Communist Party

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Members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, demonstrate outside the Seminole County Courthouse in Sanford, Fla., on Monday, June 10, 2013, the first day of trial for George Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degree murder in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

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A Communist Party official welcomes a player to his torture chamber in the first person shooter Metro: Last Light.

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In this Nov. 15, 2012 file photo, new Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping attends the press event to introduce the newly-elected members of the Politburo Standing Committee at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People. Xi is highlighting corruption as a scourge that could bring down the Communist Party, though he has yet to offer any specific new proposals to stop it. In a weekend speech that was carried Monday, Nov. 19, by the official Xinhua News Agency, Xi told the new 25-member Politburo that the party must be vigilant against graft, noting that corruption in other countries in recent years has prompted major social unrest and the collapse of governments. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

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**FILE** A huge screen shows a broadcast of China's new Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping speaking in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Nov. 15, 2012. (Associated Press)

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China’s new leaders, led by new Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping (left), must deal with problems that have long festered — from a sputtering economy to friction with the U.S. — that have worsened in recent months as leadership focused on this week’s power transfer. (Associated Press)

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China's Communist Party dismissed Bo Xilai as Chongqing party secretary in March. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Bo Xilai, then the Communist Party secretary in Chongqing, rubs his face during a session of the National People's Congress in Beijing on Friday, March 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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Gennedy Zyuganov, the Communist Party leader, is Vladimir Putin's closest rival in Sunday's presidential election. (Associated Press)

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Protesters affiliated with the Communist party chant slogans Feb. 22, 2012, as they march through the center of Athens. Greece scrambled to push through a batch of emergency laws that will further cut incomes and state spending, a day after securing a new bailout and debt relief deal designed to stave off bankruptcy. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Tickets sold in China for the Hollywood animated movie "Kung Fu Panda 2" are allegedly being counted toward the box office total for the Communist Party propaganda film "Beginning of the Great Revival."

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ASSOCIATED PRESS A couple in Shanghai walk past an advertisement for "Beginning of the Great Revival," a propaganda film celebrating the 90th anniversary of China's Communist Party. At least one multiplex chain is being accused of trying to inflate the film's box office numbers.

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Fidel Castro, seen in August, says he gave up leadership of Cuba's Communist Party and all other official positions five years ago. (Associated Press)