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There are, at present, 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 Socialist Party, Socialist Workers Party, Workers' Party, etc. The parties on this list are mostly those that were aligned with either Moscow or Beijing during the Cold War and their offshoots. Groups originating in the Trotskyist tradition are not included in the listing.

See also: World Communist Movement, List of left-wing internationals, List of Trotskyist internationals, List of members of the Comintern, List of left communist internationals, List of political parties

Contents 1 List 1.1 Ruling parties of Socialist states 1.2 Formerly ruling 1.3 Modern 1.4 Former 1.5 Defunct (ruling) 1.6 Defunct (non-ruling)

[edit] List

[edit] Ruling parties of Socialist states

• People's Republic of China - Communist Party of China
• Cuba - Communist Party of Cuba
• Laos - Lao People's Revolutionary Party
• North Korea - Korean Workers' Party
• Vietnam - Communist Party of Vietnam

[edit] Formerly ruling

• Afghanistan -People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
• Albania - Albanian Party of Labour
• Bulgaria - Bulgarian Communist Party (known from 1938 to 1948 as the Bulgarian Workers Party)
• Cambodia - Communist Party of Cambodia (Khmer Rouge)
• Czechoslovakia - Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Communist Party of Slovakia
• Ethiopia - Workers' Party of Ethiopia
• Germany (East) - Socialist Unity Party of Germany
• Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919) - Hungarian Communist Party
• Hungary - Hungarian Workers Party, Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
• Poland - Polish United Workers Party
• Romania - Romanian Communist Party (Romanian Workers Party until 1965)
• Soviet Union - Communist Party of the Soviet Union (before 1918, Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic and Labour Party)
• People's Democratic Republic of Yemen - Yemeni Socialist Party
• Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - League of Communists of Yugoslavia

[edit] Modern

• Afghanistan - The Khalq faction of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
• Algeria - Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism
• Argentina - Communist Party of Argentina, Revolutionary Communist Party
• Armenia - Armenian Communist Party, Armenian Workers Communist Party, Armenian Workers Union, Marxist Party of Armenia, Union of Communists of Armenia, Renewed Communist Party of Armenia, and United Communist Party of Armenia
• Australia - Communist Party of Australia
• Austria - Communist Party of Austria
• Azerbaijan - Azerbaijan Communist Party, Reformist Communist Party of Azerbaijan, United Communist Party of Azerbaijan and Azerbaijan Communist Party (on Platform of Marxism-Leninism)
• Bahrain - National Liberation Front of Bahrain
• Bangladesh - Communist Party of Bangladesh
• Belarus - Communist Party of Belarus, Party of Communists of Belarus
• Belgium - Kommunistische Partij, Parti Communiste, Workers Party of Belgium
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - Workers' Communist Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Bolivia - Communist Party of Bolivia
• Brazil - Brazilian Communist Party, Communist Party of Brazil
• Britain - Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee), Communist Party of Britain, Communist Party of Britain Marxist-Leninist, Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), Communist Party of Scotland, New Communist Party of Britain, Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist), Communist League of Great Britain
• Burma - Communist Party of Burma
• Canada - Communist Party of Canada, Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
• Chile - Communist Party of Chile
• Colombia - Colombian Communist Party, Clandestine Colombian Communist Party
• Costa Rica - Popular Vanguard Party, Costa Rican People's Party
• Croatia - Socialist Labour Party of Croatia (among other left movements, it represents croatian's Eurocommunists and New left)
• Czech Republic - Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
• Cyprus - Progressive Party of Working People - leads coalition government
• Denmark - Communist Party of Denmark, Communist Party in Denmark, Communist Party of Denmark/Marxist-Leninist
• Dominican Republic - Force of the Revolution
• Finland - Communist Party of Finland, For Peace and Socialism - Communist Workers Party
• France - French Communist Party
• Ecuador - Communist Party of Ecuador
• Egypt - Egyptian Communist Party
• Galicia (Galiza) - First Line
• Georgia - Communist Party of Georgia, Georgian United Communist Party, Revived Communist Party of Georgia, New Communist Party of Georgia, and Georgian Workers Communist Party
• Germany - German Communist Party, Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany, Communist Party of Germany
• Greece - Communist Party of Greece
• Guadeloupe - Guadeloupe Communist Party
• Hungary - Workers Party
• India - Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Ghadar Party of India
• Iran - Tudeh Party of Iran, Worker-Communist Party of Iran
• Iraq - Iraqi Communist Party, Worker-Communist Party of Iraq
• Ireland - Communist Party of Ireland, Workers Party of Ireland
• Israel - Communist Party of Israel which dominates the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash)
• Italy - Communist Refoundation Party, Party of Italian Communists
• Japan - Japanese Communist Party
• Jordan - Communist Party of Jordan, Jordanian Democratic People's Party, Communist Workers' Party of Jordan
• Kazakhstan - Communist Party of Kazakhstan, People's Communist Party of Kazakhstan
• Kyrgyzstan - Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan, Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan
• Latvia — Socialist Party of Latvia
• Lebanon - Lebanese Communist Party
• Lesotho - Communist Party of Lesotho
• Luxembourg - Communist Party of Luxemburg
• Malta - Communist Party of Malta
• Martinique - Communist Party of Martinique
• Mexico - Popular Socialist Party
• Moldova - Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova - in power since 2001 (and 2005) elections
• Morocco - Party of Progress and Socialism
• Nagorno-Karabakh (unrecognized country) - Communist Party of Nagorno Karabakh
• Nepal - Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist), Communist Party of Nepal (Unity Centre-Masal)
• Netherlands - New Communist Party of the Netherlands
• New Zealand - Socialist Party of Aotearoa
• Norway - Communist Party of Norway, Workers' Communist Party
• Panama - People's Party of Panama
• Paraguay - Paraguayan Communist Party
• Pakistan - Communist Mazdoor Kisan Party, Communist Party of Pakistan
• Peru - Peruvian Communist Party, Communist Party of Peru (Red Fatherland), Communist Party of Peru, Shining Path
• Philippines - Communist Party of the Philippines
• Poland - Communist Party of Poland
• Portugal - Portuguese Communist Party, Communist Party of the Portuguese Workers - Reorganizative Movement of the Party of the Proletariat
• Réunion - Communist Party of Reunion
• Russia - Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Communist Workers Party of Russia
• San Marino - San Marino Communist Refoundation
• Serbia - New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
• Senegal - Party of Independence and Work
• Slovakia - Communist Party of Slovakia
• South Africa - South African Communist Party
• Spain - Communist Party of Spain
• Sudan - Communist Party of the Sudan
• Sweden - Communist Party, Communist Party of Sweden
• Switzerland - Swiss Party of Labour
• Syria - Syrian Communist Party (Bakdash), Syrian Communist Party (Faisal)
• Sri Lanka - Communist Party of Sri Lanka
• Tajikistan - Communist Party of Tajikistan
• Transnistria (unrecognized country) - Communist Party of Pridnestrovie
• Turkey - Communist Party of Turkey
• Ukraine - Communist Party of Ukraine
• United States - Communist Party USA, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Progressive Labor Party, Revolutionary Communist Party, Workers World Party, Workers Party, USA
• Uruguay - Communist Party of Uruguay
• Venezuela - Communist Party of Venezuela

[edit] Former

• 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 - Cambodian People's Party
• Ethiopia - All-Ethiopian Socialist Movement
• Germany (East) - Socialist Unity Party of Germany, became Party of Democratic Socialism
• Hungary - Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, became Hungarian Socialist Party
• Iceland - Popular Alliance
• Italy - Italian Communist Party, became the Party of the Democratic Left, which later merged into the Democrats of the Left
• Mongolia - Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party
• Nicaragua - Socialist Party of Nicaragua
• Sweden - Left Party - Communists, became Left Party
• 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 Democratic Socialist Party of Romania, which later merged into the Social Democratic Party of Romania
• San Marino - Communist Party of San Marino, became Party of Democrats
• Tunisia - Tunisian Communist Party, became Movement for Renewal
• Yemen - Yemeni Socialist Party

[edit] Defunct (ruling)

• 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
• Yugoslavia - League of Communists of Yugoslavia

[edit] Defunct (non-ruling)

• Australia - Communist Party of Australia
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Malaysia - Malayan Communist Party, North Kalimantan Communist Party
• Mexico - Mexican Communist Party
• Mauritania- Communist Party of Mauritania ^{[citation needed]}
• 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
• Palestine - Communist Party of Palestine (1921-1948)
• Poland - Communist Party of Poland
• Saudi Arabia - Communist Party of Saudi Arabia
• Thailand - Communist Party of Thailand
• United Kingdom - Communist Party of Great Britain
• United States - Provisional Communist Party, Communist Party Marxist-Leninist, May 19th Communist Movement