Event class: joined, became, member, party, communist party, movement, youth, socialist, student, organization

Events with high posterior probability

Nico Kaiyamo	In 1977, Kaiyamo joined SWAPO as a student and soon became a well-known activist for the struggle of independence.
Marinus van der Lubbe	He was politically active among the unemployed workers' movement until 1931, when he fell into disagreement with the CPN and instead approached the Internationalist Communist Group (IKG).
Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh	By the time of World War I, still in his early age, he joined a group of Iranian nationalists in Berlin and, in 1915, founded a newspaper (Rastakhiz) for this group in Baghdad.
Edzard Reuter	In 1946, Edzard joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
Edit Herczog	Edit Herczog has been a member of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party, and of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) since 1989.
Llazar Fundo	Upon the overthrow of Noli's government in November 1924, Fundo emigrated to Vienna, Austria, becoming acquainted with the Balkan Communist Federation (CBF), and then emigrated to the Soviet Union where he became a member of the Comintern.
Tim Wohlforth	While Robertson left the SWP in 1962 and went on to form the Spartacist Group, later Spartacist League, Wohlforth and his supporters remained within the SWP and fought for the perspective of the International Committee of the Fourth International.
Stephen C. Apostolof	In 1946, when he was only 17, he joined an underground guerilla group that fought the newly established Communist regime in Bulgaria.
Marina Palei	It was during this time that Palei also became involved in the dissident movement, joining the independent Democratic Union (in) party in 1988.
Ilmar Reepalu	Reepalu's political life started in 1958, when he as a student at the gymnasium was involved with starting the local branch of Social Democratic Youth League.
Georg Apenes	While studying in Oslo he had been chairman of the Norwegian Students' Society during the student-led Protests of 1968.
Tadeusz Rechniewski	There, he met members of the People's Will and Polish socialist groups, and he joined the student movement, becoming in 1883 a member of the central committee of the First Proletariat party.
Fernando Mezzasoma	In 1931, he joined the ranks of the National Fascist Party (PNF), and soon after became secretary of the Perugia branch of the Gruppo Universitario Fascista (GUF), the Fascist student organization.
Tomasz Arciszewski	In 1904 he joined the Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party, a revolutionary group fighting for the liberation of Poland.
Saifuddin Nasution Ismail	Saifuddin was a member of the youth wing of the ruling UMNO party but was expelled in 1999 as its assistant secretary.
Dmitry Nikolayevich Medvedev	During the Russian Civil War he joined the Red Army and in 1920 he joined the All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
Americo Boschetti	In 1968, Boschetti enrolled at the University of Puerto Rico and became involved in the Puerto Rican independence movement.
Adam Remmele	In 1894, he joined the SPD and his trade union.
Kansei Nakano	Beginning his time at university in 1960, Nakano joined the Democratic Socialist Party.
Karl August Wittfogel	In 1918, he set up the Lüneburg local of the radical Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD).
David Mundell	He had joined the Young Conservatives when he was 14 but defected to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) when he was studying law in 1981.
Shi Tiesheng	In 1969 he was a'' sent down youth'' or urban youth sent to a rural area of Shaanxi as part of the Down to the Countryside Movement of the Cultural Revolution.
Anke Fuchs	Fuchs became a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 1956.
John Bruce Glasier	He became involved with the Irish Land League's activities in Scotland, and in 1884 was a founder member of the Scottish Land Restoration League, while also joining the Social Democratic Federation (SDF).
Jacinda Ardern	In early 2008 she won election as the President of the International Union of Socialist Youth.
Anton Dunckern	Early on in life Dunckern got involved in far right-wing politics in Southern Germany : In 1922, when he was seventeen, he joined the Freikorps Lauterbach, an association of volunteers serving as a supplementary to the regular German Army, where he met Heinrich Himmler.
Sam Rosa	Later in 1890 Rosa moved to Sydney and became secretary of the Australian Socialist League.
Oya Baydar	During the military coup in 1972 she was arrested due to her socialist activity as a member of the Workers Party of Turkey and the Teachers' Union of Turkey and she left the University.
Ghulam Azam	During this time, he became influenced by the writings of Abul Ala Maududi and he joined Maududi's party Jamaat-e-Islami in 1954, and was later elected as the Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami's East Pakistan branch.
Mohamed Lamine Debaghine	He quickly became active in politics, and joined Messali Hadj's Parti du peuple algérien (PPA) leftist nationalist movement in 1939.
Wolfgang Leonhard	In the following years Leonhard continued to work for the Central Committee of the Communist Party, which became the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in April 1946 after the Social Democratic Party in the Soviet zone had been forced to merge with it.
Bogdan Denitch	He helped lead that organization into a merger with the Socialist Youth League to form the Young Socialist League in 1954.
Robert Uhrig	He joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1920 and took several courses at the Marxist Workers' School.
Yeprem Khan	In October 1908, during Tabriz resistance, Yeprem Khan formed a secret Sattar Committee (in honor of Sattar Khan) in Rasht, and established contacts with Social Democrats, Social Revolutionaries, and the ARF in the Caucasus.
Tissa Wijeyeratne	He returned to Sri Lanka in 1956 before completing his Barristers examinations, and became a full-time activist of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka.
Bill Blaikie	He was a member of the Young Progressive Conservatives in high school, and joined the NDP in 1971.
William Aalto	In March 1937 he joined the Spanish Communist Party.
Cornelius Castoriadis	His first active involvement in politics occurred during the Metaxas Regime (1937), when he joined the Athenian Communist Youth (Κομμουνιστική Νεολαία Αθήνας, Kommounistiki Neolaia Athinas), a section of the Young Communist League of Greece.
St?phane Dion	Dion was involved with the sovereignty movement, first as a teenager attending a Jesuit college in Quebec City, and later as a university student campaigning for Parti Québécois candidate Louise Beaudoin in the 1976 election.
Yury Luzhkov	He joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1968.
Lars Gule	He became a member of the social democratic Workers' Youth League, the Labour Party's student group, and was briefly leader of the organization at the University of Bergen (1984), but has not since been active in the Workers' Youth League (or Labour Party).
Vyacheslav Molotov	He was educated at a secondary school in Kazan, and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) in 1906, soon gravitating toward that organisation's radical Bolshevik faction, headed by V. I. Lenin.
Daciana S?rbu	In her party, she became one of the leaders of the youth and women's wings, taking part in the International Union of Socialist Youth structures, and attending its Congress of 2004.
Wilhelm Leuschner	In 1910, he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and became more deeply involved with the union.
Chen Xilian	He joined his local Chinese Red Army guerrilla unit in 1929, and the Communist Youth League a year later.
Aki Orr	In 1962, Orr left the Israeli Communist Party and, alongside Machover, Oded Pilavsky and Jeremy Kaplan, formed the Israeli Socialist Organization, better known by the name of its publication Matzpen.
Eduardo Frei Montalva	He began his political career in the Conservative Party, but was among a group of young men who founded their own party in 1938 : the Falange Nacional.
Johannes Rau	In 1958, Rau and his political mentor, Gustav Heinemann, joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), where he was active in the Wuppertal chapter.
Christiaan Cornelissen	In the following year, he got to know the French anarchist and trade-unionist Fernand Pelloutier and he supported the anarchists expelled from the 1893 Zurich congress of the Second International.
James Robertson (Trotskyist)	While studying chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley, he left the CP to join Max Shachtman's Workers Party shortly before it changed to the Independent Socialist League in May 1949.
Thorbj?rn Jagland	In 1966, at age 16, he joined the Lier chapter of the Workers' Youth League (AUF).
J. T. Murphy	He then participated in the communist unity discussions, and as a result split from the SLP, joining the Communist Party of Great Britain at its formation in 1920.
Rudolf Mentzel	At Göttingen, he was a Kreisleiter (circuit leader) of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP, National Socialist Workers Party), of which he had been a member since 1922.
Alfred Sherman	After the war, in the summer of 1948 he was expelled from the Communist Party for'' Titoist deviationism'' and subsequently spent some time in Yugoslavia as a volunteer in a'' youth work brigade''.
Fernando Rosas	He studied at the Pedro Nunes high school, and in 1961, he joined the school's Portuguese Communist Party organization, a party for which he was later a militant.
Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan	Inspired by Maulana Bhashani, Bhuiyan started his political career with the then Communist Party in 1962.
Ed Shaw (activist)	As a result, Shaw joined the Socialist Workers Party in October 1944 and later served in the Army during the Korean War.
Tom Bell (politician)	In the spring of 1903, Bell would follow Yates and the group of revolutionary socialist impossiblists around him out of the SDF and join in the foundation of the Socialist Labour Party, a rival organization.
David Gilbert (activist)	Later, in the same year, he co-founded the Columbia University Chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) which merged with ICV in the Fall of 1966 even though there was already a chapter set in place that was formed in the early sixties.
Bela Ewald Althans	He became a follower of Michael Kühnen and led the Hanover branch Action Front of National Socialists/National Activists until it was banned in 1983.
Wang Yang (politician)	He returned to his hometown as a party policy instructor before joining the local Communist Youth League organization - where he would ascend to the provincial organization by 1984.
Walter Bernstein	In his memoirs, he tells about joining the Young Communist League at Dartmouth College in 1937, and the Communist Party itself the year after he left the U. S. Army.
Norm Miller	Miller started a Muskoka Young Progressive Conservative organization in 1975, and has been active in the party since this time.
Edward Hunter (Billy Banjo)	He emigrated to the West Coast of New Zealand in 1906, already a committed socialist, influenced by Scottish left-wing thinkers such as Keir Hardie and Bob Smillie (both members of the Independent Labour Party).
Massimo Morsello	In 1975, at the age of 16, he joined the Italian post-fascist party Movimento Sociale Italiano.
Mikhail Kalinin	Kalinin joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) in 1898, the year of its foundation.
Andrew Boff	Active in politics since the 1970s he was a Young Conservative branch founder whilst still at school and in 1976 proposed the legalisation of cannabis at a Young Conservative national conference.
Gustav Noske	In 1884, Noske joined the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and he also became a union member.
Gerrit Schotte	He became more active in politics when he, with a former member of the Curaçao Island Council, Rignald Lak, founded the political movement Movementu Patriotiko Kòrsou (MPK) in 2005.
Celestino Alfonso	In 1934, he joined the Jeunesse communiste (Communist Youth) and became responsible for the Ivry-sur-Seine group.
Roman Konoplev	On 9 May 1993 Roman Konoplev became a member of the Public-Political movement `` Rossi''.
Mehmet Shehu	In 1942 he returned to Albania which was under Italian occupation where he immediately joined the Albanian Communist Party and the Albanian resistance.
John Williamson (communist)	He was released by the Young Communist League (successor to the YWL) for work in the adult party after the 5th National Convention of that organization, held in April 1929.
Moshe Sneh	Whilst a student, he was a member of the Yardinia Zionist student organisation, becoming its chairman in 1926, and was also chairman of the Medical Jewish Students Union.
Jacob Zuma	Zuma joined the South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1963.
Mark Anthony Bracegirdle	In about 1935 he joined the Australian Young Communist League (YCL).
Brian Bannon	He joined the Australian Labor Party on 5 October 1952 and rose to become Assistant Secretary of the ALP Youth Council.
Avraam Benaroya	After the Young Turk revolution of 1908 he moved as a socialist organizer to Thessaloniki.
Nadezhda Krupskaya	She became secretary of the Central Committee in 1905 ; she returned to Russia the same year, but left again after the failed revolution of 1905 and worked as a teacher in France a couple of years.
Janko Gredelj	In 1937, he became a member of the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia, and the next year a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.
Torstein Tvedt Solberg	He was active in Rogaland Workers' Youth League (AUF) for several years and headed it in 2005.
Souha Bechara	Souha Bechara left college in 1986 and joined militant activities in Lebanon.
Shira Gorshman	In 1924 she moved to Palestine as a pioneer, and there worked doing heavy labor with Gdud HaAvoda, a short-lived, left-wing Zionist organization intended to create mobile labor pools for the nascent Jewish colonies in Palestine.
Valentina Tereshkova	In 1961 she became the secretary of the local Komsomol (Young Communist League) and later joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Theodor Hoffmann (admiral)	He attended the Officers School of the People's Police at Stralsund and joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in 1956.
Wolfgang Droege	Droege became interested in far-right politics and joined an extremist group, the Western Guard, in 1974 at the prompting of Don Andrews and later joined Andrews's Nationalist Party of Canada.
Walton Newbold	In 1917 Newbold joined the Labour educational Plebs' League and the British Socialist Party.
Nikolai Bukharin	Bukharin's political life began at the age of sixteen with his lifelong friend Ilya Ehrenburg when he participated in student activities at Moscow University related to the Russian Revolution of 1905.
Adam Lazarowicz	In 1940 Lazarowicz became engaged in the anti-German Sluzba Zwyciestwu Polsce organization, then joined Zwiazek Walki Zbrojnej.
Arthur Rosenberg	After Germany's defeat in 1918 and his demobilization from the army, Rosenberg joined the new Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD).
John Williamson (communist)	He was active in the party's youth section, the Young Workers League (YWL) and was active as an organizer for the league in Seattle and was a member of the movement's'' Legal Political Party,'' the Workers Party of America (WPA) from the time of its formation at the end of 1922.
Gleb Bokii	Bokii joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) in 1900 and worked in that organization as a professional revolutionary as a party organizer and propagandist.
William Henry Temple Gairdner	After finishing his schooling at Oxford, Gairdner became a traveling secretary for the Student Christian Movement until 1899.
Ignazio Silone	He was a founding member of the breakaway Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 1921, and became one of its covert leaders during the Fascist regime.
Meir Tamari	Tamari was an active member of the Zionist Bnei Akiva youth group, and in 1950 he joined other members of this group in moving to Israel.
Sonia Castedo	Sonia's political career started in 1993 when she joined the People's Party (Partido Popular).
Aengus ? Snodaigh	Ó Snodaigh joined Sinn Féin while at university, where he was active in student politics, in 1983.
Gerardo Chiaromonte	In 1945 he became a member of the Italian Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI).
Wolfgang Thonke	In 1958 he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
Friedrich Kellner	In 1919 he became a political organizer for the Mainz branch of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, the (SPD).