On Thursdays I am a man of my word

[venta]

Spot question for the day:

Without googling, does the following phrase mean anything to anybody ?

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

Are you going to tell us why/where from ?

[smorgasbord.livejournal.com]

Moon on a stick!

I think that ‘the party’ is the communist party. But I cannot remember the original setting as I have heard it repeated so many times out of its orginal context.