Communist Parties of the World

Communist Parties

Last update: May 3, 2005

The parties listed were formerly part of the so-called World Communist Movement grouped around the Soviet CPSU and still adhere to marxism-leninism. Included are also splits from parties which were formerly close to the CPSU. Some of these parties appear also on other pages as the ideological broadwidth ranges from open stalinists to parties which tend towards democratic socialism.

Parties formerly associated with the World Marxist Review (Problems of Peace and Socialism)

Communist Party of Argentina (Partido Comunista de la Argentina, PCA)
Communist Party of Australia (CPA), formerly the Socialist Party of Australia
Communist Party of Austria (Kommunistische Partei Österreichs, KPÖ)
Communist Party of Bangladesh (Bangladesher Communist Party)
Belarusian Party of Communists (Partyia Kamunistau Belaruskaia, PKB) periodical Tovarishch
Communist Party - Flanders (Kommunistische Partij - Vlaanderen, KP), Belgium
Communist Party - Wallonia (Parti Communiste - Wallonie, PC) regional organization, Belgium
Democratic Progressive Tribune Society (Jami'at Al-Minbar al-Taqaddum al-Dimuqrati, al-Minbar), Bahrain, founded by members of National Liberation Front/Bahrain
National Democratic Action Society (Jami'at al-Amal al-Watani al-Dimuqrati), other page, other page, founded by members of National Liberation Front/Bahrain
Communist Party of Canada (Communist Party of Canada / Parti Communiste du Canada, CPC/PCC)
- Communist Party of Quebec (Parti Communiste du Québec, PCQ)
Communist Party of Chile (Partido Comunista de Chile, PCC)
Colombian Communist Party (Partido Comunista Colombiano, PCC)
Communist Party of Cuba (Partido Comunista de Cuba, PCC), periodical Granma
Progressive Party of Working People (Anorthotiko Komma Ergazomenou Laou, AKEL), Cyprus
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (Komunistická strana Cech a Moravy, KSCM), Czech Republic
Communist Party of Denmark (Danmarks Kommunistiske Parti, DKP)
Revolution Force (Fuerza de la Revolución), Dominican Republic, merger of the Communist Party and other groups updated February 05
Egyptian Communist Party (Hizb al-Shuyu'i al-Misri)
French Communist Party (Parti Communiste Français, PCF)
- Communist Refounders (Réfondateurs Communistes)
- Communist Regroupment (Regroupement Communiste)
- Facts and Analysis (Faits et Analyses)
- Glaring Reds (Rouges Vifs) regional group
- New Communist Left / Popular Association for Mutual Aid (Nouvelle Gauche Communiste / Association Populaire d'Entraide)
- Pole of Communist Renaissance in France (Pole de Renaissance Communiste en France, PCRF)
- Reconstruct the PCF (Reconstruire le PCF, RPCF) added February 05
- Struggle (Combat)
German Communist Party (Deutsche Kommunistische Partei, DKP)
Communist Party of Greece (Kommounistiko Komma Elladas, KKE)
Communist Party of India (Bharatiya Kamyunista Parti, CPI)
Party of the Masses of Iran (Hezb-e Tudeh-ye Iran), periodical Rahe Tudeh
Iraqi Communist Party (Hizb al-Shuyu'i al-'Iraqi, ICP)
- Kurdistan Communist Party, other page
Communist Party of Ireland (Pairtí Cummanach na hÉireann, CPI)
Communist Party of Israel (Miflagah ha-Komunistit ha-Yisre'elit / al-Hizb al-Shuyu'i al-Isra'ili, MAKI)
Japanese Communist Party (Nihon Kyôsantô, Nikkyo)
Communist Party of Kazakhstan (Kommuniststicheskaya Partiya Kazakhstana / Kazakstan Kommunistyk Partiyasy)
National Democratic Front of South Korea (Han-min-jeon)
Lebanese Communist Party (Hizb al-Shuyu'i al-Lubnani / Parti Communiste Libanais, PCL)
Socialist Party of Latvia (Latvijas Sociâlistiskâ Partija / Socialisticheskaya Partiya Latvii, LSP)
Communist Party of Luxemburg (Kommunistesch Partei vu Lëtzebuerg / Parti Communiste Luxembourgeois, KPL/PCL) periodical Zeitung vum Lëtzebuerger Vollek
Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (Partidul Comunistilor din Republica Moldova, PCRM)
Party of Progress and Socialism (Hizb al-Taqaddum wa-al-Ishtirakiyah / Parti du Progrès et du Socialisme, PPS) periodical Al Bayane, Morocco
Communist Party of Norway (Norges Kommunistiske Parti, NKP)
Communist Party of Pakistan [Khaskheli] (CPP[Khaskheli])
Palestinian People's Party (Hizb al-Sha'b al-Filastini, PPP)
Peruvian Communist Party [Unity] (Partido Comunista Peruano [Unidad], PCP[Unidad])
Portuguese Communist Party (Partido Comunista Português, PCP)
All-Russian Communist Party of the Future (Vserossiiskaya Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Budushchego, VKPB) updated February 05
Communist Party of the Russian Federation (Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Rossiiskoi Federatsii, KPRF)
South African Communist Party (SACP)
Communist Party of Spain (Partido Comunista de España, PCE)
Sudanese Communist Party (Al-Hizb al-Shuyu'i al-Sudani, HSS)
Swiss Labour Party (Parti Suisse du Travail / Partei der Arbeit der Schweiz / Partito Svizzero del Lavoro, PdA/PST/PdL), mirror page
Syrian Communist Party [Faysal] (Hizb al-Shuyu'i al-Suri [Faysal]) periodical Al-Nur
Communist Party of Turkey [Harvest] (Türkiye Komünist Partisi [Ürün])
Communist Party of Ukraine (Komunistychna Partiya Ukrainy, KPU)
- All-Ukrainian Workers Union (Vseukrains'kiy Soyuz Rabochykh, VSR)
Communist Party of Uruguay (Partido Comunista del Uruguay, PCU)
Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Unio (Soyuz Kommunisticheskih Partii - Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza, SKP-KPSS)
Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
Communist Party of Venezuela (Partido Comunista de Venezuela, PCV)
Communist Party of Vietnam (Dang Cong san Viêt Nam / Parti Communiste Vietnamien)

Others parties with a similar political orientation

United Cyprus Party (Birlesik Kibris Partisi, BKP), Cyprus/TRNC updated February 05
Workers' Party (Pairtí na nOibrí), Ireland
Socialist Popular Party of Mexico (Partido Popular Socialista de México, PPS México)
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (Jabhah al-Dimuqratiyah li-Tahrir Filastin, DFLP) periodical Al-Huriyah
New Romanian Communist Party - Initiative Committee (Noul Partid Comunist Român - Comitetul de Initiativa)
Communist Party of Kurdistan (Partiya Komunistê Kurdistan / Kürdistan Komünist Partisi, PKK/KKP), Turkey
Communist Party of Turkey [ex-SIP] (Türkiye Komünist Partisi [ex-SIP])
Freedom and Solidarity Party (Özgürlük ve Dayanisma Partisi, ÖDP), merger of several leftist currents, among them the majority of the United Communist Party of Turkey (TBKP)

Leftist splits from communist parties

Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism (Parti Algérien pour la Démocratie et le Socialisme, PADS)
Communist Party - Extraordinary Congress (Partido Comunista - Congreso Extraordinario, PC(CE)), Argentina added February 2005
Communist Refoundation (Refundación Comunista), Argentina
Communist Initiative (Kommunistische Initiative, KI), Austria updated April 05
Brazilian Communist Party (Partido Comunista Brasileiro, PCB), split from the Socialist Popular Party (PPS) that was formerly called PCB
Marxist Leninist Communist Party (Partido Comunista Marxista Leninista), Brazil
Bulgarian Workers-Peasants Party (Bulgarska Rabotnichesko-Selska Partiya, BRSP) updated April 05
Bulgarian Workers Socialist Party (Bulgarska Rabotnicheska Sotsialisticheska Partiya, BRSP) added April 05
Canadians for Peace and Socialism updated April 05
Costarrican People's Party (Partido del Pueblo Costarricense, PPC) periodical Libertad, Costa Rica, split from the Popular Vanguard Party (PVP)
Socialist Workers Party of Croatia (Socijalisticka Radnicka Partija Hrvatske, SRP)
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (Komunistická strana Çeskoslovenska, SCK), split from Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM)
Communist Party in Denmark (Kommunistisk Parti i Danmark, KPiD), split from the Communist Party of Denmark (DKP)
Communist Party of Finland (Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue, SKP), split from Leftist Alliance
Communist Workers' Party (Kommunistinen Työväenpuolue, KTP), split from the Communist Party of Finland
League of Communists (Kommunistien Liitto), Finland, split from KTP
Union of Revolutionaries-Communists of France (Union des Révolutionnaires-Communistes de France, URCF) updated February 05
Communists (Communistes), France, split from French Communist Party (PCF)
Communist Party of Britain (CPB), split from the Communist Party of Great Britain (today the New Times Network)
Communist Party of Great Britain - Provisional Central Committee (CPGB-PCC), split from Communist Party of Great Britain
New Communist Party (NCP), Great Britain, split from the Communist Party of Great Britain (today the Democratic Left)
New Left Current (Neo Aristero Reuma, NAR), split from the Communist Party of Greece (KKE)
Workers' Party (Munkáspárt), split from the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSzMP, today the Hungarian Socialist Party)
Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M), split from the Communist Party of India (CPI)
Iraqi Communist Party - Cadre (Hizb al-Shuyu'i al-'Iraqi - al-Kader)
Israeli Communist Forum, split from the Communist Party of Israel
Movement for the Unity of Communists (Movimento per l'Unità dei Comunisti, UC) regional group, Italy
Party of Communist Refoundation (Partito della Rifondazione Comunista, PRC), Italy
- Bandiera Rossa Association (Associazione Bandiera Rossa, ABR), periodical Erre
- Communism from below (Comunismo dal basso)
- Communist Project - Programatic Area of the PRC (Progetto Comunista - Area Programmatica del PRC)
- l'ernesto
- Red Line (Linea Rossa)
- Reds Association (Associazione Reds)
- Revolutionary Marxist Association "Communist Project" (Associazione Marxista Rivoluzionaria "Progetto Comunista")
- Sickle Hammer (Falce Martello)
Party of Italian Communists (Partito dei Comunisti Italiani, PdCI), right wing split from PRC
- Popular Democracy (United Left) (Democrazia Popolare (Sinistra Unita), DP(SU)) added February 05
Communist Party for Independence and Socialism (Pati Kominis pou Lendépandans èk Sosyalism / Parti Communiste pour l'Indépendance et le Socialisme, PKLS/PCIS), split from Martinican Communist Party (PCM)
Party of Communists (Partido de los Comunistas), founded by Party of Mexican Communists and Party of the Socialist Revolution (PRS), both founed by ex-members of Socialist Popular Party (PPS) and Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD)
New Communist Party of the Netherlands (Nieuwe Communistische Partij van Nederland, NCPN), split from the Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN) which merged in GreenLeft
United Communist Party (Verenigde Communistische Partij, VCP), Netherlands, split from NCPN
Socialist Party of Aotearoa (SPA), New Zealand, New Zealand, split from the Socialist Unity Party (SUP)
Movement for Socialism (Bevegelsen for Sosialisme), Norway, split from NKP
Communist Party of Poland (Komunistyczna Partia Polski, KPP)
Polish Socialist Workers Party (Polska Socjalistyczna Partia Robotnicza, PSPR) added February 05
Communist Refoundation (Refundación Comunista), Puerto Rico
Communist Party of Russia - Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Rossiiskaya Kommunisticheskaya Partiya - Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza, RKP-KPSS) unofficial, split from the CPSU
Communist Party of the Republic of Tatarstan (Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Respublikii Tatarstan, KPRT), Russia
Communists of Working Russia (Kommunisty Trudovoii Rossii, KTP) / Working Russia (Trudovaya Rossiya)
Russian Communist Party - Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Rossiiskaya Kommunisticheskaya Partiya - Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza, RKP-KPSS), split from the CPSU
Russian Communist Workers' Party - Revolutionary Party of Communists (Rossiiskaya Kommunisticheskaya Rabochaya Partiya - Revoliutsionnaya Partiya Kommunistov, RKRP-RPK)
Union of Communists (Soyuz Kommunistov, SK) unofficial, Russia, split from the CPSU
Union of Marxists (Soyuz Marksistov), Russia
San Marino Communist Refoundation (Rifondazione Comunista Sammarinese)
League of Communists of Yugoslavia in Serbia (Savez Komunista Jugoslavije u Srbiji, SKJ u Srbiji) local group, Serbia and Montenegro
Communist Party of Slovakia (Komunistická Strana Slovenska, KSS), split from the Party of the Democratic Left, the former KSS
Canarian Comunist Militants Organized in Cells (Militantes Comunistas Canarios Organizados en Células), Spain
Cell for the Reconstruction of the Canarian Communist Party (Célula para la reconstrucción del Partido Comunista Canario, CRCCP), Spain updated February 05
Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (Partido Comunista de los Pueblos de España, PCPE), split from the PCE
Party of the Communists of Catalonia (Partit dels Comunistes de Catalunya, PCC), Spain, split from the United Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC)
Spanish Communist Workers' Party (Partido Comunista Obrero Español, PCOE) updated February 05
United Socialist Party of Catalonia-Living (Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya - Viu; PSUC-Viu), Spain, leftist split from original PSUC
Communist Party of Sweden (Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti, SKP), split from the Left Party Communists (today the Left Party)
National Committee for the Unity of the Syrian Communists (Lajnah al-Wataniyah li-Wahdah Shuyu'iyin Suriyin), periodical Kassioun, Syria
Syrian Communist Party - Political Bureau (Hizb al-Shuyu'i al-Suri - al-Maktab al-Siyasi)
Communist Party of Turkey [Workers Voice] (Türkiye Komünist Partisi [Iscinin Sesi], TKP[IS]), split from TKP
Factory (Fabrika), Turkey, origin in TIP
Truth (Gercek), Turkey, origin in SIP (now TKP)
Union of Communists of Ukraine (Soyuz Kommunistiv Ukrainy) periodical Marksizm i Sovremennost, split from Communist Party of Ukraine
All-Union Communist Party bolsheviks (Vsesoyuznaya Kommunisticheskaya Partiya bol'shevikov, VKPb), ex-USSR, split from CPSU
Communist Party of the Soviet Union [S. Skvortsov] (Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza [S. Skvortsova]), ex-USSR
Communist Party of the Soviet Union [Shenin] (Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza [Shenin], KPSS[Shenin] updated February 05
Communist Party of the Union (Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Soyuza, KPS) Moscow organization, split from Communist Parties of several republics of the former USSR updated February 05
Marxist Platform (Marksistskaya Platforma), ex-USSR, rest of Marxist Platform of CPSU
New Communist Party of Yugoslavia (Nova Komunisticka Partija Jugoslavije, NKPJ), split from the League of Communists of Yugoslavia

Ex-Communists

Socialist Party of Albania (Partia Socialiste ë Shqipërisë, PSS) added February 05
Democratic and Social Movement (Mouvement Démocratique et Social, MDS), formerly the Socialist Vanguard Party (PAGS), Algeria
Social Democratic Party Bosnia and Hercegovina (Socijaldemokratska partija Bosne i Hercegovine, SDP BiH), formerly the League of Communists
Socialist Popular Party (Partido Popular Socialista, PPS), formerly the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB)
Bulgarian Socialist Party (Bulgarska Sotsialisticheska Partiya, BSP), formerly the Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP)
Cambodian People's Party (Parti du Peuple Cambodgien / Kanakpak Pracheachon, Prachor)
Socialdemocratic Party of Croatia (Socijaldemokratska Partija Hrvatske, SDPH), formerly the League of Communists of Croatia
Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (Frente Farabundo Martí de Liberación Nacional, FMLN), the Communist Party of El Salvador (PCS) became part of it
Estonian Social Democratic Labour Party (Eesti Sotsiaaldemokraatlik Tööpartei, ESDTP), formerly the Communist Party of Estonia
Left Alliance (Vasemmistoliitto/Vänsterförbundet, VL), founded by Finnish Communist Party (SKP)
Party of Democratic Socialism (Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus, PDS), mirror page, formerly the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED)
New Politics Network, Great Britain, formerly the Democvratic Left which was the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB)
Coalition of the Left and Progress (Synaspismos tis Aristeras kai tis Proodou, SYN), founded mostly by groups that split from KKE at different times
Inuit Community (Inuit Ataqatigiit, IA), Greenland
Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca, URNG), communist Guatemalan Labour Party (PGT) merged in it
People's Progressive Party (PPP), Guyana
Hungarian Socialist Party (Magyar Szocialista Párt, MSzP), formerly the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSzMP)
Social Democratic Alliance (Samfylkingin), Iceland, includes the formerly communist People's Alliance (Alþýðubandalagid)
Democratic People's Party of Iran (Hezb-e Demokratik-e Mardom-e Iran), split from Party of the Masses of Iran (Tudeh Party)
Organization of Iranian People's Fedaian (Majority) (Sazman-e Feda'iyan-e Khalq-e Iran (Aksariyat), OIPFM)
Democrats of the Left (Democratici di Sinistra, DS), formerly the Italian Communist Party (PCI)
Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (Lietuvos Socialdemokratu Partija, LSDP), the former Communist Party of Lithuania, the Lithuanian Democratic Labour Party (Lietuvos Demokratinë Darbo Partija) merged with it in 2001
Social-Democratic League of Macedonia (Socijaldemokratski Sojuz na Makedonija, SDSM), formerly the Communist League of Macedonia
Democratic Revolution Party (Partido de la Revolución Democrática, PRD)
- Emiliano Zapata Brigades of the PRD (Brigadas Emiliano Zapata del PRD, BEZ-PRD)
Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (Mongol Ardyn Chuvsgalt Nam)
Green Left (GroenLinks), Netherlands, the former Communist Party (CPN) became part of it
Alliance of the Democratic Left (Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej, SLD), the Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland (SdRP, formerly the Polish United Workers Party (PZPR)) became part of it
Party of Democrats (Partito dei Democratici), San Marino added February 05
Independence and Labour Party (Parti de l'Indépendance et du Travail, PIT), Senegal
Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro (Demokratska Partija Socijalista Crne Gore, DPS), Serbia and Montenegro, formerly the League of Communists of Montenegro
Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalisticka Partija Srbije, SPS), Serbia and Montenegro, merger of the League of Communists of Serbia and the Socialist Alliance of Working People
Party of the Democratic Left (Strana Demokratickej L'avice, SDL'), formerly the Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS)
United List of Social Democrats (Zdruzena Lista Socialnih Demokratov, ZLSD), Slovenia, încludes the former League of Communists of Slovenia
Initiative for Catalonia - Greens (Iniciativa per Catalunya - Verds, IC), Spain, contains the majority of the United Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) which was part of the PCE
United Socialist Party of Catalonia (Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya, PSUC), Spain
Left Party (Vänsterpartiet, V), Sweden, formerly the Left Party Communists (VPK)
Freedom and Solidarity Party (Özgürlük ve Dayanisma Partisi, ÖDP), contains the majority of the former United Communist Party of Turkey (TBKP)
People's Democratic Party (Narodno-Demokratychna Partiya, NDP), Ukraine, one of the successors of the the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU)
Socialist Party of Ukraine (Sotsialistychna Partiya Ukrainy, SPU), one of the successors of the the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU)

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