List of Communist Parties - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

There are a number of Communist parties
Communist party
A political party described as a Communist party includes those that advocate the application of the social principles of communism through a communist form of government...

active in various countries across the world, and a number who used to be active. The formation of Communist parties in various countries was first initiated by the formation of the Communist Third International

Comintern

The Communist International, abbreviated as Comintern, also known as the Third International, was an international communist organization initiated in Moscow during March 1919...

by the Russian Bolsheviks. Undoubtedly the most important of these parties were those of the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

and the People's Republic of China.

Some Communist parties have names such as Workers World Party, Socialist Party, Progressive Party, etc. Most, but not all, of the parties on this list are those that were aligned with either Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

or Beijing

Beijing

Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

during the Cold War

Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...

and their offshoots. Groups currently and exclusively participating in the Trotskyist

Trotskyism

Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. Trotsky considered himself an orthodox Marxist and Bolshevik-Leninist, arguing for the establishment of a vanguard party of the working-class...

tradition are not included in the listing.

See also: World Communist Movement, List of left-wing internationals, List of Trotskyist internationals, List of members of the Comintern, List of left communist internationals, List of political parties

Ruling parties

In the following countries, the Communist parties either lead the ruling coalition or hold monopoly on state power.
China Communist Party of China

Communist Party of China

The Communist Party of China , also known as the Chinese Communist Party , is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China...

leads the United Front

United Front (PRC)

The United Front in the People's Republic of China is a nominally popular front led by the Communist Party of China. It is managed by the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and besides the communist party it consists of eight minor parties and the...

Cyprus Progressive Party of Working People

Progressive Party of Working People

The Progressive Party of Working People is a communist party in Cyprus. It supports an independent, demilitarized and non-aligned Cyprus, and a federal solution of the internal aspect of the Cyprus problem. It places particular emphasis on rapprochement with the Turkish Cypriots. It supported...

leads the ruling coalition Cuba Communist Party of Cuba

Communist Party of Cuba

The Communist Party of Cuba is the governing political party in Cuba. It is a communist party of the Marxist-Leninist model. The Cuban constitution ascribes the role of the Party to be the "leading force of society and of the state"...

Laos Lao People's Revolutionary Party

Lao People's Revolutionary Party

The Lao People's Revolutionary Party is a communist political party that has governed Laos since 1975. The policy-making organs are the politburo and the central committee. A party congress, which elects members to the politburo and central committee, is held every five years...

Nepal Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)

Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)

The Communist Party of Nepal , also known as CPN-UML, CPN, is one of the largest communist parties in Nepal. It was created on January 6, 1991 through the unification of the Communist Party of Nepal and the Communist Party of Nepal...

and Communist Party of Nepal (United)

Communist Party of Nepal (United)

Communist Party of Nepal was a political party in Nepal. In 1991, after the first general election, through the merger of Communist Party of Nepal , Communist Party of Nepal and Communist Party of Nepal...

lead the governing coalition. Janamorcha Nepal, and the Communist Party of Nepal (Unity Centre-Masal), are also part of the coalition. North Korea Korean Workers' Party leads the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland

Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland

The Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland, formed on 22 July 1946, is a North Korean united front led by the Workers' Party of Korea. It was initially called the North Korean Fatherland United Democratic Front...

Vietnam Communist Party of Vietnam

Communist Party of Vietnam

The Communist Party of Vietnam , formally established in 1930, is the governing party of the nation of Vietnam. It is today the only legal political party in that country. Describing itself as Marxist-Leninist, the CPV is the directing component of a broader group of organizations known as the...

leads the Vietnamese Fatherland Front

Vietnamese Fatherland Front

The Vietnamese Fatherland Front founded February 1977 , is an umbrella group of pro-government "mass movements" in Vietnam, and has close links to the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Vietnamese...

Communist parties as part of other ruling coalition

In Cyprus, the ruling Communist party didn't come to power by fommenting a successful revolution, but ratherby being elected to power and thus operate according to the norms of a multi-party system

Multi-party system

A multi-party system is a system in which multiple political parties have the capacity to gain control of government separately or in coalition, e.g.The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition in the United Kingdom formed in 2010. The effective number of parties in a multi-party system is normally...

.
In Nepal, the ruling Communist parties participate in a multi-party coalition government, an alliance of 22 parties that holds 350 seats in the 601-member constituent assembly.
There are also some parties that participate as junior partners in ruling coalitions, as listed below.
Brazil Communist Party of Brazil

Communist Party of Brazil

The Communist Party of Brazil is a political party in Brazil. It has national reach and deep penetration in the trade union and students movements. PCdoB dispute with the Brazilian Communist Party the title of "oldest political party in Brazil"...

participates in the ruling coalition

For Brazil to keep on changing

For Brazil to keep on changing is the name of an electoral coalition formed around the democratic socialist Workers' Party in Brazil for the 2010 presidential election. It comprised ten parties from the left and center spectrums: PT, PMDB, PCdoB, PDT, PRB, PR, PSB, PSC, PTC and PTN. On October...

Peru Peruvian Communist Party

Peruvian Communist Party

The Peruvian Communist Party is a communist party in Peru. It was founded in 1928 by José Carlos Mariátegui, under the name Partido Socialista del Perú . In 1930 the name was changed to PCP...

participates in the ruling coalition

Peru Wins

Peru Wins is a left-wing political party in Peru formed as an alliance for the general election, 2011, dominated by the Peruvian Nationalist Party and led by presidential candidate Ollanta Humala.- Constituent Parties :...

South Africa South African Communist Party

South African Communist Party

South African Communist Party is a political party in South Africa. It was founded in 1921 as the Communist Party of South Africa by the joining together of the International Socialist League and others under the leadership of Willam H...

participates in the ruling coalition Sri Lanka Communist Party of Sri Lanka

Communist Party of Sri Lanka

The Communist Party of Sri Lanka is a communist political party in Sri Lanka. At the last legislative elections, on 2 April 2004, the party was part of the United People's Freedom Alliance that won 45.6% of the popular vote and 105 out of 225 seats....

participates in the ruling coalition

United People's Freedom Alliance

The United People's Freedom Alliance is a political alliance in Sri Lanka. The current leader of the United People's Freedom Alliance is Mahinda Rajapaksa and Susil Premajayantha is the general secretary of UPFA.The alliance was formed by:...

Syria Syrian Communist Party (Bakdash)

Syrian Communist Party (Bakdash)

The Syrian Communist Party is a political party in Syria. The party emerged out of a split in the Syrian Communist Party in 1986, as formed by the anti-Perestroika faction led by Khalid Bakdash...

, Syrian Communist Party (Faisal) participates in the ruling coalition

National Progressive Front

The National Progressive Front , established in 1972, is a coalition of political parties in Syria that support the socialist and Arab nationalist orientation of the government and accept the "leading role in society" of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party, .The Front was established by Syrian...

Ukraine Communist Party of Ukraine

Communist Party of Ukraine

The Communist Party of Ukraine is a political party in Ukraine, currently led by Petro Symonenko.The party fights the Ukrainian national self-determination by identifying any Ukrainian national parties as the National-Fascist ones The Communist Party of Ukraine is a political party in Ukraine,...

participates in the ruling coalition

Broad Front (Uruguay)

The Broad Front is a Uruguayan left-wing coalition of political parties. It is led by Jorge Brovetto. Frente Amplio has close ties with PIT-CNT trade union and the cooperative housing movement.-History:...

Uruguay Communist Party of Uruguay

Communist Party of Uruguay

The Communist Party of Uruguay is a communist political party in Uruguay, created on September 21, 1920. It is a member organisation of the ruling Broad Front.The current PCU secretary-general is ....

participates in the ruling coalition

Broad Front (Uruguay)

Formerly ruling

Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of

Democratic Republic of Afghanistan

The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan was a government of Afghanistan between 1978 and 1992. It was both ideologically close to and economically dependent on the Soviet Union, and was a major belligerent of the Afghan Civil War.- Saur Revolution :...

(1978-1992) -People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan

People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan

The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan was a communist party established on the 1 January 1965. While a minority, the party helped former president of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, to overthrow his cousin, Mohammed Zahir Shah, and established Daoud's Republic of Afghanistan...

Albania, People's Socialist Republic of (1946-1991) - Albanian Party of Labour

Albanian Party of Labour

The Party of Labour of Albania was the sole legal political party in Albania during communist rule...

Angola, People's Republic of

Angolan Civil War

The Angolan Civil War was a major civil conflict in the Southern African state of Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with some interludes, until 2002. The war began immediately after Angola became independent from Portugal in November 1975. Prior to this, a decolonisation conflict had taken...

(1975-1992) - abandoned Marxism-Leninism

Marxism-Leninism

Marxism–Leninism is a communist ideology, officially based upon the theories of Marxism and Vladimir Lenin, that promotes the development and creation of a international communist society through the leadership of a vanguard party over a revolutionary socialist state that represents a dictatorship...

for social democracy

Social democracy

Social democracy is a political ideology of the center-left on the political spectrum. Social democracy is officially a form of evolutionary reformist socialism. It supports class collaboration as the course to achieve socialism...

Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola

The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola - Labour Party is a political party that has ruled Angola since the country's independence from Portugal in 1975...

Benin, People's Republic of

People's Republic of Benin

The People's Republic of Benin was a socialist state located in the Gulf of Guinea on the African continent, which would become present-day Benin. The People's Republic was established on November 30, 1975, shortly after the 1972 coup d'état in the Republic of Dahomey...

(1975-1990) - People's Revolutionary Party of Benin

People's Revolutionary Party of Benin

The People's Revolutionary Party of Benin was a political party in the People's Republic of Benin. It was founded in 1975 by General Mathieu Kérékou. With the new constitution of November 30, 1975, PRPB became the sole legal party in the country...

Bulgaria, People's Republic of (1946-1990) - Bulgarian Communist Party

Bulgarian Communist Party

The Bulgarian Communist Party was the communist and Marxist-Leninist ruling party of the People's Republic of Bulgaria from 1946 until 1990 when the country ceased to be a communist state...

(known from 1938 to 1948 as the Bulgarian Workers Party) Chile

Chile under Allende

Salvador Allende was the president of Chile from 1970 until 1973, and head of the Popular Unity government; he was the first Marxist ever to be elected to the national presidency of a democracy...

(1970-1973) - Communist Party of Chile

Communist Party of Chile

The Communist Party of Chile is a Chilean political party inspired by the thoughts of Karl Marx and Lenin. It was founded in 1922, as the continuation of the Socialist Workers Party, and in 1934 it established its youth wing, the Communist Youth of Chile .In the last legislative elections in Chile...

participated in the ruling coalition Czechoslovakia, Socialist Republic of (1948-1990) - Communist Party of Czechoslovakia

Communist Party of Czechoslovakia

The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, in Czech and in Slovak: Komunistická strana Československa was a Communist and Marxist-Leninist political party in Czechoslovakia that existed between 1921 and 1992....

, Communist Party of Slovakia

Communist Party of Slovakia

The Communist Party of Slovakia is a communist party in Slovakia, formed in 1992, through the merger of the Communist Party of Slovakia – 91 and the Communist League of Slovakia.According to Luboš Blaha the KSS supported the government of Robert Fico....

Ethiopia, People's Democratic Republic

People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

The People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia was the official name of Ethiopia from 1987 to 1991, as established by the Communist government of Mengistu Haile Mariam and the Workers' Party of Ethiopia...

(1974-1991) - Workers' Party of Ethiopia

Workers' Party of Ethiopia

The Workers' Party of Ethiopia is a Communist party in Ethiopia that was, from 1984 to 1990, the only legal political party in the country.-The Commission to Organize the Party of the Workers of Ethiopia:...

German Democratic Republic (East Germany)

German Democratic Republic

The German Democratic Republic , informally called East Germany by West Germany and other countries, was a socialist state established in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city...

(1949-1990) - Socialist Unity Party of Germany

Socialist Unity Party of Germany

The Socialist Unity Party of Germany was the governing party of the German Democratic Republic from its formation on 7 October 1949 until the elections of March 1990. The SED was a communist political party with a Marxist-Leninist ideology...

Hungarian Soviet Republic

The Hungarian Soviet Republic or Soviet Republic of Hungary was a short-lived Communist state established in Hungary in the aftermath of World War I....

(1919) - Hungarian Communist Party

Hungarian Communist Party

The Communist Party of Hungary , renamed Hungarian Communist Party in 1945, was founded on November 24, 1918, and was in power in Hungary briefly from March to August 1919 under Béla Kun and the Hungarian Soviet Republic. The communist government was overthrown by the Romanian Army and driven...

Hungarian People's Republic (1949-1989) - Hungarian Working People's Party, Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party

Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party

The Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party was the ruling Marxist–Leninist party of Hungary between 1956 and 1989. It was organised from elements of the Hungarian Working People's Party during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution...

Kampuchea, People's Republic

People's Republic of Kampuchea

The People's Republic of Kampuchea , , was founded in Cambodia by the Salvation Front, a group of Cambodian leftists dissatisfied with the Khmer Rouge, after the overthrow of Democratic Kampuchea, Pol Pot's government...

(1979-1993) - Cambodian People's Party

Cambodian People's Party

The Cambodian People's Party is the current ruling party of Cambodia.This party was formerly known as Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party...

Lithuanian-Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (1919) - Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Lithuania and Belorussia Moldova (2001-2009) Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova lead the ruling coalition Mongolian People's Republic (1924-1992) - Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party

Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party

The Mongolian People's Party formerly the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party is an ex-communist political party in Mongolia. The party is abbreviated MPP in English and ' in Mongolian...

Mozambique, People's Republic of

Mozambican Civil War

The Mozambican Civil War began in 1977, two years after the end of the war of independence. The ruling party, Front for Liberation of Mozambique , was violently opposed from 1977 by the Rhodesian- and South African-funded Mozambique Resistance Movement...

(1975-1992) abandoned Marxism-Leninism

Marxism-Leninism

for social democracy

Social democracy

- FRELIMO Poland, People's Republic of

People's Republic of Poland

The People's Republic of Poland was the official name of Poland from 1952 to 1990. Although the Soviet Union took control of the country immediately after the liberation from Nazi Germany in 1944, the name of the state was not changed until eight years later...

(1944-1989) - Polish United Workers Party Romania, Socialist Republic of (1947-1989) (known as People's Republic of Romania before 1965) - Romanian Communist Party

Romanian Communist Party

The Romanian Communist Party was a communist political party in Romania. Successor to the Bolshevik wing of the Socialist Party of Romania, it gave ideological endorsement to communist revolution and the disestablishment of Greater Romania. The PCR was a minor and illegal grouping for much of the...

(Romanian Workers Party until 1965) San Marino (1945-1957) - Sammarinese Communist Party Soviet Union (1922-1991) - Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the only legal, ruling political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest communist organizations in the world...

Ukrainian SSR

The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic or in short, the Ukrainian SSR was a sovereign Soviet Socialist state and one of the fifteen constituent republics of the Soviet Union lasting from its inception in 1922 to the breakup in 1991...

(1918) - Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Ukraine, became part of the Russian Communist Party (bolshevik) Yemen, People's Democratic Republic of

People's Democratic Republic of Yemen

The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen — also referred to as South Yemen, Democratic Yemen or Yemen — was a socialist republic in the present-day southern and eastern Provinces of Yemen...

(1969-1990) - Yemeni Socialist Party

Yemeni Socialist Party

The Yemeni Socialist Party is a political party in Yemen.It was the ruling party in South Yemen, the only Marxist Arab state, before unification in 1990...

(1945-1992) - League of Communists of Yugoslavia

League of Communists of Yugoslavia

League of Communists of Yugoslavia , before 1952 the Communist Party of Yugoslavia League of Communists of Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croatian: Savez komunista Jugoslavije/Савез комуниста Југославије, Slovene: Zveza komunistov Jugoslavije, Macedonian: Сојуз на комунистите на Југославија, Sojuz na...

Turkmenistan Communist Party of Turkmenistan, now renamed Democratic Party of Turkmenistan

Democratic Party of Turkmenistan

The Democratic Party of Turkmenistan is the only political party in Turkmenistan. The DPT was led by former Soviet provincial Party leader Saparmurat Niyazov from the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s until his death in 2006...

Modern (Non ruling)

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

- Democratic Party of Afghanistan, All Nation Movement for Democracy and Progress of Afghanistan Albania - Communist Party of Albania

Communist Party of Albania (1991)

The Communist Party of Albania is a communist, and anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist, political party in Albania. It is led by Hysni Milloshi. The party was formed in 1991, as a split from the Albanian Party of Labour which converted itself into the Socialist Party of Albania...

Algeria - Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism

Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism

The Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism is a political party in Algeria. It was formed in 1993 by the orthodox communist wing of Ettehadi that split to retain its communist legacy....

Argentina - Communist Party of Argentina

Communist Party of Argentina

The Communist Party of Argentina is a communist party from Argentina. It was founded in 1918.At the 2005 legislative elections, the Party joined the Encuentro Amplio with other left-wing parties in Buenos Aires and Buenos Aires Province...

, Revolutionary Communist Party of Argentina Armenia - Armenian Communist Party

Armenian Communist Party

The Armenian Communist Party is a communist political party in Armenia.It considers itself the successor of the Communist Party of Armenia of the Soviet Union, since the former leadership of this party, headed by Aram Gasparovich Sarkisyan, dissolved it and established the Democratic Party of...

, United Communist Party of Armenia

United Communist Party of Armenia

United Communist Party of Armenia is a political party in Armenia. It was formed on July 7, 2003 through the merger of the Renewed Communist Party of Armenia, Armenian Labour Communist Party, Armenian Workers Union, Union of Communists of Armenia, Armenian Marxist Party and the Party of...

Australia - Communist Party of Australia

Communist Party of Australia (1971)

The Communist Party of Australia is a minor political party in Australia. It was founded as the Socialist Party of Australia in 1971, when a group of members of the Communist Party of Australia resigned or were expelled from that party as a result of their opposition to its policies...

, Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)

Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)

The Communist Party of Australia is an Australian political party based on the writings of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong...

Austria - Communist Party of Austria

Communist Party of Austria

The Communist Party of Austria is a communist party based in Austria. Established in 1918, it was banned between 1933 and 1945 under both the Austrofascist regime, and German control of Austria during World War II...

, Communist Initiative

Communist Initiative (Austria)

The Communist Initiative is an orthodox Marxist-Leninist organisation in Austria. It was founded in 2004 as a faction of the Communist Party of Austria . It left the party in 2005. It was a candidate in the parliamentary elections in 2008 as a part of the alliance "The Left"...

Azerbaijan - Azerbaijan Communist Party

Azerbaijan Communist Party (1993)

The Azerbaijan Communist Party is a political party in Azerbaijan. AKP was set up in 1993 by Ramiz Ahmadov and registered by the Justice Ministry in 1994.-Ideology:...

, Reformist Communist Party of Azerbaijan

Reformist Communist Party of Azerbaijan

The Communist Party of Azerbaijan is a political party in Azerbaijan, a splinter-group from the main Communist Party of Azerbaijan. CPA-2 is led by Firudin Hasanov. CPA-2 was formed in 1996...

, United Communist Party of Azerbaijan

United Communist Party of Azerbaijan

The United Communist Party of Azerbaijan is a political party in Azerbaijan. AVKP was set up in the end of 1993 by the scientist Sayad Sayadov and registered by the Justice Ministry in 1995....

and Azerbaijan Communist Party (on Platform of Marxism-Leninism)

Azerbaijan Communist Party (on Platform of Marxism-Leninism)

The Azerbaijan Communist Party is a political party in Azerbaijan....

Bahrain - National Liberation Front of Bahrain Bangladesh - Communist Party of Bangladesh

Communist Party of Bangladesh

The Communist Party of Bangladesh is a Marxist-Leninist political party in Bangladesh, founded in 1968 as the Communist Party of East Pakistan.- History :...

, Workers Party of Bangladesh

Workers Party of Bangladesh

The Workers Party of Bangladesh is a Communist party in Bangladesh.WPB was founded in 1980 by the Bangladesh Communist Party , Revolutionary Communist League, Majdur Party and another group. Amal Sen was the founding general secretary....

, Socialist Party of Bangladesh (BASOD) Belarus - Communist Party of Belarus

Communist Party of Belarus

The Communist Party of Belarus is a political party in Belarus, that supports the government of president Alexander Lukashenko. It was created in 1996. The leader of the party is Tatsyana Holubeva....

Belgium - Kommunistische Partij, Parti Communiste, Workers Party of Belgium

Workers Party of Belgium

The Workers' Party of Belgium is a Marxist political party in Belgium. It is one of the few parties that operates as a single Belgian party...

Bhutan - Bhutan Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist)

Bhutan Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist)

The Bhutan Communist Party is a banned political party in Bhutan. The CPB calls for a New Democratic Revolution and the overthrow of the Bhutanese monarchy and the House of Wangchuck. Its armed wing is the Bhutan Tiger Force and United Revolutionary Front of Bhutan...

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Workers' Communist Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Workers' Communist Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Workers' Communist Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina is a communist party from Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was formed in 2000 and strongly opposes the nationalism of the region and the collapse of Yugoslavia....

Brazil - Brazilian Communist Party

Brazilian Communist Party (1992)

Brazilian Communist Party is a political party in Brazil. It was founded in 1992 by a minority grouping within the original Brazilian Communist Party which in its Tenth Congress decided to abandon communism and disband itself, giving origin to the Popular Socialist Party...

Bulgaria - Communist Party of Bulgaria

Communist Party of Bulgaria

The Communist Party of Bulgaria is a communist political party in Bulgaria. It is led by Alexander Paunov.The party was founded in 1996 as the Communist Party. Since 2001 it is part of the Coalition for Bulgaria, an alliance led by the Bulgarian Socialist Party...

Burma - Communist Party of Burma

Communist Party of Burma

The Communist Party of Burma is the oldest existing political party in Burma. The party is unrecognised by the Burmese authorities, rendering it illegal; so it operates in a clandestine manner, often associating with insurgent armies along the border of People's Republic of China...

(illegal) Canada - Communist Party of Canada

Communist Party of Canada

The Communist Party of Canada is a communist political party in Canada. Although is it currently a minor or small political party without representation in the Federal Parliament or in provincial legislatures, historically the Party has elected representatives in Federal Parliament, Ontario...

, Communist Party of Quebec

Communist Party of Quebec

The Parti communiste du Québec or PCQ is a communist political party in Quebec. The PCQ was the Quebec branch of the Communist Party of Canada until 2005 when the PCQ split at convention with a majority opposing the CPC's stance on Quebec independence...

, Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)

Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)

The Communist Party of Canada is a Canadian federal Marxist–Leninist political party.The party is registered with Elections Canada as the Marxist–Leninist Party of Canada...

Chile - Communist Party of Chile

Communist Party of Chile

and Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action)

Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action)

Chilean Communist Party is a communist group, originating from the pro-Albanian tradition, in Chile...

Colombia - Colombian Communist Party

Colombian Communist Party

The Colombian Communist Party or PCC is the legal communist party of Colombia. It was founded in 1930, as the Colombian section of the Comintern...

, Clandestine Colombian Communist Party

Clandestine Colombian Communist Party

The Clandestine Colombian Communist Party is an underground communist party in Colombia. It is politically linked to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia , which founded the party in 2000...

Costa Rica - Popular Vanguard Party

Popular Vanguard Party

The People's Vanguard Party, or Popular Vanguard Party is a communist party in Costa Rica. PVP was founded in 1931 as the Workers and Farmers Party, but was soon renamed to the Communist Party of Costa Rica .PVP publishes El Popular.-History:In 1943 the party was renamed as PVP,...

, Costa Rican People's Party

Costa Rican People's Party

Costa Rican People's Party is a communist party in Costa Rica. PPC was founded in April 1985 by a faction of the Popular Vanguard Party that had split in March 1984. Its founder was Eduardo Mora Valverde.Its current leader is Pablo Morales Rivera.PPC publishes Libertad....

Croatia - Socialist Labour Party of Croatia

Socialist Labour Party of Croatia

Socialist Labour Party of Croatia is a far left Croatian political party with no parliamentary representation. It is often considered to be the leftmost of all registered parties in Croatian politics.-Ideology:...

(among other left movements, it represents Croatia's Eurocommunists and New left

New Left

The New Left was a term used mainly in the United Kingdom and United States in reference to activists, educators, agitators and others in the 1960s and 1970s who sought to implement a broad range of reforms, in contrast to earlier leftist or Marxist movements that had taken a more vanguardist...

) Czech Republic - Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia

Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia

The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia , abbreviated to KSČM, is a political party in the Czech Republic. It has a membership of 82,994 and is a member party of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left bloc in the European Parliament...

Denmark - Communist Party of Denmark

Communist Party of Denmark

Communist Party of Denmark is a communist political party in Denmark which was founded as Venstresocialistiske Parti in 1919. VSP was a split from the Danish Social Democratic Party. The party assumed its present name in 1920...

, Communist Party in Denmark

Communist Party in Denmark

Communist Party in Denmark , a political party in Denmark. KPiD was founded in 1990, as a split from the Communist Party of Denmark . The founders of KPiD opposed the merger of DKP into the Unity List. KPiD can be seen as more ideologically orthodox than DKP....

, Communist Party

Communist Party (Denmark)

The Communist Party is a political party in Denmark. The party was formed in 2006 through the merger of Communist Party of Denmark and Communist Unification .The party publishes Dagbladet Arbejderen, a daily newspaper....

Dominican Republic - Force of the Revolution Ecuador - Communist Party of Ecuador

Communist Party of Ecuador

Communist Party of Ecuador is a political party in Ecuador. It was formed in 1925 as the Socialist Party...

, Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador

Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador

Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador is a Hoxhaist political party in Ecuador, founded August 1, 1964, following a split from the Communist Party of Ecuador....

, Workers' Party of Ecuador

Workers' Party of Ecuador

Workers' Party of Ecuador is a communist party in Ecuador. PTE was formed in 1996 as a split from the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador.PTE publishes Amanecer Insurgente....

Egypt - Communist Party of Egypt Finland - Communist Party of Finland, For Peace and Socialism - Communist Workers Party

For Peace and Socialism - Communist Workers Party

Communist Workers' Party – For Peace and Socialism is a political party in Finland. It was founded in 1988 to secure the existence of an independent Marxist-Leninist party...

, League of Communists

League of Communists (Finland)

League of Communists is a Finnish Marxist-Leninist political organization. The League of Communists was founded in 14.9.2002 by the Communists who were expelled from the For Peace and Socialism - Communist Workers Party...

France - French Communist Party

French Communist Party

The French Communist Party is a political party in France which advocates the principles of communism.Although its electoral support has declined in recent decades, the PCF retains a large membership, behind only that of the Union for a Popular Movement , and considerable influence in French...

, Pole of Communist Rebirth in France

Pole of Communist Rebirth in France

The Pole of Communist Rebirth in France is a French political party founded in January 2004. It was a former internal tendency of the French Communist Party and left the party, refusing the "mutation" engaged at the beginning of the 1990s...

, Workers Communist Party of France

Workers Communist Party of France

The Workers' Communist Party of France , is a minor French Marxist-Leninist political party.PCOF was established in 1979. It supported the political line of the Party of Labour of Albania....

Georgia - Communist Party of Georgia

Communist Party of Georgia

Communist Party of Georgia is a communist political party in Georgia. The party was founded on February 23, 1992 as the Socialist Labour Party. It was registered at the Ministry of Justice on February 27, 1998. In the 1992 elections it won four MPs. During the period 1994-1995 it maintained a...

, Georgian United Communist Party, New Communist Party of Georgia

New Communist Party of Georgia

New Communist Party of Georgia , is a political party in Georgia. Founded in 2001 by Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, the grandson of Joseph Stalin. Dzhugashvili later left the position as party leader.The party symbol is a hedgehog....

Germany - German Communist Party

German Communist Party

The German Communist Party is a Marxist-Leninist party in Germany.-History:The DKP was formed in West Germany in 1968, in order to fill the place of the Communist Party of Germany , which had been banned by the Federal Constitutional Court in 1956...

, Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany

Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany

The Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany is an Anti-Revisionist Marxist-Leninist, Maoist, Communist political party in Germany without parliamentary representation...

, Communist Party of Germany

Communist Party of Germany (1990)

Communist Party of Germany is a minor political party in Germany, one of several who claim the KPD name. It was founded in Berlin in 1990.The party chairman was Werner Schleese. He resigned in April 2006...

, Communist Platform

Communist Platform

The Communist Platform is an association within the German Left Party. Among the main goals of the KPF are the preservation and advancement of Marxist thought, other goals are improving the situation of the poor and battling racism. Its most prominent member is Sahra Wagenknecht, who was a member...

(Part of Left Party

Left Party (Germany)

The Party of Democratic Socialism was a democratic socialist political party active in Germany from 1989 to 2007. It was the legal successor to the Socialist Unity Party , which ruled the German Democratic Republic until 1990. From 1990 through to 2005, the PDS had been seen as the left-wing...

) Greece - Communist Party of Greece

Communist Party of Greece

Founded in 1918, the Communist Party of Greece , better known by its acronym, ΚΚΕ , is the oldest party on the Greek political scene.- Foundation :...

(KKE) Guadeloupe - Guadeloupe Communist Party

Guadeloupe Communist Party

The Guadeloupe Communist Party is a political party in the French département d'outre-mer of Guadeloupe. The party has one seat in the French National Assembly in the group of the Socialist Party....

Hungary - Hungarian Communist Workers' Party

Hungarian Communist Workers' Party

The Hungarian Communist Workers' Party in Hungary was created on December 17 1989, as a successor party of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party . Its chairman is Gyula Thürmer. It has always opposed capitalism, and has never been represented in the Parliament since the 1989 change of regime...

India - Communist Party of India

Communist Party of India

The Communist Party of India is a national political party in India. In the Indian communist movement, there are different views on exactly when the Indian communist party was founded. The date maintained as the foundation day by CPI is 26 December 1925...

, Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

The Communist Party of India is a political party in India. It has a strong presence in the states of Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura. As of 2011, CPI is leading the state government in Tripura. It leads the Left Front coalition of leftist parties in various states and the national parliament of...

, Communist Party of India (Maoist)

Communist Party of India (Maoist)

The Communist Party of India is a Maoist political party in India which aims to overthrow the government of India through violent means. It was founded on 21 September 2004, through the merger of the People's War, and the Maoist Communist Centre . The merger was announced to the public on October...

, Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist), Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) New Democracy

Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) New Democracy

Communist Party of India New Democracy is a communist political party in India. The party was founded as a breakaway from the CPI of Chandra Pulla Reddy in 1988...

, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation

Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation

Communist Party of India Liberation is a communist political party in India.Communist Party of India was formed in 1969 by the All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries, who had split from Communist Party of India in 1967...

, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Kanu Sanyal)

Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Kanu Sanyal)

Communist Party of India is a communist party in India. The party is one of many working under the name of CPI. The party general secretary was Kanu Sanyal...

Iran - Tudeh Party of Iran

Tudeh Party of Iran

The Tudeh Party of Iran is an Iranian communist party. Formed in 1941, with Soleiman Mohsen Eskandari as its head, it had considerable influence in its early years and played an important role during Mohammad Mosaddeq's campaign to nationalize the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and his term as prime...

Iraq - Iraqi Communist Party

Iraqi Communist Party

Since its foundation in 1934, the Iraqi Communist Party has dominated the left in Iraqi politics. It played a fundamental role in shaping the political history of Iraq between its foundation and the 1970s. The Party was involved in many of the most important national uprisings and demonstrations...

, Iraqi Communist Party - Cadre, Iraqi Communist Party - Central Command Ireland - Communist Party of Ireland

Communist Party of Ireland

The Communist Party of Ireland is a small all-Ireland Marxist party, founded in 1933. An earlier party, the Socialist Party of Ireland, was renamed the Communist Party of Ireland in 1921 on its affiliation to the Communist International but was dissolved in 1924. The present-day CPI was founded in...

, Workers' Party of Ireland

Workers' Party of Ireland

The Workers' Party is a left-wing republican political party in Ireland. Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970 after a split within the party, adopting its current name in 1982....

Israel - Communist Party of Israel

Communist Party of Israel

Maki |Maki]]. Maki, the original Israeli Communist Party, saw a split between a largely Jewish faction led by Moshe Sneh, which recognized Israel's right to exist and was critical of the Soviet Union's increasingly anti-Zionist stance, and a largely Arab faction, which was increasingly anti-Zionist...

which dominates the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash

Hadash

Hadash is a Jewish and Arab socialist front of organizations that runs for the Israeli parliament. It currently has four members in the 120-seat Knesset.-Background:...

) Italy - Communist Refoundation Party

Communist Refoundation Party

The Communist Refoundation Party is a communist Italian political party. Its current secretary is Paolo Ferrero....

, Party of Italian Communists

Party of Italian Communists

The Party of Italian Communists is a communist political party in Italy. Its long-time leader is Oliviero Diliberto.-Foundation and early years:...

, Italian Marxist-Leninist Party

Italian Marxist-Leninist Party

The Italian Marxist–Leninist Party is a minor Marxist political party in Italy. It was founded in Florence in 1977. The leading core of PMLI began their political activity as they joined the Communist Party of Italy in 1967...

Japan - Japanese Communist Party

Japanese Communist Party

The Japanese Communist Party is a left-wing political party in Japan.The JCP advocates the establishment of a society based on socialism, democracy and peace, and opposition to militarism...

Jordan - Communist Party of Jordan, Jordanian Democratic People's Party

Jordanian Democratic People's Party

Jordanian Democratic People's Party , is a political party in Jordan...

, Communist Workers' Party of Jordan Kazakhstan - Communist Party of Kazakhstan

Communist Party of Kazakhstan

The Communist Party of Kazakhstan is a political party in Kazakhstan. -Origin:The Communist Party of Kazakhstan was founded 1936 when Kazakhstan was granted a Union Republic status within the Soviet Union...

, People's Communist Party of Kazakhstan Kurdistan (autonomous region) - Kurdistan Communist Party

Kurdistan Communist Party

The Kurdistan Communist Party/Iraq is a Kurdish political party, formed in 1993 when the Iraqi Communist Party branch in the Kurdish areas was formed into a separate party. The party is led by Kamal Shakir....

, Kurdistan Workers Party

Kurdistan Workers Party

The Kurdistan Workers' Party , commonly known as PKK, also known as KGK and formerly known as KADEK or KONGRA-GEL , is a Kurdish organization which has since 1984 been fighting an armed struggle against the Turkish state for an autonomous Kurdistan and greater cultural and political rights...

- illegal Kyrgyzstan - Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan

Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan

The Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan is a political party in Kyrgyzstan. KPK was founded on August 21, 1999, following a split in the Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan.KPK did not participate in the 2000 parliamentary elections....

, Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan

Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan

The Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan is a political party in Kyrgyzstan. PKK was founded on June 22, 1992.It was the largest single party in the Legislative Assembly of Kyrgyzstan between 2001 and 2005 with 15 of the 60 seats. Since 2005 it has only 1 of 75 seats. It was led by Absamat...

Latvia Socialist Party of Latvia

Socialist Party of Latvia

The Socialist Party of Latvia was formed in 1994 as a successor party to the Communist Party of Latvia, which was banned in 1991. In essence, the party is communist; according to the programme of the party, the LSP was founded as an organization upholding socialist ideas after the 1991 events that...

Lebanon - Lebanese Communist Party

Lebanese Communist Party

The Lebanese Communist Party – LCP or Parti communiste libanais in French, is a communist political party in Lebanon...

Lesotho - Communist Party of Lesotho

Communist Party of Lesotho

The Communist Party of Lesotho is a political party in Lesotho, founded on May 5, 1962. The founding secretary of the party was John Motloheloa. Other early leaders of the party included Mokhafisi Kena and Sefali Malefane...

Luxembourg - Communist Party of Luxemburg Malta - Communist Party of Malta

Communist Party of Malta

Communist Party of Malta , is a Communist political party in Malta. PKM was founded in 1969 at a secret congress in the town of Gwardamangia, following the departure from the Malta Labour Party of a group of left-wing militants that had been active in the struggle for national independence. Anthony...

Martinique - Communist Party of Martinique Mexico - Popular Socialist Party

Popular Socialist Party (Mexico)

The Popular Socialist Party is a communist party in Mexico. It was founded in 1948 as the Popular Party by Vicente Lombardo Toledano....

, Party of Mexican Communists

Party of Mexican Communists

The Party of Mexican Communists is a political party in Mexico. It is the radical continuation of the old Mexican Communist Party....

Moldova Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova Mongolia - Mongolian Communist Party Montenegro - League of Communists of Yugoslavia - Communists of Montenegro, New Communist Party of Montenegro Morocco - Annahj Addimocrati

Annahj Addimocrati

Annahj Addimocrati in Arabic) is a Marxist political movement officially recognized in Morocco. Constituted in 1995, it is the successor to the Marxist-Leninist Moroccan Movement and principally the organization "Ila Al Amame" , which militated clandestinely.The MMLM, born at the beginning of the...

Nagorno-Karabakh (unrecognized country) - Communist Party of Nagorno Karabakh

Communist Party of Nagorno Karabakh

The Communist Party of Artsakh is a communist political party in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic .The party failed to receive any seats in the June 19, 2005 elections and in the Nagorno-Karabakh parliamentary election, 2010 on 23 May 2010....

Netherlands - New Communist Party of the Netherlands New Zealand - Socialist Party of Aotearoa, Workers Party of New Zealand

Workers Party of New Zealand

The Workers Party of New Zealand was a socialist/communist political party in New Zealand...

Norway - Communist Party of Norway

Communist Party of Norway

The Communist Party of Norway is a political party in Norway without parliamentary representation. It was formed in 1923, following a split in the Norwegian Labour Party. The party played an important role in the resistance to German occupation during the Second World War, and experienced a brief...

, Red Palestine - Palestinian People's Party

Palestinian People's Party

The Palestinian People's Party , founded in 1982 as the Palestinian Communist Party, is a socialist political party in the Palestinian territories and among the Palestinian diaspora....

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a Palestinian Marxist-Leninist organisation founded in 1967. It has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the Palestine Liberation Organization , the largest being Fatah...

Panama - People's Party of Panama

People's Party of Panama

People's Party of Panama is a communist party in Panama.Founded on 4 April 1930 as the Communist Party of Panama , after Panamian communists broke away from the Labour Party. Early leaders of PCP included Eliseo Echévez and Cristóbal Segundo...

Paraguay - Paraguayan Communist Party

Paraguayan Communist Party

Paraguayan Communist Party is a communist political party in Paraguay. PCP was founded on February 19, 1928. Later it was recognized as a section of the Communist International. It was brutally suppressed during the military regimes of the country. It gained legality for a brief period in 1936 and...

Pakistan - Communist Mazdoor Kisan Party, Communist Party of Pakistan

Communist Party of Pakistan

The Communist Party of Pakistan is a communist party affiliated with Communist Party of the Russia. Before the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the party had long association and ties with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ....

Peru - Communist Party of Peru (Red Fatherland), Communist Party of Peru, Shining Path

Shining Path

Shining Path is a Maoist guerrilla terrorist organization in Peru. The group never refers to itself as "Shining Path", and as several other Peruvian groups, prefers to be called the "Communist Party of Peru" or "PCP-SL" in short...

Philippines - Communist Party of the Philippines

Communist Party of the Philippines

The Communist Party of the Philippines is a leading communist party in the Philippines. It remains an underground political organization since its founding on December 26, 1968 and has been operating in clandestine manner since its founding...

, Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930 Poland - Communist Party of Poland Portugal - Portuguese Communist Party

Portuguese Communist Party

The Portuguese Communist Party is a major left-wing political party in Portugal. It is a Marxist-Leninist party, and its organization is based upon democratic centralism. The party also considers itself to be patriotic and internationalist....

, Communist Party of the Portuguese Workers - Reorganizative Movement of the Party of the Proletariat

Communist Party of the Portuguese Workers - Reorganizative Movement of the Party of the Proletariat

The Portuguese Workers' Communist Party/Reorganized Movement of the Party of the Proletariat is a Maoist political party founded in 1970 in Portugal...

Réunion - Communist Party of Réunion

Communist Party of Réunion

The Communist Party of Réunion is a Communist political party in the French overseas department of Réunion . The party has one seat in the French National Assembly.-History:...

Romania - Asociatia Romania Muncitoare , Comitetul Central de Organizare al Partidului U.C.R (Uniunea Comunistilor Romani) Russia - Communist Party of the Russian Federation

Communist Party of the Russian Federation

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation is a Russian political party. It is the second major political party in the Russian Federation.-History:...

, Communist Workers Party of Russia, All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks

All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks

The All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks is a Marxist-Leninist and...

San Marino - San Marino Communist Refoundation Serbia - New Communist Party of Yugoslavia

New Communist Party of Yugoslavia

The New Communist Party of Yugoslavia is a Marxist-Leninist party in Serbia.The NKPJ was formed in 1990. Its General Secretary is Branko Kitanović, a writer and a translator. The Party has a youth section, the League of Yugoslav Communist Youth formed in 1992...

, Party of Communists of Serbia, Party of Labour (Serbia)

Party of Labour (Serbia)

The Party of Labour revolutionary communist, Marxist-Leninist party in Serbia.The party was founded in March 1992 by Vlado Dapčević, an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist who was a long-time political prisoner in SFR Yugoslavia...

Senegal - Party of Independence and Labour

Party of Independence and Labour

The Party of Independence and Labour is a communist political party in Senegal. Its current general secretary is Amath Dansokho.PIT emerged out of the Senegalese branch of the African Independence Party . At the time of the 1960 local elections, PAI was accused by the government of fomenting...

Slovakia - Communist Party of Slovakia

Communist Party of Slovakia

, Dawn

Dawn (political party)

Dawn is a Slovakian political party formed in May 2005 as a split from the Communist Party of Slovakia. It is led by Ivan Hopta....

Spain - Communist Party of Spain, Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain

Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain

Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain is a communist political party in Spain. PCPE was founded out of the unification of several Marxist-Leninist factions. The youth organization is called the Collectives of Communist Youth.On December 13–15 of 1984 a "Communist Unity Congress" was held...

Sudan - Communist Party of the Sudan Sweden - Communist Party of Sweden

Communist Party of Sweden (1995)

The Communist Party of Sweden is the continuation of Workers' Party – The Communists .- History :...

, Socialist Justice Party, Workers' Party (Sweden)

Workers' Party (Sweden)

The Workers' Party is a Trotskyist political party in Sweden. It was founded in 2010, when almost the entire Västerbotten County section of the Socialist Justice Party broke off ahead of the 2010 general election...

, Workers' Party (Sweden)

Workers' Party (Sweden)

Switzerland - Swiss Party of Labour Sri Lanka - Communist Party of Sri Lanka

Communist Party of Sri Lanka

Taiwan - Taiwan Communist Party

Taiwan Communist Party

The Taiwan Communist Party is a political party of the Republic of China established legally on July 20, 2008 at Xinhua, Tainan County...

, Communist Party of Republic of China Tajikistan - Communist Party of Tajikistan

Communist Party of Tajikistan

The Communist Party of Tajikistan is a political party in Tajikistan.At the last legislative elections, 27 February and 13 March 2005, the party won 13.97% of the popular vote and 4 out of 63 seats....

Transnistria (unrecognized country) - Pridnestrovie Communist Party

Pridnestrovie Communist Party

The Pridnestrovie Communist Party is a Marxist-Leninist political party in Transnistria....

, Communist Party of Pridnestrovie

Communist Party of Pridnestrovie

The Communist Party of Pridnestrovie , "PCP", "KPP", is a Marxist-Leninist, Communist political party in Transnistria. Its leader is Vladimir Gavrilchenko. It is seen as a "conservative" communist party, in contrast to the Pridnestrovie Communist Party .The Communist Party of Pridnestrovie...

Tunisia - Tunisian Workers' Communist Party

Tunisian Workers' Communist Party

The Tunisian Workers' Communist Party , also known by its French acronym PCOT, is a Marxist-Leninist political party in Tunisia. Its general secretary is Hamma Hammami. It was outlawed until the Tunisian Revolution, when in a failed attempt to shore up the state framework it and another banned...

(PCOT) Turkey - Communist Party of Turkey (TKP), Marxist-Leninist Communist Party Turkmenistan - Communist Party of Turkmenistan - illegal Ukraine - Communist Party of Ukraine

Communist Party of Ukraine

, Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed), Marxist-Leninist Party of Ukraine

Marxist-Leninist Party of Ukraine

The Marxist-Leninist Party of Ukraine is a revolutionary Maoist party established in Ukraine between the end of 2004 and the beginning of 2005. Its Chairman is Arthur Ryabchenko....

United Kingdom - Communist Party of Britain

Communist Party of Britain

The Communist Party of Britain is a communist political party in Great Britain. Although founded in 1988 it traces its origins back to 1920 and the Communist Party of Great Britain, and claims the legacy of that party and its most influential members Harry Pollitt and John Gollan as its...

, Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist) Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)

Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)

The Communist Party of Britain is a British communist political party. The small party was formed in 1968 by Reg Birch as a split from the Communist Party of Great Britain, siding with the Communist Party of China...

, Communist Party of Scotland

Communist Party of Scotland

The Communist Party of Scotland , also known as Pàrtaidh Co-Mhaoineach na h-Alba, was established in 1991 when the Communist Party of Great Britain was disbanded and re-formed as the Democratic Left think-tank. Many Communists in Scotland disagreed with this decision and instead set up the CPS,...

, New Communist Party of Britain

New Communist Party of Britain

The New Communist Party of Britain is a communist political party in Britain. The origins of the NCP lie in the Communist Party of Great Britain from which it split in 1977.-Formation:...

, Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)

Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)

The Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain is a British communist political party. It was originally named the Communist Party of England , until it was reorganised after rejecting Maoism. The party's thinking is based on the politics of Hardial Bains, who died in 1997...

, Communist League of Great Britain

Communist League of Great Britain

The Communist League of Great Britain is an anti-revisionist group in the United Kingdom.It origins lie in the Communist Party of Great Britain, where a faction formed around Bill Bland. Initially Maoist, it joined the majority of the Committee to Defeat Revisionism, for Communist Unity in 1965 to...

, Revolutionary Communist Group, Spartacist League of Britain

Spartacist League of Britain

The Spartacist League of Britain is a Trotskyist political party in Britain. It is the British section of the International Communist League ....

United States - Workers World Party

Workers World Party

Workers World Party is a far-left political party in the United States, founded in 1959 by a group led by Sam Marcy. Marcy and his followers split from the Socialist Workers Party in 1958 over a series of long-standing differences, among them Marcy's group's support for Henry A...

, Freedom Road Socialist Organization

Freedom Road Socialist Organization

The Freedom Road Socialist Organization — known in Spanish as Organización Socialista del Camino para la Libertad — was formed in 1985 as many of the Maoist-oriented groups formed in the United States New Communist Movement of the 1970s were shrinking or collapsing...

, Progressive Labor Party

Progressive Labor Party (USA)

The Progressive Labor Party is a transnational communist party based primarily in the United States. It was formed in the fall of 1961 by members of the Communist Party USA who felt that the Soviet Union had betrayed communism and become revisionist and state capitalist...

, U.S. Marxist-Leninist Organization

U.S. Marxist-Leninist Organization

The U.S. Marxist-Leninist Organization or USMLO is an anti-revisionist communist party in the United States. Born out of the MLP-USA's split with the Communist Party of Canada , USMLO is the current U.S. referent to the CPC. The group publishes Voice of Revolution...

, Revolutionary Communist Party

Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

The Revolutionary Communist Party, USA , known originally as the Revolutionary Union, is a Maoist Communist party formed in 1975 in the United States. The RCP states that U.S...

, Workers Party

Workers Party, USA

Not to be confused with the defunct Trotskyist party, Workers Party .The Workers Party is a small left-wing political party in the United States. Based in Chicago, Illinois, the Workers Party stands on a platform of anti-imperialism and anti-capitalism, and publishes a biweekly newspaper The Worker...

, Party for Socialism and Liberation

Party for Socialism and Liberation

The Party for Socialism and Liberation is a Marxist-Leninist political party in the United States. It was originally created as the result of a split within the ranks of Workers World Party , although their political line is nearly identical. The San Francisco branch as well as several other...

, Communist Party USA

Communist Party USA

The Communist Party USA is a Marxist political party in the United States, established in 1919. It has a long, complex history that is closely related to the histories of similar communist parties worldwide and the U.S. labor movement....

, Socialist Workers Party

Socialist Workers Party (United States)

The Socialist Workers Party is a far-left political organization in the United States. The group places a priority on "solidarity work" to aid strikes and is strongly supportive of Cuba...

(formerly Trotskyist) Uzbekistan - Communist Party of Uzbekistan

Communist Party of Uzbekistan

The Communist Party of Uzbekistan, initially known as Communist Party of Uzbekistan, was the ruling communist party of the Uzbek SSR, and a part of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union....

- illegal

Former

Afghanistan - Parcham
Parcham
Parcham was the name of one of the factions of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan. The Parcham faction seized power in the country after toppling Hafizullah Amin....

faction of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan was a communist party established on the 1 January 1965. While a minority, the party helped former president of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, to overthrow his cousin, Mohammed Zahir Shah, and established Daoud's Republic of Afghanistan...

, became Democratic Watan Party of Afghanistan
Democratic Watan Party of Afghanistan
The Democratic Watan Party of Afghanistan is a political party in Afghanistan.It emerged out of the Parcham faction of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan...
Albania - Party of Labour of Albania, became Socialist Party of Albania
Socialist Party of Albania
The Socialist Party of Albania , is a centre-left, social democraticand socially liberal political party in Albania, it is currently the leading opposition party in Albania. It seats 66 MPs in the 2009 Albanian parliament . It achieved power in 1997 after a political crisis and governmental...
Brazil - Brazilian Communist Party
Brazilian Communist Party
Brazilian Communist Party is the oldest political party still active in Brazil, founded in 1922, and one of the only Brazilian parties with a Stalinist orientation...

, became Popular Socialist Party
Socialist People's Party (Brazil)
The Socialist People's Party is a political party in Brazil.It was founded in 1992, after the Brazilian Communist Party decided to rename itself the Socialist People's Party as part of a political realignment following the collapse of the Soviet Union.The PPS was a part of the coalition government...
Bulgaria - Bulgarian Communist Party
Bulgarian Communist Party
The Bulgarian Communist Party was the communist and Marxist-Leninist ruling party of the People's Republic of Bulgaria from 1946 until 1990 when the country ceased to be a communist state...

, became Bulgarian Socialist Party
Bulgarian Socialist Party
The Bulgarian Socialist Party is social-democratic political party in Bulgaria and successor to the Bulgarian Communist Party. The BSP is a member of the Party of European Socialists and Socialist International, and is currently led by Sergei Stanishev....
Cambodia - Cambodian People's Party
Cambodian People's Party
The Cambodian People's Party is the current ruling party of Cambodia.This party was formerly known as Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party...
Estonia - Communist Party of Estonia
Communist Party of Estonia
Communist Party of Estonia was a political party in Estonia.EKP was formed November 5, 1920, as the Central Committee of the Estonian Sections of the Russian Communist Party was separated from its mother party. During the first half of 1920s the hopes to an immediate world revolution were still...

, Communist Party of Estonia (on CPSU platform)
Communist Party of Estonia (1990)
Communist Party of Estonia is a political party in Estonia. The party, initially known as Communist Party of Estonia Communist Party of Estonia (in Estonian: Eestimaa Kommunistlik Partei, in Russian: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Estonii) is a political party in Estonia. The party, initially known...
Ethiopia - All-Ethiopian Socialist Movement
Germany (East) - Socialist Unity Party of Germany
Socialist Unity Party of Germany
The Socialist Unity Party of Germany was the governing party of the German Democratic Republic from its formation on 7 October 1949 until the elections of March 1990. The SED was a communist political party with a Marxist-Leninist ideology...

, became Party of Democratic Socialism, and is now known as "The Left
The Left
The Left may refer to some parties in different countries:* The Left or Die Linke* The Left or Déi Lénk* The Left – The Rainbow or La Sinistra – L'Arcobaleno, Italy...

".
Hungary - Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
The Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party was the ruling Marxist–Leninist party of Hungary between 1956 and 1989. It was organised from elements of the Hungarian Working People's Party during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution...

, became Hungarian Socialist Party
Hungarian Socialist Party
The Hungarian Socialist Party describes itself as a social democratic party in Hungary. It is the partial successor of the communist Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party , which ruled Hungary between 1956 and 1989. The decision to declare the party a successor of the MSZMP was controversial, and...
Iceland - Popular Alliance
Alliance (Iceland)
The Social Democratic Alliance is a social-democratic political party in Iceland. It is centre-left in alignment and currently forms part of a coalition government along with the Left-Green Movement. It became the largest party in the Icelandic parliament after the 2009 Icelandic election...
Italy - Italian Communist Party
Italian Communist Party
The Italian Communist Party was a communist political party in Italy.The PCI was founded as Communist Party of Italy on 21 January 1921 in Livorno, by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party . Amadeo Bordiga and Antonio Gramsci led the split. Outlawed during the Fascist regime, the party played...

, became the Democratic Party of the Left
Democratic Party of the Left
The Democratic Party of the Left was a post-communist, democratic socialist political party in Italy.-History:...

, which later merged into the Democrats of the Left
Democrats of the Left
The Democrats of the Left was a social-democratic Italian political party and part of the Olive Tree electoral coalition, which merged with a number of centrist and leftist groups to form the Democratic Party on 14 October 2007...

, which in turn merged into the Democratic Party
Democratic Party (Italy)
The Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in Italy, that is the second-largest in the country. The party is led by Pier Luigi Bersani, who was elected in the 2009 leadership election....
Mongolia - Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party
Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party
The Mongolian People's Party formerly the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party is an ex-communist political party in Mongolia. The party is abbreviated MPP in English and ' in Mongolian...
Nicaragua - Socialist Party of Nicaragua
Sweden - Left Party - Communists, became Left Party
Palestine
Palestinian territories
The Palestinian territories comprise the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Since the Palestinian Declaration of Independence in 1988, the region is today recognized by three-quarters of the world's countries as the State of Palestine or simply Palestine, although this status is not recognized by the...

- Palestine Communist Party
Palestine Communist Party
The Palestine Communist Party was a political party in British Mandate of Palestine formed in 1923 through the merger of the Palestinian Communist Party and the Communist Party of Palestine...

, became Palestinian People's Party
Palestinian People's Party
The Palestinian People's Party , founded in 1982 as the Palestinian Communist Party, is a socialist political party in the Palestinian territories and among the Palestinian diaspora....
Poland - Polish United Workers Party, became Alliance of the Democratic Left
Romania - Communist Party of Romania, became National Salvation Front the descendants of which are Democratic Liberal Party
Democratic Liberal Party (Romania)
The Democratic Liberal Party is a populist, centre-right party in Romania. It was formed on 15 December 2007, when the Democratic Party merged with the Liberal Democratic Party. From 2004 to 2007, the Democratic Party was part of the governing Justice and Truth Alliance...

and Social Democratic Party
Social Democratic Party (Romania)
The Social Democratic Party is the major social-democratic political party in Romania. It was formed in 1992, after the post-communist National Salvation Front broke apart. It adopted its present name after a merger with a minor social-democratic party in 2001. Since its formation, it has always...
San Marino - Communist Party of San Marino, became Party of Democrats
Party of Democrats
The Party of Democrats was a social-democratic political party in San Marino. Its Italian counterpart was the Democrats of the Left....
Tunisia - Tunisian Communist Party
Tunisian Communist Party
Tunisian Communist Party was a political party in Tunisia. PCT was founded in 1934, as the Tunisian Federation of the French Communist Party was converted into an independent organization. The party was banned by the Vichy regime in 1939, but in 1943 the party was able to operate legally again. It...

, became Movement for Renewal
Movement for Renewal
The Ettajdid Movement , also referred to simply as Ettajdid, is a centre-left secularist political party in Tunisia. Ettajdid evolved out of the old Tunisian Communist Party in 1993. During the Ben Ali rule it was one of the legal, although oppressed opposition parties...
Yemen - Yemeni Socialist Party
Yemeni Socialist Party
The Yemeni Socialist Party is a political party in Yemen.It was the ruling party in South Yemen, the only Marxist Arab state, before unification in 1990...

Defunct (ruling)

Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

- Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, in Czech and in Slovak: Komunistická strana Československa was a Communist and Marxist-Leninist political party in Czechoslovakia that existed between 1921 and 1992....

, Czech Republic branch became Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia , abbreviated to KSČM, is a political party in the Czech Republic. It has a membership of 82,994 and is a member party of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left bloc in the European Parliament...

and Slovak branch became the Party of the Democratic Left
Party of the Democratic Left (Slovakia)
The Party of the Democratic Left was a social-democratic political party in Slovakia from 1990 to 2004.It was founded in 1990, out of the Communist Party of Slovakia....
Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the only legal, ruling political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest communist organizations in the world...

, previously the Bolshevik
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....

faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....

- League of Communists of Yugoslavia
League of Communists of Yugoslavia
League of Communists of Yugoslavia , before 1952 the Communist Party of Yugoslavia League of Communists of Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croatian: Savez komunista Jugoslavije/Савез комуниста Југославије, Slovene: Zveza komunistov Jugoslavije, Macedonian: Сојуз на комунистите на Југославија, Sojuz na...

Defunct (non-ruling)

Armenia - Armenian Workers Communist Party
Armenian Workers Communist Party
Armenian Labour Communist Party was a political party in Armenia. On July 7, 2003, the party merged into the United Communist Party of Armenia....

, Armenian Workers Union
Armenian Workers Union
Armenian Workers Union was a political party in Armenia founded in 1999. On July 7, 2003, the party merged into the United Communist Party of Armenia....

, Marxist Party of Armenia
Marxist Party of Armenia
Marxist Party of Armenia was a political party in Armenia. At the 2003 elections, the party formed part of the Free and Fair Armenia electoral bloc together with the Union of Communists of Armenia. The bloc was denied registration on the ground that neither of the two parties had submitted proper...

, Union of Communists of Armenia
Union of Communists of Armenia
Union of Communists of Armenia was a political party in Armenia. At the last elections, 25 May 2003, the party formed part of the Free and Fair Armenia electoral bloc together with the Marxist Party of Armenia. The bloc was denied registration on the ground that neither of the two parties had...

, Renewed Communist Party of Armenia
Renewed Communist Party of Armenia
Renewed Communist Party of Armenia was a political party in Armenia. HNKK was formed on May 25, 2002, by former Armenian Communist Party leaders Yuri Manukian and Grant Voskanyan who had been expelled from HKK the previous year on the grounds that they had advocated cooperation with the government...
Australia - Communist Party of Australia
Communist Party of Australia
The Communist Party of Australia was founded in 1920 and dissolved in 1991; it was succeeded by the Socialist Party of Australia, which then renamed itself, becoming the current Communist Party of Australia. The CPA achieved its greatest political strength in the 1940s and faced an attempted...
Britain - Communist Party of Great Britain
Communist Party of Great Britain
The Communist Party of Great Britain was the largest communist party in Great Britain, although it never became a mass party like those in France and Italy. It existed from 1920 to 1991.-Formation:...
Brazil - Revolutionary Brazilian Communist Party
Canada - Labour-Progressive Party
Labour-Progressive Party
For the Labour-Progressive Coalition Government in New Zealand see the Fifth Labour Government of New ZealandThe Labor-Progressive Party was the legal political organization of the Communist Party of Canada between 1943 and 1959....

founded in 1943 when Communist Party of Canada
Communist Party of Canada
The Communist Party of Canada is a communist political party in Canada. Although is it currently a minor or small political party without representation in the Federal Parliament or in provincial legislatures, historically the Party has elected representatives in Federal Parliament, Ontario...

was banned (resumed former name in 1959), Workers' Communist Party of Canada
Workers' Communist Party of Canada
The Workers' Communist Party of Canada was a Canadian political party that nominated candidates in the 1972 and 1980 general elections. For several years it published a weekly newspaper "The Forge/La Forge"...
Channel Islands
Channel Islands
The Channel Islands are an archipelago of British Crown Dependencies in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They include two separate bailiwicks: the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey...

- Communist Party of Jersey
Communist Party of Jersey
The Communist Party of Jersey, a political party on the island of Jersey. The CPJ seems to have had a semi-autonomous relation to the Communist Party of Great Britain....
Republic of China (Taiwan) - Taiwanese Communist Party
Taiwanese Communist Party
The Taiwanese Communist Party was a revolutionary organization active in Japan-ruled Taiwan. Like the contemporary Taiwanese People's Party, its existence was short, a mere three years, yet its politics and activities were influential in shaping Taiwan's anti-colonial enterprise...
Cuba - Popular Socialist Party
Popular Socialist Party (Cuba)
The Popular Socialist Party was a communist party in Cuba. Originally called the Communist Party of Cuba , it was formed in the 1925 by a group including Blas Roca, Anibal Escalante, Fabio Grobart and Julio Antonio Mella, who acted as its leader until his assassination in Mexico in 1929. It was...

, joined Cuban Communist Party
El Salvador - Communist Party of El Salvador
Communist Party of El Salvador
The Communist Party of El Salvador was the official Communist political party in El Salvador. The Communist Party was founded by Miguel Mármol in the 1930s....

, merged into the FMLN
Free Territory of Trieste
Free Territory of Trieste
The Free Territory of Trieste was to be a city-state situated in Central Europe between northern Italy and Yugoslavia, created by the United Nations Security Council in the aftermath of World War II and provisionally administered by an appointed military governor commanding the peacekeeping United...

- Communist Party of the Free Territory of Trieste
Communist Party of the Free Territory of Trieste
Communist Party of the Free Territory of Trieste was a communist party in the Free Territory of Trieste...

, merged into the Italian Communist Party
Italian Communist Party
The Italian Communist Party was a communist political party in Italy.The PCI was founded as Communist Party of Italy on 21 January 1921 in Livorno, by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party . Amadeo Bordiga and Antonio Gramsci led the split. Outlawed during the Fascist regime, the party played...
Georgia - Revived Communist Party of Georgia
Revived Communist Party of Georgia
Revived Communist Party of Georgia , a communist political party in Georgia. Founded in 1997. The party is now dissolved.The party had a 105-member central committee elected on a two-year mandate. A CC Bureau was constituted with 21 members. The party claimed to have 17 500 members divided in 32...

, Georgian Workers Communist Party
Georgian Workers Communist Party
Georgian Workers Communist Party was a political party in Georgia. The chairman of the party was Panteleimon Giorgadze. In 1994 the party merged into the United Communist Party of Georgia....
Germany - Spartacist League
Spartacist League
The Spartacus League was a left-wing Marxist revolutionary movement organized in Germany during World War I. The League was named after Spartacus, leader of the largest slave rebellion of the Roman Republic...

formed in 1918 and became the Communist Party of Germany
Communist Party of Germany
The Communist Party of Germany was a major political party in Germany between 1918 and 1933, and a minor party in West Germany in the postwar period until it was banned in 1956...
Germany (West)
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

- Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin
Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin
Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin was a communist party in West Berlin. The party was founded on November 24, 1962 when the West Berlin local organization of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany was separated from the main party...

, Communist Party of Germany
Communist Party of Germany
The Communist Party of Germany was a major political party in Germany between 1918 and 1933, and a minor party in West Germany in the postwar period until it was banned in 1956...

(banned 1956 in West Germany)
Guatemala - Guatemalan Party of Labour
Guatemalan Party of Labour
The Guatemalan Party of Labour was a communist party in Guatemala. It existed from 1949 to 1998. It gained prominence during the government of Col. Jacobo Arbenz...

, merged into the URNG
Haiti - Unified Party of Haitian Communists
Unified Party of Haitian Communists
The Unified Party of Haitian Communists was a political party in Haiti. PUCH was established in 1968 by the mergers the Popular Entente Party and the Party of Union of Haitian Democrats...

, merged into the National Reconstruction Movement
National Reconstruction Movement
The National Reconstruction Movement is a political party in Haiti. In the 7 February and 21 April 2006 Chamber of Deputies elections, the party won 1 out of 99 seats....

in 1990
Honduras - Communist Party of Honduras
Communist Party of Honduras
Communist Party of Honduras was a communist party in Honduras. PCH was founded on October 10, 1954. It had its roots in the Honduran Revolutionary Democratic Party....

, merged into the Partido Renovación Patriótica
Iceland - Communist Party of Iceland
Communist Party of Iceland
The Communist Party of Iceland was a political party in Iceland from 1930 to 1938.-History:In the early 1920s a group of young militants of the Social Democratic Party came into contact with the international communist movement. Their ideology and that of their party leader, was quickly growing...
Indonesia - Communist Party of Indonesia
Communist Party of Indonesia
The Communist Party of Indonesia was the largest non-ruling communist party in the world prior to being crushed in 1965 and banned the following year.-Forerunners:...
Ireland - Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist)
Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist)
The Communist Party of Ireland was an anti-revisionist political party based in Ireland, it had strong links with Party of Labour of Albania, Communist Party of Canada and Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain .CPI originated from the "Internationalists in Ireland", a group started on 9...
Israel - Maki
Maki (historical political party)
Maki was a communist political party in Israel. It is not the same party as the modern day Maki, which split from it during the 1960s and later assumed its name.-History:...

(1948-1973) split in 1965 with formation of largely Arab Rakah which changed its name to Maki in 1989.
Italy - Communist Party of Italy
Communist Party of Italy
The Communist Party of Italy was a communist political party in Italy which existed from 1921 to 1926. That year it was outlawed by Benito Mussolini's fascist regime. In 1943, the name was changed to the Italian Communist Party.-Foundation:The forerunner of the party was the Communist Faction...
Lebanon - Lebanese People's Party
Lebanese People's Party
The Lebanese People's Party was the first formally organized Communist party in the Arab world. It was established October 24, 1924 by nine people, prominent among them Yusuf Ibrahim Yazbak and Fuad Shamali. The LPP published the leftist weekly newspaper al-Insaniyyah , also the first of its kind...
Malaysia - Malayan Communist Party
Malayan Communist Party
The Malayan Communist Party , officially known as the Communist Party of Malaya , was founded in 1930 and laid down its arms in 1989. It is most famous for its role in the Malayan Emergency.-Formation:...

, North Kalimantan Communist Party
North Kalimantan Communist Party
North Kalimantan Communist Party was a communist political party based in the Malaysian province of Sarawak in northern Borneo. It was founded on September 19, 1971. Before that, the group had been operating under the name Sarawak Communist Organization. The chairman of the NKCP was Wen Min Chyuan...
Mexico - Mexican Communist Party
Mexican Communist Party
The Mexican Communist Party was a communist party in Mexico. It was founded in 1911 as the Socialist Workers' Party by Manabendra Nath Roy, a left-wing Indian intellectual. The PSO changed its name to the Mexican Communist Party in November 1919 following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia...

, Marxist-Leninist Centre in Mexico
Marxist-Leninist Centre in Mexico
The Marxist-Leninist Centre in Mexico is a communist organization located in Mexico.The MLCM supports Marxism-Leninism and Maoism and its aim is to establish a revolutionary party in Mexico. It has strong ties with the Italian Marxist-Leninist Party , that defines its "elder brother"...
Namibia - Communist Party of Namibia
Communist Party of Namibia
The Communist Party of Namibia was a political party in Namibia. The party, initially called the 'Party of Jacob Morenga', was founded on 3 October 1981 in Angola. The party general secretary was Rirua Karihangana....
Netherlands - Communist Party of the Netherlands
Communist Party of the Netherlands
The Communist Party of the Netherlands was a Dutch communist political party. The CPN is one of the predecessors of the GreenLeft.- Foundation :...

merged into GroenLinks in 1989
New Zealand - Communist Party of New Zealand
Communist Party of New Zealand
The Communist Party of New Zealand was a Communist political party in New Zealand from the 1920s to the early 1990s. It never achieved significant political success, and no longer exists as an independent group, although the Socialist Worker organisation is considered organisationally continuous...

, Socialist Unity Party
Socialist Unity Party (New Zealand)
The Socialist Unity Party was one of the better-known communist parties in New Zealand. It had a certain amount of influence in the trade union movement, but never won seats in Parliament....
Nigeria - Socialist Workers and Farmers Party of Nigeria
Socialist Workers and Farmers Party of Nigeria
Socialist Workers and Farmers Party of Nigeria was a political party in Nigeria. Founded in 1963, its leaders included Dr. Tunji Otegbeye, Eskor Toyo, Wahab Goodluck, Kunle Oyero, Bassey and Fatogun...
Norway - Workers' Communist Party
Workers' Communist Party (Norway)
The Workers' Communist Party was a Norwegian communist party . AKP was a maoist party and one of two communist parties in Norway; the other was the older Communist Party of Norway which has remained pro-Soviet. The relationship between the two parties was characterized by strong hostility.AKP was...

merged into Rødt
Palestine - Communist Party of Palestine
Communist Party of Palestine
The Communist Party of Palestine was a communist party in Palestine 1922-1923. It was formed through a split in the Po‘alei Tziyon which lead to the formation of the Jewish Communist Party and another faction forming the Palestinian Communist Party). A major difference between the two parties was...

(1921-1948)
Poland - Communist Party of Poland
Communist Party of Poland
The Communist Party of Poland is a historical communist party in Poland. It was a result of the fusion of Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania and the Polish Socialist Party-Left in the Communist Workers Party of Poland .-1918-1921:The KPRP was founded on 16 December 1918 as...
Saudi Arabia - Communist Party in Saudi Arabia
Communist Party in Saudi Arabia
The Communist Party in Saudi Arabia was a political party in Saudi Arabia. The CPSA was formed on August 31, 1975. It had its origins in the National Renewal Front which was founded on September 23, 1954 and transformed in the National Liberation Front on October 17, 1958. The NLF was part of the...
Tatarstan - Communist Party of the Republic of Tatarstan
Communist Party of the Republic of Tatarstan
The Communist Party of the Republic of Tatarstan was a communist political party from 1991-1997 in Tatarstan, nowadays a federal subject of Russia , but at that time it was a self-proclaimed republic....
Thailand - Communist Party of Thailand
Communist Party of Thailand
The Communist Party of Thailand - CPT was a Marxist-Leninist, Communist political party in Thailand, active from 1942 until the 1990s. Initially known as Communist Party of Siam the party was founded officially on the 1st of December 1942, although communist activism in the country began as early...
United States - Communist Party Marxist-Leninist
Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) (USA)
The Communist Party was a Maoist political party in the United States.- History :The Communist Party 's predecessor organization, the October League , was founded in 1971 by several local groups, many of which had grown out of the radical student organization Students for a Democratic Society when...

, May 19th Communist Movement
May 19th Communist Movement
The May 19 Coalition , was a US-based, self-described revolutionary organization formed by members of the Weather Underground Organization...

, Communist Workers Party, Black Panther Party
Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party wasan African-American revolutionary leftist organization. It was active in the United States from 1966 until 1982....

, Communist Labor Party
Communist Labor Party
The Communist Labor Party of America was one of the organizational predecessors of the Communist Party USA. The group was established at the end of August 1919 following a three-way split of the Socialist Party of America...

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