..."congresses" does not of itself indicate a well-developed party structure, as suggested by the very title of the Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia (COPWE). A listing of recent congresses is provided in Table 1 . There are no convenient Soviet listings...

...fulfilled by a single communist party to be known as the Ethiopian Workers Party. What is known as COPWE or the Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia has been preparing for that event through exchanges of visits with Moscow including the visit of Brigadier...

...the ruling Dergue, and have been pressing it to set up a ruling party similar to that in the PDRY. The Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia (COPWE) held its first congress on June 16. 1980, but appears to be in no hurry to turn power over...

...the latter were purged, it formed the nucleus of the working groups which planned the formation of the Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia (COPWE) in 1979. The latter in turn paved the way for the establishment of the Workers Party of Ethiopia...

...consolidated his power, many jokes began to appear, focusing on Mengistu the man, Chairman of PMAC and the Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia (COPWE), Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. Some of these depicted the power he had amassed, the...

...development strategy. Mengistu maintained that the Red Star's success depended on defeating the EPLF. The Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia — assisted by the government, army, and peasantry— was responsible for implementing the Red Star...

...Abyot Seded remained to respond to the caprices of the dictator. In December 1979, Mangistu formed the Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia (COPWE). While reflecting the Soviet aim of establishing a Communist Party in Ethiopia, COPWE revealed,...

...Gesetz von 1979 betreffend die Gründung einer Kaderpartei (COPWPE) - Declaration on the formation of the Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia. 27 Dies ist auch durch die Abhängigkeit Kubas von der Sowjetunion zum Ausdruck gebracht bei Said YusufAbdi,...