... that the Cape Verdean poet Onésimo Silveira was the representative of African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde in Sweden in the early 1970s?
156	February 12, 2010		ILP Guild of Youth	... that the founding of the Independent Labour Party's Guild of Youth in Britain provoked the Labour Party to found a youth wing of its own?
157	February 21, 2010		Independent Socialist Labour Party	... that the Polish Independent Socialist Labour Party of Joseph Kruk merged into the Labour Zionist Poalei Zion in 1937?
158	February 21, 2010		Joseph Kruk	ibid
159	March 8, 2010		Lore Agnes	... that the German socialist women's activist Lore Agnes was jailed in 1914 for having called on women to oppose the war during a March 8 rally?
160	March 19, 2010		Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party (Broad Socialists)	... that despite its name, the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party (Broad Socialists) had only 35% workers among its members?
161	March 22, 2010		Yanko Sakazov	... that Yanko Sakazov was one of the two first socialist parliamentarians in Bulgaria, elected to the National Assembly in 1894?
162	March 24, 2010		Konstantin Bozveliev	... that Konstantin Bozveliev became the first socialist to be elected mayor in Bulgaria in 1908?
163	March 27, 2010		L'Affranchissement	... that the association l'Affranchissement, founded in 1854, was the first rationalist organization in Belgium?
164	March 28, 2010		Republican Socialist Party	... that an 1889 trial against cadres of the Belgian Republican Socialist Party revealed that most leaders of the party were agents provocateurs paid by the government?
165	March 30, 2010		El Tiempo (Istanbul)	... that around 50% of adult Jews in Constantinople were subscribers of the Ladino language newspaper El Tiempo at the time of the First World War?
166	March 31, 2010		Hamevasser	... that the 1910–1911 Zionist newspaper Hamevasser called on Jews to join the Ottoman army, in an effort to improve Jewish-Turkish relations?
167	April 5, 2010		Kawkab America	... that Kawkab America was the first Arabic-language newspaper published in North America?
168	April 10, 2010		Communist Party of Andalusia	... that the Communist Party of Andalusia won 57.4% of the votes in the 1983 municipal election in Córdoba, Spain?
169	April 14, 2010		Dos Abend Blatt	... that Dos Abend Blatt was first Yiddish-language socialist newspaper in New York?
170	April 14, 2010		Robert Danneberg	... that Austrian socialist leader Robert Danneberg, one of the architects of 'Red Vienna', was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942?
171	April 16, 2010		Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Mensheviks)	... that Sotsialisticheskii vestnik, the organ of the exiled Russian Menshevik Party, was published from New York until 1965?
172	April 17, 2010		Dino Rondani	... that the Italian socialist leader Dino Rondani represented Argentina in the Executive of the Labour and Socialist International?
173	April 17, 2010		Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada	... that Finnish communists founded the Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada in 1924?
174	April 19, 2010		Ha-Yom	... that Ha-Yom, founded in 1886, was the first daily newspaper in Hebrew?
175	April 23, 2010		Mine Workers' Union of Canada	... that in 1931 three people were killed in Estevan, Canada, when police opened fire on a Mine Workers' Union of Canada rally?
176	April 30, 2010		Óscar Salas Moya	... that the miners' union leader Óscar Salas Moya was a candidate for vice-president of Bolivia in 1985?
177	May 9, 2010		1958 Paraguayan general strike‎	... that over 200 Paraguayan trade union leaders were arrested by the Stroessner government in connection with a 1958 general strike?
178	May 11, 2010		Roger Pinto Molina	... that Bolivian right-wing senator Roger Pinto Molina owns 3,269 hectares of land in Porvenir?
179	May 11, 2010		Sendero	... that in 1973 the Paraguayan Episcopal Conference was able to revive a newspaper of its own, Sendero, after having shut its previous press organ in 1969 due to government harassment?
180	May 17, 2010		Jenaro Flores Santos	... that Jenaro Flores Santos was the first peasant organizer to lead the Bolivian national trade union centre COB?
181	May 22, 2010		Gonzalo Aguirre Villafán	... that Gonzalo Aguirre Villafán, former president of the parliamentary Defense Committee of Bolivia, was educated in Israel?
182	May 26, 2010		Román Loayza Caero	... that when Bolivian veteran trade unionist Román Loayza Caero announced his presidential aspirations in 2009, the Unique Confederation of Rural Laborers of Bolivia (CSUTCB), which he had led for nine years, publicly denounced his candidature?
183	June 17, 2010		Jorge Cruickshank García	... that in 1976 socialist Jorge Cruickshank García became the first opposition senator of Mexico since the emergence of the Institutional Revolutionary Party as the ruling party?
184	June 17, 2010		Socialist Union of Central-Eastern Europe	... that in 1949 the Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Yugoslav and Czechoslovak socialist parties founded the Socialist Union of Central-Eastern Europe as a common centre for work in exile?
185	June 19, 2010		French Communist Group	... that the small French Communist Group in Russia was able to play a role in fomenting mutinies amongst French interventionist troops during the Russian Civil War?
186	June 20, 2010		Mexican People's Party	... that whilst the Mexican People's Party was unable to obtain national registration as a political party, it was recognized in Baja California Sur and won a seat in the state legislature?
187	June 20, 2010		Trade Union Propaganda League	... that through the Trade Union Propaganda League Swedish leftwing socialists sought to win the Swedish Trade Union Confederation over to a revolutionary line?
188	June 25, 2010		Sind legislative assembly election, 1937	... that, although the Sind United Party emerged as the largest party in the 1937 Sind assembly election, it failed to get its main leaders elected?
189	June 27, 2010		Tanka movement	... that in response to the Hajong communist peasants' uprising, Pakistani authorities forced the majority of the Hajong people into exile in India?
190	June 27, 2010		Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council election, 2010	... that the communist-led Left Front won all seats elected in the 2010 Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council election?
191	June 27, 2010		National Youth Organization	... that in the mass literacy campaign during Grenada's New Jewel Movement revolution, 65% of volunteer teachers were mobilized from the National Youth Organization?
192	July 5, 2010		Under röd flagg	... that Hinke Bergegren's Under röd flagg (cover pictured) was the first periodical to introduce detailed accounts of anarchist thought in Sweden?
193	July 6, 2010		Volksfront (Alsace)	... that the Bloody Sunday events of 1926 in Alsace were the starting point of cooperation between communists and clerical autonomists, which led to the expulsion of the Neue Welt group of Charles Hueber and Jean-Pierre Mourer from the French Communist Party and the formation of the Alsatian Opposition Communist Party?
194	July 6, 2010		Jean-Pierre Mourer	ibid
195	July 6, 2010		Charles Hueber	ibid
196	July 6, 2010		Alsatian Workers and Peasants Party	ibid
197	July 6, 2010		Bloody Sunday (1926)	ibid
198	July 6, 2010		Die Neue Welt	ibid
199	July 8, 2010		Singapore Federation of Trade Unions	... that in 1947, 72 out of 126 trade unions in Singapore were affiliated to the communist-led Singapore Federation of Trade Unions?
200	July 9, 2010		Independent Regional Party for Alsace-Lorraine	... that the Landespartei, which represented the most radical wing of the Alsatian autonomist movement, moved closer to fascist positions during the 1930s?
201	July 11, 2010		Alsace-Lorraine Regional Party	... that the Alsace-Lorraine Regional Party, founded in 1903, was the first Catholic political organization in the German province of Alsace-Lorraine?
202	July 12, 2010		Ny Dag	... that in neutral Sweden during World War II, the communist newspapers Ny Dag and Sydsvenska Kuriren were banned from being carried on trains and public buses?
203	July 12, 2010		Sydsvenska Kuriren	ibid
204	July 16, 2010		Poul Johansen Geleff	... that when Danish socialist pioneer and former prisoner Poul Johansen Geleff (pictured) emigrated to the United States, Danish police helped pay for his travel costs?
205	July 17, 2010		Ture Königson	... that Ture Königson of the People's Party in Sweden decided the outcome of the crucial 1959 vote on pension reform by abstaining?
206	July 18, 2010		Bidya Debbarma	... that Indian communist politician and six-time Tripura Legislative Assembly member Bidya Debbarma never lost any election he contested?
207	July 19, 2010		United NLF Groups	... that during the Vietnam War the Swedish FNL movement used to attack U.S. diplomats with eggs, tomatoes and, occasionally, surströmming?
208	July 19, 2010		Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia Fighting for Freedom and Independence	... that it has often been claimed that the 1948 Southeast Asian Youth Conference, held in Calcutta, marked the starting point for various armed communist insurgencies in different Asian countries?
209	July 19, 2010		H. N. Goshal	... that Burmese communist leader H. N. Goshal was executed in an inner-party purge in 1967, after having been denounced as "Burma's Liu Shaoqi"?
210	July 20, 2010		All Burma Trade Union Congress	... that the All Burma Trade Union Congress was banned in the wake of the March 1948 crackdown on the Communist Party of Burma?
211	July 21, 2010		Communist Party (Burma)	... that in 1946 the Red Flag Communist Party initiated a guerrilla insurgency against British rule in Burma?
212	July 23, 2010		International Federation of Trade Unions	... that in spite of hesitations due to the growing influence of Nazism in Germany, the International Federation of Trade Unions moved its headquarters to Berlin in 1931?
213	July 27, 2010		Narayan Man Bijukchhe	... that Nepalese communist politician Narayan Man Bijukchhe has won a parliamentary seat in every national election since the 1990 Jana Andolan?
214	July 28, 2010		All Saints' massacre	... that more than a hundred people were killed by the military junta of Natusch Busch during its 16-day reign in Bolivia in 1979?
215	July 28, 2010		Bienvenido Zacu Mborobainchi	... that indigenous Bolivian politician Bienvenido Zacu Mborobainchi led a 2002 protest march, which resulted in an accord with the government enabling the formation of the Constituent Assembly?
216	July 29, 2010		Neri Javier Colmenares	... that Neri Colmenares, today a member of the Congress of the Philippines, was one of the youngest political prisoners during the rule of Ferdinand Marcos?
217	August 2, 2010		Guillermo Capadocia	... that the Filipino communist guerrilla commander Guillermo Capadocia had worked as a chef and a waiter during his youth?
218	August 3, 2010		Revolutionary Left Front	... that the Revolutionary Left Front had the highest percentage of female candidates in the 1991 municipal elections in the major cities of Bolivia?
219	August 3, 2010		Óscar Zamora Medinaceli	... that Óscar Zamora Medinaceli, a communist student activist and leader of a Maoist insurgency in the 1970s, would become a senator, mayor, ambassador, prefect and minister of Bolivia?
220	August 4, 2010		Kampforbundet for Rød Sportsenhet	... that the merger between the Norwegian Labour Party-led Workers' Sport Federation and the Communist-led 'Red Sports' has been described as an early example of the popular front line?
221	August 4, 2010		Arbeidernes Idrettsforbund	ibid
222	August 4, 2010		Collective Labor Movement	... that the leftist Collective Labor Movement was the largest trade union centre in the Philippines in the years just before World War II?
223	August 5, 2010		Benjamín Miguel Harb	... that after the death of Bolivian Christian Democratic politician Benjamín Miguel Harb in 2008, the Senate of Bolivia decided unanimously to grant him its highest decoration, the Banner of Gold?
224	August 5, 2010		Union Obrera Democratica Filipina	... that the Union Obrera Democratica Filipina held a mass anti-imperialist rally on May 1, 1903, the first May Day rally in the Philippines, in spite of being denied permits by the United States' Taft administration?
225	August 6, 2010		Socialist Republican Party (Bolivia)	... that the Bolivian Socialist Republican Party supported the military governments that ruled the country in 1935–1937, 1939–1940 and 1940–1943?
226	August 7, 2010		Bolivian municipal election, 1999	... that in a survey study of the officials elected in the 1999 municipal election in Bolivia, the Communist Party had the highest percentage of indigenous councilors?
227	August 9, 2010		Japan Labour-Farmer Party	... that unlike other proletarian parties at the time, such as the Japan Labour-Farmer Party, the Labour-Farmer Party and the Social Democratic Party, the Japan Farmers Party based itself solely amongst the peasantry instead of a worker–peasant class alliance?
228	August 9, 2010		Japan Farmers Party	ibid
229	August 9, 2010		Labour-Farmer Party	ibid
230	August 9, 2010		Social Democratic Party (Japan, 1926)	ibid
231	August 9, 2010		Proletarian parties in Japan, 1925-1932	ibid
232	August 14, 2010		Hyōgikai	... that 196 activists of the Japanese Hyōgikai trade union movement were jailed in 1926 for organizing strikes?
233	August 14, 2010		Ritsuta Noda	... that Japanese trade union leader Ritsuta Noda was a pioneer in the underground birth control movement in Osaka?
234	August 16, 2010		Farmer-Labour Party	... that the Japanese Farmer-Labour Party was banned just a few hours after its foundation in 1925?
235	August 19, 2010		Agrarian Socialist League	... that the Agrarian Socialist League, a Russian revolutionary émigré organization, was founded at the funeral of Pyotr Lavrov in 1900?
236	August 19, 2010		Katarismo	... that the katarista movement leader Víctor Hugo Cárdenas was elected Vice President of Bolivia in 1993?
237	August 27, 2010		Assembly for the Sovereignty of the Peoples	... that the current President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, was one of four Assembly for the Sovereignty of the Peoples politicians elected to parliament in 1997?
238	September 7, 2010		Yorkshire Factory Times	... that the socialist-oriented newspaper Yorkshire Factory Times began as an off-shoot of a conservative publication in 1899?
239	September 8, 2010		Labour Elector	... that publication of British newspaper Labour Elector was discontinued in 1890 as its editor H. H. Champion travelled to Australia?
240	September 9, 2010		Al-Mabda'	... that under the 1960 Iraqi Associations Law, Daud as-Sayegh's tiny faction (which published al-Mabda') was accorded recognition as the "Iraqi Communist Party", while the main communist group (which published Ittihad ash-Sha'ab) was denied legal status?
241	September 8, 2010		Iraqi Communist Party (1960)	ibid
242	September 8, 2010		Daud as-Sayegh	ibid
243	September 8, 2010		Ittihad ash-Sha'ab	ibid
244	September 8, 2010		Associations Law	ibid
245	November 12, 2010		Anti-Fascist Youth Union of the Free Territory of Trieste	... that, in addition to mobilizing labor brigades for the post-war reconstruction of Yugoslavia, the Anti-Fascist Youth Union of the Free Territory of Trieste planned sporting and cultural events?
246	November 13, 2010		Slavic-Italian Anti-Fascist Union	... that in the 1949 municipal election in the Free Territory of Trieste, the communist-led Slavic-Italian Anti-Fascist Union won 97% of the votes in Monrupino?
247	November 13, 2010		Free Territory of Trieste municipal election, 1949	ibid
248	November 21, 2010		Socialist Workers Movement (Bolivia)	... that the Bolivian ambassador to the United Nations Pablo Solón was the main leader of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party in the 1980s?
249	November 23, 2010		Vinod Mishra	... that Indian communist leader Vinod Mishra announced an "eye for an eye" policy of vengeance after right-wing paramilitaries Ranvir Sena killed 21 Dalits in 1996?
250	November 24, 2010		Popular Socialist Youth	... that the 1960 congress of the Popular Socialist Youth was the first occasion at which the Cuban motto "Fatherland or Death" was displayed in print?
251	November 24, 2010		Indian People's Front	... that in March 1994, the communist-led Indian People's Front rallied tens of thousands of barefoot, starving workers, some of whom walked more than 100 kilometres (62 mi) to reach the venue?
252	November 25, 2010		Le Phare de Guinée	... that the Democratic Party of Guinea organ Le Phare de Guinée was closed down in 1949, as no printing press in Guinea dared to print it due to government pressure?
253	November 26, 2010		Barry III	... that Guinean socialist politician Barry III was nicknamed "Little Elephant", due to the similarities of his political programme with that of Sékou Touré, whose nickname was "Elephant"?
254	November 30, 2010		Sarbupri	... that a 1953 strike organized by the plantation workers trade union Sarbupri forced the Indonesian government to raise wages of estate labourers by 30%?
255	November 30, 2010		United Left (Bolivia)	... that current President of Bolivia Evo Morales was elected to parliament in 1997 on an United Left ticket?
256	December 2, 2010		Baba Bujha Singh	... that Punjabi revolutionary Baba Bujha Singh predicted the disintegration of the Soviet Union?
257	December 2, 2010		Chaturanan Mishra	... that in 1996 Chaturanan Mishra became one of the two first communist cabinet members in India?
258	December 3, 2010		Sentral Organisasi Buruh Republik Indonesia	... that the Indonesian trade union centre SOBRI decided to join the World Federation of Trade Unions following the death of Stalin in 1953?
259	December 3, 2010		Sarbuksi	... that by 1962 the communist-led Indonesian forest workers union Sarbuksi claimed to have a quarter of a million members?
260	December 8, 2010		Prijono	... that Indonesian Minister of Education Prijono received the Stalin Peace Prize in 1954?
261	December 9, 2010		Sarbufis	... that in 1955 the Indonesian film workers union Sarbufis launched a campaign to ban American newsreel film?
262	December 10, 2010		Harihar Narayan Prabhakar	... that Indian politician Harihar Narayan Prabhakar began his political career in the Communist Party of India, but later represented the Bharatiya Janata Party in the legislative assembly of Bihar?
263	December 12, 2010		Kalvdans	... that Swedish emigrants brought kalvdans, a dessert made out of colostrum milk, to North America?
264	December 12, 2010		Moni Guha	... that the communist Moni Guha was amongst the first in India to criticize the 1956 line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union?
265	December 19, 2010		Salawati Daud	... that communist politician Salawati Daud was the first female mayor in Indonesia?
266	December 24, 2010		Sentral Organisasi Buruh Seluruh Indonesia	... that the communist-led federation SOBSI was the largest trade union movement in Indonesia prior to the Suharto era?
267	December 28, 2010		Serbuni	... that, according to Fieldhouse, militant agitation by the Indonesian communist trade union Serbuni during the 1963/1964 confrontation sought to prevent nationalization of Unilever factories?
268	December 30, 2010		Consentrasi Gerakan Mahasiswa Indonesia	... that the communist student organization CGMI ran campaigns against hazing at Indonesian universities?
269	December 31, 2010		Kiranmoy Nanda	... that socialist politician Kiranmoy Nanda has been the Fisheries Minister of the Indian state of West Bengal since 1982?
270	December 31, 2010		SITRANDE	... that the power plant workers union SITRANDE was the first public sector trade union founded in Paraguay after the fall of Stroessner?
271	January 2, 2011		Sanbetsu	... that the membership of the Japanese trade union centre Sanbetsu dropped from 1.5 million in 1946 to 13,000 in 1953?
272	January 5, 2011		Fadjar Harapan	... that the Indonesian pioneer movement Fadjar Harapan was merged into the national scouting organization on a presidential order in 1961?
273	January 6, 2011		Pauls Dauge	... that the dentist Pauls Dauge translated several works of Friedrich Engels into Latvian?
274	January 7, 2011		Al-Insaniyyah	... that al-Insaniyyah, founded in 1925, was the first official Arabic communist newspaper?
275	January 9, 2011		Agragami Adivasi Samiti	... that Indian Maoist guerrillas killed seven prominent local members of Agragami Adivasi Samiti in Purulia District in December 2010?
276	January 10, 2011		La Lutte (newspaper)	... that in the 1930s, the Indochinese Communist Party and the Vietnamese Trotskyists collaborated on the joint publication La Lutte?
277	January 13, 2011		Zénon Bernard	... that 20 years after scoring a goal in Luxembourg's first-ever football victory over France, Zénon Bernard became the first communist elected to the Luxembourgian parliament?
278	January 14, 2011		Rameshwar Prasad	... that Rameshwar Prasad became the first Naxalite member of Parliament elected from the Indian state of Bihar in 1989?
279	January 18, 2011		Farm Workers Union of Uppland	... that the 1925 harvest strike in Uppland is portrayed in novels by Swedish authors Ivar Lo-Johansson and Jan Fridegård?
280	January 19, 2011		Farm Workers Union of Central Sweden	... that, as a result of the agitations carried out prior to the founding of the Farm Workers Union of Central Sweden in 1906, the annual wages of statare increased by approximately 40 SEK?
281	January 20, 2011		Farm Workers Union of Småland	... that 1919 agitations by left-wing socialists in Småland resulted in the formation of a separate Farm Workers Union?
282	January 21, 2011		Forest and Farm Workers Union of Sweden	... that the Forest and Farm Workers Union of Sweden advocated an agrarian reform modelled on the Soviet one?
283	January 25, 2011		Women's Trade Union	... that, as women in Sweden were not allowed to join the Swedish Tailoring Workers Union, they founded a separate Women's Trade Union in 1902?
284	February 3, 2011		Democratic Farmers League of Sweden	... that the Democratic Farmers League of Sweden promoted a modernized form of copyhold, whereby peasants would be relieved from debts?
285	February 15, 2011		Ernest Lafont	... that the French socialist parliamentarian Ernest Lafont was expelled from Soviet Russia on the orders of Leon Trotsky?
286	February 20, 2011		Paul Wittich (politician)	... that the Westungarische Volksstimme editor Paul Wittich was the first social democrat elected to the town council of Pressburg (today known as Bratislava)?
287	February 20, 2011		Westungarische Volksstimme	ibid
288	April 16, 2011		Central Organising Committee, Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Party Unity	... that in the Indian state of Bihar, pressure from communist Party Unity guerrillas forced the upper-caste paramilitary Bhoomi Sena to surrender to the peasant organisation MKSS?
289	April 16, 2011		Mazdoor Kisan Sangram Samiti	ibid
290	April 19, 2011		Ash-sha'ab yurid isqat an-nizam	... that Ash-sha'ab yurid isqat an-nizam (The people want the fall of the regime) was the most common slogan in graffiti during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution?
291	May 10, 2011		Arvid Olsson	... that socialist politician Arvid Olsson was among the first Swedes to receive political training in Soviet Russia?
292	May 12, 2011		Viktor Herou	... that Viktor Herou, a member of the first Swedish communist parliamentary group, later became a Centre Party municipal politician?
293	May 13, 2011		Puducherry legislative assembly election, 2011	... that the counting of the votes from the 2011 Puducherry legislative assembly election begins on May 13, 2011, exactly one month after the election was held?
294	May 14, 2011		Karl Toman	... that the Austrian former communist leader Karl Toman was appointed mayor of Eichgraben by German authorities in 1938?
295	May 15, 2011		Here Comes Tobor	... that in the credits of the unaired pilot episode of Here Comes Tobor, the robot Tobor is credited as playing himself?
296	May 15, 2011		Tobor	ibid
297	June 22, 2011		Libyan National Democratic Front	... that Mahmoud Shammam, the Head of Information of the Libyan National Transitional Council, was one of the leaders of the Marxist Libyan National Democratic Front in the 1980s?
298	June 23, 2011		Libyan National Movement	... that with support from the Iraqi government, magazines and audio cassettes produced by the exiled Libyan National Movement were smuggled into Libya during the 1980s?
299	June 26, 2011		South African Youth Revolutionary Council	... that in June 1981 South African authorities arrested eight members of the South African Youth Revolutionary Council, charged with preparing an armed uprising against the Apartheid regime?
300	June 29, 2011		French India Students Congress	... that in August 1947 French authorities banned a pro-independence mass rally of the French India Students Congress, but were forced to withdraw the ban after spontaneous protests?
301	June 29, 2011		Baddam Yella Reddy	... that in 1952 the communist candidate Baddam Yella Reddy defeated P. V. Narasimha Rao (later the Prime Minister of India) in a parliamentary election?
302	June 29, 2011		V. Subbiah	... that Indian communist leader V. Subbiah was elected to the Senate of France in 1947?
303	June 30, 2011		National Democratic Front (French India)	... that in the French India municipal election, 1946, the National Democratic Front won control over all 22 municipalities?
304	July 1, 2011		Slovak Social Democratic Party of the Kingdom of Hungary	... that the Slovak Social Democrats founded their own party in 1905, but merged back into the Hungarian Social Democratic Party after a few months due to economic problems?
305	July 1, 2011		Union (Hungarian-German trade union council)	... that Union, a German-Hungarian trade union council, had substantial following amongst agricultural labourers in southwestern Slovakia after the First World War?
306	July 4, 2011		Mohammad Khalil Naik	... that in the 2002 Jammu & Kashmir Assembly election, communist candidate Mohammad Khalil Naik won the Wachi seat by only 80 votes?
307	July 7, 2011		Communist Party of French India	... that in 1954 The New York Times warned that the Communist Party of French India was likely to seize power in the colony?
308	July 8, 2011		French India Socialist Party	... that in the 1948 municipal polls in Pondicherry, largely assumed to have been rigged, the French India Socialist Party won all 102 seats?
309	July 9, 2011		All Hyderabad Trade Union Congress	... that Makhdoom Mohiuddin, the president of the All Hyderabad Trade Union Congress, was arrested at the founding meeting of the organization in 1946?
310	July 20, 2011		Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic	... that for many years, the Russian Soviet Republic did not have its Communist Party?
311	July 25, 2011		Saint Helena Labour Party	... that in the mid-1970s the Saint Helena Labour Party tried to boost links between Saint Helena and South Africa?
312	August 23, 2011		Singareni Karmika Samakya	... that the Indian miners' union Sikasa was banned in 1992, accused of being a front organisation of the People's War Group?
313	August 28, 2011		Basque-Vicuña war	... that in 1622 a civil war broke out in present-day Bolivia between Basques and Vicuñas?
314	August 28, 2011		Alejo Calatayud	... that in 1730, rebels under the command of a silversmith named Alejo Calatayud seized control of Cochabamba, Bolivia?
315	October 17, 2011		Daniel Abibi	... that Daniel Abibi, Congolese permanent representative to the U.N. during the 1990s, was amongst the first Central Africans to obtain a doctorate in mathematics?
316	October 18, 2011		Confédération africaine des syndicats libres	... that the African Confederation of Free Trade Unions was founded in 1958 on the basis of the French Charter of Amiens?
317	October 25, 2011		Oblicze Dnia (newspaper)	... that the plans for a popular front between communists and socialists in Poland collapsed after the launching of the newspaper Oblicze Dnia in 1936?
318	October 26, 2011		Sékou Touré presidential visit to the Republic of the Congo	... that during a 1963 presidential visit to Brazzaville, the Guinean president Sékou Touré called for the overthrow of the Congolese government?
319	October 26, 2011		Keneder yiddische vochenblat	... that when the Communist Party of Canada relaunched its Yiddish newspaper in 1940, they chose the neutral name Canadian Jewish Weekly in order to avoid a government ban?
320	October 29, 2011		Der yidisher arbeyter (Paris)	... that 1911 journal Der yidisher arbeyter (The Jewish Worker) (pictured) was the first Yiddish labour journal published in France?
321	November 3, 2011		Arab Revolutionary Labour Party	... that the Syrian opposition group the Arab Revolutionary Labour Party was founded in 1966 as a Marxist splinter-group of the Ba'ath Party?
322	November 28, 2011		National Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Yemen Region	... that Ba'athists in Yemen carried out clandestine political activity until 1990?
323	November 29, 2011		Progressive Youth Organisation of Guyana	... that the Pioneer Youth League of British Guiana was banned by the British colonial authorities in December 1953?
324	December 27, 2011		Relief Society of Tigray	... that during the 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia, the Relief Society of Tigray organized a mass exodus of Tigrayan villagers to camps in Sudan?
325	January 23, 2012		Democracia	... that at one point in the 1970s, the Ethiopian underground publication Democracia had a larger readership than the official government press?
326	January 29, 2012		Provisional Office for Mass Organizational Affairs	... that during the Red Terror in Ethiopia, the Provisional Office for Mass Organizational Affairs supervised urban militia squads?
327	January 31, 2012		Union of Ethiopian Marxist-Leninist Organizations	... that the Derg military junta supported the formation of the Union of Ethiopian Marxist-Leninist Organizations, but eventually crushed or disbanded its member organizations (Meison, Seded, Echat, Waz and Malerid)?
328	January 31, 2012		Echat	ibid
329	January 31, 2012		Waz League	ibid
330	January 31, 2012		Abyotawit Seded	ibid
331	January 31, 2012		Ethiopian Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary Organization	ibid
332	February 3, 2012		Yäsäffiw hezb dems	... that in the early phase of the Ethiopian revolution, the underground publication Yäsäffiw hezb dems was widely distributed in spite of military censorship?
333	February 4, 2012		Gambela People's Liberation Movement	... that in 1992 the leader of the Gambela People's Liberation Movement, Agwa Alemu, was killed by his own troops?
334	February 7, 2012		Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia	... that the Central Committee of the Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia included only one woman?
335	February 28, 2012		Alemu Abebe	... that Alemu Abebe was sworn in as mayor of Addis Ababa in 1977 after the mayor-elect had been assassinated?
336	February 28, 2012		Oromay	... it is widely suggested that the publication of the novel Oromay, depicting the Eritrean War, led to the disappearance of its author, Baalu Girma?
337	March 18, 2012		Sindicato Obrero Canario	... that in 1979 the trade union Sindicato Obrero Canario labelled Spanish rule of the Canary Islands "colonial" in an appeal to the OUA?
338	March 22, 2012		Asociación Obrera Asambleista	... that in 1977 AOA, a trade union linked to the Spanish urban guerilla movement FRAP, was founded?
339	March 26, 2012		Confederación de Sindicatos Unitarios de Trabajadores	... that whilst the Spanish trade union CSUT criticized other unions for links with political parties, it was itself heavily influenced by the Party of Labour of Spain?
340	March 31, 2012		Confederación Xeral de Traballadores Galegos-Intersindical Nacional	... that in 1985 differences of opinion on the tactics of general strikes led to a split in the Galician nationalist trade union movement and the founding of CXTG?
341	April 2, 2012		Spanish trade union representative elections, 1978	... that in 1978 the Maoist Sindicato Unitario won the union election at the conservative newspaper ABC in Madrid?
342	April 2, 2012		Sindicato Unitario	ibid
343	April 4, 2012		Eusko Langillen Alkartasuna (Askatuta) - Solidaridad de Trabajadores Vascos (Independiente)	... that when the Basque trade union movement ELA-STV suffered a split in the 1970s, the dissident ELA-STV (Askatuta) was accused of being bankrolled by Opus Dei?
344	April 4, 2012		Swiss Socialist Federation	... that in the spring of 1941 the Swiss Socialist Federation was banned and its four national deputies (including Le Travail editor Léon Nicole and Jacques Dicker) were expelled from parliament?
345	April 4, 2012		Le Travail-Le Droit du Peuple	ibid
346	April 4, 2012		Jacques Dicker	ibid
347	April 5, 2012		Umberto Barulli	... that the Communist Party leader Umberto Barulli was appointed head of state in San Marino in 1988?
348	April 5, 2012		Swiss-South African Association	... that the Swiss-South African Association tried to lobby the Swiss government to recognize the Bantustan state Transkei?
349	April 12, 2012		Gabonese Socialist Union	... that the Gabonese Socialist Union, initially an opposition party founded by formerly exiled student activists, aligned itself with the then incumbent president Omar Bongo?
350	April 12, 2012		Birchandra Manu massacre	... that TTAADC member Sridam Pal was one of the 13 victims killed in the 1988 Birchandramanu massacre in South Tripura?
351	April 13, 2012		Maoist Youth Union	... that the Maoist Youth Union demanded that a "Youth Charter" be included in the new Spanish constitution?
352	April 14, 2012		Unión General de Trabajadores (sector histórico)	... that following the 1973 Toulouse congress of PSOE a group of veteran Spanish socialists organized the "Historical" UGT, claiming to represent the original UGT trade union?
353	April 15, 2012		Kampuchean Federation of Trade Unions	... that Deputy Prime Minister of Cambodia Men Sam An served as chairwoman of the Kampuchean Federation of Trade Unions?
354	April 19, 2012		Socialist Republican Party (Sudan)	... that the Sudanese Socialist Republican Party was nicknamed 'Mr. Hawkesworth's Party', in reference to a rumour that a British colonial officer by that name had engineered it?
355	April 20, 2012		Youth Council of the French Union	... that Léopold Sédar Senghor chaired the 1955 congress of the Youth Council of the French Union in Madagascar?
356	April 23, 2012		Ermenegildo Gasperoni	... that the Sammarinese Communist Party leader Ermenegildo Gasperoni worked as both a car mechanic and as Minister of Transport at the same time?
357	April 24, 2012		Erich Ziegler	... that the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin leader Erich Ziegler had been imprisoned during World War II for his role in the Heinz Kapelle resistance group?
358	April 25, 2012		Knud Jespersen	... that a Soviet merchant vessel was named after Danish communist leader Knud Jespersen?
359	April 27, 2012		Khmer-Chinese Friendship Association	... that the main leaders of the Khmer–Chinese Friendship Association were purged and executed in 1977?
360	May 1, 2012		Anti-Imperialist Front	... that although the Sudanese Anti-Imperialist Front had opposed a union with Egypt, it sent volunteers to help the Egyptian side in the 1956 Suez Crisis?
361	May 2, 2012		Martin Gunnar Knutsen	... that radio newsreader Martin Gunnar Knutsen was the first to present the news of the death of Joseph Stalin to a Norwegian audience?
362	May 2, 2012		Bauer und Arbeiter	... that although the newspaper Bauer und Arbeiter rapidly gained popularity amongst German colonists in Azerbaijan, it was closed down after only a few months of existence?
363	May 5, 2012		Jakob Lechleiter	... that the stepfather of Swiss politician Jakob Lechleiter was a German communist leader who was executed in 1942?
364	May 5, 2012		Nachrichten	... that in 1931 the publication of the Volga German newspaper Nachrichten was reduced to 18 times per month, due to paper shortages?
365	May 6, 2012		1976 Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe	... that the debates from the 1976 European Communist Conference (commemorative stamp pictured) were censored by Pravda, but not by Neues Deutschland?
366	May 10, 2012		Larbi Bouhali	... that the Algerian communist leader Larbi Bouhali went into exile after the 1965 coup d'état?
367	May 12, 2012		Sukumar Barman	... that Scheduled Castes leader Sukumar Barman served as Tripura state minister for transport and fisheries?
368	May 22, 2012		Relief Association of Southern Sudan	... that the Relief Association of Southern Sudan was one of the Sudanese partner organizations of Operation Lifeline Sudan?
369	August 3, 2012		Black Native Party	... that Afro-Uruguayan intellectuals founded the Black Native Party in 1936, the third Black political party in Latin America?
370	August 10, 2012		General Union of Negro African Workers	... that the General Union of Negro African Workers was one of the main forces behind the 1958 vote for independence in Guinea?
371	August 18, 2012		Liga Geral dos Trabalhadores de Angola	... that Liga Geral dos Trabalhadores de Angola, an exiled Angolan trade union linked to FNLA, received funding from the AFL–CIO during the 1960s?
372	August 21, 2012		National Convention of New Sudan	... that the 1994 National Convention of New Sudan outlined a civil political administration for the areas held by SPLA guerrillas?
373	August 25, 2012		União Geral dos Trabalhadores de Angola	... that in 1971 Mauricio Luvualu, leader of the exiled Angolan trade union UGTA, was handed over to the Portuguese by the government of Congo-Kinshasa?
374	August 26, 2012		Confédération africaine des travailleurs croyants de l'A.E.F	... that the pro-Catholic trade union C.A.T.C-A.E.F held the Brazzaville P.O. Box 666?
375	August 27, 2012		Somali Confederation of Labour	... that the Somali Confederation of Labour was banned following Siad Barre's coup d'état in 1969?
376	September 12, 2012		Confédération africaine des travailleurs croyants (French West Africa and Togo)	... that in a move to accommodate Muslims, the West African Catholic trade union CATC replaced the word "Christians" in its name with "Believers"?
377	September 29, 2012		Mohamed Refaat El-Saeed	... that in 1995, the Egyptian left-wing leader Mohamed Refaat El-Saeed was nominated to the Upper House of Parliament by Hosni Mubarak?
378	October 4, 2012		MELS Movement Botswana	... that the electoral support of the Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin Movement of Botswana increased by more than ten times between 1999 and 2009?
379	October 14, 2012		Aththa	... that the Communist Party daily Aththa was the only Sinhala-language newspaper to cover the burning of Jaffna library?
380	November 9, 2012		Di Tsayt (Saint Petersburg)	... that whilst the Yiddish newspaper Di Tsayt was published in Saint Petersburg, its editorial team was based in Vienna?
381	November 9, 2012		Le Peuple (Brussels)	... that in 1997 the Belgian socialist daily Le Peuple, founded in 1885, was acquired by the Rossel media group?
382	November 23, 2012		Fish Keitseng	... that the Motswana ANC activist Fish Keitseng helped anti-Apartheid leaders including Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki to move through Bechuanaland?
383	November 27, 2012		Satyanarayan Singh	... that Indian communist politician Satyanarayan Singh led a campaign of annihilation of class enemies in rural Bihar in the late 1960s?
384	December 16, 2012		Lebanese general election, 1968 in Tripoli City	... that in spite of challenges from the left, all incumbent parliamentarians from Tripoli City were re-elected in 1968?
385	December 19, 2012		Lebanese general election, 1968 in Chouf District	... that the Chouf District had the highest number of voters in the 1968 Lebanese parliamentary election?
386	December 22, 2012		Lebanese general election, 1968 in Beirut III	... that the 1968 election in the Beirut III constituency saw Sunni former rivals Abdallah al-Yafi and Saeb Salam unite around a joint candidature?
387	December 22, 2012		Lebanese general election, 1968 in Beirut I	... that all Armenian parliamentarians elected from the Beirut I constituency in 1968 ran unopposed?
388	December 23, 2012		Lebanese general election, 1968 in Zgharta District	... that a 27-year-old law student was the sole challenger against the candidature of Maronite strongman Suleiman Frangieh in the 1968 election in the Zgharta constituency?
389	December 27, 2012		Chouf parliamentary by-election, 1971	... that the 1971 Chouf parliamentary by-poll was described at the time as the "most fiery" by-election ever in Lebanon?
390	December 30, 2012		Lebanese general election, 1968 in Beirut II	... that Jamil Mihhu, contesting the Beirut II constituency in the 1968 election, was the first Kurd to run for office in Lebanon?
391	January 1, 2013		Lebanese general election, 1968 in Marjeyoun-Hasbaya	... that voting in Marjeyoun-Hasbaya in the 1968 Lebanese general election was marred by heavy rains?
392	February 12, 2013		Walter C. Craine	... that Labour politician Walter C. Craine was successful in getting the Manx Divorce Act approved in Tynwald in 1938?
393	March 18, 2013		U.C. Raman	... that U.C. Raman was the first Scheduled Caste candidate nominated by the Indian Union Muslim League for an unreserved constituency?
394	April 10, 2013		Plantation Workers International Federation	... that the Plantation Workers International Federation was founded in Tunis in July 1957?
395	April 12, 2013		Revolutionary Palestinian Communist Party	... that in 1987 the Revolutionary Palestinian Communist Party and the Palestinian Communist Party switched places as members of the PLO?
396	April 13, 2013		National Alliance for the Liberation of Syria	... that following the crushing of the 1982 Hama revolt, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood formed a broad alliance with Arab nationalist factions?
397	April 14, 2013		Sixto Agudo	... that Spanish communist resistance member Sixto Agudo was sentenced to death, but released from jail in 1961?
398	April 27, 2013		Búfalos	... that the para-military squads of the Peruvian APRA Party used to be nick-named "Buffaloes"?
399	May 4, 2013		René Malbrant	... that the veterinarian René Malbrant was a member of all legislatures of the Fourth Republic, representing French citizens in French Equatorial Africa?
400	May 11, 2013		Nova borba	... that the Prague-based Nova borba was the first Yugoslav Cominformist émigré mouthpiece?
401	May 12, 2013		Fashist	... that the émigré Russian publication Fashist falsely claimed to have a vast network of "fascist correspondents" inside the Soviet Union?
402	May 12, 2013		CITYPEG	... that the workers' association CITYPEG has criticised both the Gibraltarian and Spanish governments for their policies affecting Spanish workers in Gibraltar?
403	May 18, 2013		1985 Nepal bombings	... that Ram Raja Prasad Singh was sentenced to death in absentia following the Nepal bombings in 1985?
404	June 12, 2013		Mahila Atma Raksha Samiti	... that during the famine of 1943, the Women's Self-Defense Association organised hunger marches across Bengal?
405	June 14, 2013		Phani Bora	... that in his late twenties, Phani Bora was appointed secretary of the Communist Party of India in Assam?
406	June 17, 2013		El Pueblo (Nicaraguan newspaper)	... that the printing presses of the daily newspaper El Pueblo were confiscated by the Sandinista People's Army in January 1980?
407	July 8, 2013		Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri	... that longtime Indian communist leader Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri remained on hunger strike for nine weeks while in jail?
408	July 23, 2013		Centre Party (Sweden, 1924)	... that the Civilization Party contested the 1924 Swedish general election using a Social Democratic ballot?
409	July 27, 2013		Swedish National Socialist Party	... that Swedish National Socialist Party (meeting pictured) leader Birger Furugård sought to invite Adolf Hitler as a guest speaker in 1931, but police authorities refused to issue a permit?
410	August 2, 2013		Spanish Democratic Socialist Party	... that ahead of the 1977 election, the leader of the Spanish Democratic Socialist Party traveled to Brussels to secure support from the European socialist movement?
411	August 6, 2013		Helmer Molander	... that Helmer Molander was the sole member of Zeth Höglund's Communist Party in the Second Chamber?
412	August 9, 2013		Knut Olsson	... that Ny Dag publisher Knut Olsson was sentenced to eight months of hard labour for articles published regarding the 1931 Ådalen riots?
413	August 20, 2013		Juan Pablo Wainwright	... that before he was ordered to be executed, jailed communist leader Juan Pablo Wainwright is said to have spat in the face of Guatemalan dictator Jorge Ubico?
414	August 17, 2013		Skinnar Per Andersson	... that Dalecarlian rebel leader Skinnar Per Andersson was sentenced to death by Svea Hovrätt in 1744?
415	September 19, 2013		Young Communist League of Poland	... that from 1930 through 1933, Jews constituted a majority of the membership of the Young Communist League of Poland?
416	September 22, 2013		Chilekommittén	... that in 1975 the Swedish Chile Committee mobilized thousands of protestors against a Davis Cup tennis match between Sweden and Chile?
417	September 24, 2013		Folks-Ligue	... that prior to his death in 1945, Soviet diplomat Konstantin Umansky held his last speech at the inauguration of the office of the Jewish People's League at Paseo de la Reforma?
418	October 1, 2013		Vorwärts (Cernăuți)	... that Jakob Pistiner served as editor of the newspaper Vorwärts, in Cernăuți (present-day Chernivtsi)?
419	October 7, 2013		Singai Nesan	... that the first issue of the Singapore Tamil weekly Singai Nesan commemorated the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria?
420	October 9, 2013		Alamat Langkapuri	... that the Colombo fortnightly Alamat Langkapuri was the world's first Malay language newspaper in Jawi script?
421	October 10, 2013		Muslim Nesan	... that the Colombo Arwi weekly Muslim Nesan (1884 issue cover pictured) interviewed exiled Egyptian nationalist leader Ahmed Orabi soon after his arrival in Ceylon?
422	October 12, 2013		Christian Workers Union of Sweden (1899)	... that many of the workers that joined the 1899 Christian Workers Union of Sweden did so in response to hikes in membership fees in other unions?
423	October 14, 2013		Swedish Workers Union	... that when the Swedish Workers Union was dissolved in 1919, its chairman burned all of its central archives?
424	October 16, 2013		Trabajo	... that the Venezuelan president Rómulo Betancourt had been the director of the Costa Rican communist newspaper Trabajo in the 1930s?
425	October 21, 2013		GDR Union of Journalists	... that in 1988 around 90% of East German journalists were members of the GDR Union of Journalists?
426	October 21, 2013		Sector Kanda	... that on April 1, 1986, Nepalese communist rebels attacked police stations, trying to start a popular uprising?
427	October 21, 2013		Euskadi Roja	... that the Basque Communist publication Euzkadi Roja was banned by French authorities in 1950?
428	October 23, 2013		Satyapriya Banerjee	... that in 1953, Satyapriya Banerjee, the sole national parliamentarian of the All India Forward Bloc, was expelled from his party?
429	October 27, 2013		Arbeiter-Zeitung (Timişoara)	... that whilst there were no Romanian-language socialist dailies in Romania in the late 1920s, the Banat Socialist Party published a German-language daily?
430	October 27, 2013		Banat Socialist Party	ibid
431	November 1, 2013		Free Socialist Party/Marxist-Leninists	... that the leader of the Free Socialist Party/Marxist-Leninists was a refugee from East Germany?
432	November 2, 2013		Lal Communist Party Hind Union	... that after the dissolution of the Lal Communist Party, some of its former members became sadhus?
433	November 4, 2013		Labour Gathering Party	... that followers of the Communist Party of the Argentine Region would describe followers of the official Communist Party as "radishes"?
434	November 5, 2013		Y. Radhakrishnamurthy	... that Y. Radhakrishnamurthy filed his nomination for the 1977 parliamentary election in India whilst being jailed?
435	November 7, 2013		Nyari Welly	... that Nyari Welly was the first woman elected to the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly?
436	November 8, 2013		Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 1978	... that no women were elected in the 1978 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election?
437	November 9, 2013		Nanasaheb Purohit	... that in 1948, the socialist leader Nanasaheb Purohit organized a people's army to capture the Janjira state and proclaimed himself Prime Minister?
438	November 10, 2013		Krausirpi	... that Moravian missionaries reached the remote village of Krausirpi in 1967?
439	November 11, 2013		Uttar Pradesh Revolutionary Socialist Party	... that in 1951 the Revolutionary Socialist Party expelled its entire Uttar Pradesh branch?
440	November 12, 2013		Long Live the Victory of Mao Zedong Thought (Shenyang)	... that the Shenyang Chairman Mao statue (pictured) is one of the largest remaining Cultural Revolution-era monuments in China?
441	November 12, 2013		Sozialistische Arbeiter-Zeitung	... that the young Willy Brandt wrote for Sozialistische Arbeiter-Zeitung?
442	November 14, 2013		Das Volksrecht (Offenbach am Main)	... that the Indian revolutionary M.N. Roy wrote under a pseudonym for the German newspaper Das Volksrecht?
443	November 15, 2013		Bakin Pertin	... that Bakin Pertin was the first Lok Sabha member elected from Arunachal East?
444	November 17, 2013		Schlesische Arbeiter-Zeitung	... that Bernhard Schottländer, the editor of the Schlesische Arbeiter-Zeitung, was killed during the 1920 Kapp Putsch?
445	November 17, 2013		Bernhard Schottländer	ibid
446	November 18, 2013		PEPSU Legislative Assembly	... that the President of India dissolved the PEPSU Legislative Assembly in 1953?
447	November 19, 2013		Young Communist League of Germany (Opposition)	... that the Young Communist League (Opposition) organized underground resistance activities in Nazi Germany?
448	November 20, 2013		League of West German Communists	... that the League of West German Communists was the first West German left-wing group to dissolve itself and join the Party of Democratic Socialism?
449	November 22, 2013		Coorg Legislative Assembly election, 1952	... that following the 1952 Coorg Legislative Assembly election, the victorious C.M. Poonacha formed a two-member cabinet?
450	November 24, 2013		Bandera Roja (La Paz)	... that in 1926, the Bolivian government arrested two editors of Bandera Roja, following an article about a massacre of mine workers?
451	November 26, 2013		Ranbir (newspaper)	... that Ranbir was the first daily newspaper in Jammu and Kashmir?
452	November 26, 2013		The Vigilant	... that the Sudanese newspaper Vigilant was banned for six months in 1965–66 for reporting on massacres in Juba and Wau?
453	December 1, 2013		Pondicherry legislative assembly election, 1964	... that the 1964 Pondicherry legislative assembly election marked the end of the hegemony of Edouard Goubert in the political life of the Union Territory?
454	December 2, 2013		Deutsche Volkszeitung (1945)	... that in the summer of 1945, Deutsche Volkszeitung accused Siemens of having produced and installed the gas chambers at Auschwitz?
455	December 4, 2013		Sozialistischer Schutzbund (Saar)	... that Heinz Kühn (Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia) had led a socialist paramilitary youth group in the Saar territory in the 1930s?
456	December 6, 2013		Das Volk (1945)	... that by January 1946 Das Volk, the second working class newspaper to be published in Berlin after World War II, had a circulation of a quarter million?
457	December 6, 2013		The North Queensland Guardian	... that unlike other Communist Party of Australia publications, The North Queensland Guardian carried commercial advertisements?
458	December 7, 2013		Abdallah Deng Nhial	... that Abdallah Deng Nhial has served as cabinet minister in both Sudan and South Sudan?
459	December 12, 2013		Sholaye-e Inquilab	... that Sholaye-e Inquilab ("Flame of the Revolution") was the first Tajik Persian newspaper founded in Soviet Turkestan?
460	December 14, 2013		Al-Tilmiz	... that in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the Arabic weekly al-Tilmiz was the most important journal for North Caucasian intellectuals?
461	December 18, 2013		Hyderabad Legislative Assembly election, 1952	... that in the 1952 Hyderabad State Assembly election, the communist People's Democratic Front won all seats from the Nalgonda district?
462	December 20, 2013		Di Tsayt (New York)	... that Golda Meir sold shares for the New York newspaper Di Tsayt?
463	December 22, 2013		Shanta Vasisht	... that the Indian parliamentarian Shanta Vasisht had been a Kappa Alpha Theta scholarship recipient?
464	December 22, 2013		Freies Volk	... that after the ban on the Communist Party of Germany in 1956, its main organ Freies Volk continued to be published illegally?
465	December 22, 2013		Bowen state by-election, 1936	... that the Communist Party of Australia candidate Fred Paterson won almost 25% of the votes in the 1936 by-election in Bowen, Queensland?
466	January 5, 2014		V. Ponnambalam	... that the Tamil Communist Party leader V. Ponnambalam later regretted having contested the 1975 Kankesanthurai by-election?
467	January 5, 2014		Kankesanthurai Electoral District by-election, 1975	ibid.
468	January 9, 2014		Dr. Nath (Yebaw Tun Maung)	... that the principal of the Communist Party of Burma Medical School, Yebaw Tun Maung, was killed in an army attack in 1968?
469	January 10, 2014		Socialist Party of Honduras	... that the bulk of the founders of the Socialist Party of Honduras had been members of the Christian Democratic Party?
470	January 12, 2014		Fur Workers Industrial Union	... that in 1927 the Ben Gold-led Fur Workers Industrial Union was founded by New York locals expelled from the AFL-affiliated union?
471	January 27, 2014		Havaner lebn	... that Havaner lebn was the first lasting commercial Jewish newspaper in Cuba?
472	January 27, 2014		Aníbal Delgado Fiallos	... that while political analyst Aníbal Delgado Fiallos had been a staunch critic of Honduran president Manuel Zelaya's constitutional reform, he took part in the protests against Zelaya's ouster?
473	January 29, 2014		Verdad (1950)	... that in 1951 the director of the Uruguayan communist daily Verdad was demoted by the party leadership?
474	January 31, 2014		Enrique Bernales Ballesteros	... that in 1987 the Peruvian senator Enrique Bernales Ballesteros was appointed as the first United Nations special rapporteur on mercenaries?
475	February 1, 2014		Honduran Patriotic Front	... that the Honduran Patriotic Front, an alliance formed ahead of the 1980s elections, called for an electoral boycott in protest against perceived fraud?
475	February 2, 2014		Óscar Felipe Ventura	... that Peruvian teachers' union leader and former Member of Parliament Óscar Felipe Ventura is a noted saxophone player?
476	February 2, 2014		Jorge del Prado	... that Peruvian politician Jorge del Prado was awarded orders and medals of Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and the Soviet Union?
477	February 3, 2014		Radio Mil Diez	... that at an early stage in her singing career Celia Cruz was part of the orchestra of the communist Radio Mil Diez?
478	February 5, 2014		Per Catalunya!	... that Catalan refugees in Cuba founded the publication Per Catalunya! in 1942?
479	February 13, 2014		Eriberto Arroyo Mío	... that Peruvian leftist parliamentarian Eriberto Arroyo Mío was assassinated whilst driving his son to school?
480	February 17, 2014		Khan Shakir Ali Khan	... that communist legislator Khan Shakir Ali Khan warned of the risks of the Union Carbide plant, years before the 1984 Bhopal disaster?
481	February 17, 2014		Burevestnik (Petrograd, 1917)	... that the anarchist newspaper Burevestnik, published in Petrograd in 1917–8, encouraged the homeless and poor to appropriate homes for themselves?
482	February 17, 2014		Burevestnik (1906)	... that the name of the anarchist newspaper Burevestnik, published in Paris in 1906, was inspired by Maxim Gorky's poem Song of the Stormy Petrel?
483	February 17, 2014		Jorge Torres Vallejo	... that Peruvian politician Jorge Torres Vallejo was awarded the San Martín Order by the government of Argentina?
484	February 19, 2014		Javier Silva Ruete	... that when Javier Silva Ruete was appointed Minister of Agriculture in the First Presidency of Fernando Belaúnde, he was the youngest person having occupied that post?
485	February 23, 2014		Gunnar Öhman	... that in the 1929 split in the Swedish Communist Party, the brothers Oscar and Gunnar Öhman found themselves on opposite sides?
486	February 23, 2014		Keshab Prasad Badal	... that former Minister of Industries Keshab Prasad Badal was a leader of the Proletarian Revolutionary Organisation, Nepal in the 1970s?
487	February 27, 2014		Axel Jansson (1916)	... that parliamentarian Axel Jansson was removed from the Swedish Communist Party executive at the 1967 party congress?
488	March 10, 2014		Unity for Socialism	... that Northern Irish ex-MP Bernadette Devlin and Peruvian MP Hugo Blanco took part in the 1980 election campaign of the Catalan Unity for Socialism?
489	March 12, 2014		Seydou Cissokho	... that Senegalese communist leader Seydou Cissokho died in Moscow while visiting the 1986 congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union?
490	March 13, 2014		Kamgar Kisan Paksha	... that when the Kamgar Kisan Paksha was split on the issue of its relationship to the Communist Party of India, its two elected representatives led opposite factions?
491	March 13, 2014		S.K. Limaye	... that in 1942, S.K. Limaye was expelled from the Communist Party of India for having refused to support the British war effort?
492	March 18, 2014		Al-Malayin	... that al-Malayin was the first Egyptian communist newspaper that dedicated space for sports and culture?
493	March 21, 2014		All People's Party (Assam)	... that the founding conference of the All People's Party in Assam unanimously elected the Muslim League leader Muhammed Saadulah as the chairman of their party?
494	April 10, 2014		Nurul Huda (CPI(M) politician)	... that communist leader Nurul Huda entered the parliament of India following a 1974 by-election?
495	April 13, 2014		Uttar Pradesh Praja Party	... that whilst the 1951 founding conference of the Uttar Pradesh Praja Party targeted getting 2.5 million members, it won just two seats in that year's Legislative Assembly election?
496	April 20, 2014		Meghraj Tawar	... that Meghraj Tawar has contested every Lok Sabha election for the past three decades?
497	April 20, 2014		Saurashtra Khedut Sangh	... that whilst the Khedut Sangh was the second-largest political force in the 1951 elections in Saurashtra State, it lacked prominent leaders?
498	April 22, 2014		Jammu and Kashmir Awami League	... that both the chairman and the senior vice chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Awami League were killed in 2003?
499	April 23, 2014		List of Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidates in the Indian general election, 2014	... that the actor Innocent is one of the candidates of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in this year's parliamentary election (election rally pictured)?
500	April 24, 2014		Muslim League (Opposition)	... that differences on the issue of Muslim personal law led to a split between the All India Muslim League and the Communist Party of India (Marxist)?
501	April 24, 2014		Komfarband of Bielorussia and Lithuania	... that whilst the Communist Party of the Soviet Union opposed the setting up of an independent Jewish party organization, an autonomous Jewish Communist Party was founded in Bielorussia?
502	April 24, 2014		Railway Workers Union (Iraq)	... that the Iraqi Railway Workers Union was banned in the midst of a 1945 strike?
503	April 24, 2014		Harijan Mandal	... that the Praja Socialist Party, the Ambedkarite Harijan Mandal and the Akali Dal formed an alliance ahead of the 1962 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election?
504	April 29, 2014		A.V. Thamarakshan	... that the Revolutionary Socialist Party (Bolshevik) leader A.V. Thamarakshan is supported by the BJP in this year's parliamentary poll?
505	April 30, 2014		List of All India Forward Bloc candidates in the Indian general election, 2014	... that former IAS cadre Pancham Lal is one of the candidates of the All India Forward Bloc in the 2014 election?
506	April 30, 2014		Pancham Lal	... ibid
507	May 3, 2014		G. Nagesh	... was one of the youngest candidates to be elected to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 1994?
508	May 3, 2014		Al-Qaidah (newspaper)	... that although it was banned at the time, the communist newspaper al-Qaidah was probably one of the most read publications in Iraq in 1947?
509	May 6, 2014		Israeli Communist Opposition	... that in 1975, the former general secretary of the Israeli Communist Party, Shmuel Mikunis, joined the dissident Israeli Communist Opposition?
510	May 7, 2014		Gird by-election, 1972	... that in the 1972 by-election to the Gird seat in the Madhya Pradesh assembly, Vijaya Raje Scindia's candidate was defeated by the communist Balkrishna Sharma?
511	May 7, 2014		Drupad Borgohain	... that Assam state communist leader Drupad Borgohain was born on the anniversary of the October Revolution?
512	May 20, 2014		Bhan Singh Bhaura	... that communist parliamentarian Bhan Singh Bhaura survived the crash of Indian Airlines Flight 440?
513	May 26, 2014		P.B.M. Basaiawmoit‎	... that Indian reverend P.B.M. Basaiawmoit‎ led campaigns against uranium mining in Meghalaya?
514	May 30, 2014		Tsering Samphel‎	... that Tsering Samphel, a Congress Party candidate in the 2014 Indian general election, is a past president of the Ladakh Buddhist Association?
515	May 31, 2014		Indonesian communist exiles in Tirana	... that Albania became one of the main hubs for exiled Indonesian communists following the mass killings of 1965–66?
516	June 2, 2014		James Lowangcha Wanglat	... that Lowangcha Wanglat, BJP candidate in the 2014 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, is from the Namsang-Borduria royal family?
517	June 3, 2014		Tammineni Veerabhadram	... that T. Veerabhadram was the Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate with the most votes outside Kerala and West Bengal in the 1998 Indian general election?
518	June 3, 2014		Purnendu Dastidar	... that Purnendu Dastidar was elected to the East Pakistan Legislative Assembly in 1954 while in jail?
519	June 5, 2014		Anti-Zionist League in Iraq	... that after it was banned, members of the Iraqi Anti-Zionist League were arrested and charged with the crime of Zionism?
520	June 8, 2014		Gopal Kalan Tandel	... that Gopal Kalan Tandel defeated Narayan Fugro in the first Lok Sabha election for the Daman and Diu seat?
521	June 8, 2014		Narayan Fugro	ibid
522	June 10, 2014		Djawoto	... that in 1966 Indonesian ambassador Djawoto was granted political asylum in China, following the mass killings of 1965–66?
523	June 14, 2014		Abdul Sattar Ranjoor‎	... that Kashmiri politician and poet Abdul Sattar Ranjoor‎ was assassinated by militants when he was 73?
524	June 14, 2014		Abdul Ghafar Lakanwal	... that in 1988 Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Abdul Ghafar Lakanwal defected to the United States?
525	June 16, 2014		Labour Spokesman	... that the newspaper Labour Spokesman shares its building with the Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party and the Trades and Labour Union?
526	June 16, 2014		Outlet (Antigua newspaper)	... that the offices of the Antigua and Barbuda newspaper Outlet were torched in 1998, following the publication of an article on a secret arms deal?
527	June 16, 2014		Commonwealth Trade Union Group	... that the Canadian Labour Congress president Dennis McDermott was the founding chairman of the Commonwealth Trade Union Council?
528	June 17, 2014		Amar Nath Yadav	... that Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation candidate Amar Nath Yadav mustered a quarter million votes in the Siwan seat in the 1999 election?
529	June 19, 2014		T. J. Chandrachoodan	... that T. J. Chandrachoodan is the third Keralite to head the Revolutionary Socialist Party?
530	June 19, 2014		Unió Sindical d'Andorra	... that the leader of the Trade Union of Andorra has likened the labour rights situation in the country to that of a dictatorship?
531	June 19, 2014		R. S. Unni	... that the Deputy Speaker of the Kerala Legislative Assembly, R. S. Unni, held positions in over 20 trade unions?
532	June 22, 2014		V.P. Ramakrishna Pillai	... ... that Revolutionary Socialist Party leader V. P. Ramakrishna Pillai served as Minister of Labour in Kerala between 1998 and 2001?
533	June 25, 2014		Radhakanta Sethy	... that in 1991 the lone Communist Party of India (Marxist) member in the Orissa Legislative Assembly, Radhakanta Sethy, left the party?
534	June 26, 2014		Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party	... that the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party has favoured the creation of a Purvanchal state?
535	June 26, 2014		Golos Armenii	... that the Soviet Armenian newspaper Kommunist became the opposition newspaper Golos Armenii in the 1990s?
536	June 26, 2014		Thakur Ganpat Singh	... that Thakur Ganpat Singh was re-elected to the Ajmer Legislative Assembly with an increased margin, after his election had been declared void in 1953?
537	June 27, 2014		L.B.G. Rao	... that the Indian communist politician L.B.G. Rao led guerrilla squads during the Telangana armed struggle?
538	June 28, 2014		Left and Secular Alliance	... that the Left and Secular Alliance and BJP opposed each other in the 2014 Indian general election, but later sent a joint delegation to lodge a complaint with the Election Commission?
539	June 28, 2014		Rungsung Suisa	... that in 1966, parliamentarian Rungsung Suisa proposed confederation as a solution to the Indo–Naga conflict?
540	June 30, 2014		Swami Kumaranand	... that in 1921, Maulana Hasrat Mohani and Swami Kumaranand tabled the first motion to call for full Independence in the All India Congress Committee?
541	July 1, 2014		Uddaraju Ramam	... that communist leader U. Ramam tried to regain the Narsapuram constituency five times, after having won it in 1957?
542	July 1, 2014		El-Buss refugee camp	... that the El-Buss Palestinian refugee camp was originally set up for Armenian refugees arriving in Lebanon?
543	July 20, 2014		J. Mohammed Imam	... that Muslim League politician J. M. Imam was awarded the title Mushir ul-Mulk ("Advisor of the Kingdom") by the Maharaja of Mysore in 1945?
544	July 23, 2014		Valentino Pittoni	... that in 1920 socialist politician Valentino Pittoni (pictured) argued that the Italian city of Trieste should become a state in the Austrian republic?
545	August 4, 2014		Tripura local elections, 2014	... that 50% of the seats in the 2014 Tripura local body elections were reserved for women?
546	August 9, 2014		Socialist Workers Party of Romania	... that in the midst of the 1929 financial crisis, the Socialist Workers Party of Romania argued that the time was ripe for revolution?
547	August 25, 2014		Nigerien Action Bloc	... that the Nigerien Action Bloc won the mayoral post of Zinder in 1956?
548	August 25, 2014		Mauritanian National Union	... that leaders of the pro-Mali Federation Mauritanian National Union were released from jail once the Federation fell apart?
549	August 26, 2014		Gabonese National Unity Party	... that the radical PUNGA party was the sole force in Gabon that called for a "No" vote in the 1958 French constitutional referendum?
550	September 14, 2014		Der Funke	... that the newspaper Der Funke published an appeal signed by Albert Einstein, calling for unity against Adolf Hitler in the July 1932 elections in Germany?
551	September 18, 2014		Volkswacht (Danzig)	... that the social democratic newspaper Volkswacht was placed under preventive censorship during World War I?
552	September 25, 2014		Hermann Suhrau	... that the Memel communist labour leader Hermann Suhrau later became a Nazi Party member?
553	November 27, 2014		Fashizmi	... that during the beginning of the Italian occupation of Albania, Fashizmi was the sole daily newspaper published in the country?
554	January 6, 2015		Malayang Pagkakaisa ng Kabataan Pilipino	... that leaders of the Filipino communist youth movement Malayang Pagkakaisa ng Kabataan Pilipino were offered amnesty under a presidential decree in 1974?
555	January 8, 2015		Progressive All-Student Unionist Camp	... that in December 1979 the Progressive All-Student Unionist Camp mobilized students to occupy Greek universities?
556	January 22, 2015		Beirut II (1960)	... that the Beirut II parliamentary constituency functioned as a "buffer zone" between the Muslim and Christian parts of the city?
557	January 23, 2015		Beirut II	... that the Beirut II parliamentary constituency has the highest percentage of Armenian voters in Lebanon?
558	January 29, 2015		Wimpy Operation	... that the 1982 Wimpy Operation marked the start of armed resistance against Israeli troops in Beirut?
559	February 4, 2015		Minorities (Lebanon)	... that six different sects share one parliamentary seat in Lebanon?
560	February 9, 2015		60th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide commemorations in Beirut	... that during a lull in fighting in the Lebanese Civil War, some 100,000 people gathered in Beirut to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide?
561	February 27, 2015		Beirut I	... that when the Beirut I electoral district was formed in 2008, it was the first Christian-majority electoral district in the city since 1972?
562	March 13, 2015		Semmelwrap	... that the launching of the semmelwrap became a viral success on Swedish social media?
563	March 13, 2015		Bint Jbeil electoral district	... that Hezbollah candidate Hassan Fadlallah was elected from the Bint Jbeil district in 2009 with over 94% of the cast votes?
564	March 20, 2015		Joseph Chader	... that in 1958 Joseph Chader became the first Armenian government minister in Lebanon?
565	March 21, 2015		Beirut V – Minet El Hosn electoral district	... that Beirut V – Minet El Hosn electoral district was a single-member constituency used only in the 1953 Lebanese general election?
566	April 18, 2015		Beirut III	... that Beirut III has the largest number of Sunni Muslim voters of all electoral districts in Lebanon?
567	August 17, 2015		Madhavi Sarkar	... that after the murder of Bihar communist legislator Ajit Sarkar in 1998, his widow Madhavi Sarkar was elected for his seat in a by-election?
568	September 12, 2015		Upendra Nath Das	... that Upendra Nath Das was just 25 years old when he was elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly in 1977?
569	September 13, 2015		Simaria by-election, 2008	... that star campaigners in the 2008 Simaria Legislative Assembly seat by-election included Yashwant Sinha, Lalu Prasad Yadav and Ajay Maken?
570	October 1, 2015		Yogendra Nath Baitha	... that Yogendra Nath Baitha received more votes than any other CSP-JSD candidate in the 1995 Bihar Legislative Assembly election?
571	December 13, 2015		Mahbub Alam (politician)	... that Mahbub Alam was arrested just after filing his nomination paper for the 2014 Indian general election?
572	January 9, 2016		Arabi Awwad	... that after being jailed for 10 years and then deported to Jordan, Palestinian communist leader Arabi Awwad was elected to the Palestinian National Council in 1974?
573	January 10, 2016		Federación Obrera de Magallanes	... that in 1920, a deadly arson attack occurred at the offices of the Federación Obrera de Magallanes trade union in Punta Arenas, Chile?
574	January 12, 2016		Revolutionary Communist Party of Argentina	... that the Revolutionary Communist Party of Argentina won key leadership posts in the Córdoba auto workers union election of 1972?
575	January 17, 2016		Palestinian Liberation Front (Abu Nidal Ashqar wing)	... that the Palestinian Liberation Front left the PLO in protest against the 1993 Oslo Accords?
576	January 18, 2016		Patriotic Labour Youth	... that many guerrilla leaders in the Guatemalan Civil War had been members of the Patriotic Labour Youth during high school?
577	January 21, 2016		Alliance of Palestinian Forces	... that the Alliance of Palestinian Forces, formed in 1993 by Hamas and nine other groups who rejected the Oslo Accords, was marginalized by the time of the Second Intifada in 2000?
578	January 23, 2016		Abbo Nassour	... that Abbo Nassour became the speaker of the Chadian parliament in 1969, after having been sentenced to death a few years earlier?
579	January 28, 2016		Paul Kpoffon	... that the Dahomeyan post and telegraph workers leader Paul Kpoffon went on to become a government minister and ambassador?
580	March 7, 2016		Ernst Paul	... that during World War II, Office of Strategic Services agent I. S. Dorfman maintained liaisons with exiled socialist leaders of the Stockholm-based "Little Internationale" such as Willy Brandt, Bruno Kreisky, and Ernst Paul?
581	March 7, 2016		Isaiah Sol Dorfman	ibid.
582	March 7, 2016		International Group of Democratic Socialists	ibid.
583	March 22, 2016		Karl Čermak	... that in the 1920s, Karl Čermak, deputy from the Česká Lípa 5th electoral district, was the sole member of the German Social Democracy in Czechoslovakia leadership who hailed from a major city?
584	March 22, 2016		Česká Lípa 5th electoral district (Czechoslovakia)	ibid.
585	March 31, 2016		Karel Dufek	... that Karel Dufek, Czechoslovak ambassador to Turkey and Brazil, served in the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War?
586	April 2, 2016		Soim	... that the parliament of the Republic of Carpatho-Ukraine met only once for a single day?
587	April 7, 2016		Těšín electoral district (Czechoslovakia)	... that in 1921 more than 95% of the Czechoslovak citizens of Polish ethnicity lived in the Těšín electoral district?
588	April 19, 2016		German People's Group in Czecho-Slovakia	... that after the Sudeten German Party was banned, its followers in areas that remained in Czechoslovakia regrouped as the German People's Group?
589	May 1, 2016		Elections in the First Czechoslovak Republic	... that the Social Democrats were the only party to win more than 16% of the vote in any national parliamentary election in the First Czechoslovak Republic?
590	May 10, 2016		Franz Karmasin	... that two deputies of the German Party were elected in the 1938 Slovak parliamentary election, former Carpathian German Party chief and member of the Czechoslovak parliament from the 10th district Franz Karmasin, and the priest Josef Steinhübl?
591	May 10, 2016		Carpathian German Party	ibid.
592	May 10, 2016		German Party (Slovakia)	ibid.
593	May 10, 2016		Josef Steinhübl	ibid.
594	May 10, 2016		Jihlava 10th electoral district (Czechoslovakia)	ibid.
595	June 14, 2016		George Waschkies	... that George Waschkies, a German member of the Lithuanian parliament, had 14 children?
596	June 21, 2016		Social Democratic Party of the Memel Territory	... that when the Memel Convention came into force in 1925, the local branch of the Social Democratic Party of Germany became a separate party?
597	August 19, 2016		Doaba Daudzai Tehsil	... that Fort Michni, one of two recognised towns of Doaba Daudzai Tehsil, had a population of 205 males and 3 females?
598	November 13, 2016		Democratic Alliance List	... that seeking to challenge both Fatah and Hamas, five left-wing factions united to jointly contest the 2016 Palestinian local elections, which have since been postponed?
599	November 25, 2016		W.Z. Ahmed	... that W.Z. Ahmed's film Roohi was the first to be banned in Pakistan?
600	November 26, 2016		Second Party Congress of the Communist Party of India	... that the Communist Party of Pakistan was founded on the sidelines of the 1948 Second Party Congress of the Communist Party of India in Calcutta?
601	November 30, 2016		Sindh Mohajir Punjabi Pathan Muttahida Mahaz	... that the Sindh Mohajir Punjabi Pathan Muttahida Mahaz was the first Pakistani party to use the term "Muhajir" in a political context?
602	December 10, 2016		Jiban Ratan Dhar	... that West Bengal Jails Minister Jiban Ratan Dhar has been jailed three times himself?
603	December 18, 2016		Sudhindranath Kumar	... that the Revolutionary Communist Party of India general secretary Sudhindranath Kumar served two terms as Food Minister of West Bengal?
604	December 19, 2016		Bhakti Bhushan Mandal	... that in the 1980s, the West Bengal Fisheries Minister Bhakti Bhushan Mandal declared himself to be an intermediary between the Government of India and exiled Naga leader Phizo?
605	December 19, 2016		Anadi Das	... that Revolutionary Communist Party candidate Anadi Das defeated the incumbent assembly speaker in the 1962 West Bengal election?
606	December 23, 2016		Sadhan Gupta	... that Sadhan Gupta, elected from Calcutta South East in a 1953 by-poll, was the first blind parliamentarian in independent India?
607	December 23, 2016		Calcutta South East (Lok Sabha constituency)	ibid.
608	December 23, 2016		Calcutta South East by-election, 1953	ibid.
609	December 26, 2016		Kanai Pal	... that Indian Trotskyist state legislator Kanai Pal was jailed soon after being elected in 1962?
610	December 28, 2016		Sudha Roy	... that when Sisir Roy died in 1960, his sister Sudha Roy took over his post as general secretary of the United Trade Union Congress?
611	December 30, 2016		A.M.O. Ghani	... that A.M.O. Ghani's popularity as a politician was credited to his provision of medical care to the poor?
612	December 31, 2016		Z.A. Ahmed (Indian politician)	... that facing an arrest warrant in India and pressure from within his party, Indian communist politician Z.A. Ahmed sought refuge in Pakistan?
613	January 1, 2017		Protiva Mukherjee	... that Protiva Mukherjee was the only female minister in the 1969 United Front government of West Bengal?
614	January 3, 2017		Ram Chatterjee	... that in 1969, the West Bengal Sports Minister Ram Chatterjee invaded the exclusive Calcutta Swimming Club along with a group of Santhal tribals?
615	January 5, 2017		Pakistan Communist Party	... that the Pakistan Communist Party ceased to exist just three weeks after it had been founded?
616	January 11, 2017		Left Front (West Bengal)	... that the Left Front governed the Indian state of West Bengal for 34 years, winning the elections of 1977, 1982, 1987, 1991, 1996, 2001, and 2006?
617	January 11, 2017		West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 1977	ibid.
618	January 11, 2017		West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 1982	ibid.
619	January 11, 2017		West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 1987	ibid.
620	January 11, 2017		West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 1991	ibid.
621	January 11, 2017		West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 1996	ibid.
622	January 12, 2017		M.A. Rasul	... that Indian peasant movement leader M.A. Rasul was sent to East Pakistan to build the Communist Party there?
623	January 15, 2017		Barada Mukutmoni	... that after the Bolshevik Party of India leader Barada Mukutmoni was named Tourism Minister in the Second United Front Cabinet of West Bengal, there was a split in his party?
624	January 15, 2017		Bolshevik Party of India	ibid.
625	January 15, 2017		Second United Front Cabinet	ibid.
626	January 17, 2017		Lok Sewak Sangh	... that the Lok Sewak Sangh organized a 300-mile (480 km) protest march in 1955 to demand inclusion of Bengali-speaking areas of Bihar into West Bengal?
627	January 20, 2017		Jyotibhushan Bhattacharya	... that Workers Party of India leader Jyotibhushan Bhattacharya was jailed during the Sino-Indian War of 1962?
628	January 26, 2017		Sudhir Chandra Das	... that zoological gardens were added to Sudhir Chandra Das's ministerial portfolio in 1971?
629	February 1, 2017		Deo Prakash Rai	... that All India Gorkha League leader Deo Prakash Rai was denounced as a communist agent and deported from Malaya in 1950?
630	February 2, 2017		Revolutionary Communist Party of India (Tagore)	... that the Revolutionary Communist Party of India (Tagore) fell out of favour due to its isolation from other left-wing groups?
631	March 6, 2017		Charu Mihir Sarkar	... that three Bangla Congress ministers, Charu Mihir Sarkar, Bhabatosh Soren, and S.K. Dhara, resigned on the same day in 1970 from the West Bengal government?
632	March 6, 2017		Bhabatosh Soren	ibid.
633	March 28, 2017		Revolutionary Communist Party of India	... that the Revolutionary Communist Party of India attacked the Dum Dum Airfield in 1949?
634	September 4, 2017		Amos Gray	... that Liberian trade unionist 'Amos Gray became involved in labor activism whilst being a part-time port worker during his college years?
635	September 13, 2017		Central Organising Committee, Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist)	... that a single armed squad of the Central Organising Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) carried out nearly 30 robberies in 1974?
636	September 16, 2017		Labor Congress of Liberia	... that the Labor Congress of Liberia was closely tied to the Liberian government and membership fees were paid directly to the governing True Whig Party?
637	September 19, 2017		Umadhar Singh	... that as a member of the communist student movement, Bihar legislator Umadhar Singh was jailed for eight years with his legs in chains?
638	September 27, 2017		New Delhi by-election, 1992	... that the 1992 New Delhi by-election included the candidacies of two Bollywood stars and a "Bandit Queen"?
639	September 28, 2017		Institute of Party History of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Estonia	... that in 1989, the Institute of Party History of the Communist Party of Estonia denounced the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
640	October 19, 2017		Nagapattinam by-election, 1979	... that after Nagapattinam Member of Parliament S.G. Murugaiyan was killed in broad daylight, his party retained the seat in the subsequent 1979 by-election?
641	October 19, 2017		S.G. Murugaiyan	ibid.
642	October 19, 2017		Nagapattinam (Lok Sabha constituency)	ibid.
643	October 20, 2017		N. Somana	... that N. Somana is one of only two Kodagu district politicians to be elected to the Lok Sabha?
644	October 22, 2017		Sunkam Achalu	... that in the 1951–52 Indian general election, the 27-year old Sunkam Achalu was elected by the largest margin?
645	November 23, 2017		Homi F. Daji	... that communist politician Homi F. Daji called the 1985 Bhopal gas leak "a callous man-made tragedy of unparalleled dimensions"?
646	August 16, 2020		NAP-Communist Party-Students Union Special Guerrilla Forces	... that in 2014, the government of Bangladesh removed 2,367 former communist guerrilla fighters from the official listing of freedom fighters, but this move was overruled by the High Court?
647	August 30, 2020		Dinkar Mehta	... that the Gujarat Communist Party head Dinkar Mehta escaped from jail in 1949 and remained underground until 1951?
648	September 9, 2020		Indian Society for Cultural Co-operation and Friendship	... that the Friends of the Soviet Union was founded in 1941 with poet Rabindranath Tagore as its patron?
649	September 13, 2020		1964 split in the Communist Party of India	... that the 1964 split in the Communist Party of India was ignored by the Soviet press, but was overemphasized in Chinese mass media?
650	November 17, 2020		Der nayer veg	... that the 1906–1907 weekly Der nayer veg (The New Path) contained some of the earliest critical scholarly writings on Yiddish language and literature?
651	December 3, 2020		Union of Town and Country Proletariat	... that the 1922 electoral platform of the Union of Town and Country Proletariat called for the creation of a World Federation of Socialist Republics?
652	March 14, 2020		Andanappa Doddameti	... that Andanappa Doddameti was the first member to address the Bombay Legislative Assembly in the Kannada language?
653	August 5, 2021		Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and Belorussia	... that the short-lived Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and Belorussia had a Yiddish-language state theatre?
654	September 7, 2021		League of Socialist Youth of Bosnia and Herzegovina	... that a Socialist Youth League candidate in the 1990 Bosnian general election registered his ethnicity as 'Eskimo' as an apparent protest against ethnic registry requirements for candidates?
655	September 10, 2021		Half Die	... that the Banjul sector Half Die was reportedly given its name due to an epidemic outbreak in the 19th century?
656	September 20, 2021		February 28 Popular Leagues	... that the February 28 Popular Leagues would seize foreign embassies in protest against the military junta in El Salvador?
657	November 8, 2021		East Germany–Zanzibar relations	... that the first East German embassy in Africa opened in Zanzibar in 1964?
658	March 21, 2022		1917 Kiev City Duma election	... that Ukrainian parties obtained only a fifth of the votes in the 1917 Kiev City Duma election?
659	April 10, 2022		1917 Baku City Duma election	... that Baku was the last major city to hold municipal elections in 1917 Russia, with the delayed voting occurring after the beginning of the October Revolution?
660	April 29, 2022		1917 Odessa City Duma election	... that women were elected to the Odessa City Duma for the first time in 1917?
661	May 5, 2022		Munkatsher Humorist	... that the Yiddish-language satirical newspaper Munkatsher Humorist frequently joked about disputes between the Hasidic courts of Munkacs and Belz?
662	July 4, 2022		1917 Minsk City Duma election	... that in the 1917 municipal election in Minsk, Belorussian parties only won two out of 102 seats?
663	July 24, 2022		National Agrarian Union	... that the National Agrarian Union opposed the introduction of female suffrage in Sweden?
664	July 29, 2022		United Socialist Party (Romania)	... that following the ban of its labour unions in 1934, the Romanian United Socialist Party would rely on its youth and women's wings for political action?
665	August 12, 2022		Communist Party of Italy (Marxist–Leninist) Red Line	... that after a 1968 split in the Communist Party of Italy (Marxist–Leninist), the Black Line and Red Line groups would engage in reciprocal acts of violence and vandalism?
666	September 18, 2022		Communist Party of Lithuania and Belorussia	... that the Communist Party of Lithuania and Belorussia organized partisan units behind the front lines during the Polish–Soviet War?
667	October 14, 2022		Fir teg	... that the final scene in the 1931 Soviet Yiddish theatrical play Fir teg is said to evoke the mass suicide at the siege of Masada?
668	October 23, 2022		Vilna Soviet of Workers Deputies	... that following a gun battle with Polish legionnaires, five leaders of the Vilna Soviet of Workers Deputies committed suicide rather than surrendering?
669	October 25, 2022		Kaunas Soviet of Workers Deputies	... that the Lithuanian-Belorussian Soviet Republic exchanged 13 detained German diplomats for 24 jailed leaders of the Kaunas Soviet of Workers Deputies?
670	November 16, 2022		2010 Sudanese general election in Jonglei	... that after the results of the 2010 Sudanese general election in Jonglei were announced, two disgruntled candidates launched armed insurgencies?
671	November 21, 2022		Central Bureau of the German Sections of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)	... that by mid-1920, hundreds of German and Austrian communists fought in Red Army units in Turkestan?
672	January 8, 2023		North-Western Regional Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)	... that the North-Western Regional Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) ran an underground network to distribute literature to German soldiers in occupied areas?
673	January 9, 2023		Aleksandr Trusov	... that one of the districts in the city of Astrakhan is named after Bolshevik leader Aleksandr Trusov?
674	January 17, 2023		Innokenty Fedenev	... that Innokenty Fedenev inspired one of the characters in the novel How the Steel Was Tempered, a work he helped to get published?
675	January 18, 2023		Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (Opposition)	... that the Communist Opposition was the most popular slate in the 1931 Czechoslovak municipal election in Unhošť?
677	January 23, 2023		Obliskomzap	... that Obliskomzap People's Commissar for Public Charity V. L. Mukha resigned in protest over the dispersing of the First All-Belarusian Congress?
678	February 28, 2023		Richard Knorre (literary critic)	... that Soviet German literary critic Richard Knorre was injured in an explosion during the siege of Leningrad?
679	March 18, 2023		Liberian National Transitional Government	... that through their participation in the Liberian National Transitional Government, warlords could gain access to state resources whilst continuing hostilities between each other?
680	March 20, 2023		Alex Mivedor	... that Alex Mivedor, who had been seen as the number two in the ruling RPT party in Togo, was purged from the party leadership in 1983?
681	March 23, 2023		Workers Communist League of New Zealand	... that in 1981, New Zealand prime minister Robert Muldoon controversially published a list of "subversives", including many members of the Workers Communist League?
682	April 7, 2023		Tamba Taylor	... that Liberian paramount chief Tamba Taylor worked as a tailor and claimed to have sewn clothes for Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie and Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah?
683	April 19, 2023		La Voce della Patria	... that the Berlin embassy of the Italian Social Republic published the weekly La Voce della Patria from 1943 to 1944 for distribution among Italian Military Internees in Germany?
684	April 19, 2023		Francois Massaquoi	... that Francois Massaquoi, who studied economics at New York University, later led the Lofa Defense Force during the First Liberian Civil War?
685	April 20, 2023		Iraqi Communist Party – Central Command	... that during a guerrilla campaign in 1968, the Iraqi Communist Party – Central Command attacked the house of Saddam Hussein?
686	April 24, 2023		Bismarck Kuyon	... that Liberian factions voted Bismarck Kuyon to be the chair of the transitional executive branch of the government, but his nomination was revoked before he was installed?
687	May 8, 2023		Isaac Musa	... that the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission listed former Council of State vice chair Isaac Musa among dead supposed perpetrators of human rights abuses and war crimes?
688	May 9, 2023		Joe Mulbah	... that Liberian minister of information Joe Mulbah was suspended by President Charles Taylor after a fist fight with the deputy minister of information?
689	May 28, 2023		Nisn Pups	... that when journalist and trade unionist Nisn Pups was released from jail, the Communist Party of Lithuania instructed him to change his name?