| GRAMSCI | Antonio, politician who founded the Italian Communist Party in 1921 (7) |
| ROMULUS | One of two legendary sons of Rhea Silvia, said to have founded the Italian capital (7) |
| TOGLAITTI | Palmiro ___, leader of the Italian Communist Party for nearly four decades until his death in 1964 (9) |
| MAO | Chinese statesman who helped found the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 (3) |
| ENRICOS | Italian Communist Berlinguer and others |
| EAMONDEVALERA | American-born Irish politician who founded the political party Fianna Fail in 1926 (5,2,6) |
| IMRANKHAN | Pakistani politician who founded the Pakistan Movement for Justice in 1996 (5,4) |
| OSWALD | ____ Mosley, English politician who founded the British Union of Fascists in 1932 (6) |
| PIERS | ___ Corbyn, former politician who founded the weather prediction business WeatherAction in 1995 (5) |
| ENZO | ____ Ferrari, motor racing driver born in 1898 who founded the Italian car marque and team (4) |
| GANG | _ of Four, breakaway group of four Labour politicians who founded the Social Democratic Party in 1981 (4) |
| BOLSHEVIK | Member of the radical faction of the Russian socialist party which became the Communist Party in 1918 (9) |
| DENGXIAOPING | Politician who became Secretary-General of the Chinese Communist Party in 1954 (4,8) |
| BEPPE | ___ Grillo, Italian comedian who co-founded the Italian Five Star Movement |
| CECILRHODES | English-born mining magnate and politician who founded a state in Southern Africa in the 1890s (5,6) |
| GEORGEHAMILTON | Captain in the Niagara Light Dragoons during the War of 1812, Canadian merchant and politician who founded and gave his name to Ontario's steel city: 2 wds. |
| AMIRPERETZ | Israeli politician who founded his own party, One Nation, in 1999 (4,6) |
| PRAVDA | Former newspaper of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union (6) |
| HOXHA | Enver, one of the founders of the Albanian Communist Party in 1941 (5) |
| HOCHI | Foundation member of the French communist party in 1924 as Nguyen the Patriot, he became better know |
