Left Socialist and Reform Communist Parties of the World

Leftist Parties of the World

Leftist Socialists and Reform Communists

Last update: June 1, 2005

Latin American Socialist Coordination (Coordinación Socialista Latinoamericana, CSL)

Brazilian Socialist Party (Partido Socialista Brasileiro, PSB)
Democratic Labour Party (Partido Democratico Trabalhista, PDT), Brazil
Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT), Brazil
- Advance the Socialist Struggle (Avançar a Luta Socialista)
- Articulation of the Left (Articulação de Esquerda)
- Broad and Democratic PT (PT amplo e democrático)
- Construction: Socialism and Democracy (Construção: Socialismo e Democracia, CSD) leader Arlete Sampaio added February 05
- Florestan Fernandes Collective (Coletivo Florestan Fernandes, CFF)
- José Luiz Carneiro Cruz Collective (Coletivo José Luiz Carneiro Cruz)
- Labour (O Trabalho), periodical O Trabalho
- Marxist Organisation (Organização Marxista)
- Marxist Tendency of the PT (Tendência Marxista do PT) regional organisation
- Posadist Current of the Workers Party (Corrente Posadista do Partido dos Trabalhadores) periodical Revolução Socialista, Brazil added February 05
- Socialist Democracy (Democracia Socialista) periodical
- Socialist Forum (Fórum Socialista) youth group
- Socialist Popular Action (Ação Popular Socialista, APS) youth organization added February 05
Socialist Party of Chile (Partido Socialista de Chile, PS)
Socialist Party - Broad Front (Partido Socialista - Frente Amplio, PS-FA), Ecuador
Democratic Revolution Party (Partido de la Revolución Democrática, PRD), Mexico
Socialist Party (Partido Socialista, PS), Uruguay

New European Left Forum (NELF)

Communist Party of Austria (Kommunistische Partei Österreichs, KPÖ), permanent Guest
Progressive Party of Working People (Anorthotiko Komma Ergazomenou Laou, AKEL), Cyprus, permanent guest
Socialist People's Party (Socialistisk Folkeparti, SF), Denmark
Estonian Left Party (Eesti Vasakpartei / Levaya Partiya Estonii) updated February 05
Left Alliance (Vasemmistoliitto / Vänsterförbundet, VL), other page, Finland updated February 05
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)
- Struggle (Combat)
Party of Democratic Socialism (Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus, PDS), Germany
- 2nd Renewal Forum (Forum 2. Erneuerung)
- Communist Platform of the PDS (Kommunistische Plattform der PDS, KPF)
- Dialogue of Gera (Gerarer Dialog)
- Forum of Communist Working Groups (Forum kommunistischer Arbeitsgemeinschaften)
- Marxist Forum (Marxistisches Forum)
- Network Reform Left (Netzwerk Reformlinke)
New Politics Network, Great Britain
Coalition of the Left of the Movements and of Ecology (Synaspismos tis Aristeras ton Kinimaton tis Oikologias, SYN), Greece

Redgreen Network in Synaspismos (Kokkinoprasino Diktyo tou SYN), Greece added February 05
Renewal Movement (Ananeotiki Sypeirosi), Greece added February 05

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), other page
- Reds Association (Associazione Reds)
- Revolutionary Marxist Association "Communist Project" (Associazione Marxista Rivoluzionaria "Progetto Comunista")
- Sickle Hammer (Falce Martello)
Green Left (GroenLinks), Netherlands
Socialist Party (Socialistische Partij, SP), Netherlands
Socialist Left Party (Sosialistisk Venstreparti, SV), Norway
Initiative for Catalonia (Iniciativa per Catalunya, IC), Spain
- United Socialist Party of Catalonia (Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya, PSUC), Spain
United Left (Izquierda Unida, IU), Spain
- Alternative and United Left (Esquerra Unida i Alternativa, EUiA)
  - Collective for an Alternative Left (Col.lectiu per una Esquerra Alternativa, CEA)
  - Party of the Communists of Catalonia (Partit dels Comunistes de Catalunya, PCC)
  - United Socialist Party of Catalonia-Living (Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya - Viu; PSUC-Viu)
- Alternative Space (Espacio Alternativo)
  - Alternative Galicia
  - Alternative Left (Izquierda Alternativa, IA) periodical Viento Sur
  - Alternative Space (Espai Alternatiu)
  - Andalusian Revolutionary Space (Espacio Revolucionario Andaluz)
  - Rainbow (Arcoiris)
  - Shock (Batzac)
- Communist Party of Spain (Partido Comunista de España, PCE)
Left Party (Vänsterpartiet, V), Sweden
Swiss Labour Party (Parti Suisse du Travail / Partei der Arbeit der Schweiz / Partito Svizzero del Lavoro, PdA/PST/PdL), mirror page

Party of the European Left, Italian page updated February 05

Members

Communist Party of Austria (Kommunistische Partei Österreichs, KPÖ)
Party of Democratic Socialism (Strana demokratického socialismu, SDS), Czech Republic
Estonian Left Party (Eesti Vasakpartei / Levaya Partiya Estonii) updated February 05
French Communist Party (Parti Communiste Français, PCF)
Party of Democratic Socialism (Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus, PDS), Germany
Coalition of the Left of the Movements and of Ecology (Synaspismos tis Aristeras ton Kinimaton tis Oikologias, SYN), Greece
Workers' Party (Munkáspárt), Hungary
Party of Communist Refoundation (Partito della Rifondazione Comunista, PRC), Italy
Socialist Alliance Party (Partidul Alianta Socialista, PAS), Romania updated February 05
San Marino Communist Refoundation (Rifondazione Comunista Sammarinese)
United Left (Izquierda Unida, IU), Spain
Alternative and United Left (Esquerra Unida i Alternativa, EUiA)
Communist Party of Spain (Partido Comunista de España, PCE)
Swiss Labour Party (Parti Suisse du Travail / Partei der Arbeit der Schweiz / Partito Svizzero del Lavoro, PdA/PST/PdL), mirror page

Observers

Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (Komunistická strana Cech a Moravy, KSCM), Czech Republic
Progressive Party of Working People (Anorthotiko Komma Ergazomenou Laou, AKEL), Cyprus
Unity List - The Red-Greens (Enhedslisten - De Rød-Grønne), Denmark
German Communist Party (Deutsche Kommunistische Partei, DKP)
Party of Italian Communists (Partito dei Comunisti Italiani, PdCI)
The Left (Déi Lénk / La Gauche / Die Linken), Luxemburg
Bloc of the Left (Bloco de Esquerda), Portugal
Communist Party of Slovakia (Komunistická Strana Slovenska, KSS)
Freedom and Solidarity Party (Özgürlük ve Dayanisma Partisi, ÖDP)

Nordic Green Left Alliance

Socialist People's Party (Socialistisk Folkeparti, SF), Denmark
Left Alliance (Vasemmistoliitto / Vänsterförbundet, VL), other page, Finland updated February 05
Left-Green Movement (Vinstrihreyfingin - grænt framboð), Iceland
Socialist Left Party (Sosialistisk Venstreparti, SV), Norway
Left Party (Vänsterpartiet, V), Sweden

Sao Paulo Forum (Foro de São Paulo)

The Sao Paulo Forum is dominated by left socialist parties and alliances like the Brazilian PT, the Uruguayan Frente Amplio or the Salvadorian FMLN but it has also iuncludes radical leftist, communist and social democratic organizations. Therefore its member parties are not listed here.

Others

Democratic and Social Movement (Mouvement Démocratique et Social, MDS), Algeria
Authentic Socialist Party (Partido Socialista Auténtico, PSA), Argentina
Social Pole (Polo Social), Argentina
Socialist Identity Current (Corriente de Identidad Socialista), Argentina
Democratic Party of Armenia (Hayastani Demokratakan Kusaktsutiun, HDK)
Progressive Labour Party (PLP), Australia

Marxist Initiative, Australia added February 05

Socialist Movement (Mouvement Socialiste, MS), Belgium
Socialist Popular Party (Partido Popular Socialista, PPS), Brazil
Social Democratic Front (SDF), Cameroon
Socialist Caucus of the New Democratic Party, Canada
Socialist Project, Canada
Union of Progressive Forces (Union des Forces Progressistes)
- Communist Party of Quebec (Parti Communiste du Québec, PCQ)
- Socialist Quebec (Québec Socialiste)
- Socialist Left (Gauche Socialiste, GS)
Citizen Power Movement (Movimiento Fuerza Ciudadana), Chile added February 05
Democratic Change (Cambio Democratico), Chile added February 05
Social and Democratic Force (Fuerza Social y Democrática, FSD), Chile
Independent Democratic Pole (Polo Democratico Independiente, PDI), Colombia
Socialist Culture Club of Costa Rica (Club de Cultura Socialista de Costa Rica)
Ivorian Popular Front (Front Populaire Ivorien, FPI), other page
Movement for the Total Liberation of Côte d'Ivoire (Mouvement pour la Libération Totale de la Côte d'Ivoire, MLTCI)
Socialist Workers Party of Croatia (Socijalisticka Radnicka Partija Hrvatske, SRP)
New Cyprus Party (Yeni Kibris Partisi / Komma Nea Kypros, YKP) updated February 05
Republican Turkish Party (Cumhuriyetçi Türk Partisi, CTP), Cyprus
National Progressive Unionist Party (Hizb al-Tajammu' al-Watani al-Taqaddumi al-Wahdawi, NPUP) periodical Al-Ahali, Egypt
Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (Frente Farabundo Martí de Liberación Nacional, FMLN), El Salvador
Convergence for the Social Democracy (Convergencia para la Democracia Social, CpDS), Equatorial Guinea
Association for a Republican Left (Association pour une Gauche Républicaine, AGR)
Communist Refounders (Réfondateurs Communistes), France
Republican and Citizens Movement (Mouvement Républicain et Citoyen, MRC), France
The Alternatives (Les Alternatifs), France
Analysis and Critique (Analyse und Kritik, AK; formerly periodical of the Communist League), Germany
Labour and Social Justice - The Electoral Alternative (Arbeit & soziale Gerechtigkeit - Die Wahlalternative, WASG), Germany updated May 05
Workers' Politics Group (Gruppe Arbeiterpolitik), Germany
Alliance for Green Socialism (AGS), Great Britain
Campaign for Labour Party Democracy (CLPD), Great Britain
Campaign for Socialism, Great Britain
Labour Left Briefing, Great Britain
Network of Socialist Campaign Groups, Great Britain
Peace and Progress, Great Britain added February 05
Socialist Campaign Group periodical, Great Britain
Socialist Labour Party (SLP), Great Britain
Democratic Social Movement (Dimokratiki Kinoniku Kinima, DIKKI), Greece
Militant Socialist Party of Greece (Agonistiko Sosialistiko Komma Elladas, ASKE), Greece
Movement of the Democratic Unitary Left (Kinisi gia tin Enotita Drasis tis Aristeras, KEDA), Greece
Renewing Communist Ecological Left (Ananeotiki Kommounistiki kai Oikologiki Aristera, AKOA), other page, Greece
Renewing and Modernizing Movement of the Left (Ananeotiki Eksygchronistiki Kinese Aristeras, AEKA), Greece
Inuit Community (Inuit Ataqatigiit, IA), Greenland
Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca, URNG), Guatemala
People's Progressive Party (PPP), Guyana
Working People's Alliance (WPA), Guyana
National Popular Party (Parti Populaire National/Parti Popilè Nasyonal, PNP) periodical Haiti Progrès
People in Struggle Organization (Organisation du Peuple en Lutte / Oganizasyon Pèp Kap Lité, OPL), Haiti
Left Alternative Association (Baloldali Alternatíva Egyesülés, BAL), Hungary
Left-Green Movement (Vinstrihreyfingin - grænt framboð), Iceland
Socialist Association (Sósíalistafélagið), Iceland
Communist Party of Iran (Hezb-e Komunist-e Iran, CPI)
Democratic Party of Azerbaijan (Azerbaycan Demokrat Firqesi / Ferqeh-ye Demokrat-e Azarbaijan), Iran
Democratic People's Party of Iran (Hezb-e Demokratik-e Mardom-e Iran)
Organization of Iranian People's Fedaian (Majority) (Sazman-e Feda'iyan-e Khalq-e Iran (Aksariyat), OIPFM)
Provisional Council of Iranian Left Socialists (Shora-ye Movaqqat-e Sosiyalistha-ye Chap-e Iran) updated February 05
Kurdistan Liberation Party (Parti Rizgari Kurdistan / Hizb al-Tahrir al-Kurdistani), Iraq
Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party (Parti Sosialisti Dimukrati Kurdistan / Al-Hizb al-Ishtiraki al-Dimuqrati al-Kurdistani, KSDP), other page, Iraq
Kurdistan Toilers Party (Partiya Zehmetkêsanê Kurdistan, PZK), Iraq
Social Democratic Israel (Yisrael Hevratit Demokratit, Yachad)
Movement for Democratic Socialism (Minshûshugiteki Shaikaishugi Undô), Japan
New Socialist Party (Shin Shakaito), Japan
Progressive Reform Research Group (Shinpoto Kaikakuken Kyûkai), Japan
Socialist Association (Shakaishugi Kyôkai, Kyôkai-ha), Japan
Democratic Labour Party, Min-ju No-dong Dang, KDLP), English page, Korea (Republic) updated February 05
Socialist Party of Korea ((Sahoi Dang, SPK), Korea, Republic
Kuwaiti Democratic Forum (Al-minbar al-Dimuqrati al-Kuwayti) added February 05
People's Harmony Party (Tautas Saskanas Partija / Partiya Narodnogo Soglasiya, TSP), Latvia
Progressive Socialist Party (Al-Hizb al-Taqaddumi al-Ishtiraki / Parti Socialiste Progressiste, PSP), Lebanon
New Left (Nei Lénk / Nouvelle Gauche) periodical periodical Paroles, Luxemburg
Socialist Party of Malaysia (Parti Sosialis Malaysia, PSM)
Labour Party (Partido del Trabajo, PT), Mexico
Front of Democratic Forces (Jabhat al-Quwat al-Dimuqratiyah /Front des Forces Démocratiques, FFD), Morocco
Party of the United Socialist Left (Parti de la Gauche Socialiste Unifiée / Hizb al-Yasar al-Ishtiraki al-Muwahhad, GSU), Morocco
Socialist Democratic Vanguard Party (Parti de l'Avantgarde Démocratique Socialiste / Hizb al-Tali'ah al-Dimuqrati al-Ishtiraki, PADS), Morocco
Pacifist Socialist Party '92 (Pacifistisch Socialistische Partij '92, PSP'92), Netherlands
May 30th Workers' Liberation Front (Frente Obrero Liberashon 30 di Mei, FOL), Netherlands Antilles
Progressive Coalition, New Zealand
Sandinist National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN), Nicaragua
National Conscience Party (NCP), Nigeria
National Workers Party, Pakistan updated February 05
Democratic Decentralist Party (Partido Democrático Descentralista, PDD), Peru updated February 05
Roots Movement (Movimiento Raíz), Peru
Citizens' Action Party (AKBAYAN!), Philippines
Freedom! - Association for People's Liberation (Kalayaan! - Katipunan para sa Pagpapalayang Sambayanan), Philippines updated February 05
Edward Gierek Movement of the Economic Revival (Ruch Odrodzenia Gospodarczego im. Edwarda Gierka, ROG), Poland added May 05
New Left (Nowa Lewica), Poland
Polish Socialist Party (Polska Partia Socjalistyczna, PPS), mirror page
Base - Unitarian Workers Front (Base-Frente Unitária de Trabalhadores, Base-FUT), Portugal
Democratic Intervention (Intervenção Democrática), Portugal
Leftist Edge (Margem Esquerda), Portugal
Movement of Communist Renovation (Movimento da Renovação Comunista, MRC), Portugal
Romanian Socialist Party (Partidul Socialist Român, PSR)
Agrarian Party of Russia (Agrarnaya Partiya Rossii, APR)
Alternatives (Alternativy), Russia
Party of Labour Solidarity (Partiya Trudovoi Solidarnosti, PTS)
Russian Party of Labour (Rossiiskaya Partiya Truda, RPT)
Socialist Workers' Party (Sotsialisticheskaya Partiya Trudiashchikhsya, SPT) unofficial, Russia
St Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP)
St Lucia Labour Party (SLP)
Independence and Labour Party (Parti de l'Indépendance et du Travail, PIT)
Mouvement for the Conference of the Left (Mouvement pour les Assises de la Gauche, MAG), Senegal
Party of the Democratic Left (Strana Demokratickej L'avice, SDL'), Slovakia
Independent Democrats (ID), South Africa
Workers' Party (WP), South Africa
Alternative and United Left (Esquerra Unida i Alternativa, EUiA), Spain
Andecha Astur - La Izquierda d'Asturies, Spain
Aragonist Council (Chunta Aragonesista, CHA), Spain
Galician Nationalist Bloc (Bloque Nacionalista Galego, BNG), Spain
New Green Left (Nueva Izquierda Verde, NIV), Spain
Republican Left of Catalonia (Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, ERC), Spain
Republican Left of Spain (Izquierda Republicana de España, IR)
Socialist Action Party (Partido de Acción Socialista, Pasoc), Spain
PSM-Nationalist Accord (PSM-Entesa Nacionalista), Spain
Socialist Party of the People of Ceuta (Partido Socialista del Pueblo de Ceuta, PSPC), Spain
United Socialist Party of Catalonia-Living (Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya - Viu; PSUC-viu), Spain
Enough! Strong Alternative of Basel (BastA!, Basels starke Alternative), Switzerland
Socialist Struggle (Combat Socialiste), Switzerland
Solidarities (SolidaritéS/Solidarität), Switzerland
Labor Party (Laodongdang), China/Taiwan
Taiwan Labor Party (Taiwan Minzhu Gongdang)), China/Taiwan added February 05
Taiwan Labor Front (Taiwan Laodong Zhenxian)
Socialist Labour Movement (Sosyalist Emek Hareketi, SEH) periodical Siyasi Gazete
Socialist Workers' Party of Turkey (Türkiye Sosyalist Isçi Partisi, TSIP) added February 05
Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine (Progresyvna Sotsialistychna Partiya Ukrainy, PSPU)
Socialist Party of Ukraine (Sotsialistychna Partiya Ukrainy, SPU)
Broad Front ( Frente Amplio), Uruguay
Carpentry Movement (Movimiento Carpintería) added November 05
Popular Participation Movement (Movimiento de Participación Popular, MPP), Uruguay
- National Liberation Movement -Tupamaros (Movimiento de Liberación Nacional - Tupamaros, MLN-T), Uruguay
Red Carnations Movement (Movimiento de los Claveles Rojos), Uruguay
Socialist Movement Emilio Frugoni (Movimiento Socialista Emilio Frugoni, MS), Uruguay
Socialist Party (Partido Socialista, PS), Uruguay
Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS), USA
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), USA
Independent Progressive Politics Network (IPPN), USA
Labor Party (LP), USA
Liberty Union Party (LUP), USA added February 05
New Party, USA
Peace and Freedom Party (PFP), periodical Partisan, USA
Socialist Party USA (SPUSA)
- Debs Tendency
- Direct Action Tendency added February 05
Vermont Progressive Party, USA
Working Families Party (WFP), USA
Homeland for All (Patria para Todos, PPT), Venezuela
The R Cause (La Causa R), Venezuela
We Can - For the Social Democracy (Podemos - Por la Democracia Social, Podemos), Venezuela
Zimbabwe Labour Party (ZLP)

Back to Main Page

Your corrections

This page is hosted by Marxists Internet Archive