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Nigel Farage’s Brexit party has unveiled a former revolutionary communist who once supported Irish republicanism and opposed the Good Friday peace deal as one of five new candidates for the European elections. Claire Fox, who now styles herself as a libertarian and is a panellist on BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze programme, told the launch event she most likely only agreed with Farage on one issue – Brexit. Claire Fox: infamy's child Read more “I’ve spent my whole life fighting for leftwing causes, so I can tell you, no one is more surprised than me to be standing as candidate for Nigel Farage’s Brexit party,” said Fox, a former member of the Revolutionary Communist party who is still involved in some of its successor organisations, such as the Academy of Ideas, which she heads. “To be honest, Nigel and I are unlikely to agree on a range of issues – workers, women’s rights, immigration, public services,” Fox told the launch event in Westminster. Earlier, Farage had promised his organisation would be about more than Brexit, saying it was “about changing politics for good, changing the shape of our political parties”. He added: “Please don’t think for one moment that the Brexit party is here just to get a process vote on 23 May – far from it, 23 May for us is just the beginning. “We have a two-party system and those parties now serve nothing, frankly, but themselves.” Farage castigated Labour for, as he put it, reneging on its promise to support Brexit, saying: “We’re going to go after that Labour vote in a very big way.” The other candidates unveiled were Lance Forman, a strongly pro-Brexit businessman who heads a family fish company; James Glancy, an ex-soldier who is now an environmental activist; Matthew Patten, a charity executive; and Christina Jordan, a former nurse described by the party as a community leader. Recent polls have suggested Farage’s new party, formed after he left Ukip over its switch to a hard-right, anti-Islam stance, could win the most votes if the UK takes part in European elections on 23 May. Before Easter, the party announced its first five candidates, among them Annunziata Rees-Mogg, sister of the Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, and Richard Tice, a property millionaire and long-time Farage ally who will also chair the party.

Feng Li/Getty The Communist Party of China (CPC) is making its members celebrate their "political birthday," or the day they joined the party. Celebrations are not like typical birthdays: Members are told to host study groups and discussions on CPC's politics. Applicants have to go through multiple background screenings, exams, and interviews in order to join the CPC. The CPC's new "political birthday" directive comes as it ramps up members' loyalty to the party and its leader, President Xi Jinping. The Communist Party of China (CPC) is telling its members to celebrate two birthdays a year: The day they were born, and the day they joined the party. "But for Chinese Communist Party members, there are two birthdays. At the top is Chinese President Xi Jinping, while many prominent Chinese people like Alibaba founder Jack Ma, whose membership was revealed last year, are part of the party. The CPC's push for loyalty The CPC's new "political birthday" directive comes as it ramps up members' loyalty to the party and its leadership. The country has also been on a massive anti-corruption campaign since Xi became president in 2012. Under his rule, the CPC has punished at least 1.3 million party members, many of whom are high-profile figures in the country, according to the South China Morning Post.

Because according to stalwart PNJ political reporter Jim Little, the race for District 2 of the Florida House of Representatives is the only open Republican primary for a state-level office in the entire state of Florida. More: Pensacola Statehouse race only open state-level Republican primary in Florida As Little explained in his story last week, “under state law, Florida's party primaries are closed unless all candidates in a race are from the same party and there is no declared write-in candidate.” And since no Democrats or write-ins registered to run for Florida House District 2 (which bundles Pensacola Beach, Gulf Breeze, the city of Pensacola, Myrtle Grove, Warrington and Perdido Key), all you pot-smokin’ peaceniks get to pick between Alex Andrade and Greg Merk, the two Republicans running to replace Frank White, the current state representative who is now a candidate for Florida attorney general. Black folks and brown folks. It’s a beautiful and complex district and there’s no simple way to categorize or label the folks who live in it. In Florida? Nobody throughout the rest of Florida knows who Frank White is. Folks throughout the rest of Florida still won’t know who Frank White is. Frank wants to fight the "liberal elite." And White’s campaign messaging is embarrassingly and obviously lacking in both. It's a chance for folks back home to get better.

The West Point graduate who posed with a Communism cap is officially out of the U.S. Army. A look at why he was discharged. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as…

Cuba’s leader Raul Castro is making plans to step aside and for the first time in nearly 60 years, Cuba’s new leader is not from the Castro family. Here’s a look at Cuba's next president, Miguel Díaz-Canel. FOX News Channel…