List of communist parties

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Map of nations with communist parties as of September 2025
Nations with communist parties in power as of September 2025
     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
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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Country Logo Name Abbr. Leader Founded Ideology Legislature Notes
Template:Flagcountry File:Эмблема КПБ.jpg Communist Party of Belarus
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CPB
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Aliaksiej Sokal Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Marxism–Leninism
Soviet patriotism
Belarusian–Russian unionism
Pro-Lukashenko
Lower House: Template:Composition bar Supports the government of president Alexander Lukashenko
Template:Flagcountry File:PCdoB logo.svg Communist Party of Brazil
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCdoB Luciana Santos Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Marxism–Leninism Lower House:

Template:Composition bar

Member of the ruling federation, Brazil of Hope
Template:Flagcountry File:Partido Comunista de Chile.svg Communist Party of Chile
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCCh Lautaro Carmona Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing populism
Lower House: Template:Composition bar Member of the ruling Apruebo Dignidad coalition
Template:Flagcountry File:Partido Comunista Colombiano.svg Colombian Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCC Jaime Caycedo Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Marxism–Leninism
Bolivarianism
Lower House: Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

Member of the ruling Historic Pact for Colombia
File:ComunesColombia (1).png Commons
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Timoleón Jiménez Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Marxism–Leninism
Bolivarianism
Lower House: Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

Template:Flagcountry File:Nepal Communist Party.svg Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) CPN (UML) KP Sharma Oli Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Marxism–Leninism
People's Multiparty Democracy
Pratinidhi Sabha: Template:Composition bar

Rastriya Sabha: Template:Composition bar

Template:Flagcountry Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PFLP Ahmad Sa'adat Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Palestinian nationalism
Marxism–Leninism
Revolutionary socialism
One-state solution
Anti-Zionism
Arab nationalism
Legislative Council: Template:Composition bar Member of the Palestine Liberation Organization
File:Flag of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.svg Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Script error: No such module "Lang".
DFLP Nayef Hawatmeh Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Marxism–Leninism
Maoism
Palestinian nationalism
Left-wing nationalism
Anti-Zionism
Legislative Council: Template:Composition bar
File:Palestinian People's Party.png Palestinian People's Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PPP Bassam Al-Salhi Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Marxism
Palestinian nationalism
Left-wing nationalism
Legislative Council: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flagcountry File:Emblem of the South African Communist Party.svg South African Communist Party SACP Blade Nzimande Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing nationalism
National Assembly: Template:Composition bar Participates in the ruling Tripartite Alliance
Template:Flagcountry File:Pce 2014.svg Communist Party of Spain
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCE Enrique Santiago Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Marxism–Leninism
Republicanism
Internationalism
Federalism
Lower House: Template:Composition bar Member of United Left, which participates in the PSOESumar coalition government
Template:Flagcountry File:Communist Hammer and Sickle flag.svg Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna
Script error: No such module "Lang".
JVP Anura Kumara Dissanayake 14 May 1965 Marxism–Leninism
Anti-imperialism
Progressivism
Parliament:Template:Composition bar Main constituent of the ruling National People's Power
Template:Flagcountry File:Hammer&SickleFlag02.svg Communist Party of Uruguay
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCU Juan Castillo Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Marxism–Leninism
Internationalism
Lower House: Template:Composition bar Member of the Broad Front
File:BanderaPVP.svg People's Victory Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PVP July 1975 Marxism
Guevarism
Libertarian socialism
Anti-capitalism
Anti-authoritarianism
Lower House:

Template:Composition bar

File:Flag of Venezuela.svg VenezuelaScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". File:Tupamaro Venezuela logo.png Revolutionary Movement Tupamaro
Script error: No such module "Lang".
MRT Oswaldo Jiménez Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Marxism-Leninism
Guevarism
Foco theory
Left-wing nationalism
Revolutionary socialism
National Assembly: Template:Composition bar Participates in the ruling Great Patriotic Pole
Venezuelan Popular Unity
Script error: No such module "Lang".
UPV Lina Ron Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Bolivarianism
Socialism
Anti-imperialism
Marxism
National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Venezuelan Revolutionary Currents
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CRV Template:Ill Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Guevarism
Chavismo
Anti-imperialism
Left-wing nationalism
National Assembly: Template:Composition bar

Main opposition or part of main opposition coalition

Country Logo Name Abbr. Leader Founded Ideology Legislature Notes
Template:Flagcountry File:Pcrcolor 0.svg Revolutionary Communist Party PCR Otto Vargas Member of the Unión por la Patria
Template:Flagcountry File:AKEL Logo.png Progressive Party of Working People
Script error: No such module "Lang".
AKEL Stefanos Stefanou Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Marxism–Leninism
Cypriot nationalism
Federalism
Soft Euroscepticism
House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flagcountry File:Logo – Parti communiste français (2018).svg French Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCF Fabien Roussel 30 December 1920 Communism
Soft Euroscepticism
National Assembly: Template:Composition bar Member of the non-ruling New Popular FrontTemplate:Composition bar
Template:Flagcountry File:Cpm election symbol.svg Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI(M) M. A. Baby Marxism–Leninism Rajya Sabha: Template:Composition bar

Lok Sabha: Template:Composition bar

Member of non-organisational bloc Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance
File:CPI symbol.svg Communist Party of India CPI D. Raja Marxism Rajya Sabha: Template:Composition bar

Lok Sabha: Template:Composition bar

Member of non-organisational bloc Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance
File:Flag Logo of CPIML.png Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation CPIML-L Dipankar Bhattacharya Marxism

Communism
Marxism–Leninism

Lok Sabha: Template:Composition bar
File:Indian Election Symbol Spade and Stoker.png Revolutionary Socialist Party RSP Manoj Bhattacharya Lok Sabha:Template:Composition bar
File:Indian Election Symbol Lion.svg Peasants and Workers Party of India PWP Jayant Patil
All India Forward Bloc AIFB Naren Chatterjee Socialism

Communism Left-wing nationalism Marxism

Template:Flagcountry 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
Parliament: Template:Composition bar Member of BECS
Template:Flagcountry File:Logo of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre).png Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CPN (Maoist)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Pushpa Kamal Dahal Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Prachanda Path
Left-wing nationalism
House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Members of the Socialist Front
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CPN (Unified Socialist)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Madhav Kumar Nepal Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Marxism–Leninism
People's Multiparty Democracy
House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flagcountry File:KPRF Logo.svg Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CPRF Gennady Zyuganov Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing nationalism
Social conservatism
Soviet patriotism
Neo-Stalinism
State Duma: Template:Composition bar Federation Council: Template:Composition bar Supports some stances of the government of president Vladimir Putin, especially during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Template:Flagcountry Transnistrian Communist Party
Приднестровская коммунистическая партия
PKP Nadezhda Bondarenko Marxism-Leninism No members in parliament but only opposition party with the second position in the votes

Formerly ruling

One-party system

Country Logo Name Abbr. Leaders Founded Dissolved Ideology Notes
Template:Flagcountry
(1978–1992)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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
Template:Flagcountry
(1946–1992)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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
Template:Flagcountry
(1975–1992)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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
Template:Flagcountry
(1975–1990)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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
Template:Flagcountry
(1946–1990)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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
Template:Flagcountry
(1975–1979)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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
Template:Flagcountry
(1979–1992)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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
Template:Flagcountry
(1945–1990)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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
Template:Flagcountry
(1948–1990)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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
Template:Flagcountry
(1979–1984)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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
Template:Flagcountry
(1984–1991)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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
Template:Flagcountry
(1949–1989)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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
Template:Flagcountry
(1944, 1947–1949)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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
Template:Flagcountry
(1979–1983)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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
Template:Flagcountry
(1919)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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)
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
Stalinism
Deposed in August 1919
Template:Flagcountry
(1948–1989)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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
Template:Flagcountry
(1921–1992)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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
Template:Flagcountry
(1975–1990)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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
Template:Flagcountry
(1944–1989)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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
Template:Flagcountry
(1945–1989)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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
Template:Flagcountry
(1976–1991)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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
Template:Flagcountry
(1922–1991)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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)
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". Leninism (1922–1927)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Stalinism (1927–1953)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Marxism–Leninism (1953–1991)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Soviet patriotism
Banned in 1991, de facto succeeded by UCP-CPSU and CPRF
Template:Flagcountry
(1967–1990)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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
Template:Flagcountry
(1921–1944)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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
Template:Flagcountry
(1945–1990)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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

Parliamentary majority or minority government

Template:Missing information

Country Logo Name Abbr. Leaders Founded Dissolved Ideology Notes
Template:Flagcountry
(1945–1949)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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
Template:Flagcountry
(1993)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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.
Template:Flagcountry
(2008–2013)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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
Template:Flagcountry
(1992–2015, 2020–2024)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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]
Template:Flagcountry
(1996–1998)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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
Template:Flagcountry
(2001–2009)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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
Template:Flagcountry
(1994–1995, 2008–2013, 2015–2017, 2018–2021)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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)
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
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
Template:Flagcountry
(1945–1957, 1978–1990)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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

Coalition partner or supporter

Template:Missing information

Modern non-ruling

Country/Territory Logo Name Abbr. Leader Founded Ideology Legislature Notes
Template:Flagcountry File:Communist Party of Abkhazia Republic Logo.png Communist Party of Abkhazia
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CPA
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Lev Shamba March 1921 Marxism–Leninism People's Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flagcountry File:Flag of the Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan.svg Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CMPM 2004 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Banned Participant in the ongoing anti-Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan
Afghanistan Liberation Organization
Script error: No such module "Lang".
ALO 1973 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Marxist–Leninist Organization of Afghanistan MLOA Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Template:Flagcountry File:PKSh-LOGO.svg Communist Party of Albania
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PKSh Qemal Cicollari 1991 Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
Stalinism
Anti-revisionism
Kuvendi: Template:Composition bar
Communist Party of Albania 8 November
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PKSh 8 Nëntori Preng Çuni 2003 Marxism-Leninism
Reorganised Party of Labour of Albania

Script error: No such module "Lang".

PPSR Marko Dajti July 4, 2007 Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
Script error: No such module "flag". Algeria File:Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism logo.png Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PADS Abdelhamid Benzine 1993 Marxism–Leninism People's National Assembly: Template:Composition bar

Council: Template:Composition barPeople's Provincial Assemblies:Template:Composition barMunicipalities:Template:Composition barPeople's Municipal Assembly:Template:Composition bar

File:Logo PST.jpg Socialist Workers Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
SWP 1989 Marxism
Trotskyism
Socialism
Communism
File:Logo-Officiel.PT.Dz.png Workers' Party

Script error: No such module "Lang".Script error: No such module "Lang".

WP Louisa Hanoune 1990 Trotskyism

Communism

People's National Assembly:Template:Composition bar

Council: Template:Composition barPeople's Provincial Assemblies:Template:Composition barMunicipalities:Template:Composition barPeople's Municipal Assembly:Template:Composition bar

Script error: No such module "flag". Angola Party of the Angolan Communist Community
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCCA Baptista André José Simão 1994 Marxism–Leninism National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
File:Logo of the MPLA (Angola).svg People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola
Script error: No such module "Lang".
MPLA Agostinho Neto
Viriato da Cruz
10 December 1956 National Assembly:Template:Composition bar
Script error: No such module "flag". Argentina File:Logo del Partido de la Liberación.png Liberation Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PL Sergio Ortiz 5 April 1965 Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

File:Logo of the Communist Party of Argentina (Extraordinary Congress).svg Communist Party of Argentina (Extraordinary Congress)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CPA (EC) 2 December 1996
File:Pcrcolor 0.svg Revolutionary Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
RCP 6 January 1968 Maoism
File:Logo Izquierda Socialista (Colores Invertidos).svg Socialist Left
Script error: No such module "Lang".
SL 21 September 2006 Trotskyism
United Socialist Workers' Party USWP
Script error: No such module "Lang".
2011
File:Mst-logo.png Workers' Socialist Movement
Script error: No such module "Lang".
WSM 1992
File:Logo Partido Obrero.svg Workers' Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
WP 1964 Chamber of Deputies:Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

File:Escudo PTS.png Socialist Workers' Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
SWP 1988 Chamber of Deputies:Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

File:Logo Frente de Izquierda y de Trabajadores-Unidad.svg Workers' Left Front
Script error: No such module "Lang".
WLF 14 April 2011 Chamber of Deputies:Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

Script error: No such module "flag". Armenia File:Armenian Communist Party logo.svg Armenian Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
HKK
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Tachat Sargsyan 29 July 1991 Marxism–Leninism
Pro-Russia
Euroscepticism
Soviet patriotism
National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
United Communist Party of Armenia
Script error: No such module "Lang".
HMKK
Script error: No such module "Lang".
7 July 2003 Marxism–Leninism
Euroscepticism
Progressive United Communist Party of Armenia
Script error: No such module "Lang".
HAMK
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Vazgen Safaryan 28 January 1998 Marxism–Leninism
Soviet patriotism
Script error: No such module "flag". Australia File:Communist Party of Australia logo 2020.png Communist Party of Australia (1971) CPA Vinicio Molina 1971 Marxism–Leninism House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

File:Eureka Flag.svg Communist Party of Australia (Marxist–Leninist) CPA (ML) 15 March 1964 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Australian Communist Party ACP 2019 Marxism-Leninism
Socialist Equality Party SEP 2010 Marxism
Trotskyism
Eureka Initiative EI 2024 Marxism–Leninism
Script error: No such module "flag". Austria File:Kommunistische Partei Österreichs Logo.svg Communist Party of Austria
Script error: No such module "Lang".
KPO Günther Hopfgartner 3 November 1918 Marxism–Leninism
Socialism
National Council: Template:Composition bar

Federal Council: Template:Composition bar

The mayor of Graz, Austria's second largest city, is a member of the KPÖ
File:Partei der Arbeit.png Party of Labour of Austria
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PdA Tibor Zenker 12 October 2013 Marxism–Leninism
Hard Euroscepticism
Script error: No such module "flag". Azerbaijan File:Emblem of Azerbaijan Communist Party (1993).svg Azerbaijan Communist Party (1993)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
AzKP Haji Hajiyev 1993 Marxism–Leninism National Assembly:Template:Composition bar
New Generation Communist Party of Azerbaijan
Script error: No such module "Lang".
AYNKP Niyazi Rajabov 2008
United Communist Party of Azerbaijan
Script error: No such module "Lang".
AVKP Sayad Sayadov 1993
Script error: No such module "flag". Bahrain File:Logo of the National Liberation Front - Bahrain.svg National Liberation Front
Script error: No such module "Lang".
NLF 15 February 1955 Marxism–Leninism
Republicanism
Council of Representatives: Template:Composition bar

Shura Council: Template:Composition bar

Led the 1965 March Intifada
Progressive Democratic Tribune
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PDT Hassan Madan 14 September 2001 Market socialism
Arab nationalism
Anti-globalization
Anti-imperialism
Script error: No such module "flag". Bangladesh File:বাংলাদেশ কমিউনিস্ট পার্টির পতাকা.svg Communist Party of Bangladesh
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CPB Ruhin Hossain Prince 1971 Marxism–Leninism Jatiya Sangsad: Template:Composition bar Former member of the Bangladesh Worker's-Peasants' People's League and its coalition government
File:South Asian Communist Banner.svg Biplobi Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
BCP Gazi Kamrul 1998 Maoism Banned
File:Workers Party of Bangladesh logo.svg Workers Party of Bangladesh
Script error: No such module "Lang".
WPB Fazle Hossain Badsha 1980 Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Jatiya Sangsad: Template:Composition bar Parliament dissolved since 6 August 2024
File:Socialist Party of Bangladesh Official Logo.png Socialist Party of Bangladesh
Script error: No such module "Lang".
BASAD Khalequzzaman 7 November 1980 Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Jatiya Sangsad: Template:Composition bar
File:South Asian Communist Banner.svg Revolutionary Workers Party of Bangladesh
Script error: No such module "Lang".
RWPB Saiful Haque 14 June 2004 Marxism–Leninism
Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) (Dutta)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
BSD-ML Ajoy Dutta Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) (Umar)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
BSD-ML Badruddin Umar Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PBSP Siraj Sikder 3 June 1971 Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
Maoist Bolshevik Reorganisation Movement of the Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PBSP (MBRM) 2001 Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Workers Peasants Socialist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
SKSD 1969 Marxism–Leninism
Revolutionary socialism
United Communist League of Bangladesh
Script error: No such module "Lang".
UCLB Mosharraf Hossain Nannu April 2013 Marxism–Leninism
Script error: No such module "flag". Belarus File:Belarusian Left Party "A Just World" logo.svg Belarusian Left Party "A Just World"
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Sergey Kalyakin 25 October 2009 Democratic socialism
Revolutionary nationalism
Left-wing nationalism
Socialism
Anti-Lukashenko
Banned
Script error: No such module "flag". Belgium File:PVDAPTB-2022-icon-profile01.png Workers' Party of Belgium
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PTB
PVDA
Raoul Hedebouw 1979 Marxism
Feminism
Socialism
Chamber of Representatives: Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

File:Logo of Communist Party of Belgium (1989).png Communist Party of Belgium
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCB Arne Baillière 1989 Marxism–Leninism
Hard Euroscepticism
Chamber of Representatives: Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

Script error: No such module "flag". Benin File:PCBeninlogo.svg Communist Party of Benin
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCB Philippe Noudjenoume 1977 Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
Stalinism
Anti-revisionism
National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Benin
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCMLB Magloire Yansunnu 1999 Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
Script error: No such module "flag". Bhutan File:Communist Party of Bhutan Logo.svg Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) CPB (MLM) Comrade Umesh (nom de guerre) 22 April 2003 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
New Democratic Revolution
Republicanism
Banned Engaged in guerrilla warfare against the government of Bhutan, with the goal of starting a people's war
Script error: No such module "flag". Bolivia Communist Party of Bolivia
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCB Ignacio Mendoza 1950 Marxism–Leninism Deputies: Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

People's Revolutionary Front (Marxist−Leninist−Maoist)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
FRP-MLM Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Communist Party of Bolivia (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCB-MLM Luis Alberto Echazú 1983 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Revolutionary Workers' Party

Script error: No such module "Lang".

POR December 1935 Trotskyism
Script error: No such module "flag". Bosnia and Herzegovina Workers' Communist Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Script error: No such module "Lang". / Script error: No such module "Lang".
RKP-Bih / РКП-БиХ Goran Marković 2000 Luxemburgism
Workers' self-management
Anti-nationalism
Yugoslavism
House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar

House of Peoples: Template:Composition bar

Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang". / Script error: No such module "Lang".
KP / КП Muhamed Imamović 21 February 2012 Democratic socialism
Yugo-nostalgia
Script error: No such module "flag". Botswana Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin Movement MELS Mosalage Ditshoto 1994 Marxism–Leninism
Maoism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Pan-Africanism
Parliament:

Template:Composition bar

Script error: No such module "flag". Brazil File:PCdoB logo.svg Communist Party of Brazil
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCdoB Luciana Santos 23 June 1988 Marxism–Leninism Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar

Federal Senate: Template:Composition bar

File:PCB Logo.svg Brazilian Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCB Edmilson Costa 25 March 1922 Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar

Federal Senate: Template:Composition bar

File:Logo PSTU.png United Socialist Workers' Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PSTU Zé Maria 5 June 1994 Trotskyism
Morenism
File:Logo PCO Institucional.svg Workers' Cause Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCO Rui Costa Pimenta 7 December 1995 Marxism
Trotskyism
Social libertarianism
Anti-imperialism
File:Logo PCR.svg Revolutionary Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCR May 1966 Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Guevarism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
Foco theory
Not registered in Brazil's Superior Electoral Court
Script error: No such module "flag". Bulgaria Bulgarian Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
BKP Zonka Zlatkova Spasov 1990 Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Anti-revisionism
National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Communist Party of Bulgaria
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CPB Aleksandar Paunov 1996 Marxism–Leninism
Party of the Bulgarian Communists
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PBK Collective leadership 15 July 2006
Union of Communists in Bulgaria
Script error: No such module "Lang".
SKB Pavel Ivanov 1995 Marxism
Bulgarian Workers' Party

Script error: No such module "Lang".

BRP Ivan Vodenicharski 2000 Marxism–Leninism

Stalinism

Script error: No such module "flag". Burkina Faso File:Star Green.svg Party for Democracy and Socialism/Metba
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PDS/

Metba

Hama Arba Diallo 31 March 2012 Socialism National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCRV 1 October 1978 Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Script error: No such module "flag". Canada Communist Party of Canada
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CPC
PCC
Elizabeth Rowley 28 May 1921 Marxism–Leninism House of Commons: Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

File:CPC (ML) logo.png Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CPC (ML)
PCC (ML)
Anna Di Carlo 31 March 1970 Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Maoism (1970–1977)
Hoxhaism (1977–1990)
Communist Party of Quebec

Script error: No such module "Lang".

CPQ

PCQ

Adrien Welsh 1965 Marxism–Leninism
Script error: No such module "flag". China File:Young Mao Zedong flag.png Maoist Communist Party of China
Script error: No such module "Lang".
MCPC Ma Houzhi 28 November 2008 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Banned De facto banned in China due to not being a member of the United Front.
File:Logo of the Fourth International.svg Revolutionary Communist Party of China
Script error: No such module "Lang".
RCPC September 1948 Marxism
Trotskyism
Legislative Council: Template:Composition bar Active in Hong Kong. Participant in the 1970s Hong Kong student protests.
Script error: No such module "flag". Colombia File:PCdeC-ML.png Communist Party of Colombia (Marxist–Leninist)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCdeC (M-L) 1965 Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
Stalinism
Anti-revisionism
File:PCC-M.svg Colombian Communist Party – Maoist
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCC-M 7 August 2001 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Revolutionary Communist Group
Script error: No such module "Lang".
GCR 1982 Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism
File:MOIR.png Revolutionary Independent Labour Movement
Script error: No such module "Lang".
MOIR Gustavo Triana 1970 Maoism
Marxism-Leninism
New Democracy
Francisco Mosquera Thought
Script error: No such module "flag". Costa Rica File:Bandera Partido Vanguardia Popular Costa Rica.svg People's Vanguard Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PVP Humberto Vargas Carbonell 16 June 1931 Marxism–Leninism Legislative Assembly: Template:Composition bar Banned from 1949 to 1975
Script error: No such module "flag". [[Template:Country data Côte d'Ivoire|Template:Country data Côte d'Ivoire]] File:PCCote-d-Ivoire.svg Revolutionary Communist Party of Ivory Coast
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCRCI Achy Ekissi 1990 Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
Script error: No such module "flag". Croatia File:Logo SRP.jpg Socialist Labour Party of Croatia
Script error: No such module "Lang".
SRP Kristofor Stokić 25 October 1997 Titoism
Democratic socialism
Sabor: Template:Composition bar
File:Logo of the Workers' Front (Croatia).svg Workers Front
Script error: No such module "Lang".
RF Collective leadership 9 May 2014 Democratic socialism
Social progressivism
Anti-fascism
Anti-clericalism
Left-wing populism
Sabor: Template:Composition bar
Script error: No such module "flag". Cyprus File:AKEL Logo.png Progressive Party of Working People
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
AKEL Stefanos Stefanou 15 August 1926 Marxism–Leninism
Cypriot nationalism
Federalism
Soft euroscepticism
House of RepresentativesTemplate:Composition bar Won the 2008 election and ruled until 2013
Script error: No such module "flag". Czech Republic File:KSČM text logo.svg Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
Script error: No such module "Lang".
KSČM Kateřina Konečná 31 March 1990 Marxism
Euroscepticism
Socialism
Anti-capitalism
Anti-fascism
Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

Czech successor to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Served as confidence and supply to the second government of Andrej Babiš in 2018.
Script error: No such module "flag". Denmark File:DKP logo.svg Communist Party of Denmark
Script error: No such module "Lang".
DKP Henrik Stamer Hedin 9 November 1919 Marxism–Leninism Folketing: Template:Composition bar
File:Kp logo.jpg Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
KP Lotte Rørtoft-Madsen 2006 Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Factions:
Hoxhaism
File:Logo of Communist Workers Party (Denmark).svg Workers' Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
APK Dorte Grenaa April 2000 Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
File:Communist Party in Denmark.png Communist Party in Denmark
Script error: No such module "Lang".
KPiD Rikke G.F. Carlsson 1990 Marxism–Leninism
Script error: No such module "flag". Dominican Republic File:Communist Party of Labour (Dominican Republic).png Communist Party of Labour
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCT Manuel Salazar 1980 Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

Script error: No such module "flag". [[Template:Country data Donetsk People's Republic|Template:Country data Donetsk People's Republic]] File:Logo of the Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic.svg Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CPDPR
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Boris Litvinov 8 October 2014 Marxism–Leninism
Soviet patriotism
Left-wing nationalism
People's Council: Template:Composition bar
Script error: No such module "flag". [[Template:Country data East Timor|Template:Country data East Timor]] File:Logo of the Socialist Party of Timor.png Socialist Party of Timor
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PST Avelino Coelho da Silva 11 February 1997 Marxism–Leninism National Parliament: Template:Composition bar
Script error: No such module "flag". Ecuador File:Logo del Partido Comunista del Ecuador.svg Communist Party of Ecuador
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCE Winston Alarcón Elizalde 23 May 1926 National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
File:PCMLE-LOGO.svg Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCMLE Oswaldo Palacios 1 August 1964 Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
Workers' Party of Ecuador
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PTE 1996 Marxism-Leninism Not registered with Ecuador's National Electoral Council
File:PCE-SR.svg Communist Party of Ecuador – Red Sun
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCE-SR 1 June 1987 Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
Gonzalo Thought
Anti-revisionism
Revolutionary socialism
Banned Engaged in minor guerrilla warfare against the government of Ecuador, with the goal of starting a people's war
Script error: No such module "flag". Egypt File:Egyptian Communist Party logo.svg Egyptian Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
ECP Salah Adli 1975 Marxism–Leninism House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

Revolutionary Socialists
Script error: No such module "Lang".
RS Collective leadership 1995 Trotskyism
File:Red star.svg Workers Democratic Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
WDR 2011 Labourism
Socialism
Anti-Zionism
Script error: No such module "flag". El Salvador File:Bandera del pcs.gif Communist Party of El Salvador
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCS 27 March 2005 Marxism–Leninism Legislative Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Script error: No such module "flag". Estonia File:Emblem of the Estonian SSR.svg Communist Party of Estonia
Script error: No such module "Lang".
EKP vacant 26 March 1990 Marxism–Leninism
Soviet patriotism
Banned Banned in Estonia following the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, continues to operate underground
Script error: No such module "flag". Eswatini File:Communist Party of Swaziland flag.svg Communist Party of Swaziland CPS Thokozane Kenneth 9 April 2011 Marxism–Leninism
Republicanism
Participant in the 2021–2023 Eswatini protests
Script error: No such module "flag". Ethiopia File:Meison.jpg All-Ethiopia Socialist Movement
Script error: No such module "Lang".
MEISON 1968 Marxism–Leninism House of Peoples' Representatives: Template:Composition bar

House of Federation: Template:Composition bar

Supported and participated in the 1974 Ethiopian Revolution. Initially supported the Derg government, though later broke with Mengistu Haile Mariam's leadership during the Red Terror and was forced underground. Resumed legal activity following the end of the Ethiopian Civil War.
Script error: No such module "flag". Finland File:Suomen Kommunistisen Puolueen (1994) tunnus.png Communist Party of Finland
Script error: No such module "Lang".
SKP Juha-Pekka Väisänen 1984 Marxism–Leninism Parliament : Template:Composition bar
Communist Workers' Party – For Peace and Socialism
Script error: No such module "Lang".
KTP Mikko Vartiainen 1988 Marxism–Leninism
Hard Euroscepticism
League of Communists
Script error: No such module "Lang".
KL Kalevi Wahrman 14 September 2002 Marxism–Leninism
Script error: No such module "flag". France File:Logo – Parti communiste français (2018).svg French Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCF Fabien Roussel 30 December 1920 Eurocommunism
Soft Euroscepticism
National Assembly: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
File:Logo Lutte Ouvrière.svg Lutte Ouvrière LO Nathalie Arthaud 1956 Trotskyism
Anti-capitalism
National Assembly: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
New Anticapitalist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
NPA Collective leadership 8 February 2009 Trotskyism
Alter-globalisation
File:PRCF.png Pole of Communist Revival in France
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PRCF Léon Landini January 2004 Marxism-Leninism
Left-wing nationalism
Hard Euroscepticism
File:Logo-PCOF.svg Workers' Communist Party of France
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCOF Collective leadership 1979 Marxism-Leninism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
Marxist–Leninist Communist Organization – Proletarian Way
Script error: No such module "Lang".
OCML-VP September 1976 Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Revolutionary Left
Script error: No such module "Lang".
GR 1992 Marxism
Trotskyism
Script error: No such module "flag". [[Template:Country data Georgia|Template:Country data Georgia]] File:Emblem of the Georgian SSR.svg Unified Communist Party of Georgia
Script error: No such module "Lang".
SEKP
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Teimuraz Samnidze June 1994 Marxism–Leninism
Soviet patriotism
Parliament:

Template:Composition bar

Script error: No such module "flag". Germany File:Deutsche Kommunistische Partei Logo.svg German Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
DKP Patrik Köbele 1968 Marxism-Leninism Bundestag: Template:Composition bar
File:MLPD Logo 2011 (2).svg Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany
Script error: No such module "Lang".
MLPD Gabi Fechtner 1982 Marxism-Leninism
Script error: No such module "flag". Greece File:Kke.svg Communist Party of Greece
Script error: No such module "Lang".
KKE
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Dimitris Koutsoumpas 17 November 1918 Marxism-Leninism
Anti-imperialism
Hard Euroscepticism
Hellenic Parliament: Template:Composition bar Banned by the government of Greece from 1936 to 1974. Led the PEEA during World War II and the Provisional Democratic Government and DAG during the Greek Civil War.
File:Λογότυπο του Μ-Λ ΚΚΕ.png Marxist Leninist Communist Party of Greece
Script error: No such module "Lang".
M-L KKE
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Collective leadership November 1976 Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Euroscepticism
Hellenic Parliament: Template:Composition bar
Communist Party of Greece (Marxist–Leninist)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
KKE (m–l)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Grigoris Konstantopoulos November 1976 Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Hoxhaism
Euroscepticism
File:OAKKE logo.svg Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece
Script error: No such module "Lang".
OAKKE
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Elias Zafiropoulos. 20 July 1985 Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
File:Anasintaxi-logo.png Movement for the Reorganization of the Communist Party of Greece 1918–1955
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Anasintaxi
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Tasos Mpallos 1996 Marxism-Leninism
Stalinism
Hoxhaism
Zachariadism
Anti-revisionism
Communist Renewal
Script error: No such module "Lang".
KA
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Collective leadership 2000 Marxism
Euroscepticism
Left Anti-capitalist Group
Script error: No such module "Lang".
AR.A.S
Script error: No such module "Lang".
1998 Maoism
Anti-capitalism
Left Group
Script error: No such module "Lang".
ARI.S
Script error: No such module "Lang".
25 October 2012 Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-capitalism
Anti-revisionism
Left Recomposition
Script error: No such module "Lang".
AR.ΑΝ
Script error: No such module "Lang".
2003 Maoism
Anti-capitalism
File:Nar-simaia-02.jpg New Left Current
Script error: No such module "Lang".
NAR
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Collective leadership 1989 New Left
Anti-capitalism
File:Ekke-simaia-02.jpg Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece
Script error: No such module "Lang".
EKKE
Script error: No such module "Lang".
1970 Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Script error: No such module "flag". Guadeloupe Guadeloupe Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCG Alain-Félix Flémin 30 March 1958 Marxism
Guadeloupean autonomy
National Assembly: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Script error: No such module "flag". Guatemala File:URNG Logo.png Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity
Script error: No such module "Lang".
URNG-MAIZ Gregorio Chay 7 February 1982 Left-wing nationalism
Socialism
Indigenismo
Christian socialism
Anti-capitalism
Congress: Template:Composition bar Founded as an umbrella organization uniting leftist militant groups active in the Guatemalan Civil War. Laid down arms in 1996 and became a legally registered party in 1998.
Script error: No such module "flag". Haiti New Haitian Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
NPCH(ML) Vania Lubin 2000 Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

Script error: No such module "flag". Hungary File:Magyar Kommunista Munkáspárt old logo.svg Hungarian Workers' Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
MMP Gyula Thürmer 17 December 1989 Marxism-Leninism
Euroscepticism
National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Workers' Party of Hungary 2006 – European Left
Script error: No such module "Lang".
EB Attila Vajnai November 2005 Marxism
Eurocommunism
National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Script error: No such module "flag". India File:CPI symbol.svg Communist Party of India CPI D. Raja 26 December 1925 Marxism–Leninism Lok Sabha:Template:Composition bar

Rajya Sabha:Template:Composition bar

File:Cpm election symbol.svg Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI(M) M. A. Baby 7 November 1964 Marxism–Leninism Lok Sabha:Template:Composition bar

Rajya Sabha:Template:Composition bar

File:RSP-flag.svg Revolutionary Socialist Party RSP Manoj Bhattacharya 19 March 1940 Marxism–Leninism
Trotskyism
Lok Sabha: Template:Composition bar

Rajya Sabha: Template:Composition bar

Revolutionary Communist Party of India RCPI Biren Deka 1 August 1934 Marxism-Leninism
Anti-Stalinism
Lok Sabha: Template:Composition bar

Rajya Sabha: Template:Composition bar

File:Indian Election Symbol Lion.svg All India Forward Bloc AIFB Debabrata Biswas 22 June 1939 Marxism
Left-wing nationalism
Socialism
Anti-imperialism
Marxist Forward Bloc MFB Jaihind Singh 12 November 1953 Marxism
Left-wing populism
Bolshevik Party of India BPI 1939 Marxism–Leninism
File:CPIML LIBERATION.jpg Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation CPI(ML)L Dipankar Bhattacharya 1974 Marxism–Leninism
Maoism
Naxalism
Lok Sabha: Template:Composition bar

Rajya Sabha: Template:Composition bar

Revolutionary Socialist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) RSPI(ML) 1969 Marxism–Leninism Lok Sabha: Template:Composition bar

Rajya Sabha: Template:Composition bar

File:SUCI flag.svg Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) SUCI(C) Provash Ghosh 24 April 1948 Shibdas Ghosh Thought
Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
File:RMPI flag.jpg Revolutionary Marxist Party of India RMPI Mangat Ram Pasla 2016 Marxism–Leninism
File:CMP-banner.svg Communist Marxist Party CMP C. P. John 1986 Marxism–Leninism
Marxism
Luxemburgism
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) New Democracy CPIML ND Yatendra Kumar 1988 Naxalism
New Democracy
Maoism
File:South Asian Communist Banner.svg Communist Party of India (Maoist) CPI (Maoist) Nambala Keshava Rao 21 September 2004 Naxalism
Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Banned Leading the ongoing Naxalite–Maoist insurgency, designated a terrorist organization by the government of India
Script error: No such module "flag". Iran Tudeh Party of Iran
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Collective leadership 2 October 1941 Marxism-Leninism
Stalinism
Left-wing nationalism
Anti-revisionism
File:Komele komonist iran komala.jpg Komalah
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Ibrahim Alizade 1984 Marxism-Leninism
Internationalism
Kurdish minority interests
Kurdish branch of CPI, designated a terrorist organization by the government of Iran
File:Communist Party of Iran logo.png Communist Party of Iran
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CPI Collective leadership 2 September 1983 Marxism-Leninism
Revolutionary socialism
File:Flag of Komala.svg Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
KTK Omar Ilkhanizade 2007 Marxism-Leninism
Communism
Worker's Way
Script error: No such module "Lang".
WW 1978
Workers Left Unity – Iran WLU-I
Laborers' Party of Iran
Script error: No such module "Lang".
LPI 1979 Maoism
Labour Party of Iran
Script error: No such module "Lang".
1965 Marxism-Leninism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
Communist Party of Iran (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CPI (MLM) 2001 Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
New Synthesis
Secularism
Worker-communist Party of Iran
Script error: No such module "Lang".
WPI Hamid Taqvaee 1991 Workerism
Marxism
Third camp
Worker-communist Party of Iran – Hekmatist
Script error: No such module "Lang".
WPI-Hekmatist Jamal Kamangar 2004 Workerism
Fedaian Organisation (Minority)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
FO Akbar Kāmyābi March 1987 Marxism-Leninism Split from the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas (Minority)
Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas (1985)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
OIPFG Ḥosayn Zohari 1985
Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas – Followers of the Identity Platform
Script error: No such module "Lang".
OIPFG – FIP Mehdi Sāmeʿ 1983
File:Emblem of the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas.svg Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas
Script error: No such module "Lang".
IFPG Ashraf Dehghani 1979 Participant in the 1979 Kurdish rebellion
File:Logo of the Fourth International.svg Socialist Workers' Party of Iran
Script error: No such module "Lang".
SWPI Babak Zahraei Trotskyism
Script error: No such module "flag". Iraq File:Flag of the Iraqi Communist Party.svg Iraqi Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
ICP Raid Jahid Fahmi 31 March 1934 Marxism
Leninism
Classical Marxism
Reformism
Secularism
Nonsectarianism
Council of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Operated underground in the Kingdom of Iraq (from 1934 to 1958) and Ba'athist Iraq (from 1963 to 2003). Supported the 14 July Revolution and the government of Abd al-Karim Qasim.
Movement of the Democratic People of Kurdistan
Script error: No such module "Lang".
MDPK Mam Xidir 1994 Marxism Council of Representatives:Template:Composition barKurdistan Parliament:

Template:Composition bar

Worker-communist Party of Iraq
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Amir Adil July 1993 Marxism
Workerism
Third camp
Council of Representatives: Template:Composition bar
Left Worker-communist Party of Iraq
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Issam Shukri 2004 Trotskyism
Workerism
Third camp
Communist Party of Kurdistan – Iraq
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Kawa Mahmud 1993 Marxism-Leninism
Kurdish nationalism
Nonsectarianism
Council of Representatives: Template:Composition bar

Kurdistan Parliament: Template:Composition bar

Regional party active in Kurdistan
File:Worker-Communist Party of Kurdistan.svg Worker-communist Party of Kurdistan
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Osman Hajy Marouf 2008 Marxism
Workerism
Third camp
Council of Representatives: Template:Composition bar

Kurdistan Parliament: Template:Composition bar

Script error: No such module "flag". Ireland Workers' Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Collective leadership 28 November 1905 Marxism-Leninism
Irish republicanism
Dáil Éireann: Template:Composition bar

Seanad Éireann: Template:Composition bar

File:Communist Party of Ireland.svg Communist Party of Ireland
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CPI Janelle McAteer 3–4 June 1933 Marxism-Leninism
Hard Euroscepticism
Dáil Éireann: Template:Composition bar

Seanad Éireann: Template:Composition bar

File:IRSP logo 2018.png Irish Republican Socialist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
IRSP Collective leadership (Script error: No such module "Lang".) 8 December 1974 Marxism-Leninism
Irish republicanism
Anti-globalisation
Hard Euroscepticism
Dáil Éireann: Template:Composition bar

Seanad Éireann: Template:Composition bar

Script error: No such module "flag". Israel File:Hadash-logo.jpg The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality
<templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" />החזית הדמוקרטית לשלום ולשוויון‎‎
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Hadash
<templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" />חד״ש‎
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Ayman Odeh 15 March 1977 Marxism-Leninism
Communism
Two-state solution
Non-Zionism
Israeli Arab interests
Knesset: Template:Composition bar Formed from a merger of Rakah, the Black Panthers, and Moked. Formerly part of the Joint List.
Communist Party of Israel
<templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" />המפלגה הקומוניסטית הישראלית
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Maki
<templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" />מק״י‎
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Collective leadership 1 September 1965 Marxism-Leninism
Alter-globalization
Anti-Zionism
Knesset: Template:Composition bar Merged into Hadash in 1977 and as of 2022 its largest faction.
File:דעם לוגו.jpg Da'am Workers Party
<templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" />דעם מפלגת פועלים
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Da'am
<templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" />דע"ם
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Collective leadership 1995 Secularism
Marxism
Revolutionary socialism
Postnationalism
Non-Zionism
One-state solution
Knesset: Template:Composition bar
Script error: No such module "flag". Italy File:Rifondazione Comunista.svg Communist Refoundation Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PRC Maurizio Acerbo 6 January 1991 Anti-imperialism
Soft Euroscepticism
Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

File:Partito Comunista Italiano (2016).svg Italian Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCI Mauro Alboresi 26 June 2016 Marxism-Leninism
Anti-imperialism
Euroscepticism
Italian Marxist–Leninist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PMLI Giovanni Scuderi April 1977 Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism
File:Logo of the Communist Party (Italy).svg Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PC Marco Rizzo 3 July 2009 Marxism-Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Hard Euroscepticism
Sovereigntism
Communist Alternative Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PdAC Francesco Ricci 7 January 2007 Trotskyism
Script error: No such module "flag". Japan File:Flag of JCP.svg Japanese Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
JCP Tomoko Tamura 15 July 1922 Scientific socialism
Progressivism
Pacifism
Democratic socialism
Representatives: Template:Composition bar

Councillors: Template:Composition bar

Banned in 1925 under the Peace Preservation Law. Legalized by the Allied military occupation following Japan's military defeat in World War II.
Japanese Communist Party (Action Faction)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
1980 Marxism-Leninism
Stalinism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Representatives: Template:Composition bar

Councillors: Template:Composition bar

Japanese Communist Party (Left Faction)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
1969 Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Script error: No such module "flag". Jordan File:Flag of the Jordanian Communist Party.svg Jordanian Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
JCP Faraj Al-Tameezi 1948 Marxism-Leninism
Republicanism
House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

Jordanian Democratic People's Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
HASHD 1989 Marxism-Leninism
Palestinian nationalism
Anti-Zionism
Left-wing nationalism
Secularism
Script error: No such module "flag". Kazakhstan Communist Party of Kazakhstan
Script error: No such module "Lang". / Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
ҚКП / QKP
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Toleubek Makhzhanov 16 October 1991 Marxism-Leninism
Soviet patriotism
Banned
Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan
Script error: No such module "Lang". / Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
ҚСҚ / QSQ
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Ainur Kurmanov 20–21 May 2006 Marxism-Leninism
Script error: No such module "flag". Kenya File:Communist Party of Kenya Flag.png Communist Party of Kenya CPK Mwandawiro Mgangah[3] 1992 Marxism–Leninism
Pan-Africanism
Maoism
Social democracy (until 2019)
National Assembly: Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

Script error: No such module "flag". Kuwait File:Kuwaiti Progressive Movement.jpg Kuwaiti Progressive Movement
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Anti-capitalism
Anti-imperialism
Socialism
Marxism-Leninism
National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Script error: No such module "flag". Kyrgyzstan File:Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan flag.svg Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PKK
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Iskhak Masaliyev 22 June 1992 Marxism-Leninism
Soviet patriotism
Supreme Council: Template:Composition bar
Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
KPK
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Clara Azhibekovna 29 August 1999 Marxism-Leninism Supreme Council: Template:Composition bar
Script error: No such module "flag". Latvia Socialist Party of Latvia
Script error: No such module "Lang".
LSP Vladimirs Frolovs 15 January 1994 Marxism-Leninism Saeima: Template:Composition bar
Script error: No such module "flag". Lebanon File:Flag of the Lebanese Communist Party.svg Lebanese Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
LCP
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Hanna Gharib 1924 Marxism-Leninism
Nonsectarianism
Socialism
Anti-Zionism
Parliament: Template:Composition bar
Toilers League
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
TL
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Zaher el-Khatib 1960s Marxism–Leninism Parliament: Template:Composition bar
Arab Socialist Action Party – Lebanon
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
ASAP-L
Script error: No such module "Lang".
George Habash 1969 Marxism
File:Flag of the Toilers League (Lebanon).svg Revolutionary Communist Group
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
RCG
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Collective leadership 1970 Trotskyism
File:OACLsymbol.PNG Communist Action Organization in Lebanon
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CAOL
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Zaki Taha Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Script error: No such module "flag". Lesotho Communist Party of Lesotho
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CPL Manny Stevenson 5 May 1962 Marxism-Leninism National Assembly: Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

Script error: No such module "flag". Lithuania Socialist People's Front
Script error: No such module "Lang".
SLF Giedrius Grabauskas 2009 Marxism-Leninism
Democratic socialism
Left-wing nationalism
Socialism
Seimas: Template:Composition bar
File:Emblem of the Lithuanian SSR.svg Communist Party of Lithuania
Script error: No such module "Lang".
LKP vacant 1 October 1918 Marxism-Leninism
Soviet patriotism
Banned Banned in Lithuania following the 1991 Soviet coup attempt, continues to operate underground
Script error: No such module "flag". Luxembourg File:Kommunistesch Partei Letzebuerg Logo.svg Communist Party of Luxembourg
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
KPL
PCL
Ali Ruckert 2 January 1921 Marxism-Leninism
Hard Euroscepticism
Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar
Script error: No such module "flag". Madagascar Congress Party for the Independence of Madagascar
Script error: No such module "Lang".
AKFM 8 November 1958 Marxism National Assembly: Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

Member of the ruling National Front for the Defense of the Revolution from 1976 to 1989
Script error: No such module "flag". Mali Malian Party of Labour
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PMT 1965 Marxism-Leninism
Hoxhaism
National Assembly: Template:Composition bar Member of ADEMA since 1990
African Solidarity for Democracy and Independence
Script error: No such module "Lang".
SADI Oumar Mariko 1996 Marxism-Leninism
Pan-Africanism
National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Script error: No such module "flag". Malta Communist Party of Malta
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PKM Victor Degiovanni 1969 Marxism-Leninism House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar
Script error: No such module "flag". Martinique Martinican Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCM Georges Erichot September 1957 Autonomism Assembly of Martinique: Template:Composition bar
File:PKLS Logo.svg Communist Party for Independence and Socialism
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCLS
PKLS
22 May 1984 Marxism–Leninism
Martinican independence
Script error: No such module "flag". Mexico File:Emblema PPS.svg Popular Socialist Party PSP 1948 Marxism–Leninism Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar

Senate of the Republic: Template:Composition bar

Popular Socialist Party of Mexico
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PPSM Cuauhtémoc Amezcua Dromundo 1997 Marxism–Leninism
Anti-imperialism
Latin American integration
Not registered or recognized by the INE
File:PRT Party (Mexico).png Workers' Revolutionary Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
WRP 2009 Trotskyism Dissolved in 1996, revived in 2009
File:Emblema del Partido Comunista de Mexico.jpg Communist Party of Mexico
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCM Pável Blanco Cabrera 20 November 1994 Marxism–Leninism
File:Partido Comunista México ML.png Communist Party of Mexico (Marxist–Leninist)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCM (ML) 1978 Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
Communists' Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PdelosC Luis Alfonso Vargas Silva 2003 Marxism–Leninism
Script error: No such module "flag". Moldova 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 22 October 1993 Marxism–Leninism
Social conservatism
Soviet patriotism
Moldovenism
Pro-Russia
Parliament: Template:Composition bar Member of BECS
Script error: No such module "flag". Montenegro File:Red star with hammer and sickle.svg Yugoslav Communist Party of Montenegro
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
JKP CG / ЈКП-ЦГ Radislav Stanišić 25 September 2009 Titoism
Pensioners' rights
Yugo-nostalgia
Parliament: Template:Composition bar
Script error: No such module "flag". Morocco Democratic Way
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Abdallah El Harif 1995 Marxism
Anti-imperialism
Anti-revisionism
Hoxhaism
House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar

House of Councillors: Template:Composition bar

Script error: No such module "flag". Myanmar File:Communist Party of Burma Banner.png Communist Party of Burma
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CPB 15 August 1939 Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Federalism
Banned Led an insurgency from 1948 to 1989. Rearmed in 2021 and currently engaged in guerrilla warfare against the SAC
Script error: No such module "flag". Namibia Workers Revolutionary Party WRP Collective leadership May 1989 Trotskyism National Assembly: Template:Composition bar

National Council: Template:Composition bar

Script error: No such module "flag". Nepal 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".
K. P. Sharma Oli Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Marxism–Leninism
People's Multiparty Democracy
House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar

National Assembly: Template:Composition bar

Merged with the CPN (MC) to form the NCP in 2018, refounded in 2021
File:CPN-ML.jpg Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CPN (ML) C. P. Mainali 17 February 2002 Marxism-Leninism House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar

National Assembly: Template:Composition bar

File:NWPP-logo.png Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
NWPP Narayan Man Bijukchhe 23 January 1975 Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Juche
House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar

National Assembly: Template:Composition bar

File:Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist) (2006).svg Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Durga Prasad Gyawali 2006 Marxism-Leninism House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar

National Assembly: Template:Composition bar

File:Communist Party of Nepal (Revolutionary Maoist).svg Communist Party of Nepal (Revolutionary Maoist)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CPN (RM) Mohan Baidya 19 June 2012 Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Operates underground and participates in elections through a front organization; the Patriotic People's Republican Front
Script error: No such module "flag". Netherlands File:NCPN logo 2021 small.svg New Communist Party of the Netherlands
Script error: No such module "Lang".
NCPN Job Pruijser 14 November 1992 Marxism–Leninism
Euroscepticism
House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

File:VCP logo.svg United Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
VCP Engel Modderman 1999 Marxism–Leninism House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

File:Rode Morgen.svg Group of Marxist–Leninists/Red Dawn
Script error: No such module "Lang".
GML/Rode Morgen Jeroen Toussaint 1977 Marxism–Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism
House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

Script error: No such module "flag". New Zealand Communist League The League 1969 Marxism–Leninism House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar
Script error: No such module "flag". Nicaragua Communist Party of Nicaragua
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCdeN; PCN 12 October 1967 Marxism–Leninism National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Marxist–Leninist Popular Action Movement
Script error: No such module "Lang".
MAP-ML 1972 Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
Script error: No such module "flag". [[Template:Country data North Macedonia|Template:Country data North Macedonia]] Communist Party of Macedonia–Tito's Forces
Script error: No such module "Lang".
KPM-TS
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Goran Arsovski 26 October 2005 Marxism-Leninism
Titoism
Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Script error: No such module "flag". Norway File:Norwegian Communist Party.svg Communist Party of Norway
Script error: No such module "Lang".
NKP Runa Evensen 4 November 1923 Marxism-Leninism
Hard Euroscepticism
Storting: Template:Composition bar
File:Rødt logo (bokmål).svg Red Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
R Bjørnar Moxnes 11 March 2007 Democratic socialism
Revolutionary socialism
Marxism
Storting: Template:Composition bar
Script error: No such module "flag". Pakistan File:Communist Party of Pakistan logo.png Communist Party of Pakistan
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CPP Imdad Qazi 6 March 1948 Marxism-Leninism National Assembly: Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

Not registered with the Election Commission of Pakistan
File:Flag of the Mazdoor Kisan Party.svg Mazdoor Kisan Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
MKP Afzal Khamosh 1 May 1968 Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Script error: No such module "flag". [[Template:Country data Palestine|Palestine]] Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PFLP Ahmad Sa'adat Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Palestinian nationalism
Marxism–Leninism
Revolutionary socialism
Pan-Arabism
Arab nationalism
One-state solution
Anti-Zionism
Legislative Council: Template:Composition bar Member of the Palestine Liberation Organization
File:Flag of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.svg Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Script error: No such module "Lang".
DFLP Nayef Hawatmeh Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Marxism–Leninism
Maoism
Palestinian nationalism
Left-wing nationalism
Anti-Zionism
Legislative Council: Template:Composition bar
File:Palestinian People's Party.png Palestinian People's Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PPP Bassam Al-Salhi Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Marxism
Palestinian nationalism
Left-wing nationalism
File:PCP Logo.svg Palestinian Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCP Mahmoud Saadeh December 1991 Marxism-Leninism
Palestinian nationalism
Legislative Council: Template:Composition bar
File:شعار الحزب الشيوعي الفلسطيني-الثوري.svg Revolutionary Palestinian Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
RPCP Arabi Awwad October 1982 Communism
Script error: No such module "flag". Panama Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) of Panama
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PC(ml)P January 9, 1980 Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism
National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
November 29 National Liberation Movement
Script error: No such module "Lang".
MLN-29 July 29, 1970 Marxism
Anti-imperialism
Script error: No such module "flag". Paraguay File:PCP paraguay.jpg Paraguayan Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCP Najeeb Amado 19 February 1928 Marxism-Leninism Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

File:Bandera del Partido Patria Libre.svg Partido Patria Libre PPL 3 February 1990 Marxism–Leninism
Guevarism
Foco theory
Socialist patriotism
Anti-imperialism
Revolutionary socialism
Paraguayan Communist Party (independent)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCP(i) 1967 Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Script error: No such module "flag". File:PCP Logo simplified.svg Peruvian Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCP Luis Villanueva Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Marxism–Leninism
Mariáteguism
Congress: Template:Composition bar Member of Together for Peru, which participated in the Free Peru-led government
File:Patria Roja logo.png Communist Party of Peru – Red Fatherland
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCP-PR Alberto Moreno Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:Ubl
File:Perú Libre logo.svg Free Peru[4]
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PL Vladimir Cerron Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Socialism
Marxism–Leninism
Mariáteguism
Congress: Template:Composition bar
File:PCPmlLogo simplified.svg Peruvian Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCP (ML) January 1964 Marxism-Leninism
Stalinism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
Maoism (until 1970s)
Congress: Template:Composition bar
File:Shining Path Hammer and Sickle.svg Shining Path
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCP; PCP-SL 1969 Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
Gonzalo Thought
Anti-revisionism
Revolutionary socialism
Banned Designated a terrorist organization by the government of Peru
Script error: No such module "flag". Philippines File:Communist Party of the Philippines Hammer and Sickle.svg Communist Party of the Philippines
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CPP Benito Tiamzon (alleged) (deceased) 26 December 1968 National democracy
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
Participant in the ongoing communist rebellion in the Philippines, designated a terrorist organization by the government of the Philippines and the United States
File:Logo PKP-1930.png Philippine Communist Party-1930
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PKP-1930 Antonio E. Paris 7 November 1930 Marxism-Leninism
Democratic socialism
House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

Marxist–Leninist Party of the Philippines
Script error: No such module "Lang".
MLPP 1998 Marxism-Leninism Banned Participant in the ongoing communist rebellion in the Philippines
Script error: No such module "flag". Poland Polish Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
KPP Beata Karoń 20 July 2002 Marxism-Leninism
Left conservatism
Banned
Script error: No such module "flag". Portugal File:Portuguese Communist Party logo.svg Portuguese Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCP Collective leadership 6 March 1921 Marxism-Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Hard Euroscepticism
Parliament: Template:Composition bar
File:PCTP-MRPP logo.png Portuguese Workers' Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCTP/MRPP Maria Cidália Guerreiro 1970 Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Parliament: Template:Composition bar
Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat – Bases for Revolution
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PRP-BR Luis Cardoso 17 July 2002 Marxism
Guevarism
Parliament: Template:Composition bar Founded as a successor to the PRP-BR
Script error: No such module "flag". Puerto Rico Communist Party of Puerto Rico
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCPR 2010 Marxism-Leninism
Anti-imperialism
Puerto Rican Independence
House: Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

Script error: No such module "flag". Réunion File:Proposed flag of Réunion (Nationalist movement).svg Communist Party of Réunion
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCR Élie Hoarau 1959 Post-Marxism
Regionalism
National Assembly: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Script error: No such module "flag". Romania Communitarian Party of Romania
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCDR Petre Ignatencu 19 March 2010 Communitarianism
Progressivism
Anti-imperialism
Anti-Americanism
Anti-capitalism
Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Romanian Socialist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PSR Constantin Rotaru July 2003 Eurocommunism
Progressivism
Equality feminism
Left-wing nationalism
Anti-NATO
Pro-Europeanism
Script error: No such module "flag". Russia File:KPRF Logo.svg Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CPRF
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Gennady Zyuganov Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing nationalism
Soviet patriotism
Social conservatism
Neo-Stalinism
State Duma: Template:Composition bar Federation Council: Template:Composition bar
File:Left Front logo.svg Left Front
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Sergei Udaltsov 18 October 2008 Marxism–Leninism
Anti-fascism
Anti-nationalism
Anti-liberalism
Anti-capitalism
Internationalism
State Duma: Template:Composition bar Federation Council: Template:Composition bar
File:Logo of Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.svg Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Script error: No such module "Lang".
RCWP-CPSU
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Stepan Malentsov 27 October 2001 Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Anti-revisionism
State Duma: Template:Composition bar Federation Council: Template:Composition bar
File:Logo of the Russian Labour Front.svg Russian Labour Front
Script error: No such module "Lang".
RTF
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Alexander Batov 22 February 2010 Marxism–Leninism State Duma: Template:Composition bar Federation Council: Template:Composition bar
File:Logo of the Russian Maoist Party (2022).svg Russian Maoist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
RMP
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Collective leadership 9 June 2000 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Proletarian internationalism
Feminism
State Duma: Template:Composition bar Federation Council: Template:Composition bar
Labour Russia
Script error: No such module "Lang".
LR
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Stanislav Ruzanov 7 November 1991 Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Soviet patriotism
Direct democracy
Left-wing nationalism
State Duma: Template:Composition bar Federation Council: Template:Composition bar
File:Russian Party of Freedom and Justice logo.svg Russian Party of Freedom and Justice
Script error: No such module "Lang".
RPSS
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Konstantin Rykov 8 April 2012 Social democracy
Russian nationalism
State Duma: Template:Composition bar Federation Council: Template:Composition bar
File:Logo of the Communists of Russia.svg Communists of Russia
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CPCR
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Sergey Malinkovich 23 May 2009 Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Anti-revisionism
State Duma: Template:Composition bar Federation Council: Template:Composition bar
Script error: No such module "flag". Serbia File:LogoNKPJ.svg New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
Script error: No such module "Lang". / Script error: No such module "Lang".
NKPJ
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Aleksandar Banjanac 30 June 1990 Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Anti-revisionism
Yugoslavism
Russophilia
National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
File:Logo of the Party of Labour (Serbia).png Party of Labour
Script error: No such module "Lang". / Script error: No such module "Lang".
PR
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Collective leadership 28 March 1992 Marxism–Leninism National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Script error: No such module "flag". Slovakia File:Logo of the Communist Party of Slovakia.svg Communist Party of Slovakia
Script error: No such module "Lang".
KSS Jozef Hrdlička 29 August 1992 Marxism–Leninism National Council: Template:Composition bar
Dawn
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Luciana Hoptová 25 May 2005 Marxism
Script error: No such module "flag". South Africa Economic Freedom Fighters EFF Julius Malema 26 July 2013 Marxism–Leninism
Fanonism
Sankarism
Anti-imperialism
Pan-Africanism
Black nationalism
Anti-Zionism
Left-wing populism
National Assembly: Template:Composition bar

NCOP: Template:Composition bar

Currently the third-largest party in both houses of the South African Parliament.
Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party SRWP Irvin Jim March 2019 Marxism-Leninism National Assembly: Template:Composition bar

NCOP: Template:Composition bar

Script error: No such module "flag". South Ossetia Communist Party of South Ossetia
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CPSO
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Stanislav Kochiev 1993 Marxism–Leninism
Soviet patriotism
Parliament: Template:Composition bar
Script error: No such module "flag". South Sudan Communist Party of South Sudan CPSS Joseph Wol Modesto June 2011 Marxism–Leninism Legislative Assembly: Template:Composition bar

Council of States: Template:Composition bar

Script error: No such module "flag". Spain File:PCPE.svg Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCPE Julio Díaz 15 January 1984 Marxism–Leninism
Hard Euroscepticism
Internationalism
Congress of Deputies: Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

File:Flag of the Second Spanish Republic (plain).svg Communist Party of Spain (Marxist–Leninist)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCE (M–L) 2006 Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
Republicanism
File:Bandera del GRAPO.svg Communist Party of Spain (Reconstituted)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCE(r) Manuel Pérez Martínez 1975 Marxism–Leninism
Republicanism
Maoism (until 1990s)
Banned Banned in 2003 due to links to the First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups. Inactive as of 2006; not officially dissolved.
File:Reconstrucción Comunista RC flag.svg Marxist–Leninist Party (Communist Reconstruction)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PML(RC) / RC Roberto Vaquero Arribas 6 October 2014 Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Anti-fascism
Republicanism
Proletarian internationalism
Congress of Deputies: Template:Composition bar

Senate: Template:Composition bar

Temporarily banned from December 2014 to 2017 due to alleged links to the PKK.
File:Logotipo similar a Unificacion Comunista de España.svg Communist Unification of Spain
Script error: No such module "Lang".
UCE 1973 Marxism–Leninism
Maoism
File:PCOE Logo.PNG Spanish Communist Workers' Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCOE Francisco Barjas 1973 Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Anti-revisionism
Anti-fascism
Republicanism
Revolutionary Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PCR 1994 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Maoism
Marxist–Leninist Front of the Peoples of Spain
Script error: No such module "Lang".
F(M-L)PE Gregorio Fernandez Lopez 1987 Marxism–Leninism
Democratic Labour Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PTD Miguel Ángel Villalón 2013 Marxism–Leninism
Republicanism
Feminism
File:PSUC viu.png Living Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PSUC Viu Collective leadership June 1997 Republicanism
Federalism
Parliament of Catalonia: Template:Composition bar Regional party active in Catalonia
File:Logotip d'EUiA.svg United and Alternative Left
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
EUiA Joan Josep Nuet 1998 Marxism
Catalan self-determination
Republicanism
Parliament of Catalonia: Template:Composition bar
File:Endavant OSAN.png Forward–Socialist Organisation of National Liberation
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Endavant 2000 Marxism
Catalan independence
Catalan Countries
Socialist feminism
Anti-fascism
Euroscepticism
Parliament of Catalonia: Template:Composition bar Member of the Popular Unity Candidacy
File:Upg2.PNG Galician People's Union
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
UPG Néstor Rego November 1963 Marxism-Leninism
Galician nationalism
Parliament of Galicia: Template:Composition bar Regional party active in Galicia. Member of the Galician Nationalist Bloc.
File:Mgs-logo1.PNG Galician Movement for Socialism
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
MGS Rafa Villar 2009 Galician nationalism
Galician self-determination
Euroscepticism
Feminism
Parliament of Galicia: Template:Composition bar
File:FPG logo.png Galician People's Front
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
FPG Mariano Abalo 1986 Marxism-Leninism
Galician self-determination
Parliament of Galicia: Template:Composition bar Regional party active in Galicia
Script error: No such module "flag". Sudan File:Emblem of the Sudanese Communist Party.svg Sudanese Communist Party SCP Muhammad Mukhtar Al-Khatib 1946 Marxism–Leninism Transitional Legislative Council:

Template:Composition bar

Script error: No such module "flag". Sweden Communist Party of Sweden
Script error: No such module "Lang".
SKP Andreas Sörensen 1977 Marxism–Leninism
Hard Euroscepticism
Riksdag:

Template:Composition bar

File:Kommunistiska partiet logotyp 2018.svg Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
K Povel Johansson 1970 Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Riksdag:

Template:Composition bar

Script error: No such module "flag". Switzerland File:Partito Comunista (Svizzera).tif Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PC Massimiliano Arif Ay May 1944 Marxism–Leninism National Council: Template:Composition bar

Council of States: Template:Composition bar

Currently only active in Ticino and the Grisons
File:Logo of the Swiss Party of Labour.svg Swiss Party of Labour
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PdA
PST-POP
PdL-POP
Norberto Crivelli 14 October 1944 Marxism
Socialism
National Council: Template:Composition bar

Council of States: Template:Composition bar

Script error: No such module "flag". Sri Lanka File:Communist Party of Sri Lanka logo.jpg Communist Party of Sri Lanka
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CPSL
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
G. Weerasinghe 1943 Marxism–Leninism Parliament: Template:Composition bar Part of various different coalition governments from 1970–1975, 1994–2000, 2004–2015 and 2020–2022
File:LankaSamaSamajaLogo.png Lanka Sama Samaja Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
LSSP
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Tissa Vitharana 18 December 1935 Trotskyism
File:South Asian Communist Banner.svg Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CCP (Maoist) 1964 Marxism–Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Socialist Equality Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
SEP
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Deepal Jayasekera 1964 Trotskyism
Socialist Party of Sri Lanka
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
SPSL 2006 Marxism
Trotskyism
United Socialist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
USP
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Siritunga Jayasuriya 2006 Marxism
Trotskyism
New Democratic Marxist–Leninist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
NDMLP
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
S. K. Senthivel 3 July 1978 Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism
File:FSPlogo.png Frontline Socialist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
FLSP
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Premakumar Gunaratnam 9 April 2012 Marxism-Leninism
Anti-imperialism
Revolutionary socialism
Script error: No such module "flag". Syria People's Will Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
PWP Collective leadership 2012 Marxism-Leninism People's Assembly: Template:Composition bar
File:Revolutionary left current in Syria logo.png Syrian Revolutionary Left Current
Script error: No such module "Lang".
SRLC Ghayath Naisse October 2011 Revolutionary socialism
File:Hizb Al-'Amal Al-Shuyu'iy.png Communist Action Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
CAP Fateh Jamous August 1976 Marxism-Leninism Banned
Arab Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
ACP Collective leadership February 1968
File:Bakdash communist party.png Syrian Communist Party (Bakdash)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
SCP(B) Ammar Bakdash 1986 People's Assembly:Template:Composition bar
Syrian Communist Party (Unified)
Script error: No such module "Lang".
SCP(U) Yusuf Faisal
Script error: No such module "flag". Taiwan File:Taiwan People's Communist Party Flag Updated.png Taiwan People's Communist Party
Script error: No such module "Lang".
TPCP Lin Te-wang 4 February 2017 Chinese unification
Socialism with Chinese characteristics
Legislative Yuan: Template:Composition bar
Script error: No such module "flag". Tajikistan File:LogoKPT.svg Communist Party of Tajikistan KPT 6 December 1924 Marxism–Leninism
Soviet patriotism
Script error: No such module "flag". Togo File:Communist Party of Togo Emblem.png Communist Party of Togo PCT 4 May 1980 Hoxhaism
Marxism-Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Script error: No such module "flag". Transnistria Transnistrian Communist Party PKP Nadezhda Bondarenko 20 April 2003 Marxism–Leninism
Soviet patriotism
Script error: No such module "flag". Tunisia File:Parti des travailleurs (Tunisie).svg Workers' Party Hamma Hammami January 3, 1986 Marxism-Leninism
Hoxhaism
Pan-Arabism
Democratic Patriots' Unified Party Ziad Lakhdar 1982 Marxism-Leninism

Anti-revisionism Maoism Arab nationalism Anti-Islamism

Script error: No such module "flag". Turkey File:TKP logo (2023).svg Communist Party of Turkey TKP Kemal Okuyan 11 November 2001 Marxism–Leninism Parliament:Template:Composition bar
File:Türkiye İşçi Partisi.svg Workers' Party of Turkey TİP Erkan Baş 7 November 2001 Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing populism
Progressivism
Parliament:Template:Composition bar
File:Emek Partisi Logo.svg Labour Party EMEP Selma Gürkan 25 November 1996 Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
Parliament:Template:Composition bar
File:TKPML.svg Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist TKP/ML 24 April 1972 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Banned
File:MLKP Badge.svg Marxist–Leninist Communist Party MLKP 10 September 1994 Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Hoxhaism
File:TKEP-L Logo.svg Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist TKEP/L 1 September 1990 Marxism–Leninism
Communist Workers Party of Turkey TKİP November 1998 Marxism-Leninism
File:HAMMER-SICKLE-STAR.svg Maoist Communist Party MKP 15 September 2002 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
File:DHKP.svg Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front DHKP/C 30 March 1994 Marxism-Leninism
Guevarism
Foco theory
Socialist patriotism
Revolutionary socialism
File:Flag of the Communist Party of Kurdistan.svg Communist Party of Kurdistan KKP 1982 Kurdish self-determination
Bolshevik Party (North Kurdistan – Turkey) BP (KK-T) 1981 Marxism-Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Script error: No such module "flag". Turkmenistan File:Emblem of the Turkmen SSR.svg Communist Party of Turkmenistan TKP 1998 Marxism–Leninism
Soviet patriotism
Script error: No such module "flag". Ukraine File:Ukrainian Communist Party logo.svg Communist Party of Ukraine
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
KPU
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Petro Symonenko 19 June 1993 Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing populism
Soviet patriotism
Pro-Russia
Social conservatism
Banned in 2015 under Ukraine's decommunization laws, continues to operate underground
Union of Communists of Ukraine
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
SKU
Script error: No such module "Lang".
December 19, 1992 Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Stalinism
Script error: No such module "flag". United Kingdom File:Logo of the Communist Party of Britain.svg Communist Party of Britain CPB Robert Griffiths 1988 Marxism–Leninism
Britain's Road to Socialism
Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist) CPB-ML 1968 Marxism-Leninism
Hard Euroscepticism
Hoxhaism
Maoism (until 1979)
File:Emblem of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist).svg Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist) CPGB-ML Ella Rule July 3, 2004 Marxism-Leninism
Stalinism
Anti-revisionism
Hard Euroscepticism
File:CPGB hi res.png Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee) CPGB (PCC) 1991 Leninism
Anti-Stalinism
File:New Communist Party of Britain logo.svg New Communist Party of Britain NCP Andy Brooks 1977 Marxism-Leninism
Stalinism
Anti-revisionism
Hard Euroscepticism
Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist) CPE (ML) 1979 Marxism-Leninism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
Revolutionary Communist Group RCG 1974 Marxism-Leninism
Anti-imperialism
Communist League 1998 Fidelismo

Communism

Workers Revolutionary Party WRP Joshua Ogunley 1959 Trotskyism
Socialist Workers Party SWP Alex Callinicos and Lewis Nielsen 1977 Trotskyism

Cliffism Revolutionary socialism

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Anti-revisionism
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File:CPUSA.svg Communist Party USA CPUSA Joe Sims
Rossana Cambron
1 September 1919 Marxism-Leninism
Bill of Rights socialism
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File:Party for Socialism and Liberation Logo.svg Party for Socialism and Liberation PSL Collective leadership June 2004 Marxism–Leninism
Revolutionary socialism
Anti-imperialism
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File:Socialist Alternative (USA) logo.svg Socialist Alternative SA Collective leadership April 1986 Marxism
Revolutionary socialism
Trotskyism
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File:Sep-logo.png Socialist Equality Party SEP David North September 1964 Revolutionary socialism
Trotskyism
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File:Workers World Party New Logo 2018.png Workers World Party WWP Larry Holmes 1959 Marxism-Leninism
Proletarian internationalism
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Socialist Workers Party SWP Jack Barnes January 1938 Marxism
Castroism
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File:Socialist Action logo (black).jpg Socialist Action Jeff Mackler 1983 Trotskyism House: Template:Composition bar

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PCR Ricardo Cohen 1972 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Chamber of Representatives: Template:Composition bar

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КПУз / OʻzKP
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Kaxramon Mahmudov 1994 Marxism–Leninism
Socialism
Soviet patriotism
Anti-clericalism
Banned Banned immediately after attempting to register with Uzbekistan's Central Election Commission
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PCV Óscar Figuera 5 March 1931 Marxism–Leninism National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
File:Logo of the Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Venezuela.svg Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Venezuela
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PCMLV 2009 Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
Anti-imperialism
Anti-Chavismo
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File:Bandera Roja (Venezuela).svg Red Flag Party
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BR Gabriel Puerta Aponte 20 January 1970 Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Anti-Chavismo
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File:Tupamaro Venezuela logo.png Revolutionary Movement Tupamaro (Popular Revolutionary Alternative)
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Guevarism
Foco theory
Left-wing nationalism
Revolutionary socialism
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  • All-Union Communist Party, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Bolshevik Platform of the KPSS[17]

Formerly communist

Country Before TurnedTemplate:Efn Notes
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

State Defunct Party Notes
Script error: No such module "flag". Afghanistan People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
Script error: No such module "flag". Albania Party of Labour of Albania Succeeded by Socialist Party of Albania
Script error: No such module "flag". Benin People's Revolutionary Party of Benin
Script error: No such module "flag". Bulgaria Bulgarian Communist Party Succeeded by the Bulgarian Socialist Party
Script error: No such module "flag". Cambodia Communist Party of Kampuchea
Script error: No such module "flag". Czechoslovakia Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Czech Republic branch became the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia, and the Slovak branch became the Party of the Democratic Left
Script error: No such module "flag". Ethiopia Workers' Party of Ethiopia
Script error: No such module "flag". Germany Socialist Unity Party
Script error: No such module "flag". Grenada New Jewel Movement
Script error: No such module "flag". Hungary Hungarian Working People's Party
Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party Became the Hungarian Socialist Party
Script error: No such module "flag". Poland Polish United Workers' Party
Script error: No such module "flag". Romania Romanian Communist Party
Script error: No such module "flag". Somalia Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party
Script error: No such module "flag". Soviet Union Communist Party of the Soviet Union Formerly the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party
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Non-ruling

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
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World Revolution
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Internationalism
Internationalist Workers Group
Workers Offensive

See also

Notes

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References

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