List of communist parties
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Party is ruling in a communist state
Party is part of ruling coalition
Party is part of main opposition
Template:Sidebar with collapsible listsThere are a number of communist parties active in various countries across the world and a number that used to be active. They differ not only in method, but also in strict ideology and interpretation, although they are generally within the tradition of Marxism–Leninism.
The formation of communist parties in various countries was first initiated by the Russian Bolsheviks within the Communist International. Since then, communist parties have governed numerous countries, whether as ruling parties in one-party states like the Chinese Communist Party or the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, or as ruling parties in multi-party systems, including majority and minority governments as well as leading or being part of several coalitions.
Many other communist parties did not govern any country, but did govern a state or region within a country. Others have also been represented in national, state, or regional parliaments. Some communist parties and schools of thought reject parliamentarism, instead advocating insurrection or social revolution as well as workers' councils.
Officially ruling in communist states
In the following countries, communist parties either lead the ruling coalition or hold monopoly on state power as defined by their respective country's constitutions.
| Country | Logo | Name | Abbr. | Leader | Founded | Ideology | Legislature | Notes | |
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| File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China | File:Danghui.svg | Communist Party of China Script error: No such module "Lang". |
CPC Script error: No such module "Lang". |
General Secretary Xi Jinping | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism | NPC: Template:Composition bar | ||
| Template:Flagcountry | Communist Party of Cuba Script error: No such module "Lang". |
PCC | First Secretary Miguel Díaz-Canel | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Castroism Guevarism |
National Assembly: Template:Composition bar | Leads the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution. | ||
| Template:Flagcountry | File:LPRP logo.svg | Lao People's Revolutionary Party Script error: No such module "Lang". |
LPRP Script error: No such module "Lang". |
General Secretary Thongloun Sisoulith | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Kaysone Phomvihane Thought |
National Assembly: Template:Composition bar | Leads the Lao Front for National Development. | |
| Template:Flagcountry | File:WPK symbol.svg | Workers' Party of Korea Script error: No such module "Lang". |
WPK Script error: No such module "Lang". |
General Secretary Kim Jong Un | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Communism Juche Korean nationalism |
SPA: Template:Composition bar | ||
| Template:Flagcountry | File:Communist Party of Vietnam flag logo.svg | Communist Party of Vietnam Script error: No such module "Lang". |
CPV Script error: No such module "Lang". |
General Secretary Tô Lâm | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Vietnamese nationalism |
National Assembly: Template:Composition bar | Leads the Vietnamese Fatherland Front. | |
Ruling or part of ruling coalition in multi-party states
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Main opposition or part of main opposition coalition
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Formerly ruling
One-party system
| Country | Logo | Name | Abbr. | Leaders | Founded | Dissolved | Ideology | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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File:Emblem of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan.svg | People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
PDPA | Nur Muhammad Taraki (first) Mohammad Najibullah (last) |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Left-wing nationalism Secularism Revolutionary socialism |
Abandoned Marxism–Leninism in 1987, deposed in 1992 | |
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Party of Labour of Albania Script error: No such module "Lang". |
PPSh | Enver Hoxha (first) Ramiz Alia (last) |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Stalinism Anti-revisionism |
Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy in 1991; now known as the PSSh | ||
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File:Logo of the MPLA (Angola).svg | People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola Script error: No such module "Lang". |
MPLA | Agostinho Neto (first) João Lourenço (current) |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism | Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy | ||
| File:Flag of the Azerbaijan People's Government.svg Azerbaijan People's Government (1945–1946)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
File:Coat of arms of Azerbaijan People's Government.svg | Azerbaijani Democratic Party Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "Lang".< |
ADP Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "Lang".< |
Ja'far Pishevari | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Azerbaijani nationalism Left-wing nationalism Pan-Turkism |
Ceased to exist in exile | |
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File:Flag of PRPB.svg | People's Revolutionary Party of Benin Script error: No such module "Lang". |
PRPB | Mathieu Kérékou | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Scientific socialism Beninese nationalism |
Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy; now known as the UFP | |
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File:LogoBKP.svg | Bulgarian Communist Party Script error: No such module "Lang". |
PRPB Script error: No such module "Lang". |
Dimitar Blagoev (first) Aleksandar Lilov (last) |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Stalinism (until 1956) |
Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy; now known as the BSP | |
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File:Emblem of the Communist Party of Kampuchea.svg | Communist Party of Kampuchea Script error: No such module "Lang". |
CPK Script error: No such module "Lang". |
Tou Samouth (first) Pol Pot (last) |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Maoism Khmer nationalism Agrarianism Anti-intellectualism Autarky |
Succeeded by the exiled, non-ruling and now-defunct Party of Democratic Kampuchea | |
| Template:Flagcountry (1979–1992)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
File:Flag of the People's Republic of Kampuchea.svg | Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party Script error: No such module "Lang". |
KPRP | Pen Sovan (first) Heng Samrin (last) |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Revisionism |
Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for centrism; now known as the CPP | |
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File:Roundel of Congo 1970.svg | Congolese Party of Labour Script error: No such module "Lang". |
PCT | Marien Ngouabi (first) Denis Sassou Nguesso (current) |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Scientific socialism |
Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy | ||
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File:Emblem of the SKH.svg | League of Communists of Croatia Script error: No such module "Lang". |
SKH | Pavle Gregorić (first) Ivica Račan (last) |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Titoism (from 1948)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Abandoned Marxism–Leninism and Titoism for social democracy in 1989–1990; now known as the SDP | |
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File:Emblem of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.svg | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Script error: No such module "Lang". |
KSČ | Václav Šturc (first) Ladislav Adamec (last) |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Socialism with a human face (1968)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Husakism (1969–1989)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Split into the non-ruling KSČM and the social democratic SDL | |
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Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia Script error: No such module "Lang". |
COPWE | Mengistu Haile Mariam | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism | Succeeded by the WPE | ||
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File:Workers' Party of Ethiopia Logo.png | Workers' Party of Ethiopia Script error: No such module "Lang". |
WPE Script error: No such module "Lang". |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism | Deposed in 1991 | ||
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File:Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands Logo.svg | Socialist Unity Party of Germany Script error: No such module "Lang". |
SED | Wilhelm Pieck & Otto Grotewohl (first) Egon Krenz (last) |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Socialist patriotism Stalinism (until 1956) |
Became the PDS, part of The Left | |
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File:Kke.svg | Communist Party of Greece Script error: No such module "Lang". |
KKE Script error: No such module "Lang". |
Avraam Benaroya (first) Dimitris Koutsoumpas (current) |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Internationalism Anti-capitalism Euroscepticism |
Overthrown during the Greek Civil War | ||
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New Jewel Movement | NJM | Maurice Bishop | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism State atheism Revolutionary socialism Republicanism Left-wing populism Pan-Africanism Anti-colonialism |
Lost power and ceased to exist after an internal party split, a military coup, and the American invasion. Succeeded by the MBPM | ||
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File:Logo of the Party of Communists in Hungary.svg | Hungarian Communist Party Script error: No such module "Lang". |
MKP | Béla Kun (first) Mátyás Rákosi (last) |
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Deposed in August 1919 | |
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File:Logo of the Hungarian Communist Party.svg | Merged with the MSZDP into the MDP | |||||||
| File:Logo of the Hungarian Working People's Party.svg | Hungarian Working People's Party Script error: No such module "Lang". |
MDP | Mátyás Rákosi (first) János Kádár (last) |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Stalinism |
Reorganized into the MSZMP during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution | ||
| File:Logo of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (1989-1993).svg | Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party Script error: No such module "Lang". |
MSZMP | János Kádár (first) Rezső Nyers (last) |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Kádárism |
Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy; now known as the MSZP | ||
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File:Logo of the Mongolian People's Party.svg | Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party Script error: No such module "Lang". |
MAKhN Script error: No such module "Lang". |
Damdin Sükhbaatar (first) Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene (current) |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Stalinism (1928–1956) |
Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy | ||
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File:Partido FRELIMO Emblem.svg | FRELIMO Party Script error: No such module "Lang". |
FRELIMO | Eduardo Mondlane (first) Filipe Nyusi (current) |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Left-wing nationalism |
Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for democratic socialism | ||
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File:Socialist red flag.svg | Polish Workers' Party Script error: No such module "Lang". |
PPR | Władysław Gomułka | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Stalinism |
Merged with the PPS to form the PZPR | |
| File:POL PZPR logo.svg | Polish United Workers' Party Script error: No such module "Lang". |
PZPR | Bolesław Bierut (first) Mieczysław Rakowski (last) |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Left-wing nationalism Stalinism (until 1956) |
Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy; later known as the Democratic Left Alliance | ||
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File:Coat of arms of PCR.svg | Romanian Communist Party Script error: No such module "Lang". |
PCR | Gheorghe Cristescu (first) Nicolae Ceaușescu (last) |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Left-wing nationalism Socialist patriotism Neo-Stalinism (post-1971) National Communism (post-1971) |
Dissolved after the Romanian Revolution | |
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File:Emblem of Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party.svg | Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party Script error: No such module "Lang". |
XHKS | Siad Barre | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Islamic socialism Pan-Somalism Scientific socialism Somali nationalism Militarism |
Deposed in 1991 | |
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File:КПСС.svg | Communist Party of the Soviet Union Script error: No such module "Lang". |
CPSU Script error: No such module "Lang". |
Vladimir Lenin (first) Mikhail Gorbachev (last) |
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Banned in 1991, de facto succeeded by UCP-CPSU and CPRF | |
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File:Flag of the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf.svg | National Liberation Front Script error: No such module "Lang". |
NLF | Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Arab nationalism |
Reorganized itself into the YSP | |
| File:Emblem of the Yemeni Socialist Party.svg | Yemeni Socialist Party Script error: No such module "Lang". |
YSP | Abdul Fattah Ismail (first) Abdulraham Al-Saqqaf (current) |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Arab nationalism Anti-imperialism |
Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy | |||
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File:Flag of the Tuvinian Peoples Revolutionary Party.svg | Tuvan People's Revolutionary Party Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
TPRP Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
Namachyn (first) Salchak Toka (last) |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Stalinism |
Became the Tuvan Regional Committee of the VKP(b), later CPSU | |
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File:Emblem of the SKJ.svg | League of Communists of Yugoslavia Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
SKJ Script error: No such module "Lang". |
Josip Broz Tito (1939–1980) Milan Pančevski (last) |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Titoism |
Splintered into its many constituent parties in 1990 | |
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Parliamentary majority or minority government
| Country | Logo | Name | Abbr. | Leaders | Founded | Dissolved | Ideology | Notes | |
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File:Kommunistische Partei Österreichs Logo.svg | Communist Party of Austria Script error: No such module "Lang". |
KPÖ | Ruth Fischer, Franz Koritschoner, & Lucien Laurat (first) Günther Hopfgartner (current) |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Anti-fascism Socialism |
Participated in the provisional government coalition after World War II and for four years after the 1945 election | ||
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Chadian Action for Unity and Socialism Script error: No such module "Lang". |
ACTUS | Fidèle Moungar | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Stalinism |
The party's leader was chosen as Prime Minister in April 1993. | |||
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File:AKEL Logo.png | Progressive Party of Working People Script error: No such module "Lang". |
AKEL Script error: No such module "Lang". |
Ploutis Servas (first) Stefanos Stefanou (current) |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Cypriot nationalism Federalism Soft euroscepticism |
Won the 2008 election and ruled until 2013 | ||
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File:People's Progressive Party-Civic Flag (Guyana).svg | People's Progressive Party/Civic | PPP/С | Cheddi Jagan & Janet Jagan (first) Bharrat Jagdeo (current) |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Social democracy Left-wing populism Left-wing nationalism Historically: Communism Marxism–Leninism |
Abandoned Marxism–Leninism officially in 2024.[1] | ||
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File:CPI symbol.svg | Communist Party of India | CPI | Sachchidanand Vishnu Ghate (first) D. Raja (current) |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Left-wing nationalism |
Member of the United Front and its coalition government | ||
| File:Cpm election symbol.svg | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | CPI(M) | Puchalapalli Sundarayya (first) Sitaram Yechury (current) |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Left-wing nationalism |
Member of the United Front and its coalition government | |||
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File:Logo of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova.svg | Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova Script error: No such module "Lang". |
PCRM | Vladimir Voronin | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism Moldovenism Social conservatism Soviet patriotism Russophilia |
Deposed after the 2009 protests | ||
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File:CPN-UML.svg | Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Script error: No such module "Lang". |
CPN (UML) Script error: No such module "Lang". |
Madan Bhandari (first) K. P. Sharma Oli (current) |
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Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism People's Multiparty Democracy |
Merged with the CPN (MC) to form the NCP in 2018, refounded in 2021 | |
| File:Nepal Communist Party.svg | Nepal Communist Party Script error: No such module "Lang". |
NCP Script error: No such module "Lang". |
K. P. Sharma Oli Pushpa Kamal Dahal |
Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Marxism–Leninism People's Multiparty Democracy Prachanda Path Democratic centralism Secularism Federalism |
Dissolved as a result of internal conflicts in 2021 | ||
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File:Sammarinese Communist Party flag, 1950s.svg | Sammarinese Communist Party Script error: No such module "Lang". |
PCS | Ermenegildo Gasperoni | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Communism | Deposed by coup d'etat orchestrated by Italy and America in Fatti di Rovereta | ||
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Coalition partner or supporter
- Script error: No such module "flag". Bulgaria (2005–2009, 2013–2014, 2021–2022) – Communist Party of Bulgaria, in coalition government as member of the Coalition for Bulgaria
- Script error: No such module "flag". Belgium (1946–1947) – Communist Party of Belgium, in the Van Acker I Government
- Script error: No such module "flag". Finland (1944–1948, 1966–1970, 1970–1971, 1975–1976 and 1977–1982) – Finnish People's Democratic League, in coalition governments with numerous other parties
- Script error: No such module "flag". France (1981–1989; 1997–2002) – French Communist Party as a part of the Union de la gauche and of the Gauche plurielle
- Script error: No such module "flag". India (2004–2008) – Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Communist Party of India, in the coalition government of the United Progressive Alliance
- Script error: No such module "flag". Iran (1946) – Tudeh Party of Iran, in the coalition government of Ahmad Qavam[2]
- Script error: No such module "flag". Italy (1998–2001, 2006–2008) – Party of Italian Communists in the D'Alema I Cabinet, D'Alema II Cabinet, Amato II Cabinet with The Olive Tree; Communist Refoundation Party and Party of Italian Communists in the coalition government of The Union
- Script error: No such module "flag". Mali (2005–2014) – Malian Party of Labour, participated in the Alliance for Democracy in Mali
- Script error: No such module "flag". Norway (1945) – Communist Party of Norway in coalition government as member of Gerhardsen's First Cabinet led by the Labour Party
- Script error: No such module "flag". Peru (2011–2016) – Peruvian Communist Party, in coalition governments as member of Peru Wins
- Script error: No such module "flag". Portugal (2015–2019) – Portuguese Communist Party in support of the XXI Constitutional Government of Portugal led by the Socialist Party
- Script error: No such module "flag". San Marino (1945–1957, 1978–1992) – Sammarinese Communist Party, in coalition government with Sammarinese Socialist Party
- Script error: No such module "flag". Sri Lanka (1970–1975, 1994–2000, 2004–2015 and 2020–2022) – Communist Party of Sri Lanka and Lanka Sama Samaja Party, in coalition governments with numerous other parties
- Script error: No such module "flag". Uruguay (2005–2020) – Communist Party of Uruguay and People's Victory Party, in coalition governments as members of the Broad Front
Modern non-ruling
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Formerly communist
| Country | Before | TurnedTemplate:Efn | Notes |
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| Script error: No such module "flag". Angola | People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola | same name | Has abandoned Marxist-Leninism for social democracy |
| National Union for the Total Independence of Angola | same name | Abandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy and then for social conservatism | |
| Script error: No such module "flag". Brazil | Popular Socialist Party | Cidadania | Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy and later social liberalism |
| Script error: No such module "flag". Bulgaria | Bulgarian Communist Party | Bulgarian Socialist Party | Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy |
| Script error: No such module "flag". Cambodia | Kampuchean Revolutionary People's Party | Cambodian People's Party | Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for centrism |
| Script error: No such module "flag". Congo | Congolese Party of Labour | same name | Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy |
| Script error: No such module "flag". Croatia | League of Communists of Croatia | Social Democratic Party | Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism-Titoism for social democracy |
| Script error: No such module "flag". Kazakhstan | Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan | People's Party of Kazakhstan | Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for democratic socialism |
| Script error: No such module "flag". Mongolia | Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party | Mongolian People's Party | Has abandoned Marxist-Leninism for social democracy |
| Script error: No such module "flag". Montenegro | League of Communists of Montenegro | Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro | Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism-Titoism for social democracy and later neoliberalism |
| Script error: No such module "flag". Morocco | Party of Progress and Socialism | same name | Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for democratic socialism |
| Script error: No such module "flag". Mozambique | FRELIMO | same name | Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for democratic socialism |
| Script error: No such module "flag". Serbia | League of Communists of Serbia | Socialist Party of Serbia | Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism-Titoism for social democracy |
| Script error: No such module "flag". Slovenia | League of Communists of Slovenia | Social Democrats | Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism-Titoism for social democracy |
| Script error: No such module "flag". Yemen | Yemeni Socialist Party | same name | Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy |
Defunct
Once ruling
Non-ruling
- Script error: No such module "flag". Armenia – Armenian Workers Communist Party, Armenian Workers Union, Marxist Party of Armenia, Union of Communists of Armenia, Renewed Communist Party of Armenia
- Script error: No such module "flag". Australia – Communist Party of Australia
- Script error: No such module "flag". Barbados – Workers Party of Barbados
- Template:Flagicon Basque Country – Auzolan, Communist Movement of Euskadi, Communist Party of the Basque Homelands, Euskadiko Sozialisten Batasuna, Euskal Herriko Alderdi Sozialista, Euskal Iraultzarako Alderdia, Eusko Alderdi Sozialista, Herriko Alderdi Sozialista, Navarrese Left Union, Party of the Revolutionary Patriotic Workers, People's Socialist Revolutionary Party
- Script error: No such module "flag". Belgium – Union of Marxist–Leninist Communists of Belgium, founded in 1970[5][6]
- Script error: No such module "flag". Belgium – Communist Party of Belgium – Marxist–Leninist, founded in 1976.
- Script error: No such module "flag". Brazil – Free Fatherland Party
- Script error: No such module "flag". Bulgaria – Bulgarian Communist Party – Marxists
- Script error: No such module "flag". Burkina Faso – African Independence Party (Burkina Faso), Burkinabé Bolshevik Party, Burkinabé Communist Group, Marxist–Leninist Group, Organization for Popular Democracy – Labour Movement, Party for Democracy and Socialism, Party of Labour of Burkina, Patriotic League for Development, Union of Burkinabé Communists, Union of Communist Struggles, Union of Communist Struggles – Reconstructed, Union of Communist Struggles – The Flame, Voltaic Communist Organization
- Template:Flagicon Catalonia – Catalan Communist Party, Catalan-Balear Communist Federation, Workers and Peasants' Bloc, Catalan State-Proletarian Party, Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia, Socialist Party of National Liberation, Party of the Communists of Catalonia
- Script error: No such module "flag". Canada – Labor-Progressive Party (legal front of the Communist Party of Canada from 1943 to 1959), Workers' Communist Party of Canada
- Template:Flagicon Channel Islands – Jersey Communist Party
- Script error: No such module "flag". Chile – Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action), Revolutionary Left Movement
- Script error: No such module "flag". Colombia – Workers Revolutionary Party of Colombia
- Script error: No such module "flag". Costa Rica – Costa Rican People's Party
- Script error: No such module "flag". Cyprus – Communist Party of Cyprus
- Script error: No such module "flag". Cuba – Popular Socialist Party, joined Cuban Communist Party
- Script error: No such module "flag". El Salvador – Communist Party of El Salvador, merged into the FMLN
- Script error: No such module "flag". Eswatini – Swaziland Communist Party
- Script error: No such module "flag". Gambia – Gambia Socialist Revolutionary Party
- Script error: No such module "flag". [[Template:Country data Georgia|Template:Country data Georgia]] – Revived Communist Party of Georgia, Georgian Workers Communist Party, Communist Party of Georgia, New Communist Party of Georgia
- Script error: No such module "flag". Germany – Spartacist League formed in 1918 and became the Communist Party of Germany
- Script error: No such module "flag". West Germany – Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin, Communist Party of Germany (banned 1956 in West Germany)
- Script error: No such module "flag". Guatemala – Guatemalan Party of Labour, merged into the URNG
- Script error: No such module "flag". Haiti – Haitian Communist Party, Haitian Workers Party, Unified Party of Haitian Communists, merged into the National Reconstruction Movement in 1990
- Script error: No such module "flag". Honduras – Communist Party of Honduras, merged into the Patriotic Renewal Party
- Script error: No such module "flag". Iceland – Communist Party of Iceland, Communist Party of Iceland (Marxist–Leninist)
- Script error: No such module "flag". India – Indian Communist Party (Sen)
- Script error: No such module "flag". Indonesia – Communist Party of Indonesia
- Script error: No such module "flag". Ireland – Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist–Leninist)
- Script error: No such module "flag". Iraq – Leninist Group in the Iraqi Communist Movement
- Script error: No such module "flag". Israel – Maki (1948–1973) split in 1965 with formation of largely Arab Rakah which changed its name to Maki in 1989
- Script error: No such module "flag". Italy – Communist Party of Italy, Italian Communist Party of the Julian March, Marxist–Leninist Italian Communist Party, Marxist–Leninist Revolutionary Party of Italy, Movement for Peace and Socialism, Movement for the Confederation of the Communists
- Script error: No such module "flag". Lebanon – Lebanese People's Party
- Script error: No such module "flag". Malaysia – Malayan Communist Party, North Kalimantan Communist Party
- Script error: No such module "flag". Mexico – Mexican Communist Party
- Script error: No such module "flag". Moldova – Communist Reformers Party of Moldova
- Script error: No such module "flag". Myanmar – Communist Party (Burma)
- Script error: No such module "flag". Namibia – Communist Party of Namibia
- Script error: No such module "flag". New Caledonia – Communist Party of New Caledonia[7]
- Script error: No such module "flag". Netherlands – Communist Party of the Netherlands merged into the GroenLinks in 1989, marxist-leninist dissidents within the party formed the NCPN in 1992.
- Script error: No such module "flag". New Zealand – Communist Party of New Zealand, Socialist Unity Party
- Script error: No such module "flag". Nigeria – Nigerian Communist Party, Socialist Workers and Farmers Party of Nigeria
- Script error: No such module "flag". North Korea – Workers' Party of North Korea
- Script error: No such module "flag". Norway – Workers' Communist Party merged into the Red Party
- Script error: No such module "flag". [[Template:Country data Palestine|Template:Country data Palestine]] – Communist Party of Palestine (1921–1948)
- Script error: No such module "flag". Poland – Communist Party of Poland
- Script error: No such module "flag". Saudi Arabia – Communist Party in Saudi Arabia
- Script error: No such module "flag". South Korea – Workers' Party of South Korea
- Script error: No such module "flag". Switzerland – Party of Labour Basel, founded in 1944
- Script error: No such module "flag". Syria - Syrian Communist Party, Syrian Communist Party (Unified), Syrian Communist Party (Bakdash)
- Script error: No such module "flag". Taiwan – Taiwanese Communist Party, China Communist Alliance, Communist Party of the Republic of China, Taiwan Democratic Communist Party
- Script error: No such module "flag". Tatarstan – Communist Party of the Republic of Tatarstan
- Script error: No such module "flag". Thailand – Communist Party of Thailand
- Script error: No such module "flag". Transnistria (unrecognized country) – Communist Party of Transnistria
- File:Free Territory Trieste Flag.svg Trieste – Communist Party of the Free Territory of Trieste, merged into the Italian Communist Party
- Script error: No such module "flag". Trinidad and Tobago – Communist Party of Trinidad and Tobago
- Script error: No such module "flag". Turkey – Communist Party of Turkey (1920-1988), Workers' Party of Turkey (1961-1971, 1975-1980), United Communist Party of Turkey, Labour Party of Turkey, People's Liberation Party-Front of Turkey, Communist Labour Party of Turkey, Revolutionary Workers' and Peasants' Party of Turkey, Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey, TKP/ML Hareketi, TKP/ML New Build-Up Organization
- Script error: No such module "flag". United Kingdom – Communist Party of Great Britain, Communist Party of Scotland
- Script error: No such module "flag". United States – Communist Party Marxist–Leninist, May 19th Communist Movement, Communist Workers Party, Black Panther Party, Communist Labor Party of America, International Socialist Organization
Left communist organizations by country
The following is a list of left communist organizations by country which list only those political organizations and parties who officially call themselves left communist ideologically and still exist.
| Country | Organizations |
|---|---|
| Ideologically left communist organizations | |
| Script error: No such module "flag". Italy | International Communist Party Lotta Comunista |
| Script error: No such module "flag". Iran | Internationalist Voice |
| Script error: No such module "flag". United Kingdom | Communist Workers' Organisation World Revolution |
| Script error: No such module "flag". United States | International Communist Party Internationalism Internationalist Workers Group Workers Offensive |
See also
- List of communist parties represented in European Parliament
- List of socialist parties with national parliamentary representation
- List of social democratic parties
- List of democratic socialist parties and organizations
- List of left-wing political parties
Notes
References
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- ↑ "Syndicalisme de combat et parti révolutionnaire". Anticapitalist Left (in French). Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ↑ "Emall NL" (in Dutch). Marxistische universiteit. Template:Webarchive. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
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External links
- Leftist Parties of the World (last updated 4 October 2006)
- Communist States animation (1850–2016)