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Slideshow: The 10 Foreign Countries Getting Their Very Own Tea Parties

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Though it's still very much in its infancy, the once distinctly American Tea Party movement has nonetheless started slowly creeping overseas. Here, we offer a rundown of the conservative, anti-tax party's various foreign outposts, and the burg

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Perhaps unsurprisingly—albeit ironically, considering the origins of the name—the British were some of the earliest adopters of America's Tea Party movement, with Tea Party events

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Though Germany has yet to organize a real Tea Party—for obvious reasons, fear of far-right organizations persists throughout the country—a growing number of conservatives have called for an "American style" movement against gover

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Italian Tea Party founder David Mazerrelli believes "the European socialist system is dying," so he hopes to replace it with a Tea Party-like version of democracy, which he heard about on television and found "very impressive." &qu

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Michael Graham is an American but he frequently appears as a guest on Irish radio program The Right Hook, where he shares his ultra-conservative viewpoints with the show's ultra-conservative host, George Hook. But besides being just a rad

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Sponsored by activists from Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, Israel's first Tea Party event went down in October 2010 at the Zionist Organization of America house in Tel Aviv. Unlike other international Tea Party movement's, however, Isra

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Called the Zaitokukai and boasting about 9,000 members, Japan's version of the Tea Party has made it

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Russian Tea Party leader Max Kronos says he was spurred into conservative

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