Labour's Foreign Affairs Spokesperson, Chris Carter, has congratulated Ivo Josipović and his Social Democratic Party on their landslide victory in Croatia's presidential election.

In part one of this series I looked at how Soviet style socialism was constructed in a centralised and hierarchical manner and as to how this lent itself to authoritarianism. Marxism-Leninism became the central tenet of Soviet and, after 1945, Eastern European socialism.

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The Labour Party congratulates Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) following their decisive victory in yesterday's Germany Federal election.