Central Committee was the common designation of a standing administrative body of communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, whether ruling or non-ruling in the 20th century and of the surviving states in the early 21st century. In such party organizations the committee would typically be made up of delegates elected at a party congress. In those states where it constituted the state power, the Central Committee made decisions for the party between congresses, and usually was responsible for electing the Politburo. In non-ruling Communist parties, the Central Committee is usually understood by the party membership to be the ultimate decision-making authority between Congresses once the process of democratic centralism has led to an agreed-upon position.

Non-Communist organizations also have Central Committees, such as the Mennonite Church^[1] and Alcoholics Anonymous, as well as the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (to war). In the United States the Democratic and the Republican Parties both have Central Committees; these act as the leading body of those organizations at the national/administrative level, as well as local committees in a similar capacity within the local Democratic or Republican governments of individual counties and states.

List of Central Committees[link]

• Central Committee of the Communist Party of Russian Federation
• Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
• Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba
• Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam
• Central Committee of the Hungarian Workers' Party
• Central Committee of the Party of Labor of Albania
• Central Committee of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
• Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party
• Central Committee of the Pakistan Peoples Party (Centre-left and Democratic socialism)
• Central Committee of the South African Communist Party
• Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea
• Central Committee of Fatah (non-Communist)

See also[link]

• Eastern Bloc politics

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Abbas Zaki (Arabic: عباس زكي‎) is the former representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Lebanon and a member of Fatah's central committee.^{[1][dead link]}

On March 23, 2009, Zaki escaped an alleged assassination attempt outside Mieh Mieh near Sidon, which killed his deputy Kamal Naji and three other Palestinian officials.^[2] As a result of the conflict in the Nahr al-Bared Camp in Lebanon, Zaki proposed setting up a Palestinian security force of 4,000 to 5,000 members in the refugee camps in Lebanon to prevent the formation of extremist groups.^[3]

Zaki described Fatah al-Islam as "an ignorant group, hiding themselves behind Islam, and practicing the most ugly crimes against women and children in the camp of Nahr al Barid."^[1] In May 2009, Zaki suggested that if unity talks between Hamas and Fatah in Cairo fail, Abbas should form a new government that will lay out a new approach to Hamas.^[4]

Ahead of Fatah's sixth conference on August 4, 2009, Zaki stated "I'm sorry to compare, but the Israelis elected Lieberman and appointed him as Foreign Minister, and a similar mistake was made by the Palestinian people in electing Hamas, which is setting up all the obstacles preventing the improvement of the national unity."^[5]

In response to United States president Barack Obama's U.N. Speech on Palestinian Statehood on September 23, 2011, Zaki called Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu "trash", and said "The greater goal cannot be accomplished in one go... If Israel withdraws from Jerusalem, evacuates the 650,000 settlers, and dismantles the wall – what will become of Israel? It will come to an end."^[6]

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