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There are a number of Communist parties active in various countries across the world, and a number who used to be active. The formation of Communist parties in various countries was first initiated by the formation of the communist Third International by the Russian Bolsheviks. Undoubtedly the most important of these parties were those of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.

Some Communist parties have names such as Workers' Party, Socialist Party, Progressive Party, etc. Most, but not all, of the parties on this list are those that were aligned with either Moscow, Beijing or Tirana during the Cold War and their offshoots. Groups currently and exclusively participating in the Trotskyist or the Left communist tradition are not included in the listing.

Officially ruling parties in communist states [edit]

In the following countries, the Communist parties either lead the ruling coalition or hold monopoly on state power, as defined by their respective country's constitutions.

•  China - Communist Party of China leads the United Front
•  Cuba - Communist Party of Cuba
•  Laos - Lao People's Revolutionary Party leads the Lao Front for National Construction
•  Vietnam - Communist Party of Vietnam leads the Vietnamese Fatherland Front
•  North Korea (1948–1992) - Workers' Party of Korea leads the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland

Communist parties as part of other ruling coalition [edit]

•  Bangladesh - Workers Party of Bangladesh participates in the ruling coalition
•  Brazil - Communist Party of Brazil participates in the ruling coalition
•  Mali - Malian Party of Labour participates in the ruling coalition
•  Nepal - Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) lead the ruling coalition
•  Peru - Peruvian Communist Party participates in the ruling coalition
•  South Africa - South African Communist Party participates in the ruling coalition
•  Sri Lanka - Communist Party of Sri Lanka participates in the ruling coalition
•  Syria - Syrian Communist Party and Syrian Communist Party (Unified) participate in the ruling coalition
•  Uruguay - Movement of Popular Participation and Communist Party of Uruguay participate in the ruling coalition
•  Venezuela - Communist Party of Venezuela participates in the ruling coalition

Formerly ruling [edit]

•  Afghanistan (1978–1990) - People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy
•  Albania (1944–1991) - Albanian Party of Labour (known from 1941 to 1948 as the Communist Party of Albania)
•  Angola (1977–1990) - Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola – Labour Party abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy
•  Benin (1975–1989) - People's Revolutionary Party of Benin abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy
•  Bulgaria (1944–1948, 1948–1990) - Bulgarian Workers' Party, Bulgarian Communist Party
•  Cambodia (1975-1978, 1978–1991) (in coalition 1975-1976) - Communist Party of Kampuchea, Kampuchian People's Revolutionary Party
•  Republic of the Congo (1970–1992) - Congolese Party of Labour abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy
•  Cyprus (2008–2013) - Progressive Party of Working People
•  Czechoslovakia (1948–1989) - Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
•  Ethiopia (1984–1990) - Workers' Party of Ethiopia
•  East Germany (1949–1989) - Socialist Unity Party of Germany
•  Grenada (1979–1983) - New Jewel Movement
•  Hungary (1919, 1949–1956, 1956–1989) - Hungarian Communist Party, Hungarian Working People's Party, Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
•  Moldova (2001–2009) - Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova
•  Mongolia (1921–1991) - Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (known from 1921 to 1925 as the Mongolian People's Party) abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy
•  Mozambique (1977–1992) - Frelimo Party (known from 1962 to 1977 as the Mozambique Liberation Front) abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy
•  Poland (1945–1989) - Polish Workers' Party, Polish United Workers Party
•  Romania (1947–1989) - Romanian Communist Party (known from 1948 to 1965 as the Romanian Workers' Party)
•  San Marino (1945–1957) - Sammarinese Communist Party
•  Somalia (1976–1991) - Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party
•  Soviet Union (1922–1991) - Communist Party of the Soviet Union (known from 1918 to 1925 as the Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks)and from 1925 to 1952 as the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks))
•  South Yemen (1978–1990) - Yemeni Socialist Party
•  Yugoslavia (1943–1990) - League of Communists of Yugoslavia (known from 1919 to 1952 as the Communist Party of Yugoslavia)

Modern (Non ruling) [edit]

• Abkhazia (unrecognized country) - Communist Party of Abkhazia
• Afghanistan - Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan, Afghanistan Liberation Organization, Marxist-Leninist Organization of Afghanistan
• Albania - Communist Party of Albania, Communist Party of Albania 8 November
• Algeria - Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism
• Angola - Party of the Angolan Communist Community
• Argentina - Communist Party of Argentina, Revolutionary Communist Party of Argentina, Communist Party of Argentina (Extraordinary Congress), Liberation Party
• Armenia - Armenian Communist Party, United Communist Party of Armenia, Progressive United Communist Party of Armenia
• Australia - Communist Party of Australia, Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist), Revolutionary Socialist Party
• Austria - Communist Party of Austria, Communist Initiative
• Azerbaijan - Azerbaijan Communist Party, United Communist Party of Azerbaijan, Reformist Communist Party of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan Communist Party (on Platform of Marxism-Leninism)
• Bahrain - National Liberation Front – Bahrain, Progressive Democratic Tribune
• Bangladesh - Communist Party of Bangladesh, Socialist Party of Bangladesh, Revolutionary Workers Party of Bangladesh, Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist)[Dutta], Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist)[Umar], Proletarian Party of East Bengal, Proletarian Party of East Bengal(Maoist Bolshevik Reorganisation Movement), Workers Peasants Socialist Party, United Communist League Of Bangladesh (UCLB)
• Belarus - Communist Party of Belarus, Group of Revolutionary Communists ‘Red Wedge’
• Belgium - Workers Party of Belgium, Communist Party
• Benin - Communist Party of Benin, Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Benin
• Bhutan - Bhutan Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist)
• Bolivia - Communist Party of Bolivia, People's Revolutionary Front (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist), Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist) of Bolivia, Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist) of Bolivia
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - Workers' Communist Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Botswana - Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin Movement
• Brazil - Brazilian Communist Party, Revolutionary Communist Party, Free Homeland Party, Libertarian Communist Party, Marxist-Leninist Communist Party^[1]
• Bulgaria - Communist Party of Bulgaria, Bulgarian Communist Party – Marxists, Union of Communists in Bulgaria, Party of the Bulgarian Communists, Bulgarian Communist Party, Bulgarian Workers' Party (Communist), Resistance Movement ‘23rd September’ Bulgaria
• Burkina Faso - Party for Democracy and Socialism/Metba, Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party, African Independence Party
• Burma - Communist Party of Burma
• Canada - Communist Party of Canada, Communist Party of Quebec, Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
• Chad - Chadian Action for Unity and Socialism
• Chile - Communist Party of Chile, Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action), Revolutionary Left Movement
• China - Maoist Communist Party of China
• Colombia - Colombian Communist Party, Clandestine Colombian Communist Party, Communist Party of Colombia (Marxist–Leninist), Colombian Communist Party – Maoist, Revolutionary Communist Group of Colombia, Revolutionary Independent Labour Movement, Labour Party of Colombia,^[2] Revolutionary Party of the Workers of Colombia
• Costa Rica - Popular Vanguard Party, Costa Rican People's Party
• Congo - Revolutionary Organization of Congo
• Côte d'Ivoire - Revolutionary Communist Party of Côte d'Ivoire, Proletarian Communist Party of Côte d'Ivoire
• Croatia - Socialist Workers' Party of Croatia
• Cyprus - Progressive Party of Working People
• Czech Republic - Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia, Communist Party of Czechoslovakia – Czechoslovakian Labor Party
• Denmark - Communist Party of Denmark, Danish Communist Party, Communist Party, Workers' Communist Party, Communist Party in Denmark
• Dominican Republic - Dominican Workers' Party, Communist Party of Labour, International Communist Party, Communist Party of the Dominican Republic,^[3] Dominican Workers' Party (Marxist-Leninist),^[4] Force of the Revolution, Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
• Ecuador - Communist Party of Ecuador, Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador, Workers' Party of Ecuador, Democratic People's Movement, Communist Party of Ecuador – Red Sun
• Egypt - Egyptian Communist Party
• El Salvador - Communist Party of El Salvador
• Finland - Communist Party of Finland, For Peace and Socialism - Communist Workers Party, League of Communists
• France - French Communist Party, Pole of Communist Rebirth in France, Workers Communist Party of France, Marxist–Leninist Communist Organization – Proletarian Way
• Georgia - Communist Party of Georgia, United Communist Party of Georgia, New Communist Party of Georgia
• Germany - German Communist Party, Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany, Communist Party of Germany, Communist Party of Germany (Red Dawn), Communist Party of Germany (Stalinist-Hoxhaists),^[5] Against the Current, Organisation for the Revolutionary Communist Party,^[6] New Unity Group,^[7] Red Fox,^[8] Workers' Politics Group,^[9] Labour Future,^[10] Despite Everything! Newspaper for the construction of the Bolshevik Party of Germany,^[11] Uniting Communist Party,^[12] Revolutionary Communists (FRG),^[13] Young Struggle,^[14] Communist Initiative,^[15] Socialist Left (SoL),^[16] Fighting United,^[17] Working Group Unity,^[18] Communist Platform (Part of Left Party)
• Greece - Communist Party of Greece, Communist Organization of Greece, Movement for the United in Action Left, Renewing Communist Ecological Left, Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Greece, Communist Party of Greece (Marxist–Leninist), Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece, Movement for the Reorganization of the Communist Party of Greece 1918–1955, Communist Renewal, Left Anti-capitalist Group, Left Group, Left Recomposition, New Left Current, Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece
• Guadeloupe - Guadeloupe Communist Party
• Guatemala - Guatemalan Party of Labour
• Haiti - New Communist Party of Haiti (Marxist-Leninist)^[19]
• Honduras - Communist Party of Honduras, Party for the Transformation of Honduras
• Hungary - Hungarian Communist Workers' Party, Workers' Party of Hungary 2006, Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
• India - Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Maoist), Revolutionary Socialist Party, Revolutionary Socialist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist), Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist), Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) New Democracy, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Naxalbari, Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Janashakti, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)[Kanu Sanyal], Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist)[Mahadev Mukherjee], Provisional Central Committee, Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist), Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Red Flag, Communist Revolt Party of India, Communist Marxist Party, Communist Party of Bharat, Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists, Communist Party of United States of India, Communist Revolutionary League of India, Communist Revolutionary Party, Workers Party of India, Peasants and Workers Party of India, Workers Party, Revolutionary Communist Party, Red Flag Party, Red Flag Party (Leninist), Marxist Co-ordination Committee, Marxist Communist Party of India (United), Marxist Platform, Marxist Periarist Communist Party, Marxist–Leninist Committee, Odisha Communist Party, Peoples Revolutionary Party of India, Revolutionary Communist Centre of India (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist), Revolutionary Communist Party of India, Truthseeker Communist Party, Telangana Communist Party, United Communist Party of India, Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (Marxist–Leninist)
• Indonesia - Indonesia Revolutionary
• Iran - Tudeh Party of Iran, Communist Party of Iran, Communist Party of Iran (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist), Labour Party of Iran, Worker-communist Party of Iran, Worker-communist Party of Iran – Hekmatist, Worker-communism Unity Party of Iran, Workers Left Unity – Iran, Fedaian Organisation (Minority), Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas, Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas (In Search of Identity Program), Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas, Toilers Party of Iran
• Iraq - Iraqi Communist Party, Worker-communist Party of Iraq, Left Worker-communist Party of Iraq, Popular Unity Party, Iraqi Revolutionary Marxist-Leninists Regroupment,^[20] Kurdistan Communist Party – Iraq, Worker-communist Party of Kurdistan
• Ireland - Workers' Party of Ireland, Communist Party of Ireland, Irish Republican Socialist Party
• Israel - Israeli Communist Party, Israeli Communist Forum^[21]
• Italy - Communist Refoundation Party, Party of Italian Communists, Italian Marxist-Leninist Party, Communist Platform, Communists – Popular Left, Marxist–Leninist Italian Communist Party, Movement for Peace and Socialism, Movement for the Confederation of the Communists, Unified Communist Party of Italy, Committees for the Support of the Resistance - for Communism,^[22] Communist Action Party^[23]
• Japan - Japanese Communist Party, Japanese Communist Party (Action Faction), Japanese Communist Party (Left Faction), Japan Labor Party,^[24] Workers' Communist Party,^[25] Workers Socialist League
• Jordan - Jordanian Communist Party, Jordanian Democratic People's Party
• Kazakhstan - Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan, Communist Party of Kazakhstan
• Kyrgyzstan - Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan, Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan
• Latvia – Socialist Party of Latvia
• Lebanon - Lebanese Communist Party, Communist Action Organization in Lebanon
• Lesotho - Communist Party of Lesotho
• Luxembourg - Communist Party of Luxembourg, Communist Organization of Luxembourg
• Macedonia - League of Communists of Macedonia
• Madagascar - Congress Party for the Independence of Madagascar
• Malta - Communist Party of Malta
• Martinique - Communist Party of Martinique
• Mexico - Popular Socialist Party, Popular Socialist Party of Mexico, Communist Party of Mexico, Communist Party of Mexico (Marxist–Leninist), Marxist-Leninist Centre in Mexico
• Moldova - Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova, Communist Party of Moldova
• Montenegro - Yugoslav Communist Party of Montenegro, New Communist Party of Montenegro
• Morocco - Democratic Way, Moroccan Marxist-Leninist Proletarian Line
• Nagorno-Karabakh (unrecognized country) - Communist Party of Artsakh
• Namibia - Communist Party of Namibia
• Nepal - Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist), Communist Party of Nepal Marxist-Leninist (Samajbadi), Communist Party of Nepal (United), Nepal Workers Peasants Party, Communist Party of Nepal (Masal), Communist Party of Nepal (Unified), Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist), Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist), Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
• Netherlands - New Communist Party of the Netherlands, United Communist Party, Group of Marxist–Leninists/Red Dawn
• New Zealand - Workers Party of New Zealand, Communist Party of Aotearoa
• Nicaragua - Communist Party of Nicaragua, Popular Action Movement - Marxist-Leninist
• North Cyprus - Socialist Party of Cyprus^[26]
• Norway - Communist Party of Norway, Red Party, Communist Platform, Marxist–Leninist Group Revolution, Radical Socialists, Serve the People – Communist League
• Palestine - Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
• Panama - People's Party of Panama, Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist) of Panama, November 29 National Liberation Movement
• Paraguay - Paraguayan Communist Party, Free Fatherland Party, Communist Party of Paraguay (Independent)
• Pakistan - Communist Workers and Peasants Party, Communist Party of Pakistan, Communist Party of Pakistan (Thaheem), Workers and Peasants Party
• Peru - Communist Party of Peru – Red Fatherland, Communist Party of Peru (Marxist–Leninist), Communist Party of Peru[Shining Path], Proletarian Party of Peru, Marxist-Leninist Party of Peru
• Philippines - Communist Party of the Philippines, Communist Party of the Philippines[PKP-1930], Filipino Workers Party,^[27] Marxist-Leninist Party of the Philippines, Revolutionary Workers Party - Philippines
• Poland - Communist Party of Poland, Polish Party of the Working Class - Initiative Group^[28]
• Portugal - Portuguese Communist Party, Portuguese Workers' Communist Party/Reorganized Movement of the Party of the Proletariat, Proletarian Communist Organization (Marxist–Bolshevik) of Portugal, Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat – Bases for Revolution
• Puerto Rico - Puerto Rican Workers' Revolutionary Party, Communist Refoundation
• Réunion - Communist Party of Réunion
• Romania - Romanian Communist Party, Socialist Alliance Party, Communist Party (Nepeceriști)
• Russia - Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Russian Communist Workers' Party – Revolutionary Party of Communists, Russian Maoist Party, Party of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, Alliance of the Revolutionary Socialists, Labour Russia, Regional Party of Communists,^[29] Marxist-Leninist Platform, Communist Party of Social Justice, Communists of Russia
• San Marino - San Marino Communist Refoundation
• Serbia - New Communist Party of Yugoslavia, Party of Labour, Communist Party of Serbia, League of Communists of Yugoslavia in Serbia, Communist Party
• Slovakia - Communist Party of Slovakia, Dawn, Society for Scientific Communism
• South Africa - Communist Party of South Africa (Marxist-Leninist)
• South Ossetia (unrecognized country) - Communist Party of South Ossetia
• South Sudan - South Sudan Communist Party
• Spain - Communist Party of Spain, Communist Party of the People of Spain, Communist Party of Spain (Marxist–Leninist), Communist Party of Spain (Reconstituted), Communist Unification of Spain, Spanish Communist Workers' Party, Euskal Herriko Komunistak, Galician People's Union, Endavant-OSAN, Party of the Communists of Catalonia, Unidad del Pueblo, CUT-BAI, Revolutionary Communist Party, Libertarian Communist Party, Marxist–Leninist Front of the Peoples of Spain, Party of the Catalonian Communists, Living Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia, Communist Party of the Catalan People, Communist Workers Bloc of Andalusia, Communist Party of the Basque Homelands, Communist Party of the Menadores, Communist Party of Spain (Maoist),^[30] Communist Reconstruction^[31]
• Sudan - Sudanese Communist Party
• Swaziland - Swaziland Communist Party
• Sweden - Communist Party of Sweden, Communist Party, New Workers' Newspaper^[32]
• Switzerland - Swiss Party of Labour, Party of Labour Basel (founded in 1944), Marxist-Leninist Group Switzerland
• Sri Lanka - People's Liberation Front, Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist)
• Syria - People's Will Party, Communist Labour Party
• Tajikistan - Communist Party of Tajikistan
• Togo - Communist Party of Togo
• Transnistria (unrecognized country) - Pridnestrovie Communist Party, Communist Party of Pridnestrovie, Proriv
• Tunisia - Workers' Party
• Turkey - [Communist Party of Turkey 1920 (founded in 1920)|[Communist Party of Turkey (founded in 2001 (ex-SIP)|Communist Party of Turkey]], Marxist–Leninist Communist Party, Workers' Party, Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist, Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey, Labour Party, Communist Party of Turkey (Workers Voice), Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist, Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist (Maoist Party Centre), Communist Revolution Movement/Leninist, Communist Workers Party of Turkey, Maoist Communist Party, Revolutionary People's Liberation Party–Front, Union of Revolutionary Communists of Turkey, Communist Party of Kurdistan, Bolshevik Party (North Kurdistan – Turkey)
• Turkmenistan - Communist Party of Turkmenistan,
• Ukraine - Communist Party of Ukraine, Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed), Marxist-Leninist Party of Ukraine, Communist Party of Workers and Peasants, All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks - Ukraine,^[33] Union of Communists of Ukraine
• United Kingdom - Communist Party of Britain, Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist), Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist), Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee), Communist Party of Scotland, New Communist Party of Britain, Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist), Communist League of Great Britain, Revolutionary Communist Group, Communist League, Communist Workers Organisation, Communist Party Alliance^[34]
• United States - Communist Party USA, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, League of Revolutionaries for a New America, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Progressive Labor Party, Revolutionary Organization of Labor, Revolutionary Communist Party, U.S. Marxist-Leninist Organization, Workers World Party.
• Uruguay - Revolutionary Communist Party of Uruguay
• Uzbekistan - Communist Party of Uzbekistan
• Venezuela - Red Flag Party, Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Venezuela
• Post-Soviet states - All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Bolshevik Platform of the KPSS^[35]

Former [edit]

• Afghanistan - Parcham faction of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, became Democratic Watan Party of Afghanistan
• Albania - Party of Labour of Albania, became Socialist Party of Albania
• Brazil - Brazilian Communist Party, became Popular Socialist Party
• Bulgaria - Bulgarian Communist Party, became Bulgarian Socialist Party
• Cambodia - Kampuchian People's Revolutionary Party, became Cambodian People's Party
• Estonia - Communist Party of Estonia, Communist Party of Estonia (on CPSU platform)
• Ethiopia - All-Ethiopian Socialist Movement
• Germany (East) - Socialist Unity Party of Germany, became Party of Democratic Socialism, and is now known as "The Left".
• Hungary - Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, became Hungarian Socialist Party
• Iceland - Communist Party of Iceland
• Italy - Italian Communist Party, became the Democratic Party of the Left, which later merged into the Democrats of the Left, which in turn merged into the Democratic Party
• Mongolia - Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, became Mongolian People's Party
• Netherlands - Communist Party of the Netherlands
• Nicaragua - Socialist Party of Nicaragua
• Palestine - Palestine Communist Party, became Palestinian People's Party
• Poland - Polish United Workers Party, became Alliance of the Democratic Left
• Romania - Communist Party of Romania, became National Salvation Front the descendants of which are Democratic Liberal Party and Social Democratic Party
• San Marino - Communist Party of San Marino, became Party of Democrats
• Sweden - Left Party - Communists, became Left Party
• Tunisia - Tunisian Communist Party, became Movement for Renewal
• Yemen - Yemeni Socialist Party

Defunct (ruling) [edit]

• Czechoslovakia - Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic branch became Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia and Slovak branch became the Party of the Democratic Left
• Soviet Union - Communist Party of the Soviet Union, previously the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
• Yugoslavia - League of Communists of Yugoslavia

Defunct (non-ruling) [edit]

• Armenia - Armenian Workers Communist Party, Armenian Workers Union, Marxist Party of Armenia, Union of Communists of Armenia, Renewed Communist Party of Armenia
• Australia - Communist Party of Australia
• Britain - Communist Party of Great Britain
• Brazil - Revolutionary Brazilian Communist Party
• Canada - Labour-Progressive Party founded in 1943 when Communist Party of Canada was banned (resumed former name in 1959), Workers' Communist Party of Canada
• Channel Islands - Communist Party of Jersey
• Republic of China (Taiwan) - Taiwanese Communist Party
• Cuba - Popular Socialist Party, joined Cuban Communist Party
• El Salvador - Communist Party of El Salvador, merged into the FMLN
• Free Territory of Trieste - Communist Party of the Free Territory of Trieste, merged into the Italian Communist Party
• Georgia - Revived Communist Party of Georgia, Georgian Workers Communist Party
• Germany - Spartacist League formed in 1918 and became the Communist Party of Germany
• Germany (West) - Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin, Communist Party of Germany (banned 1956 in West Germany)
• Guatemala - Guatemalan Party of Labour, merged into the URNG
• Haiti - Unified Party of Haitian Communists, merged into the National Reconstruction Movement in 1990
• Honduras - Communist Party of Honduras, merged into the Partido Renovación Patriótica
• Iceland - Communist Party of Iceland
• Indonesia - Communist Party of Indonesia
• Ireland - Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist)
• Israel - Maki (1948–1973) split in 1965 with formation of largely Arab Rakah which changed its name to Maki in 1989.
• Italy - Communist Party of Italy
• Lebanon - Lebanese People's Party
• Malaysia - Malayan Communist Party, North Kalimantan Communist Party
• Mexico - Mexican Communist Party, Marxist-Leninist Centre in Mexico
• Namibia - Communist Party of Namibia
• Netherlands - Communist Party of the Netherlands merged into GroenLinks in 1989
• New Zealand - Communist Party of New Zealand, Socialist Unity Party
• Nigeria - Socialist Workers and Farmers Party of Nigeria
• Norway - Workers' Communist Party merged into Rødt
• Palestine - Communist Party of Palestine (1921–1948)
• Poland - Communist Party of Poland
• Saudi Arabia - Communist Party in Saudi Arabia
• Tatarstan - Communist Party of the Republic of Tatarstan
• Thailand - Communist Party of Thailand
• United States - Communist Party Marxist-Leninist, May 19th Communist Movement, Communist Workers Party, Black Panther Party, Communist Labor Party

See also [edit]

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• International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
• List of anti-capitalist and communist parties with national parliamentary representation
• List of left-wing internationals
• List of Trotskyist internationals
• List of socialist countries
• History of communism
• History of socialism
• Communist state
• Socialist state

References [edit]

External links [edit]

• Leftist Parties of the World (Last update: October 4, 2006)