In a sluggish economy, membership is seen as a path to a stable state-sector income.

IT IS a measure of the steadiness of the character of the Finns that elections for the Finnish Parliament seem the most predictable in the world. There are no landslides. A loss or gain of a seat or ...

Nevertheless, the number of Communist Party members proper was, in early 1948, only about 35,000, or about one-tenth of the voting strength of the Communist-affiliated Democratic League. In a ...

Gus Hall, born Arvo Kusta Halberg in the unincorporated community of Cherry to Finnish immigrants, was general secretary of the U.S. Communist Party from 1959 until his death in 2000.

The claim: Image shows Kamala Harris' Communist Party membership card. An Aug. 27 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a document with Russian writing and a picture of a young Vice ...

China's Communist Party Has Ruled for 75 Years. Will It Make It to 100? More than three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Communist Party of China retains a firm grip on power ...

Having secured just 7.1 percent of the vote in last year’s general election, the successor organisation to the once-influential Stalinist Communist Party of Finland took 17.3 percent of the vote.

Finland’s Reds and the Agrarian Party’s “Greens” work together in Finland’s left-of-center Government. Each of the three major parties —the Communist-dominated Democratic People’s ...

Riding a back-country protest against unemployment and spiraling prices, the Communists emerged from last summer’s elections as Finland’s biggest party, holding 50 out of 200 parliamentary ...

The Communist Party of Finland (abbreviated as SKP in Finnish) says it's opposed to proposals by the government to ban the use of Nazi and Soviet symbols in a political context. SKP vice-chair Jiri ...