> Sounds batty to me if
> that is supposed to be
> a worldwide figure.
> Western countries like
> France and Italy had large
> CPs. They must have had
> many thousands of activists.
> Indonesia, as has already
> been pointed out, prior to
> 1965 had a huge CP.
================= Armed CP fighters alone - you can't get more "active" than that - numbered in the tens of thousands in Spain and occupied Europe, and the hundreds of thousands when China and other liberation movements are included, at the peak of the Comintern's global influence between 1935-45.