It is certainly true that stick-wielding members of the Young Communist League on the streets of Kathmandu look scary and trade unions allied to the Maoists are often high-handed.
That helps to explain why the first round of the French presidential election featured so many figures from the far-left, representing groups including the Revolutionary Communist League and the Workers' Struggle party.
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"It is actually believed by most South Africans that the wealthy, mostly white people receive preferential treatment and it is for this reason that the Young Communist League cannot take seriously the claims made by Henke Pistorius, " the party said.
The list of sponsoring organisations is a Who's Who of non-governmental organisations from the fringe (the National Queer Commission) to the obscure (the Nicaragua Network Peace and Social Justice Centre of South Central Kansas) and the tediously predictable (the Young Communist League).
It's probably not a worry to the woman dressed up as a red giant with flaming paint-red hair outside the rally for the Revolutionary Communist League, whose slogan - I hope an ironic reference to advertising - is: "One hundred per cent left!"
About the same time, Hu became head of the local Communist Youth League.
Further, their partnership also brings together the Princeling and Communist Youth League factions.
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Lu Yuegang is a veteran investigative reporter with the China Youth Daily, a newspaper run by the Communist Youth League.
Although a former leader of the Communist youth league, he is a slick and ambitious 43-year-old who seems to model himself on Britain's Tony Blair.
As a boy in Pozarevac, the north Serbian town where he was born 57 years ago, he was clever and competitive, running the school branch of the Communist Youth League.
More significantly, for someone who began his career in the Communist Youth League and was an early supporter of Mr Milosevic, he dodges a question about whether he will now remain in the president's Serbian Socialist Party.
Mr Tigipko, once a communist youth-league leader, has been promising bold changes.
Chavez's closest collaborators are his brother, Adam, his minister of Interior, Ramon Rodriguez Chacin, Jose Vicente Rangel (former presidential candidate of the communist party), Jorge Rodriguez (Socialist League), Minister of Energy Rafael Ramirez (PRV), Minister of Propaganda William Izarra (PRV) and the foreign Affairs Minister, Nicola s Maduro (Socialist League).
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