The Marxist-Leninist Party of Ukraine is a revolutionary Maoist party established in Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

 between the end of 2004 and the beginning of 2005. Its Chairman is Arthur Ryabchenko.

The MLPU was established because its members don't agree with the current communist parties in Ukraine, that they call revisionists (many of them is inspired by Leonid Brezhnev

Leonid Brezhnev

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev  – 10 November 1982) was the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , presiding over the country from 1964 until his death in 1982. His eighteen-year term as General Secretary was second only to that of Joseph Stalin in...

's 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....

). Domestically, the Party tries to reevaluate Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...

's work and thought and fights against the "bourgeois government". They consider the USSR after Stalin and China

China

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 after Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung , and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao , was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution...

 revisionist countries. The Party ideological line is 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...

-Maoism

Maoism

Maoism, also known as the Mao Zedong Thought , is claimed by Maoists as an anti-Revisionist form of Marxist communist theory, derived from the teachings of the Chinese political leader Mao Zedong . Developed during the 1950s and 1960s, it was widely applied as the political and military guiding...

.

Since its establishment, the MLPU set close links with the 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...

, translating and publishing some of Giovanni Scuderi

Giovanni Scuderi

Giovanni Scuderi is an Italian politician, General Secretary of the Italian Marxist-Leninist Party, established by him and other comrades in 10 April 1977 in Florence.-Biography:Scuderi has always had a strong Maoist political commitment...

's works. Ryabchenko also wrote on Il Bolscevico.