| United Communist Party Verenigde Communistische Partij |
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| Founded | 1999 |
| Ideology | Communism, Marxism-Leninism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| Official colours | Red Yellow |
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| http://www.vcp.nu | |
| Politics of the Netherlands Political parties Elections |
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Verenigde Communistische Partij (United Communist Party) is a small communist splinter party in the Netherlands. VCP was broke away from the NCPN in 1999. VCP is mainly based in Scheemda.
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The VCP broke away from the NCPN because of dissatisfaction with the centralistic command structure of the party, as well as disagreement about whether or not the party should follow a policy of compromise within the city council of Reiderland, in which the NCPN was then represented.
In the 2006 elections VCP got 707 votes in Scheemda (10%), but lost one of their two seats.
In 2009 the VCP won 1,138 votes (8.5%) and two seats in the new municipality of Oldambt.
Politically, the VCP is a straightforward Communist party and sees a communist society as its ultimate goal and Socialism only as a stage towards it, with the class struggle as the method to reach this goal. The party is organised along democratic centralist lines.