Cominform

Founded in 1947, "Cominform" (Communist Information Bureau) is the common name for what is officially referred to as the Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers' Parties.

It is the first official forum of the international communist movement since the dissolution of the Comintern, and confirms the new realities after the Second World War, including the creation of an Eastern Bloc.Cominform is a Soviet-dominated organization of Communist parties founded in September 1947 at a conference of Communist party leaders in Szklarska Poręba, Poland.

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin calls the conference in response to divergences among communist governments on whether or not to attend the Paris Conference on Marshall Aid in July 1947.Cominform is initially located in Belgrade (at this time the capital of the Federative People's Republic of Yugoslavia).

After the expulsion of Yugoslavia from the group in June 1948, the seat is moved to Bucharest, Romania.

The expulsion of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia from Cominform for Titoism initiates the Informbiro period in that country's history.The intended purpose of Cominform is to coordinate actions between Communist parties under Soviet direction.

It has its own newspaper, For Lasting Peace, for People's Democracy!.The Cominform is dissolved in 1956 after Soviet rapprochement with Yugoslavia and the process of De-Stalinization.

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