ANC: African National Congress

BNP (UK): British National Party, a neo-fascist party
BNP (Sri Lanka): A split from the Sri Lankan SLMP

CGT: Main trade union federation in Argentina
Committees of Correspondence: Split from the US Communist Party
Congress: Indian bourgeois nationalist party
COSATU: Congress of South African Trade Unions
CPI(M): Communist Party of India (Marxist)
CPUSA: Communist Party of the USA

DC: Christian Democrats - Italian bourgeois party
DDR: German Democratic Republic - ex-Stalinist state of East Germany
DLP: Democratic Labor Party - ex-communists in Lithuania
DSP: Rightwing split from Japanese Socialist Party
DVU: German People's Union - a neo-fascist party

EC: European Community
EMU: European Economic and Monetary Union
ERM: Exchange Rate Mechanism

FF: Fianna Fail, bourgeois party in southern Ireland
FIS: Main Islamic fundamentalist party in Algeria
FLN: Ruling party in Algeria

G7: Group of 7, comprising of the major capitalist countries
GATT: General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade
GDP: Gross Domestic Product

IEC: International Executive Committee, elected by the Congress
IMF: International Monetary Fund
IS: International Secretariat, elected from the IEC, organizes between IECs
IU: United Left in Spain

JCP: Japanese Communist Party
JSP: Japanese Socialist Party

LDP: Liberal Democratic Party, Japanese bourgeois party
LIT: International Workers' League, split from USFI in 1979-80

MSI: Italian neo-fascist party

NAFTA: North American Free Trade Association
New Democracy: Greek bourgeois party
NF: National Front (FN), extreme right party in France led by Jean-Marie Le Pen
NLP: New Labour Party, split from New Zealand Labour Party
Northern League: Rightwing nationalist party in northern Italy
NSSP: Nava Sama Samaja Party, ex-Trotskyists in Sri Lanka

OECD: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
OPEC: Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

PAMYAT: Russian anti-Semitic neo-fascist party
PCF: French Communist Party
PDS: Democratic Party of the Left, Italian ex-communists
Peronists: Populist bourgeois nationalist party in Argentina
PPP: Pakistan People's Party
PRI: Institutional Revolutionary Party, ruling party in Mexico
Progressive Party: Racist party in Norway
PS: French Socialist Party
PSDI: Rightwing split from Italian Socialist Party
PSI: Italian Socialist Party
PSOE: Socialist Party in Spain
PSTU: United Socialist Workers' Party, left split from the Workers' Party (PT) in Brazil
PT: Workers' Party in Brazil

RC: Communist Refoundation, left split from old Italian Communist Party
Republican Party: German far-right party

SACP: South African Communist Party
Sajudis: Nationalist Party in Lithuania
Sendero Luminoso: "Shining Path" - guerilla movement in Peru
SLFP: Sri Lanka Freedom Party, populist bourgeois nationalist party
SLMP: left split from the SLFP

UN: United Nations
UGT: General union federation in Spain
USFI: United Secretarial of the Fourth International (USec), grouping led by Ernest Mandel

Vlaams Blok: Flemish nationalist party in Flanders, Belgium

YRE: Youth Against Racism in Europe