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There are a number of communist parties active in various countries across the world and a number that used to be active. They differ not only in method, but also in strict ideology and interpretation, although they are generally within the tradition of Marxism–Leninism.

The formation of communist parties in various countries was first initiated by the Russian Bolsheviks within the Communist International. Since then, communist parties have governed numerous countries, whether as ruling parties in one-party states like the Chinese Communist Party or the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, or as ruling parties in multi-party systems, including majority and minority governments as well as leading or being part of several coalitions.

Many other communist parties did not govern any country, but did govern a state or region within a country. Others have also been represented in national, state, or regional parliaments. Some communist parties and schools of thought reject parliamentarism, instead advocating insurrection or social revolution as well as workers' councils.

## Officially ruling in communist states

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

Country  | Logo  | Name  | Abbr.  | Leader | Founded  | Ideology  | Legislature  | Notes

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China |  |  | Communist Party of China
中国共产党 | CPC
中共 | Xi Jinping | 1 July 1921 (1921-07-01) | Marxism–Leninism | NPC:

2,103 / 2,980

Cuba |  |  | Communist Party of Cuba
Partido Comunista de Cuba | PCC  | Miguel Díaz-Canel | 3 October 1965 (1965-10-03) | Marxism–Leninism
Castroism
Guevarism | National Assembly:

442 / 470

| Leads the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution.
Laos |  |  | Lao People's Revolutionary Party
ພັກປະຊາຊົນປະຕິວັດລາວ | LPRP
ພປປລ | Thongloun Sisoulith | 22 May 1955 (1955-05-22) | Marxism–Leninism
Kaysone Phomvihane Thought | National Assembly:

158 / 164

| Leads the Lao Front for National Development.
North Korea |  |  | Workers' Party of Korea
조선로동당 | WPK
로동당 | Kim Jong Un | 24 June 1948 (1948-06-24) | Kimilsungism–Kimjongilism | SPA:

607 / 687

Vietnam |  |  | Communist Party of Vietnam
Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam | CPV
ĐCSVN | Tô Lâm | 3 February 1930 (1930-02-03) | Marxism–Leninism
Ho Chi Minh Thought
Socialist patriotism
Vietnamese nationalism | National Assembly:

485 / 499

| Leads the Vietnamese Fatherland Front.

## Ruling or part of ruling coalition in multi-party states

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Country  | Logo  | Name  | Abbr.  | Leader | Founded  | Ideology  | Legislature  | Notes

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Belarus |  |  | Communist Party of Belarus
Камуністычная партыя Беларусі | CPB
КПБ | Aliaksiej Sokal | 2 November 1996 (1996-11-02) | Marxism–Leninism
Soviet patriotism
Belarusian–Russian unionism
Pro-Lukashenko | Lower House:

7 / 110

| Supports the government of president Alexander Lukashenko
Brazil |  |  | Communist Party of Brazil
Partido Comunista do Brasil | PCdoB  | Luciana Santos | 25 March 1922 (1922-03-25) | Marxism–Leninism | Lower House:

6 / 513

| Member of the ruling federation, Brazil of Hope
Chile |  |  | Communist Party of Chile
Partido Comunista de Chile | PCCh  | Lautaro Carmona | 4 June 1912 (1912-06-04) | Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing populism | Lower House:

12 / 155

| Member of the ruling Apruebo Dignidad coalition
Colombia |  |  | Colombian Communist Party
Partido Comunista Colombiano | PCC  | Jaime Caycedo  | 1930 (1930) | Marxism–Leninism
Bolivarianism | Lower House:

0 / 188

Senate:

0 / 108

| Member of the ruling Historic Pact for Colombia
|  | Commons
Comunes |  | Timoleón Jiménez | 1 September 2017 (2017-09-01) | Marxism–Leninism
Bolivarianism | Lower House:

5 / 188

Senate:

5 / 108

Nepal |  |  | Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) | CPN (UML)  | KP Sharma Oli | 6 January 1991 (1991-01-06) | Marxism–Leninism
People's Multiparty Democracy | Pratinidhi Sabha:

79 / 275

Rastriya Sabha:

17 / 59

Palestine |  |  | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين | PFLP  | Ahmad Sa'adat | 11 December 1967 (1967-12-11) | Palestinian nationalism
Marxism–Leninism
Revolutionary socialism
One-state solution
Anti-Zionism
Arab nationalism | Legislative Council:

3 / 132

| Member of the Palestine Liberation Organization
|  | Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين | DFLP  | Nayef Hawatmeh | 22 February 1969 (1969-02-22) | Marxism–Leninism
Maoism
Palestinian nationalism
Left-wing nationalism
Anti-Zionism | Legislative Council:

1 / 132

|  | Palestinian People's Party
حزب الشعب الفلسطيني | PPP  | Bassam Al-Salhi | February 1982 (1982-02) | Marxism
Palestinian nationalism
Left-wing nationalism | Legislative Council:

1 / 132

South Africa |  |  | South African Communist Party | SACP  | Blade Nzimande | 12 February 1921 (1921-02-12) | Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing nationalism | National Assembly:

0 / 400

| Participates in the ruling Tripartite Alliance
Spain |  |  | Communist Party of Spain
Partido Comunista de España | PCE  | Enrique Santiago | 14 November 1921 (1921-11-14) | Marxism–Leninism
Republicanism
Internationalism
Federalism | Lower House:

7 / 350

| Member of United Left, which participates in the PSOE–Sumar coalition government
Sri Lanka |  |  | Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna
ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ | JVP  | Anura Kumara Dissanayake | 14 May 1965  | Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Revolutionary socialism
Anti-imperialism
Progressivism | Parliament:

159 / 225

| Main constituent of the ruling National People's Power
Uruguay |  |  | Communist Party of Uruguay
Partido Comunista del Uruguay | PCU  | Juan Castillo | 19 September 1920 (1920-09-19) | Marxism–Leninism
Internationalism | Lower House:

6 / 99

| Member of the Broad Front
|  | People's Victory Party
Partido por la Victoria del Pueblo | PVP  |  | July 1975  | Marxism
Guevarism
Libertarian socialism
Anti-capitalism
Anti-authoritarianism | Lower House:

1 / 99

Venezuela |  |  | Revolutionary Movement Tupamaro
Movimiento Revolucionario Tupamaro | MRT  | Oswaldo Jiménez  | 1992 (1992) | Marxism-Leninism
Guevarism
Foco theory
Left-wing nationalism
Revolutionary socialism | National Assembly:

7 / 277

| Participates in the ruling Great Patriotic Pole
|  | Venezuelan Popular Unity
Unidad Popular Venezolana
| UPV  | Lina Ron | 6 February 2004 (2004-02-06) | Bolivarianism
Socialism
Anti-imperialism
Marxism | National Assembly:

2 / 277

|  | Venezuelan Revolutionary Currents
Corrientes Revolucionarias Venezolanas
| CRV  | Ramsés Augusto Reyes Colmenares [es] | 2000 (2000) | Guevarism
Chavismo
Anti-imperialism
Left-wing nationalism | National Assembly:

0 / 277

## Main opposition or part of main opposition coalition

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Argentina |  |  | Revolutionary Communist Party | PCR  | Otto Vargas  |  |  |  | Member of the Unión por la Patria
Cyprus |  |  | Progressive Party of Working People
Anorthotikó Kómma Ergazómenou Laoú | AKEL  | Stefanos Stefanou | 15 August 1926 (1926-08-15) | Marxism–Leninism
Cypriot nationalism
Federalism
Soft Euroscepticism | House of Representatives:

15 / 56

France |  |  | French Communist Party
Parti communiste français | PCF  | Fabien Roussel | 30 December 1920  | Communism
Soft Euroscepticism | National Assembly:

12 / 577

| Member of the non-ruling New Popular Front

180 / 577

India |  |  | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | CPI(M)  | M A BABY  |  | Marxism–Leninism | Rajya Sabha:

5 / 245

Lok Sabha:

4 / 543

| Member of non-organisational bloc Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance
|  | Communist Party of India | CPI  | D. Raja |  | Marxism | Rajya Sabha:

2 / 245

Lok Sabha:

2 / 543

| Member of non-organisational bloc Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance
|  | Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation | CPIML-L  | Dipankar Bhattacharya |  | Marxism
Marxism–Leninism | Lok Sabha:

2 / 543

| Member of non-organisational bloc Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance
Moldova |  |  | Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova
Partidul Comuniștilor din Republica Moldova | PCRM  | Vladimir Voronin | 19 October 1993 (1993-10-19) | Marxism–Leninism
Moldovenism
Social conservatism
Soviet patriotism
Russophilia | Parliament:

10 / 101

| Member of BECS
Nepal |  |  | Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)
नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (माओवादी केन्द्र) | CPN (Maoist)
नेकपा (माओवादी) | Pushpa Kamal Dahal | 1994 (1994) | Prachanda Path
Left-wing nationalism | House of Representatives:

32 / 275

| Members of the Socialist Front
|  | Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist)
नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (एकीकृत-समाजवादी) | CPN (Unified Socialist)
नकप (एकीकृत-समाजवादी) | Madhav Kumar Nepal | 18 August 2021 (2021-08-18) | Marxism–Leninism
People's Multiparty Democracy | House of Representatives:

10 / 275

Russia |  |  | Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Коммунистическая Партия Российской Федерации | CPRF  | Gennady Zyuganov | 14 February 1993 (1993-02-14) | Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing nationalism
Social conservatism
Soviet patriotism
Neo-Stalinism | State Duma:

57 / 450

Federation Council:

4 / 178

| Supports some stances of the government of president Vladimir Putin, especially during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Transnistria |  |  | Transnistrian Communist Party
Приднестровская коммунистическая партия  | PKP  | Nadezhda Bondarenko |  | Marxism-Leninism |  | No members in parliament but only opposition party with the second position in the votes

## Formerly ruling

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### One-party system

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Country  | Logo  | Name  | Abbr.  | Leaders | Founded  | Dissolved  | Ideology  | Notes

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Afghanistan
(1978–1992) |  |  | People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
حزب دموکراتيک خلق افغانستان
د افغانستان د خلق دموکراټیک ګوند | PDPA  | Nur Muhammad Taraki (first)
Mohammad Najibullah (last)  | 1 January 1965 (1965-01-01) | 16 April 1992 (1992-04-16) | Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing nationalism
Secularism
Revolutionary socialism | Abandoned Marxism–Leninism in 1987, deposed in 1992
Albania
(1946–1992) |  |  | Party of Labour of Albania
Partia e Punës e Shqipërisë | PPSh  | Enver Hoxha (first)
Ramiz Alia (last)  | 8 November 1941 (1941-11-08) | 13 June 1991 (1991-06-13) | Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
Stalinism
Anti-revisionism | Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy in 1991; now known as the PSSh
Angola
(1975–1992) |  |  | People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola
Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola | MPLA  | Agostinho Neto (first)
João Lourenço (current)  | 10 December 1956 (1956-12-10) |  | Marxism–Leninism | Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy
Azerbaijan People's Government
(1945–1946) |  |  | Azerbaijani Democratic Party
Azərbaycan Demokrat Firqəsi
فرقه دموکرات آذربایجان< | ADP
ADF
فدآ< | Ja'far Pishevari | 3 September 1945 (1945-09-03) | 1960 (1960) | Marxism–Leninism
Azerbaijani nationalism
Left-wing nationalism
Pan-Turkism | Ceased to exist in exile
Benin
(1975–1990) |  |  | People's Revolutionary Party of Benin
Parti de la révolution populaire du Bénin | PRPB  | Mathieu Kérékou | 30 November 1975 (1975-11-30) | 30 April 1990 (1990-04-30) | Marxism–Leninism
Scientific socialism
Beninese nationalism | Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy; now known as the UFP
Bulgaria
(1946–1990) |  |  | Bulgarian Communist Party
Българска комунистическа партия | PRPB
БКП | Dimitar Blagoev (first)
Aleksandar Lilov (last)  | 27 May 1919 (1919-05-27) | 3 April 1990 (1990-04-03) | Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism (until 1956) | Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy; now known as the BSP
Cambodia
(1975–1979) |  |  | Communist Party of Kampuchea
បក្សកុម្មុយនីស្តកម្ពុជា | CPK
ប.ក.ក | Tou Samouth (first)
Pol Pot (last)  | 30 September 1960 (1960-09-30) | 6 December 1981 (1981-12-06) | Maoism
Khmer nationalism
Agrarianism
Anti-intellectualism
Autarky | Succeeded by the exiled, non-ruling and now-defunct Party of Democratic Kampuchea
Cambodia
(1979–1992) |  |  | Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party
គណបក្សប្រជាជនបដិវត្តន៍កម្ពុជា | KPRP  | Pen Sovan (first)
Heng Samrin (last)  | 28 June 1951 (1951-06-28)
5 January 1979 (1979-01-05) | 17 October 1991 (1991-10-17) | Marxism–Leninism
Revisionism | Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for centrism; now known as the CPP
Congo
(1979–1992) |  |  | Congolese Party of Labour
Parti congolais du travail | PCT  | Marien Ngouabi (first)
Denis Sassou Nguesso (current)  | 29 December 1969 (1969-12-29) |  | Marxism–Leninism
Scientific socialism | Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy
Croatia
(1945–1990) |  |  | League of Communists of Croatia
Savez komunista Hrvatske | SKH  | Pavle Gregorić (first)
Ivica Račan (last)  | 1 August 1937 (1937-08-01) | 3 November 1990 (1990-11-03) | Marxism–Leninism
Titoism (from 1948) | Abandoned Marxism–Leninism and Titoism for social democracy in 1989–1990; now known as the SDP
Czechoslovakia
(1948–1990) |  |  | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
Komunistická strana Československa | KSČ  | Václav Šturc (first)
Ladislav Adamec (last)  | 16 May 1921 (1921-05-16) | 3 November 1992 (1992-11-03) | Marxism–Leninism
Socialism with a human face (1968)
Husakism (1969–1989) | Split into the non-ruling KSČM and the social democratic SDL
Ethiopia
(1979–1984) |  |  | Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia
የኢትዮጵያ የሥራ ሕዝብ ፓርቲ የማደራጀት ኮሚሽን | COPWE  | Mengistu Haile Mariam | 17 December 1979 (1979-12-17) | 12 September 1984 (1984-09-12) | Marxism–Leninism | Succeeded by the WPE
Ethiopia
(1984–1991) |  |  | Workers' Party of Ethiopia
የኢትዮጵያ ሠራተኞች ፓርቲ | WPE
የሠፓ | 12 September 1984 (1984-09-12) | 21 May 1991 (1991-05-21) | Marxism–Leninism | Deposed in 1991
East Germany
(1949–1989) |  |  | Socialist Unity Party of Germany
Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands | SED  | Wilhelm Pieck & Otto Grotewohl (first)
Egon Krenz (last)  | 21 April 1946 (1946-04-21) | 16 December 1989 (1989-12-16) | Marxism–Leninism
Socialist patriotism
Stalinism (until 1956) | Became the PDS, part of The Left
Greece
(1944, 1947–1949) |  |  | Communist Party of Greece
Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας | KKE
ΚΚΕ | Avraam Benaroya (first)
Dimitris Koutsoumpas (current)  | 17 November 1918 (1918-11-17) |  | Marxism–Leninism
Internationalism
Anti-capitalism
Euroscepticism | Overthrown during the Greek Civil War
Grenada
(1979–1983) |  |  | New Jewel Movement | NJM  | Maurice Bishop | 11 March 1973 (1973-03-11) | 29 October 1983 (1983-10-29) | Marxism–Leninism
State atheism
Revolutionary socialism
Republicanism
Left-wing populism
Pan-Africanism
Anti-colonialism | Lost power and ceased to exist after an internal party split, a military coup, and the American invasion.
Succeeded by the MBPM
Hungary
(1919) |  |  | Hungarian Communist Party
Magyar Kommunista Párt | MKP  | Béla Kun (first)
Mátyás Rákosi (last)  | 24 November 1918 (1918-11-24) | 22 July 1948 (1948-07-22) | Marxism–Leninism
State atheism
Revolutionary socialism
Republicanism
Stalinism | Deposed in August 1919
Hungary
(1948–1989) |  | Merged with the MSZDP into the MDP
|  | Hungarian Working People's Party
Magyar Dolgozók Pártja | MDP  | Mátyás Rákosi (first)
János Kádár (last)  | 22 July 1948 (1948-07-22) | 31 October 1956 (1956-10-31) | Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism | Reorganized into the MSZMP during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
|  | Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt | MSZMP  | János Kádár (first)
Rezső Nyers (last)  | 31 October 1956 (1956-10-31) | 7 October 1989 (1989-10-07) | Marxism–Leninism
Kádárism | Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy; now known as the MSZP
Mongolia
(1921–1992) |  |  | Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party
Монгол Ардын Хувьсгалт Нам | MAKhN
МАХН | Damdin Sükhbaatar (first)
Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene (current)  | 25 June 1920 (1920-06-25) |  | Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism (1928–1956) | Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy
Mozambique
(1975–1990) |  |  | FRELIMO Party
Partido FRELIMO | FRELIMO  | Eduardo Mondlane (first)
Filipe Nyusi (current)  | 25 June 1962 (1962-06-25) |  | Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing nationalism | Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for democratic socialism
Poland
(1944–1989) |  |  | Polish Workers' Party
Polska Partia Robotnicza | PPR  | Władysław Gomułka | 5 January 1942 (1942-01-05) | 16 December 1948 (1948-12-16) | Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism | Merged with the PPS to form the PZPR
|  | Polish United Workers' Party
Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza | PZPR  | Bolesław Bierut (first)
Mieczysław Rakowski (last)  | 16 December 1948 (1948-12-16) | 30 January 1990 (1990-01-30) | Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing nationalism
Stalinism (until 1956) | Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy; later known as the Democratic Left Alliance
Romania
(1945–1989) |  |  | Romanian Communist Party
Partidul Comunist Român | PCR  | Gheorghe Cristescu (first)
Nicolae Ceaușescu (last)  | 8 May 1921 (1921-05-08) | 22 December 1989 (1989-12-22) | Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Left-wing nationalism
Socialist patriotism
Neo-Stalinism (post-1971)
National Communism (post-1971) | Dissolved after the Romanian Revolution
Somalia
(1976–1991) |  |  | Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party
Xisbiga Hantiwadaagga Kacaanka Soomaaliyeed | XHKS  | Siad Barre | 26 June 1976 (1976-06-26) | 26 January 1992 (1992-01-26) | Marxism–Leninism
Islamic socialism
Pan-Somalism
Scientific socialism
Somali nationalism
Militarism | Deposed in 1991
Soviet Union
(1922–1991) |  |  | Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза | CPSU
КПСС | Vladimir Lenin (first)
Mikhail Gorbachev (last)  | May 1917 (1917-05) | 6 November 1991 (1991-11-06) | Leninism (1922–1927)
Stalinism (1927–1953)
Marxism–Leninism (1953–1991)
Soviet patriotism | Banned in 1991, de facto succeeded by UCP-CPSU and CPRF
South Yemen
(1967–1990) |  |  | National Liberation Front
الجبهة القومية للتحرير | NLF  | Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi | 1963 (1963) | 13 October 1978 (1978-10-13) | Marxism–Leninism
Arab nationalism | Reorganized itself into the YSP
|  | Yemeni Socialist Party
الحزب الاشتراكي اليمني | YSP  | Abdul Fattah Ismail (first)
Abdulraham Al-Saqqaf (current)  | 13 October 1978 (1978-10-13) |  | Marxism–Leninism
Arab nationalism
Anti-imperialism | Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy
Tannu Tuva
(1921–1944) |  |  | Tuvan People's Revolutionary Party
Тьва arat-хuviskaalçь nam
Тувинская народно-революционная партия | TPRP
ТAХN
ТНРП | Namachyn (first)
Salchak Toka (last)  | 21 October 1921 (1921-10-21) | 11 October 1944 (1944-10-11) | Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism | Became the Tuvan Regional Committee of the VKP(b), later CPSU
Yugoslavia
(1945–1990) |  |  | League of Communists of Yugoslavia
Савез комуниста Југославије
Savez komunista Jugoslavije | SKJ
СКJ | Josip Broz Tito (1939–1980)
Milan Pančevski (last)  | 20 April 1919 (1919-04-20) | 22 January 1990 (1990-01-22) | Marxism–Leninism
Titoism | Splintered into its many constituent parties in 1990

### Parliamentary majority or minority government

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Austria
(1945–1949) |  |  | Communist Party of Austria
Kommunistische Partei Österreichs | KPÖ  | Ruth Fischer, Franz Koritschoner, & Lucien Laurat (first)
Mirko Messner (current)  | 3 November 1918 (1918-11-03) |  | Marxism–Leninism
Anti-fascism
Socialism | Participated in the provisional government coalition after World War II and for four years after the 1945 election
Bangladesh
(1975) |  |  | Bangladesh Peasants' Workers' People's League
বাংলাদেশ কৃষক শ্রমিক আওয়ামী লীগ | BAKSAL
বাংকশ্আল | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman | 24 February 1975 (1975-02-24) | 15 August 1975 (1975-08-15) | State socialism
Bengali nationalism
Mujibism | Dissolved after the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Chad
(1993) |  |  | Chadian Action for Unity and Socialism
Action Tchadienne pour l'unité et le socialisme | ACTUS  | Fidèle Moungar | 1 May 1981 (1981-05-01) |  | Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism | The party's leader was chosen as Prime Minister in April 1993.
Cyprus
(2008–2013) |  |  | Progressive Party of Working People
Ανορθωτικό Κόμμα Εργαζόμενου Λαού | AKEL
ΑΚΕΛ | Ploutis Servas (first)
Stefanos Stefanou (current)  | 15 August 1926 (1926-08-15) |  | Marxism–Leninism
Cypriot nationalism
Federalism
Soft euroscepticism | Won the 2008 election and ruled until 2013
Guyana
(1992–2015, 2020–2024) |  |  | People's Progressive Party/Civic | PPP/С  | Cheddi Jagan & Janet Jagan (first)
Bharrat Jagdeo (current)  | 1 January 1950 (1950-01-01) |  | Social democracy
Left-wing populism
Left-wing nationalism
Historically:
Communism
Marxism–Leninism | Abandoned Marxism–Leninism officially in 2024.[1]
India
(1996–1998) |  |  | Communist Party of India | CPI  | Sachchidanand Vishnu Ghate (first)
D. Raja (current)  | 26 December 1925 (1925-12-26) |  | Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing nationalism | Member of the United Front and its coalition government
|  | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | CPI(M)  | Puchalapalli Sundarayya (first)
Sitaram Yechury (current)  | 7 November 1964 (1964-11-07) |  | Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing nationalism | Member of the United Front and its coalition government
Moldova
(2001–2009) |  |  | Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova
Partidul Comuniștilor din Republica Moldova | PCRM  | Vladimir Voronin | 22 October 1993 (1993-10-22) |  | Marxism–Leninism
Moldovenism
Social conservatism
Soviet patriotism
Russophilia | Deposed after the 2009 protests
Nepal
(1994–1995, 2008–2013, 2015–2017, 2018–2021) |  |  | Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (एकीकृत मार्क्सवादी-लेनिनवादी) | CPN (UML)
नेकपा (एमाले) | Madan Bhandari (first)
K. P. Sharma Oli (current)  | 6 January 1991 (1991-01-06)
8 March 2021 (2021-03-08) | 17 May 2018 (2018-05-17) | Marxism–Leninism
People's Multiparty Democracy | Merged with the CPN (MC) to form the NCP in 2018, refounded in 2021
|  | Nepal Communist Party
नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी | NCP
नेकपा | K. P. Sharma Oli
Pushpa Kamal Dahal | 17 May 2018 (2018-05-17) | 8 March 2021 (2021-03-08) | Marxism–Leninism
People's Multiparty Democracy
Prachanda Path
Democratic centralism
Secularism
Federalism | Dissolved as a result of internal conflicts in 2021
San Marino
(1945–1957, 1978–1990) |  |  | Sammarinese Communist Party
Partidul Comuniștilor din Republica Moldova | PCS  | Ermenegildo Gasperoni | 21 January 1921 (1921-01-21) |  | Communism | Deposed by coup d'etat orchestrated by Italy and America in Fatti di Rovereta

### Coalition partner or supporter

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* Bulgaria (2005–2009, 2013–2014, 2021–2022) – Communist Party of Bulgaria, in coalition government as member of the Coalition for Bulgaria
* Belgium (1946–1947) – Communist Party of Belgium, in the Van Acker I Government
* Finland (1944–1948, 1966–1970, 1970–1971, 1975–1976 and 1977–1982) – Finnish People's Democratic League, in coalition governments with numerous other parties
* France (1981–1989; 1997–2002) – French Communist Party as a part of the Union de la gauche and of the Gauche plurielle
* India (2004–2008) – Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Communist Party of India, in the coalition government of the United Progressive Alliance
* Iran (1946) – Tudeh Party of Iran, in the coalition government of Ahmad Qavam[2]
* Italy (1998–2001, 2006–2008) – Party of Italian Communists in the D'Alema I Cabinet, D'Alema II Cabinet, Amato II Cabinet with The Olive Tree; Communist Refoundation Party and Party of Italian Communists in the coalition government of The Union
* Mali (2005–2014) – Malian Party of Labour, participated in the Alliance for Democracy in Mali
* Norway (1945) – Communist Party of Norway in coalition government as member of Gerhardsen's First Cabinet led by the Labour Party
* Peru (2011–2016) – Peruvian Communist Party, in coalition governments as member of Peru Wins
* Portugal (2015–2019) – Portuguese Communist Party in support of the XXI Constitutional Government of Portugal led by the Socialist Party
* San Marino (1945–1957, 1978–1992) – Sammarinese Communist Party, in coalition government with Sammarinese Socialist Party
* Sri Lanka (1970–1975, 1994–2000, 2004–2015 and 2020–2022) – Communist Party of Sri Lanka and Lanka Sama Samaja Party, in coalition governments with numerous other parties
* Uruguay (2005–2020) – Communist Party of Uruguay and People's Victory Party, in coalition governments as members of the Broad Front

## Modern non-ruling

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Abkhazia |  |  | Communist Party of Abkhazia
Аԥсны Акомунисттә Апартиа | CPA
ААА | Lev Shamba  | March 1921  | Marxism–Leninism | People's Assembly:

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Afghanistan |  |  | Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan
حزب كمونيست (مائوئيست) افغانستان | CMPM  |  | 2004  | Marxism–Leninism–Maoism | Banned  | Participant in the ongoing anti-Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan
|  | Afghanistan Liberation Organization
سازمان رهایی افغانستان | ALO  | 1973  | Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Anti-revisionism
| Marxist–Leninist Organization of Afghanistan | MLOA  | Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism |
Albania |  |  | Communist Party of Albania
Partia Komuniste e Shqipërisë | PKSh  | Qemal Cicollari  | 1991  | Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
Stalinism
Anti-revisionism | Kuvendi:

0 / 140

|  | Communist Party of Albania 8 November
Partia Komuniste e Shqipërisë 8 Nëntori | PKSh 8 Nëntori  | Preng Çuni  | 2003  | Marxism-Leninism
Reorganised Party of Labour of Albania

Partia e Punes e Shqiperise e Riorganizuar

| PPSR  | Marko Dajti  | July 4, 2007  | Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
Algeria |  |  | Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism
الحزب الجزائري للديمقراطية والاشتراكية | PADS  | Abdelhamid Benzine  | 1993  | Marxism–Leninism | People's National Assembly:

0 / 407

Council:

0 / 174

People's Provincial Assemblies:

0 / 2,004

Municipalities:

0 / 1,540

People's Municipal Assembly:

0 / 24,876

| Socialist Workers Party
حزب العمال الاشتراكي
Parti socialiste des travailleurs | SWP  |  | 1989  | Marxism
Trotskyism
Socialism
Communism
| Workers' Party

حزب العمالⴰⴽⴰⴱⴰⵔ ⵢⵅⴻⴷⴷⴰⵎⴻⵏ

| WP  | Louisa Hanoune | 1990  | Trotskyism

Communism

| People's National Assembly:

0 / 407

Council:

0 / 174

People's Provincial Assemblies:

28 / 2,004

Municipalities:

17 / 1,540

People's Municipal Assembly:

510 / 24,876

Angola |  |  | Party of the Angolan Communist Community
Partido da Comunidade Comunista Angolana | PCCA  | Baptista André José Simão  | 1994  | Marxism–Leninism | National Assembly:

0 / 220

| People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola
Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola | MPLA  | Agostinho Neto
Viriato da Cruz | 10 December 1956  | National Assembly:

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Argentina |  |  | Liberation Party
Partido de la Liberación | PL  | Sergio Ortiz  | 5 April 1965  | Chamber of Deputies:

0 / 257

Senate:

0 / 72

| Communist Party of Argentina (Extraordinary Congress)
Partido Comunista (Congreso Extraordinario) | CPA (EC)  |  | 2 December 1996
| Revolutionary Communist Party
Partido Comunista Revolucionario | RCP  | 6 January 1968  | Maoism
| Socialist Left
Izquierda Socialista | SL  | 21 September 2006  | Trotskyism
| United Socialist Workers' Party | USWP
PSTU | 2011
| Workers' Socialist Movement
Movimiento Socialista de los Trabajadores | WSM  | 1992
| Workers' Party
Partido Obrero | WP  | 1964  | Chamber of Deputies:

1 / 257

Senate:

0 / 72

| Socialist Workers' Party
Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas | SWP  | 1988  | Chamber of Deputies:

4 / 257

Senate:

0 / 72

| Workers' Left Front
Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores | WLF  | 14 April 2011  | Chamber of Deputies:

5 / 257

Senate:

0 / 72

Armenia |  |  | Armenian Communist Party
Հայաստանի կոմունիստական կուսակցություն | HKK
ՀԿԿ | Tachat Sargsyan  | 29 July 1991  | Marxism–Leninism
Pro-Russia
Euroscepticism
Soviet patriotism | National Assembly:

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|  | United Communist Party of Armenia
Հայաստանի Միավորված Կոմունիստական Կուսակցության | HMKK
ՀՄԿԿ |  | 7 July 2003  | Marxism–Leninism
Euroscepticism
| Progressive United Communist Party of Armenia
Հայաստանի Առաջադիմական Միացյալ Կոմունիստական Կուսակցություն | HAMK
ՀԱՄԿ | Vazgen Safaryan  | 28 January 1998  | Marxism–Leninism
Soviet patriotism
Australia |  |  | Communist Party of Australia (1971) | CPA  | Vinicio Molina  | 1971  | Marxism–Leninism | House of Representatives:

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Senate:

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|  | Communist Party of Australia (Marxist–Leninist) | CPA (ML)  |  | 15 March 1964  | Marxism–Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism
| Socialist Equality Party | SEP  | 2010  | Marxism
Austria |  |  | Communist Party of Austria
Kommunistische Partei Österreichs | KPO  | Günther Hopfgartner | 3 November 1918  | Marxism–Leninism
Socialism | National Council:

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Federal Council:

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| The mayor of Graz, Austria's second largest city, is a member of the KPÖ
|  | Party of Labour of Austria
Partei der Arbeit Österreichs | PdA  | Tibor Zenker  | 12 October 2013  | Marxism–Leninism
Hard Euroscepticism |
Azerbaijan |  |  | Azerbaijan Communist Party (1993)
Azərbaycan Kommunist Partiyası | AzKP  | Haji Hajiyev  | 1993  | Marxism–Leninism | National Assembly:

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|  | New Generation Communist Party of Azerbaijan
Azərbaycan Yeni Nəsil Kommunist Partiyası | AYNKP  | Niyazi Rajabov  | 2008
| United Communist Party of Azerbaijan
Azərbaycan Birləşmiş Kommunist Partiyası | AVKP  | Sayad Sayadov  | 1993
Bahrain |  |  | National Liberation Front
جبهة التحرير الوطني | NLF  |  | 15 February 1955  | Marxism–Leninism
Republicanism | Council of Representatives:

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Shura Council:

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| Led the 1965 March Intifada
|  | Progressive Democratic Tribune
جمعية المنبر الديمقراطي التقدمي | PDT  | Hassan Madan  | 14 September 2001  | Market socialism
Arab nationalism
Anti-globalization
Anti-imperialism |
Bangladesh |  |  | Communist Party of Bangladesh
বাংলাদেশের কমিউনিস্ট পার্টি | CPB  | Ruhin Hossain Prince  | 1971  | Marxism–Leninism | Jatiya Sangsad:

0 / 350

| Former member of the Bangladesh Worker's-Peasants' People's League and its coalition government
|  | Biplobi Communist Party
বিপ্লবী কমিউনিস্ট পার্টি | BCP  | Gazi Kamrul  | 1998  | Maoism | Banned  |
|  | Workers Party of Bangladesh
বাংলাদেশের ওয়ার্কার্স পার্টি | WPB  | Fazle Hossain Badsha  | 1980  | Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism | Jatiya Sangsad:

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| Parliament dissolved since 6 August 2024
|  | Socialist Party of Bangladesh
বাংলাদেশের সমাজতান্ত্রিক দল | BASAD  | Khalequzzaman  | 7 November 1980  | Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism | Jatiya Sangsad:

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|  | Revolutionary Workers Party of Bangladesh
বাংলাদেশের বিপ্লবী ওয়ার্কার্স পার্টি | RWPB  | Saiful Haque  | 14 June 2004  | Marxism–Leninism
|  | Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) (Dutta)
বাংলাদেশের সাম্যবাদী দল (মার্কসবাদী-লেনিনবাদী) | BSD-ML  | Ajoy Dutta  |  | Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
| Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) (Umar)
বাংলাদেশের সাম্যবাদী দল (মার্কসবাদী-লেনিনবাদী) | BSD-ML  | Badruddin Umar | Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
| Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party
পূর্ব বাংলার সর্বহারা পার্টি | PBSP  | Siraj Sikder | 3 June 1971  | Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
| Maoist Bolshevik Reorganisation Movement of the Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party
পূর্ববাংলার সর্বহারা পার্টি – মাওবাদী বলশেভিক পুনর্গঠন আন্দোলন | PBSP (MBRM)  |  | 2001  | Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
Anti-revisionism
| Workers Peasants Socialist Party
শ্রমিক কৃষক সমাজবাদী দল | SKSD  | 1969  | Marxism–Leninism
Revolutionary socialism
| United Communist League of Bangladesh
বাংলাদেশের ইউনাইটেড কমিউনিস্ট লীগ | UCLB  | Mosharraf Hossain Nannu  | April 2013  | Marxism–Leninism
Belarus |  |  | Belarusian Left Party "A Just World"
Беларуская партыя левых «Справядлівы свет» |  | Sergey Kalyakin | 25 October 2009  | Democratic socialism
Revolutionary nationalism
Left-wing nationalism
Socialism
Anti-Lukashenko | Banned  |
Belgium |  |  | Workers' Party of Belgium
Partij van de Arbeid van België
Parti du Travail de Belgique | PTB
PVDA  | Raoul Hedebouw | 1979  | Marxism
Feminism
Socialism | Chamber of Representatives:

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Senate:

5 / 60

|  | Communist Party of Belgium
Communistische Partij van België
Parti Communiste de Belgique | PCB  | Arne Baillière  | 1989  | Marxism–Leninism
Hard Euroscepticism | Chamber of Representatives:

0 / 150

Senate:

0 / 60

Benin |  |  | Communist Party of Benin
Parti Communiste du Bénin | PCB  | Philippe Noudjenoume  | 1977  | Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
Stalinism
Anti-revisionism | National Assembly:

0 / 83

|  | Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Benin
Parti communiste marxiste-léniniste du Bénin | PCMLB  | Magloire Yansunnu  | 1999  | Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
Bhutan |  |  | Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) | CPB (MLM)  | Comrade Umesh (nom de guerre)  | 22 April 2003  | Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
New Democratic Revolution
Republicanism | Banned  | Engaged in guerrilla warfare against the government of Bhutan, with the goal of starting a people's war
Bolivia |  |  | Communist Party of Bolivia
Partido Comunista de Bolivia | PCB  | Ignacio Mendoza  | 1950  | Marxism–Leninism | Deputies:

0 / 183

Senate:

0 / 36

| People's Revolutionary Front (Marxist−Leninist−Maoist)
Frente Revolucionario del Pueblo (Marxista–Leninista–Maoísta) | FRP-MLM  |  |  | Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Communist Party of Bolivia (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist)
Partido Comunista de Bolivia (Marxista-Leninista-Maoísta) | PCB-MLM  | Luis Alberto Echazú  | 1983  | Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Revolutionary Workers' Party

Partido Obrero Revolucionario

| POR  |  | December 1935  | Trotskyism
Bosnia and Herzegovina |  | Workers' Communist Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Radničko-komunistička partija Bosne i Hercegovine / Радничко-комунистичка партија Босне и Херцеговине | RKP-Bih / РКП-БиХ  | Goran Marković | 2000  | Luxemburgism
Workers' self-management
Anti-nationalism
Yugoslavism | House of Representatives:

0 / 42

House of Peoples:

0 / 15

| Communist Party
Komunistička partija / Комунистичка партија | KP / КП  | Muhamed Imamović  | 21 February 2012  | Democratic socialism
Yugo-nostalgia
Botswana |  |  | Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin Movement | MELS  | Mosalage Ditshoto  | 1994  | Marxism–Leninism
Maoism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Pan-Africanism | Parliament:

0 / 63

Brazil |  |  | Communist Party of Brazil
Partido Comunista do Brasil | PCdoB  | Luciana Santos | 23 June 1988  | Marxism–Leninism | Chamber of Deputies:

8 / 513

Federal Senate:

0 / 81

|  | Brazilian Communist Party
Partido Comunista Brasileiro | PCB  | Edmilson Costa | 25 March 1922  | Chamber of Deputies:

0 / 513

Federal Senate:

0 / 81

|  | United Socialist Workers' Party
Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores Unificado | PSTU  | Zé Maria | 5 June 1994  | Trotskyism
Morenism
|  | Workers' Cause Party
Partido da Causa Operária | PCO  | Rui Costa Pimenta | 7 December 1995  | Marxism
Trotskyism
Social libertarianism
Anti-imperialism
|  | Revolutionary Communist Party
Partido Comunista Revolucionário | PCR  |  | May 1966  | Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Guevarism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
Foco theory | Not registered in Brazil's Superior Electoral Court
Bulgaria |  |  | Bulgarian Communist Party
Българска комунистическа партия | BKP  | Zonka Zlatkova Spasov  | 1990  | Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Anti-revisionism | National Assembly:

0 / 240

| Communist Party of Bulgaria
Комунистическа Партия на България | CPB  | Aleksandar Paunov | 1996  | Marxism–Leninism
| Party of the Bulgarian Communists
Партия на Българските комунисти | PBK  | Collective leadership | 15 July 2006
| Union of Communists in Bulgaria
Съюз на Комунистите в България | SKB  | Pavel Ivanov  | 1995  | Marxism
|  | Bulgarian Workers' Party

Българска работническа партия

| BRP  | Ivan Vodenicharski  | 2000  | Marxism–Leninism

Stalinism

Burkina Faso |  |  | Party for Democracy and Socialism/Metba
Parti pour la démocratie et le socialisme/Metba | PDS/

Metba

| Hama Arba Diallo  | 31 March 2012  | Socialism | National Assembly:

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|  | Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party
Parti communiste révolutionnaire voltaïque | PCRV  |  | 1 October 1978  | Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism | National Assembly:

0 / 127

Canada |  |  | Communist Party of Canada
Parti communiste du Canada | CPC
PCC  | Elizabeth Rowley | 28 May 1921  | Marxism–Leninism | House of Commons:

0 / 338

Senate:

0 / 105

|  | Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist)
Parti communiste du Canada (marxiste–léniniste) | CPC (ML)
PCC (ML)  | Anna Di Carlo  | 31 March 1970  | Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Maoism (1970–1977)
Hoxhaism (1977–1990)
| Communist Party of Quebec

Parti communiste du Québec

| CPQ

PCQ

| Adrien Welsh  | 1965  | Marxism–Leninism |
China |  |  | Maoist Communist Party of China
中国毛泽东主义共产党 | MCPC  | Ma Houzhi  | 28 November 2008  | Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Anti-revisionism | Banned  | De facto banned in China due to not being a member of the United Front.
|  | Revolutionary Communist Party of China
中国革命共产党 | RCPC  |  | September 1948  | Marxism
Trotskyism | Legislative Council:

0 / 183

| Active in Hong Kong. Participant in the 1970s Hong Kong student protests.
Colombia |  |  | Communist Party of Colombia (Marxist–Leninist)
Partido Comunista de Colombia (Marxista-Leninista) | PCdeC (M-L)  | 1965  | Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
Stalinism
Anti-revisionism |  |
|  | Colombian Communist Party – Maoist
Partido Comunista de Colombia – Maoista | PCC-M  | 7 August 2001  | Marxism–Leninism–Maoism |
|  | Revolutionary Communist Group
Grupo Comunista Revolucionario | GCR  | 1982  | Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism |
|  | Revolutionary Independent Labour Movement
Movimiento Obrero Independiente y Revolucionario | MOIR  | Gustavo Triana  | 1970  | Maoism
Marxism-Leninism
New Democracy
Francisco Mosquera Thought |
Costa Rica |  |  | People's Vanguard Party
Partido Vanguardia Popular | PVP  | Humberto Vargas Carbonell  | 16 June 1931  | Marxism–Leninism | Legislative Assembly:

0 / 57

| Banned from 1949 to 1975
Ivory Coast |  |  | Revolutionary Communist Party of Ivory Coast
Parti Communiste Révolutionnaire de Côte d'Ivoire | PCRCI  | Achy Ekissi  | 1990  | Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism |  |
Croatia |  |  | Socialist Labour Party of Croatia
Socijalistička radnička partija Hrvatske | SRP  | Kristofor Stokić  | 25 October 1997  | Titoism
Democratic socialism | Sabor:

0 / 151

|  | Workers Front
Radnička fronta | RF  | Collective leadership | 9 May 2014  | Democratic socialism
Social progressivism
Anti-fascism
Anti-clericalism
Left-wing populism | Sabor:

1 / 151

Cyprus |  |  | Progressive Party of Working People
Ανορθωτικό Κόμμα Εργαζόμενου Λαού
Emekçi Halkın İlerici Partisi | AKEL  | Stefanos Stefanou | 15 August 1926  | Marxism–Leninism
Cypriot nationalism
Federalism
Soft euroscepticism | House of Representatives

15 / 56

| Won the 2008 election and ruled until 2013
Czech Republic |  |  | Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
Komunistická strana Čech a Moravy | KSČM  | Kateřina Konečná | 31 March 1990  | Marxism
Euroscepticism
Socialism
Anti-capitalism
Anti-fascism | Chamber of Deputies:

0 / 200

Senate:

0 / 81

| Czech successor to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Served as confidence and supply to the second government of Andrej Babiš in 2018.
Denmark |  |  | Communist Party of Denmark
Danmarks Kommunistiske Parti | DKP  | Henrik Stamer Hedin | 9 November 1919  | Marxism–Leninism | Folketing:

0 / 179

|  | Communist Party
Kommunistisk Parti | KP  | Lotte Rørtoft-Madsen  | 2006  | Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Factions:
Hoxhaism
|  | Workers' Communist Party
Arbejderpartiet Kommunisterne | APK  | Dorte Grenaa  | April 2000  | Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
|  | Communist Party in Denmark
Kommunistisk Parti i Danmark | KPiD  | Rikke G.F. Carlsson  | 1990  | Marxism–Leninism
Dominican Republic |  |  | Communist Party of Labour
Partido Comunista del Trabajo | PCT  | Manuel Salazar  | 1980  | Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism | Chamber of Deputies:

0 / 190

Senate:

0 / 32

Donetsk People's Republic |  |  | Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic
Коммунистическая партия Донецкой Народной Республики | CPDPR
КПДНР | Boris Litvinov  | 8 October 2014  | Marxism–Leninism
Soviet patriotism
Left-wing nationalism | People's Council:

0 / 100

Timor-Leste |  |  | Socialist Party of Timor
Partido Socialista de Timor | PST  | Avelino Coelho da Silva  | 11 February 1997  | Marxism–Leninism | National Parliament:

0 / 65

Ecuador |  |  | Communist Party of Ecuador
Partido Comunista del Ecuador | PCE  | Winston Alarcón Elizalde  | 23 May 1926  | National Assembly:

0 / 137

|  | Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador
Partido Comunista Marxista-Leninista del Ecuador | PCMLE  | Oswaldo Palacios  | 1 August 1964  | Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
|  | Workers' Party of Ecuador
Partido de los Trabajadores del Ecuador | PTE  |  | 1996  | Marxism-Leninism | Not registered with Ecuador's National Electoral Council
|  | Communist Party of Ecuador – Red Sun
Partido Comunista de Ecuador – Sol Rojo | PCE-SR  | 1 June 1987  | Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
Gonzalo Thought
Anti-revisionism
Revolutionary socialism | Banned  | Engaged in minor guerrilla warfare against the government of Ecuador, with the goal of starting a people's war
Egypt |  |  | Egyptian Communist Party
الحزب الشيوعي المصري | ECP  | Salah Adli | 1975  | Marxism–Leninism | House of Representatives:

0 / 596

Senate:

0 / 300

|  | Revolutionary Socialists
الاشتراكيون الثوريون | RS  | Collective leadership | 1995  | Trotskyism
| Workers Democratic Party
حزب العمال الديمقراطي | WDR  |  | 2011  | Labourism
Socialism
Anti-Zionism
El Salvador |  |  | Communist Party of El Salvador
Partido Comunista de El Salvador | PCS  | 27 March 2005  | Marxism–Leninism | Legislative Assembly:

0 / 84

Estonia |  |  | Communist Party of Estonia
Eestimaa Kommunistlik Partei | EKP  | vacant | 26 March 1990  | Marxism–Leninism
Soviet patriotism | Banned  | Banned in Estonia following the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, continues to operate underground
Eswatini |  |  | Communist Party of Swaziland | CPS  | Thokozane Kenneth  | 9 April 2011  | Marxism–Leninism
Republicanism | Participant in the 2021–2023 Eswatini protests
Ethiopia |  |  | All-Ethiopia Socialist Movement
መላ ኢትዮጵያ ሶሻሊስት ንቅናቄ | MEISON  |  | 1968  | Marxism–Leninism | House of Peoples' Representatives:

0 / 547

House of Federation:

0 / 112

| Supported and participated in the 1974 Ethiopian Revolution. Initially supported the Derg government, though later broke with Mengistu Haile Mariam's leadership during the Red Terror and was forced underground. Resumed legal activity following the end of the Ethiopian Civil War.
Finland |  |  | Communist Party of Finland
Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue | SKP  | Juha-Pekka Väisänen | 1984  | Marxism–Leninism | Parliament :

0 / 200

|  | Communist Workers' Party – For Peace and Socialism
Kommunistinen Työväenpuolue – Rauhan ja Sosialismin puolesta | KTP  | Mikko Vartiainen  | 1988  | Marxism–Leninism
Hard Euroscepticism
| League of Communists
Kommunistien Liitto | KL  | Kalevi Wahrman  | 14 September 2002  | Marxism–Leninism
France |  |  | French Communist Party
Parti communiste français | PCF  | Fabien Roussel | 30 December 1920  | Eurocommunism
Soft Euroscepticism | National Assembly:

12 / 577

Senate:

14 / 348

|  | Lutte Ouvrière | LO  | Nathalie Arthaud | 1956  | Trotskyism
Anti-capitalism | National Assembly:

0 / 577

Senate:

0 / 348

|  | New Anticapitalist Party
Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste | NPA  | Collective leadership | 8 February 2009  | Trotskyism
Alter-globalisation
|  | Pole of Communist Revival in France
Pôle de renaissance communiste en France | PRCF  | Léon Landini  | January 2004  | Marxism-Leninism
Left-wing nationalism
Hard Euroscepticism
|  | Workers' Communist Party of France
Parti communiste des ouvriers de France | PCOF  | Collective leadership | 1979  | Marxism-Leninism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
|  | Marxist–Leninist Communist Organization – Proletarian Way
Organisation communiste marxiste-léniniste – Voie prolétarienne | OCML-VP  |  | September 1976  | Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
| Revolutionary Left
Gauche révolutionnaire | GR  | 1992  | Marxism
Trotskyism
Georgia |  |  | Communist Party of Georgia
საქართველოს კომუნისტური პარტია | SKP
სკპ | 1992  | Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism | Parliament:

0 / 150

|  | Unified Communist Party of Georgia
საქართველოს ერთიანი კომუნისტური პარტია | SEKP
სეკპ | Nugzar Shalvovich Avaliani  | June 1994  | Marxism–Leninism
Soviet patriotism
|  | New Communist Party of Georgia
საქართველოს ახალი კომუნისტური პარტია | SAKP
საკპ |  | 2001  | Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Germany |  |  | German Communist Party
Deutsche Kommunistische Partei | DKP  | Patrik Köbele | 1968  | Marxism-Leninism | Bundestag:

0 / 709

|  | Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany
Marxistisch-Leninistische Partei Deutschlands | MLPD  | Gabi Fechtner  | 1982  | Marxism-Leninism
Greece |  |  | Communist Party of Greece
Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας | KKE
KKE | Dimitris Koutsoumpas | 17 November 1918  | Marxism-Leninism
Anti-imperialism
Hard Euroscepticism | Hellenic Parliament:

26 / 300

| Banned by the government of Greece from 1936 to 1974. Led the PEEA during World War II and the Provisional Democratic Government and DAG during the Greek Civil War.
|  | Marxist Leninist Communist Party of Greece
Μαρξιστικό-Λενινιστικό Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας | M-L KKE
Μ-Λ ΚΚΕ | Collective leadership | November 1976  | Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Euroscepticism | Hellenic Parliament:

0 / 300

|  | Communist Party of Greece (Marxist–Leninist)
Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας (μαρξιστικο-λενινιστικό) | KKE (m–l)
ΚΚΕ (μ-λ) | Grigoris Konstantopoulos  | November 1976  | Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Hoxhaism
Euroscepticism
|  | Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece
Οργάνωση για την Ανασυγκρότηση του Κομουνιστικού Κόμματος Ελλάδας | OAKKE
OAKKE | Elias Zafiropoulos.  | 20 July 1985  | Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
|  | Movement for the Reorganization of the Communist Party of Greece 1918–1955
Κίνηση για την Ανασύνταξη του Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας 1918–1955) | Anasintaxi
Ανασύνταξη | Tasos Mpallos  | 1996  | Marxism-Leninism
Stalinism
Hoxhaism
Zachariadism
Anti-revisionism
|  | Communist Renewal
Κομμουνιστική Ανανέωση | KA
KA | Collective leadership | 2000  | Marxism
Euroscepticism
|  | Left Anti-capitalist Group
Αριστερή Αντικαπιταλιστική Συσπείρωση | AR.A.S
ΑΡ.Α.Σ | 1998  | Maoism
Anti-capitalism
|  | Left Group
Αριστερή Συσπείρωση | ARI.S
ΑΡΙ.Σ | 25 October 2012  | Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-capitalism
Anti-revisionism
|  | Left Recomposition
Αριστερή Ανασύνθεση | AR.ΑΝ
ΑΡ.ΑΝ |  | 2003  | Maoism
Anti-capitalism
|  | New Left Current
Νέο Αριστερό Ρεύμα | NAR
ΝΑΡ | Collective leadership | 1989  | New Left
Anti-capitalism
|  | Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece
Επαναστατικό Κομμουνιστικό Κίνημα Ελλάδας | EKKE
EKKE | 1970  | Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Guadeloupe |  |  | Guadeloupe Communist Party
Parti communiste guadeloupéen | PCG  | Alain-Félix Flémin  | 30 March 1958  | Marxism
Guadeloupean autonomy | National Assembly:

0 / 577

Senate:

0 / 348

Guatemala |  |  | Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity
Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca | URNG-MAIZ  | Gregorio Chay  | 7 February 1982  | Left-wing nationalism
Socialism
Indigenismo
Christian socialism
Anti-capitalism | Congress:

3 / 160

| Founded as an umbrella organization uniting leftist militant groups active in the Guatemalan Civil War. Laid down arms in 1996 and became a legally registered party in 1998.
Haiti |  |  | New Haitian Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist)
Nouveau Parti Communiste Haïtien (Marxiste–Léniniste) | NPCH(ML)  | Vania Lubin  | 2000  | Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism | Chamber of Deputies:

0 / 119

Senate:

0 / 30

Hungary |  |  | Hungarian Workers' Party
Magyar Munkáspárt | MMP  | Gyula Thürmer | 17 December 1989  | Marxism-Leninism
Euroscepticism | National Assembly:

0 / 199

|  | Workers' Party of Hungary 2006 – European Left
Magyarországi Munkáspárt 2006 – Európai Baloldal | EB  | Attila Vajnai  | November 2005  | Marxism
Eurocommunism | National Assembly:

0 / 199

India |  |  | Communist Party of India | CPI  | D. Raja | 26 December 1925  | Marxism–Leninism | Lok Sabha:

2 / 543

Rajya Sabha:

2 / 245

|  | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | CPI(M)  | Sitaram Yechury | 7 November 1964  | Marxism–Leninism | Lok Sabha:

4 / 543

Rajya Sabha:

5 / 245

|  | Revolutionary Socialist Party | RSP  | Manoj Bhattacharya  | 19 March 1940  | Marxism–Leninism
Trotskyism | Lok Sabha:

1 / 543

Rajya Sabha:

0 / 245

|  | Revolutionary Communist Party of India | RCPI  | Biren Deka | 1 August 1934  | Marxism-Leninism
Anti-Stalinism | Lok Sabha:

0 / 543

Rajya Sabha:

0 / 245

|  | All India Forward Bloc | AIFB  | Debabrata Biswas | 22 June 1939  | Marxism
Left-wing nationalism
Socialism
Anti-imperialism
|  | Marxist Forward Bloc | MFB  | Jaihind Singh  | 12 November 1953  | Marxism
Left-wing populism
| Bolshevik Party of India | BPI  |  | 1939  | Marxism–Leninism
|  | Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation | CPI(ML)L  | Dipankar Bhattacharya | 1974  | Marxism–Leninism
Maoism
Naxalism | Lok Sabha:

2 / 543

Rajya Sabha:

0 / 245

|  | Revolutionary Socialist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist)  | RSPI(ML)  |  | 1969  | Marxism–Leninism | Lok Sabha:

0 / 543

Rajya Sabha:

0 / 245

|  | Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) | SUCI(C)  | Provash Ghosh | 24 April 1948  | Shibdas Ghosh Thought
Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
|  | Revolutionary Marxist Party of India | RMPI  | Mangat Ram Pasla | 2016  | Marxism–Leninism
|  | Communist Marxist Party | CMP  | C. P. John | 1986  | Marxism–Leninism
Marxism
Luxemburgism
|  | Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) New Democracy | CPIML ND  | Yatendra Kumar  | 1988  | Naxalism
New Democracy
Maoism
|  | Communist Party of India (Maoist) | CPI (Maoist)  | Nambala Keshava Rao | 21 September 2004  | Naxalism
Marxism–Leninism–Maoism | Banned  | Leading the ongoing Naxalite–Maoist insurgency, designated a terrorist organization by the government of India
Iran |  |  | Tudeh Party of Iran
حزب تودۀ ایران |  | Collective leadership | 2 October 1941  | Marxism-Leninism
Stalinism
Left-wing nationalism
Anti-revisionism |
|  | Komalah
کۆمەڵە ڕێکخراوی کوردستانی حیزبی کۆمۆنیستی ئێران
کومله سازمان کردستان حزب کمونیست ایران | Ibrahim Alizade | 1984  | Marxism-Leninism
Internationalism
Kurdish minority interests  | Kurdish branch of CPI, designated a terrorist organization by the government of Iran
| Communist Party of Iran
حزب کمونیست ایران | CPI  | Collective leadership | 2 September 1983  | Marxism-Leninism
Revolutionary socialism |
| Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan
کومله زحمتکشان کردستان
کۆمه‌ڵه‌ی زه‌حمه‌تکیشانی کوردستان | KTK  | Omar Ilkhanizade  | 2007  | Marxism-Leninism
Communism |
| Worker's Way
راه کارگر | WW  |  | 1978  |
Workers Left Unity – Iran | WLU-I  |
Laborers' Party of Iran
حزب رنجبران ایران | LPI  | 1979  | Maoism |
Labour Party of Iran
حزب کار ایران | 1965  | Marxism-Leninism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism |
Communist Party of Iran (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist)
حزب کمونیست ایران (مارکسیست-لنینیست-مائوئیست) | CPI (MLM)  | 2001  | Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
New Synthesis
Secularism
Worker-communist Party of Iran
حزب کمونیست کارگری ایران | WPI  | Hamid Taqvaee  | 1991  | Workerism
Marxism
Third camp
Worker-communist Party of Iran – Hekmatist
حزب کمونیست کارگری ایران-حکمتیست | WPI-Hekmatist  | Jamal Kamangar  | 2004  | Workerism
Fedaian Organisation (Minority)
سازمان فدائیان (اقليت) | FO  | Akbar Kāmyābi  | March 1987  | Marxism-Leninism | Split from the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas (Minority)
Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas (1985)
سازمان چریک‌های فدایی خلق ایران | OIPFG  | Ḥosayn Zohari  | 1985
Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas – Followers of the Identity Platform
سازمان چریک‌های فدایی خلق ایران – پیرو برنامه هویت | OIPFG – FIP  | Mehdi Sāmeʿ  | 1983
| Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas
چریک‌های فدایی خلق ایران | IFPG  | Ashraf Dehghani | 1979  | Participant in the 1979 Kurdish rebellion
| Socialist Workers' Party of Iran
حزب کارگران سوسیالیست ایران | SWPI  | Babak Zahraei  | Trotskyism |
Iraq |  |  | Iraqi Communist Party
الحزب الشيوعي العراقي | ICP  | Raid Jahid Fahmi | 31 March 1934  | Marxism
Leninism
Classical Marxism
Reformism
Secularism
Nonsectarianism | Council of Representatives:

0 / 329

| Operated underground in the Kingdom of Iraq (from 1934 to 1958) and Ba'athist Iraq (from 1963 to 2003). Supported the 14 July Revolution and the government of Abd al-Karim Qasim.
|  | Movement of the Democratic People of Kurdistan
بزووتنەوەی دیموکراتی گەلی کوردستان | MDPK  | Mam Xidir  | 1994  | Marxism | Council of Representatives:

0 / 329

Kurdistan Parliament:

0 / 111

| Worker-communist Party of Iraq
الحزب الشيوعي العمالي العراقي |  | Amir Adil  | July 1993  | Marxism
Workerism
Third camp | Council of Representatives:

0 / 329

| Left Worker-communist Party of Iraq
الحزب الشيوعي العمالي اليساري العراقي | Issam Shukri  | 2004  | Trotskyism
Workerism
Third camp
| Communist Party of Kurdistan – Iraq
حزبي شيوعى كوردستان – عيراق
الحزب الشيوعي الكوردستاني – العراق | Kawa Mahmud  | 1993  | Marxism-Leninism
Kurdish nationalism
Nonsectarianism | Council of Representatives:

0 / 329

Kurdistan Parliament:

1 / 111

| Regional party active in Kurdistan
|  | Worker-communist Party of Kurdistan
حزبی کۆمۆنستی کرێکاریی کوردستان
الحزب الشيوعي العمالي في كوردستان | Osman Hajy Marouf  | 2008  | Marxism
Workerism
Third camp | Council of Representatives:

0 / 329

Kurdistan Parliament:

0 / 111

Ireland |  |  | Workers' Party
Páirtí na nOibrithe | Collective leadership | 28 November 1905  | Marxism-Leninism
Irish republicanism | Dáil Éireann:

0 / 160

Seanad Éireann:

0 / 60

|  | Communist Party of Ireland
Páirtí Cumannach na hÉireann | CPI  | Janelle McAteer  | 3–4 June 1933  | Marxism-Leninism
Hard Euroscepticism | Dáil Éireann:

0 / 160

Seanad Éireann:

0 / 60

|  | Irish Republican Socialist Party
Páirtí Poblachtach Sóisalach na hÉireann | IRSP  | Collective leadership (Ard Comhairle)  | 8 December 1974  | Marxism-Leninism
Irish republicanism
Anti-globalisation
Hard Euroscepticism | Dáil Éireann:

0 / 160

Seanad Éireann:

0 / 60

Israel |  |  | The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality
החזית הדמוקרטית לשלום ולשוויון‎‎
الجبهة الديمقراطية للسلاموالمساواة | Hadash
חד״ש‎
حداش | Ayman Odeh | 15 March 1977  | Marxism-Leninism
Communism
Two-state solution
Non-Zionism
Israeli Arab interests  | Knesset:

4 / 120

| Formed from a merger of Rakah, the Black Panthers, and Moked. Formerly part of the Joint List.
|  | Communist Party of Israel
המפלגה הקומוניסטית הישראלית
الحزب الشيوعي الاسرائيلي | Maki
מק״י‎
ماكي | Collective leadership | 1 September 1965  | Marxism-Leninism
Alter-globalization
Anti-Zionism | Knesset:

2 / 120

| Merged into Hadash in 1977 and as of 2022 its largest faction.
|  | Da'am Workers Party
דעם מפלגת פועלים
حزب دعم العمالي | Da'am
דע"ם
دعم | Collective leadership | 1995  | Secularism
Marxism
Revolutionary socialism
Postnationalism
Non-Zionism
One-state solution | Knesset:

0 / 120

Italy |  |  | Communist Refoundation Party
Partito della Rifondazione Comunista | PRC  | Maurizio Acerbo | 6 January 1991  | Anti-imperialism
Soft Euroscepticism | Chamber of Deputies:

0 / 400

Senate:

0 / 206

|  | Italian Communist Party
Partito Comunista Italiano | PCI  | Mauro Alboresi  | 26 June 2016  | Marxism-Leninism
Anti-imperialism
Euroscepticism
|  | Italian Marxist–Leninist Party
Partito Marxista-Leninista Italiano | PMLI  | Giovanni Scuderi | April 1977  | Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism
|  | Communist Party
Partito Comunista | PC  | Marco Rizzo | 3 July 2009  | Marxism-Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Hard Euroscepticism
Sovereigntism
|  | Communist Alternative Party
Partito di Alternativa Comunista | PdAC  | Francesco Ricci  | 7 January 2007  | Trotskyism
Japan |  |  | Japanese Communist Party
日本共産党 | JCP  | Tomoko Tamura | 15 July 1922  | Scientific socialism
Progressivism
Pacifism
Democratic socialism | Representatives:

10 / 465

Councillors:

11 / 248

| Banned in 1925 under the Peace Preservation Law. Legalized by the Allied military occupation following Japan's military defeat in World War II.
|  | Japanese Communist Party (Action Faction)
日本共産党 (行動派) |  | 1980  | Marxism-Leninism
Stalinism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism | Representatives:

0 / 465

Councillors:

0 / 248

| Japanese Communist Party (Left Faction)
日本共産党 (左派) | 1969  | Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Jordan |  |  | Jordanian Communist Party
الحزب الشیوعی الاردني | JCP  | Faraj Al-Tameezi  | 1948  | Marxism-Leninism
Republicanism | House of Representatives:

0 / 130

Senate:

0 / 75

|  | Jordanian Democratic People's Party
حزب الشعب الديمقراطي الأردني | HASHD  |  | 1989  | Marxism-Leninism
Palestinian nationalism
Anti-Zionism
Left-wing nationalism
Secularism
Kazakhstan |  | Communist Party of Kazakhstan
Қазақстан Коммунистік партиясы / Qazaqstan Kommunistık Partiasy
Коммунистическая партия Казахстана | ҚКП / QKP
КПК | Toleubek Makhzhanov  | 16 October 1991  | Marxism-Leninism
Soviet patriotism | Banned
| Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan
Қазақстанның Социалистік Қозғалысы / Qazaqstannıñ Socïalïstik Qozğalısı
Социалистическое Движение Казахстана | ҚСҚ / QSQ
СДК | Ainur Kurmanov  | 20–21 May 2006  | Marxism-Leninism
Kenya |  |  | Communist Party of Kenya | CPK  | Mwandawiro Mgangah[3] | 1992  | Marxism–Leninism
Pan-Africanism
Maoism
Social democracy (until 2019) | National Assembly:

0 / 349

Senate:

0 / 67

Kuwait |  |  | Kuwaiti Progressive Movement
الحركة التقدمية الكويتية |  | Anti-capitalism
Anti-imperialism
Socialism
Marxism-Leninism | National Assembly:

0 / 64

Kyrgyzstan |  |  | Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan
Кыргызстан Коммунисттеринин Партиясы
Партия Коммунистов Киргизии | PKK
ПКК | Iskhak Masaliyev  | 22 June 1992  | Marxism-Leninism
Soviet patriotism | Supreme Council:

0 / 90

|  | Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan
Кыргызстан Коммунисттик партиясы
Коммунистическая Партия Киргизстана | KPK
КПК | Clara Azhibekovna  | 29 August 1999  | Marxism-Leninism | Supreme Council:

0 / 90

Latvia |  | Socialist Party of Latvia
Latvijas Sociālistiskā partija | LSP  | Vladimirs Frolovs  | 15 January 1994  | Marxism-Leninism | Saeima:

0 / 100

Lebanon |  |  | Lebanese Communist Party
الحزب الشيوعي اللبناني
Parti communiste libanais | LCP
PCL | Hanna Gharib | 1924  | Marxism-Leninism
Nonsectarianism
Socialism
Anti-Zionism | Parliament:

1 / 128

| Toilers League
رابطة الشغيلة
Ligue des Travailleurs | TL
LDT | Zaher el-Khatib | 1960s  | Marxism–Leninism | Parliament:

0 / 128

Arab Socialist Action Party – Lebanon
حزب العمل الاشتراكي العربي – لبنان
Parti d’action socialiste arabe – Liban | ASAP-L
PASA-L | George Habash | 1969  | Marxism
| Revolutionary Communist Group
المجموعة الشيوعية الثورية
Groupe communiste révolutionnaire | RCG
GCR | Collective leadership | 1970  | Trotskyism
| Communist Action Organization in Lebanon
منظمة العمل الشيوعي في لبنان‎
Organisation de l'Action Communiste du Liban | CAOL
OACL | Zaki Taha  | Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Lesotho |  |  | Communist Party of Lesotho
Mokhatlo oa Makomonisi a Lesotho
| CPL  | Manny Stevenson  | 5 May 1962  | Marxism-Leninism | National Assembly:

0 / 120

Senate:

0 / 33

Lithuania |  | Socialist People's Front
Socialistinis liaudies frontas
| SLF  | Giedrius Grabauskas  | 2009  | Marxism-Leninism
Democratic socialism
Left-wing nationalism
Socialism | Seimas:

0 / 141

|  | Communist Party of Lithuania
Lietuvos komunistų partija | LKP  | vacant | 1 October 1918  | Marxism-Leninism
Soviet patriotism | Banned  | Banned in Lithuania following the 1991 Soviet coup attempt, continues to operate underground
Luxembourg |  |  | Communist Party of Luxembourg
Kommunistesch Partei vu Lëtzebuerg
Parti Communiste Luxembourgeois
Kommunistische Partei Luxemburgs | KPL
PCL  | Ali Ruckert  | 2 January 1921  | Marxism-Leninism
Hard Euroscepticism | Chamber of Deputies:

0 / 60

Madagascar |  |  | Congress Party for the Independence of Madagascar
Antoko'ny Kongresi'ny Fahaleovantenan'i Madagasikara | AKFM  |  | 8 November 1958  | Marxism | National Assembly:

0 / 151

Senate:

0 / 18

| Member of the ruling National Front for the Defense of the Revolution from 1976 to 1989
Mali |  | Malian Party of Labour
Parti malien du travail | PMT  | 1965  | Marxism-Leninism
Hoxhaism | National Assembly:

0 / 147

| Member of ADEMA since 1990
| African Solidarity for Democracy and Independence
Solidarité Africaine pour la Démocratie et l'Indépendance | SADI  | Oumar Mariko | 1996  | Marxism-Leninism
Pan-Africanism | National Assembly:

3 / 147

Malta |  | Communist Party of Malta
Partit Komunista Malti | PKM  | Victor Degiovanni  | 1969  | Marxism-Leninism | House of Representatives:

0 / 79

Martinique |  | Martinican Communist Party
Parti communiste martiniquais | PCM  | Georges Erichot  | September 1957  | Autonomism | Assembly of Martinique:

0 / 51

|  | Communist Party for Independence and Socialism
Parti Communiste pour l'Indépendance et le Socialisme
Pati Kominis pou Lendépandans èk Sosyalism | PCLS
PKLS  |  | 22 May 1984  | Marxism–Leninism
Martinican independence
Mexico |  | Popular Socialist Party | PSP  | 1948  | Marxism–Leninism | Chamber of Deputies:

0 / 500

Senate of the Republic:

0 / 128

|  | Popular Socialist Party of Mexico
Partido Popular Socialista de México | PPSM  | Cuauhtémoc Amezcua Dromundo  | 1997  | Marxism–Leninism
Anti-imperialism
Latin American integration | Not registered or recognized by the INE
|  | Workers' Revolutionary Party
Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores | WRP  |  | 2009  | Trotskyism | Dissolved in 1996, revived in 2009
|  | Communist Party of Mexico
Partido Comunista de México | PCM  | Pável Blanco Cabrera  | 20 November 1994  | Marxism–Leninism |
|  | Communist Party of Mexico (Marxist–Leninist)
Partido Comunista de México (Marxista-Leninista) | PCM (ML)  |  | 1978  | Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
|  | Communists' Party
Partido de los Comunistas | PdelosC  | Luis Alfonso Vargas Silva  | 2003  | Marxism–Leninism
Moldova |  |  | Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova
Partidul Comuniștilor din Republica Moldova | PCRM  | Vladimir Voronin | 22 October 1993  | Marxism–Leninism
Social conservatism
Soviet patriotism
Moldovenism
Pro-Russia | Parliament:

8 / 101

| Member of BECS
Montenegro |  |  | Yugoslav Communist Party of Montenegro
Jugoslovenska komunistička partija
Југословенска комунистичка партија | JKP CG / ЈКП-ЦГ  | Radislav Stanišić  | 25 September 2009  | Titoism
Pensioners' rights
Yugo-nostalgia | Parliament:

0 / 81

Morocco |  |  | Democratic Way
النهج الديمقراطي |  | Abdallah El Harif  | 1995  | Marxism
Anti-imperialism
Anti-revisionism
Hoxhaism | House of Representatives:

0 / 395

House of Councillors:

0 / 120

Myanmar |  |  | Communist Party of Burma
ဗမာပြည်ကွန်မြူနစ်ပါတီ | CPB  |  | 15 August 1939  | Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Federalism | Banned  | Led an insurgency from 1948 to 1989. Rearmed in 2021 and currently engaged in guerrilla warfare against the SAC
Namibia |  |  | Workers Revolutionary Party | WRP  | Collective leadership | May 1989  | Trotskyism | National Assembly:

0 / 104

National Council:

0 / 42

Nepal |  |  | Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (एकीकृत मार्क्सवादी-लेनिनवादी) | CPN (UML)
नेकपा (एमाले) | K. P. Sharma Oli | 6 January 1991 (1991-01-06) | Marxism–Leninism
People's Multiparty Democracy | House of Representatives:

78 / 275

National Assembly:

17 / 59

| Merged with the CPN (MC) to form the NCP in 2018, refounded in 2021
|  | Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist)
नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (मार्क्सवादी-लेनिनवादी) | CPN (ML)  | C. P. Mainali | 17 February 2002  | Marxism-Leninism | House of Representatives:

0 / 275

National Assembly:

0 / 59

|  | Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party
नेपाल मजदुर किसान पार्टी | NWPP  | Narayan Man Bijukchhe | 23 January 1975  | Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Juche | House of Representatives:

1 / 275

National Assembly:

0 / 59

|  | Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist)
नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (मार्क्सवादी) |  | Durga Prasad Gyawali  | 2006  | Marxism-Leninism | House of Representatives:

0 / 275

National Assembly:

0 / 59

|  | Communist Party of Nepal (Revolutionary Maoist)
नेपाल कम्यूनिष्ट पार्टी (क्रान्तिकारी माओवादी) | CPN (RM)  | Mohan Baidya | 19 June 2012  | Marxism-Leninism-Maoism | Operates underground and participates in elections through a front organization; the Patriotic People's Republican Front
Netherlands |  |  | New Communist Party of the Netherlands
Nieuwe Communistische Partij Nederlan | NCPN  | Job Pruijser  | 14 November 1992  | Marxism–Leninism
Euroscepticism | House of Representatives:

0 / 150

Senate:

0 / 75

|  | United Communist Party
Verenigde Communistische Partij | VCP  | Engel Modderman | 1999  | Marxism–Leninism | House of Representatives:

0 / 150

Senate:

0 / 75

|  | Group of Marxist–Leninists/Red Dawn
Groep Marxisten-Lenisten/Rode Morgen | GML/Rode Morgen  | Jeroen Toussaint  | 1977  | Marxism–Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism | House of Representatives:

0 / 150

Senate:

0 / 75

New Zealand |  |  | Communist League | The League  |  | 1969  | Marxism–Leninism | House of Representatives:

0 / 120

Nicaragua |  | Communist Party of Nicaragua
Partido Comunista de Nicaragua | PCdeN; PCN  | 12 October 1967  | Marxism–Leninism | National Assembly:

0 / 90

| Marxist–Leninist Popular Action Movement
Movimiento de Acción Popular – Marxista–Leninista | MAP-ML  | 1972  | Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
North Macedonia |  | Communist Party of Macedonia–Tito's Forces
Комунистичка партија на Македонија — Титови сили | KPM-TS
КПМ—ТС | Goran Arsovski  | 26 October 2005  | Marxism-Leninism
Titoism | Assembly:

0 / 120

Norway |  |  | Communist Party of Norway
Norges Kommunistiske Parti | NKP  | Runa Evensen  | 4 November 1923  | Marxism-Leninism
Hard Euroscepticism | Storting:

0 / 169

|  | Red Party
Rødt | R  | Bjørnar Moxnes | 11 March 2007  | Democratic socialism
Revolutionary socialism
Marxism | Storting:

8 / 169

Pakistan |  |  | Communist Party of Pakistan
کمیونسٹ پارٹی آف پاکستان | CPP  | Imdad Qazi  | 6 March 1948  | Marxism-Leninism | National Assembly:

0 / 342

Senate:

0 / 100

| Not registered with the Election Commission of Pakistan
|  | Mazdoor Kisan Party
مزدور کسان پارٹی | MKP  | Afzal Khamosh  | 1 May 1968  | Marxism-Leninism
Maoism |
Palestine |  |  | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين | PFLP  | Ahmad Sa'adat | 11 December 1967 (1967-12-11) | Palestinian nationalism
Marxism–Leninism
Revolutionary socialism
Pan-Arabism
Arab nationalism
One-state solution
Anti-Zionism | Legislative Council:

3 / 132

| Member of the Palestine Liberation Organization
|  | Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين | DFLP  | Nayef Hawatmeh | 22 February 1969 (1969-02-22) | Marxism–Leninism
Maoism
Palestinian nationalism
Left-wing nationalism
Anti-Zionism | Legislative Council:

1 / 132

|  | Palestinian People's Party
حزب الشعب الفلسطيني | PPP  | Bassam Al-Salhi | February 1982 (1982-02) | Marxism
Palestinian nationalism
Left-wing nationalism
|  | Palestinian Communist Party
الحزب الشیوعي الفلسطیني | PCP  | Mahmoud Saadeh  | December 1991  | Marxism-Leninism
Palestinian nationalism | Legislative Council:

0 / 132

| Revolutionary Palestinian Communist Party
الحزب الشيوعي الفلسطيني-الثوري | RPCP  | Arabi Awwad | October 1982  | Communism
Panama |  |  | Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) of Panama
Partido Comunista (marxista-leninista) de Panamá | PC(ml)P  |  | January 9, 1980  | Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism | National Assembly:

0 / 71

| November 29 National Liberation Movement
Movimiento de Liberación Nacional 29 de noviembre | MLN-29  | July 29, 1970  | Marxism
Anti-imperialism
Paraguay |  |  | Paraguayan Communist Party
Partido Comunista Paraguayo | PCP  | Najeeb Amado  | 19 February 1928  | Marxism-Leninism | Chamber of Deputies:

0 / 80

Senate:

0 / 45

|  | Partido Patria Libre | PPL  |  | 3 February 1990  | Marxism–Leninism
Guevarism
Foco theory
Socialist patriotism
Anti-imperialism
Revolutionary socialism
|  | Paraguayan Communist Party (independent)
Partido Comunista Paraguayo (independiente) | PCP(i)  | 1967  | Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Peru |  |  | Peruvian Communist Party
Partido Comunista Peruano | PCP  | Luis Villanueva  | 9 April 1928 (1928-04-09) | Marxism–Leninism
Mariáteguism | Congress:

0 / 130

| Member of Together for Peru, which participated in the Free Peru-led government
|  | Communist Party of Peru – Red Fatherland
Partido Comunista del Perú – Patria Roja | PCP-PR  | Alberto Moreno | 1970 (1970) |

* Marxism–Leninism
* Mariáteguism
* Socialist patriotism
* Anti-revisionism

|  | Free Peru[4]
Perú Libre | PL  | Vladimir Cerron | 13 August 2008 (2008-08-13) | Socialism
Marxism–Leninism
Mariáteguism | Congress:

32 / 130

|  | Peruvian Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist)
Partido Comunista Peruano (Marxista–Leninista) | PCP (ML)  |  | January 1964  | Marxism-Leninism
Stalinism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
Maoism (until 1970s) | Congress:

0 / 130

|  | Shining Path
Sendero Luminoso | PCP; PCP-SL  | 1969  | Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
Gonzalo Thought
Anti-revisionism
Revolutionary socialism | Banned  | Designated a terrorist organization by the government of Peru
Philippines |  |  | Communist Party of the Philippines
Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas | CPP  | Benito Tiamzon (alleged) (deceased)  | 26 December 1968  | National democracy
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism | Participant in the ongoing communist rebellion in the Philippines, designated a terrorist organization by the government of the Philippines and the United States
|  | Philippine Communist Party-1930
Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930 | PKP-1930  | Antonio E. Paris  | 7 November 1930  | Marxism-Leninism
Democratic socialism | House of Representatives:

0 / 316

Senate:

0 / 24

|  | Marxist–Leninist Party of the Philippines
Partido Marxista–Leninista ng Pilipinas | MLPP  |  | 1998  | Marxism-Leninism | Banned  | Participant in the ongoing communist rebellion in the Philippines
Poland |  | Polish Communist Party
Komunistyczna Partia Polski | KPP  | Krzysztof Szwej  | 9 October 2002  | Marxism-Leninism
Stalinism
Anti-revisionism
Hard Euroscepticism
Anti-clericalism | Sejm:

0 / 460

Senate:

0 / 100

Portugal |  |  | Portuguese Communist Party
Partido Comunista Português | PCP  | Collective leadership | 6 March 1921  | Marxism-Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Hard Euroscepticism | Parliament:

6 / 230

|  | Portuguese Workers' Communist Party
Partido Comunista dos Trabalhadores Portugueses | PCTP/MRPP  | Maria Cidália Guerreiro  | 1970  | Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism | Parliament:

0 / 230

|  | Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat – Bases for Revolution
Partido Revolucionário do Proletariado – Bases pela Revolução | PRP-BR  | Luis Cardoso  | 17 July 2002  | Marxism
Guevarism | Parliament:

0 / 230

| Founded as a successor to the PRP-BR
Puerto Rico |  | Communist Party of Puerto Rico
Partido Comunista de Puerto Rico | PCPR  |  | 2010  | Marxism-Leninism
Anti-imperialism
Puerto Rican Independence | House:

0 / 51

Senate:

0 / 27

Réunion |  |  | Communist Party of Réunion
Parti Communiste Réunionnais | PCR  | Élie Hoarau | 1959  | Post-Marxism
Regionalism | National Assembly:

0 / 577

Senate:

1 / 348

Romania |  |  | Communitarian Party of Romania
Partidul Comunitar din România | PCDR  | Petre Ignatencu  | 19 March 2010  | Communitarianism
Progressivism
Anti-imperialism
Anti-Americanism
Anti-capitalism | Chamber of Deputies:

0 / 330

Senate:

0 / 136

| Romanian Socialist Party
Partidul Socialist Român | PSR  | Constantin Rotaru  | July 2003  | Eurocommunism
Progressivism
Equality feminism
Left-wing nationalism
Anti-NATO
Pro-Europeanism
Russia |  |  | Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Коммунистическая Партия Российской Федерации | CPRF
КПРФ | Gennady Zyuganov | 14 February 1993 (1993-02-14) | Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing nationalism
Soviet patriotism
Social conservatism
Neo-Stalinism | State Duma:

57 / 450

Federation Council:

4 / 178

|  | Left Front
Левый фронт |  | Sergei Udaltsov | 18 October 2008  | Marxism–Leninism
Anti-fascism
Anti-nationalism
Anti-liberalism
Anti-capitalism
Internationalism | State Duma:

1 / 450

Federation Council:

0 / 178

|  | Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Российская коммунистическая рабочая партия в составе Коммунистической партии Советского Союза | RCWP-CPSU
РКРП-КПСС | Stepan Malentsov  | 27 October 2001  | Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Anti-revisionism | State Duma:

0 / 450

Federation Council:

0 / 178

|  | Russian Labour Front
Российский трудовой фронт | RTF
РТФ | Alexander Batov  | 22 February 2010  | Marxism–Leninism | State Duma:

0 / 450

Federation Council:

0 / 178

|  | Russian Maoist Party
Российская маоистская партия | RMP
РМП | Collective leadership | 9 June 2000  | Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Proletarian internationalism
Feminism | State Duma:

0 / 450

Federation Council:

0 / 178

|  | Labour Russia
Трудовая Россия | LR
ТР | Stanislav Ruzanov  | 7 November 1991  | Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Soviet patriotism
Direct democracy
Left-wing nationalism | State Duma:

0 / 450

Federation Council:

0 / 178

|  | Russian Party of Freedom and Justice
Российская партия свободы и справедливости | RPSS
РПСС | Konstantin Rykov | 8 April 2012  | Social democracy
Russian nationalism | State Duma:

0 / 450

Federation Council:

0 / 178

|  | Communists of Russia
Коммунисты России | CPCR
РПСС | Sergey Malinkovich | 23 May 2009  | Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Anti-revisionism | State Duma:

0 / 450

Federation Council:

0 / 178

Serbia |  |  | New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
Нова комунистичка партија Југославије / Nova Komunistička Partija Jugoslavije | NKPJ
НKПЈ | Aleksandar Banjanac  | 30 June 1990  | Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Anti-revisionism
Yugoslavism
Russophilia | National Assembly:

0 / 250

|  | Party of Labour
Партија рада / Partija rada | PR
ПР | Collective leadership | 28 March 1992  | Marxism–Leninism | National Assembly:

0 / 250

Slovakia |  |  | Communist Party of Slovakia
Komunistická strana Slovenska | KSS  | Jozef Hrdlička | 29 August 1992  | Marxism–Leninism | National Council:

0 / 150

|  | Dawn
Úsvit |  | Luciana Hoptová  | 25 May 2005  | Marxism
South Africa |  | Economic Freedom Fighters | EFF  | Julius Malema | 26 July 2013  | Marxism–Leninism
Fanonism
Sankarism
Anti-imperialism
Pan-Africanism
Black nationalism
Anti-Zionism
Left-wing populism | National Assembly:

44 / 400

NCOP:

11 / 90

| Currently the third-largest party in both houses of the South African Parliament.
| Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party | SRWP  | Irvin Jim | March 2019  | Marxism-Leninism | National Assembly:

0 / 400

NCOP:

0 / 90

South Ossetia |  | Communist Party of South Ossetia
Хуссар Ирыстоны Коммунистон парти | CPSO
ХИКп | Stanislav Kochiev | 1993  | Marxism–Leninism
Soviet patriotism | Parliament:

1 / 34

South Sudan |  | Communist Party of South Sudan | CPSS  | Joseph Wol Modesto | June 2011  | Marxism–Leninism | Legislative Assembly:

0 / 400

Council of States:

0 / 100

Spain |  |  | Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain
Partido Comunista de los Pueblos de España | PCPE  | Julio Díaz  | 15 January 1984  | Marxism–Leninism
Hard Euroscepticism
Internationalism | Congress of Deputies:

0 / 350

Senate:

0 / 263

|  | Communist Party of Spain (Marxist–Leninist)
Partido Comunista de España (marxista-leninista) | PCE (M–L)  |  | 2006  | Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
Republicanism
|  | Communist Party of Spain (Reconstituted)
Partido Comunista de España (Reconstituido) | PCE(r)  | Manuel Pérez Martínez  | 1975  | Marxism–Leninism
Republicanism
Maoism (until 1990s)  | Banned  | Banned in 2003 due to links to the First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups. Inactive as of 2006; not officially dissolved.
|  | Marxist–Leninist Party (Communist Reconstruction)
Partido Marxista–Leninista (Reconstrucción Comunista) | PML(RC) / RC  | Roberto Vaquero Arribas  | 6 October 2014  | Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Anti-fascism
Republicanism
Proletarian internationalism | Congress of Deputies:

0 / 350

Senate:

0 / 263

| Temporarily banned from December 2014 to 2017 due to alleged links to the PKK.
|  | Communist Unification of Spain
Unificación Comunista de España | UCE  |  | 1973  | Marxism–Leninism
Maoism |
|  | Spanish Communist Workers' Party
Partido Comunista Obrero Español | PCOE  | Francisco Barjas  | 1973  | Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Anti-revisionism
Anti-fascism
Republicanism
|  | Revolutionary Communist Party
Partido Comunista Revolucionario | PCR  |  | 1994  | Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Maoism
| Marxist–Leninist Front of the Peoples of Spain
Frente Marxista-Leninista de los Pueblos de España | F(M-L)PE  | Gregorio Fernandez Lopez  | 1987  | Marxism–Leninism
| Democratic Labour Party
Partido del Trabajo Democrático | PTD  | Miguel Ángel Villalón  | 2013  | Marxism–Leninism
Republicanism
Feminism
|  | Living Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia
Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya Viu
Partido Socialista Unificado de Cataluña Vivo | PSUC Viu  | Collective leadership | June 1997  | Republicanism
Federalism | Parliament of Catalonia:

0 / 135

| Regional party active in Catalonia
|  | United and Alternative Left
Esquerra Unida i Alternativa
Izquierda Unida y Alternativa | EUiA  | Joan Josep Nuet | 1998  | Marxism
Catalan self-determination
Republicanism | Parliament of Catalonia:

0 / 135

|  | Forward–Socialist Organisation of National Liberation
Endavant–Organització Socialista d'Alliberament Nacional | Endavant  |  | 2000  | Marxism
Catalan independence
Catalan Countries
Socialist feminism
Anti-fascism
Euroscepticism | Parliament of Catalonia:

2 / 135

| Member of the Popular Unity Candidacy
|  | Galician People's Union
Unión do Povo Galego
Unión del Pueblo Gallego | UPG  | Néstor Rego | November 1963  | Marxism-Leninism
Galician nationalism | Parliament of Galicia:

4 / 75

| Regional party active in Galicia. Member of the Galician Nationalist Bloc.
|  | Galician Movement for Socialism
Movemento Galego ao Socialismo
Movimiento Gallego al Socialismo | MGS  | Rafa Villar | 2009  | Galician nationalism
Galician self-determination
Euroscepticism
Feminism | Parliament of Galicia:

1 / 75

|  | Galician People's Front
Frente Popular Galega
Frente Popular Gallego | FPG  | Mariano Abalo  | 1986  | Marxism-Leninism
Galician self-determination | Parliament of Galicia:

0 / 75

| Regional party active in Galicia
Sudan |  |  | Sudanese Communist Party | SCP  | Muhammad Mukhtar Al-Khatib | 1946  | Marxism–Leninism | Transitional Legislative Council:

0 / 300

Sweden |  |  | Communist Party of Sweden
Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti | SKP  | Andreas Sörensen  | 1977  | Marxism–Leninism
Hard Euroscepticism | Riksdag:

0 / 349

|  | Communist Party
Kommunistiska partiet | K  | Povel Johansson  | 1970  | Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism | Riksdag:

0 / 349

Switzerland |  |  | Communist Party
Partito Comunista | PC  | Massimiliano Arif Ay  | May 1944  | Marxism–Leninism | National Council:

0 / 200

Council of States:

0 / 46

| Currently only active in Ticino and the Grisons
|  | Swiss Party of Labour
Partei der Arbeit der Schweiz
Parti Suisse du Travail – Parti Ouvrier et Populaire
Partito Svizzero del Lavoro – Partito Operaio e Popolare | PdA
PST-POP
PdL-POP  | Norberto Crivelli  | 14 October 1944  | Marxism
Socialism | National Council:

1 / 200

Council of States:

0 / 46

Sri Lanka |  |  | Communist Party of Sri Lanka
ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ කොමියුනිස්ට් පක්ෂය
இலங்கை கம்யூனிஸ்ட் கட்சி | CPSL
ශ්‍රීලංකොප
இ.க.க. | G. Weerasinghe  | 1943  | Marxism–Leninism | Parliament:

0 / 225

| Part of various different coalition governments from 1970–1975, 1994–2000, 2004–2015 and 2020–2022
|  | Lanka Sama Samaja Party
ලංකා සම සමාජ පක්ෂය
லங்கா சமசமாஜக் கட்சி | LSSP
ලසසප
ல.ச.ச.க. | Tissa Vitharana | 18 December 1935  | Trotskyism
|  | Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist)
ලංකා කොමියුනිස්ට් පක්ෂය (මාඕවාදී)
சிலோன் கம்யூனிஸ்ட் கட்சி (மாவோயிஸ்ட்) | CCP (Maoist)  |  | 1964  | Marxism–Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism |
|  | Socialist Equality Party
සමාජවාදී සමානතා පක්ෂය
சோசலிச சமத்துவக் கட்சி | SEP
සසප
சோ.ச.க. | Deepal Jayasekera  | 1964  | Trotskyism
| Socialist Party of Sri Lanka
ශ්‍රී ලංකා සමාජවාදී පක්ෂය
இலங்கை சோசலிச கட்சி | SPSL  |  | 2006  | Marxism
Trotskyism
| United Socialist Party
එක්සත් සමාජවාදි පකෂය
ஐக்கிய சோசலிச கட்சி | USP
එසප
ஐ.சோ.க. | Siritunga Jayasuriya | 2006  | Marxism
Trotskyism
| New Democratic Marxist–Leninist Party
නව-ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී මාක්ස්-ලෙනින්වාදී පක්ෂය
புதிய-ஜனநாயக மார்க்சிச-லெனினிச கட்சி | NDMLP
නප්‍රමාලෙප
பு.ஜ.மா.லெ.க. | S. K. Senthivel | 3 July 1978  | Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism
|  | Frontline Socialist Party
පෙරටුගාමී සමාජවාදී පක්ෂය
முன்னிலை சோசலிசக் கட்சி | FLSP
පෙසප
மு.சோ.க. | Premakumar Gunaratnam | 9 April 2012  | Marxism-Leninism
Anti-imperialism
Revolutionary socialism
Syria |  |  | People's Will Party
حزب الإرادة الشعبية | PWP  | Collective leadership | 2012  | Marxism-Leninism | People's Assembly:

0 / 250

|  | Syrian Revolutionary Left Current
تيار اليسار الثوري في سوريا | SRLC  | Ghayath Naisse  | October 2011  | Revolutionary socialism
|  | Communist Action Party
حزب العمل الشيوعي | CAP  | Fateh Jamous  | August 1976  | Marxism-Leninism | Banned
| Arab Communist Party
الحزب الشيوعي العربي | ACP  | Collective leadership | February 1968
| Syrian Communist Party (Bakdash)
الحزب الشيوعي السوري | SCP(B)  | Ammar Bakdash | 1986  | People's Assembly:

0 / 250

| Syrian Communist Party (Unified)
الحزب الشيوعي السوري (الموحد) | SCP(U)  | Yusuf Faisal
Taiwan |  |  | Taiwan People's Communist Party
臺灣人民共產黨 | TPCP  | Lin Te-wang  | 4 February 2017  | Chinese unification
Socialism with Chinese characteristics | Legislative Yuan:

0 / 113

Tajikistan |  |  | Communist Party of Tajikistan | KPT  |  | 6 December 1924  | Marxism–Leninism
Soviet patriotism |
Togo |  |  | Communist Party of Togo | PCT  | 4 May 1980  | Hoxhaism
Marxism-Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Transnistria |  |  | Transnistrian Communist Party | PKP  | Nadezhda Bondarenko | 20 April 2003  | Marxism–Leninism
Soviet patriotism
Tunisia |  |  | Workers' Party |  | Hamma Hammami | January 3, 1986  | Marxism-Leninism
Hoxhaism
Pan-Arabism
|  | Democratic Patriots' Unified Party | Ziad Lakhdar | 1982  | Marxism-Leninism

Anti-revisionism Maoism Arab nationalism Anti-Islamism

Turkey |  |  | Communist Party of Turkey | TKP  | Kemal Okuyan | 11 November 2001  | Marxism–Leninism | Parliament:

0 / 600

|  | Workers' Party of Turkey | TİP  | Erkan Baş | 7 November 2001  | Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing populism
Progressivism | Parliament:

4 / 600

|  | Labour Party | EMEP  | Selma Gürkan | 25 November 1996  | Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism | Parliament:

2 / 600

|  | Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist | TKP/ML  |  | 24 April 1972  | Marxism–Leninism–Maoism | Banned
|  | Marxist–Leninist Communist Party | MLKP  | 10 September 1994  | Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Hoxhaism
|  | Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist | TKEP/L  | 1 September 1990  | Marxism–Leninism
|  | Communist Workers Party of Turkey | TKİP  | November 1998  | Marxism-Leninism
|  | Maoist Communist Party | MKP  | 15 September 2002  | Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
|  | Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front | DHKP/C  | 30 March 1994  | Marxism-Leninism
Guevarism
Foco theory
Socialist patriotism
Revolutionary socialism
|  | Communist Party of Kurdistan | KKP  | 1982  | Kurdish self-determination
|  | Bolshevik Party (North Kurdistan – Turkey) | BP (KK-T)  | 1981  | Marxism-Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Turkmenistan |  |  | Communist Party of Turkmenistan | TKP  | 1998  | Marxism–Leninism
Soviet patriotism
Ukraine |  |  | Communist Party of Ukraine
Комуністична партія України
Коммунистическая партия Украины | KPU
КПУ | Petro Symonenko | 19 June 1993  | Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing populism
Soviet patriotism
Pro-Russia
Social conservatism | Banned in 2015 under Ukraine's decommunization laws, continues to operate underground
|  | Union of Communists of Ukraine
Союз комуністів України
Союз коммунистов Украины | SKU
СКУ |  | December 19, 1992  | Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Stalinism
United Kingdom |  |  | Communist Party of Britain | CPB  | Robert Griffiths | 1988  | Marxism–Leninism
Britain's Road to Socialism |
|  | Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist) | CPB-ML  |  | 1968  | Marxism-Leninism
Hard Euroscepticism
Hoxhaism
Maoism (until 1979)
|  | Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist) | CPGB-ML  | Ella Rule  | July 3, 2004  | Marxism-Leninism
Stalinism
Anti-revisionism
Hard Euroscepticism
|  | Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee) | CPGB (PCC)  |  | 1991  | Leninism
Anti-Stalinism
|  | New Communist Party of Britain | NCP  | Andy Brooks | 1977  | Marxism-Leninism
Stalinism
Anti-revisionism
Hard Euroscepticism
|  | Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist) | CPE (ML)  |  | 1979  | Marxism-Leninism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
| Revolutionary Communist Group | RCG  | 1974  | Marxism-Leninism
Anti-imperialism
| Communist League |
United States |  |  | American Communist Party | ACP  | Collective leadership | 21 July 2024  | Marxism-Leninism
Anti-revisionism | House:

0 / 435

Senate:

0 / 100

|  | Communist Party USA | CPUSA  | Collective leadership
(National Convention)  | 1 September 1919  | Marxism-Leninism
Bill of Rights socialism | House:

0 / 435

Senate:

0 / 100

|  | Party for Socialism and Liberation | PSL  | Collective leadership | June 2004  | Marxism–Leninism
Revolutionary socialism
Anti-imperialism | House:

0 / 435

Senate:

0 / 100

|  | Socialist Alternative | SA  | Collective leadership | April 1986  | Marxism
Revolutionary socialism
Trotskyism | House:

0 / 435

Senate:

0 / 100

|  | Socialist Equality Party | SEP  | David North | September 1964  | Revolutionary socialism
Trotskyism | House:

0 / 435

Senate:

0 / 100

|  | Workers World Party | WWP  | Larry Holmes  | 1959  | Marxism-Leninism
Proletarian internationalism | House:

0 / 435

Senate:

0 / 100

|  | Socialist Workers Party | SWP  | Jack Barnes | January 1938  | Marxism
Castroism | House:

0 / 435

Senate:

0 / 100

|  | Socialist Action |  | Jeff Mackler | 1983  | Trotskyism | House:

0 / 435

Senate:

0 / 100

Uruguay |  |  | Revolutionary Communist Party of Uruguay
Partido Comunista Revolucionario | PCR  | Ricardo Cohen  | 1972  | Marxism–Leninism–Maoism | Chamber of Representatives:

0 / 99

Senate:

0 / 30

Uzbekistan |  |  | Communist Party of Uzbekistan
Ўзбекистон коммунистик партияси / Oʻzbekiston kommunistik partiyasi
Коммунистическая партия Узбекистана | КПУз / OʻzKP
СДК | Kaxramon Mahmudov  | 1994  | Marxism–Leninism
Socialism
Soviet patriotism
Anti-clericalism | Banned  | Banned immediately after attempting to register with Uzbekistan's Central Election Commission
Venezuela |  |  | Communist Party of Venezuela
Partido Comunista de Venezuela | PCV  | Óscar Figuera | 5 March 1931  | Marxism–Leninism | National Assembly:

1 / 277

|  | Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Venezuela
Partido Comunista Marxista Leninista de Venezuela | PCMLV  |  | 2009  | Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
Anti-imperialism
Anti-Chavismo | National Assembly:

0 / 277

|  | Red Flag Party
Partido Bandera Roja | BR  | Gabriel Puerta Aponte  | 20 January 1970  | Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Anti-Chavismo | National Assembly:

0 / 277

|  | Revolutionary Movement Tupamaro (Popular Revolutionary Alternative)
Movimiento Revolucionario Tupamaro | MRT  |  | 1992 (1992) | Marxism-Leninism
Guevarism
Foco theory
Left-wing nationalism
Revolutionary socialism | National Assembly:

0 / 277

| Section of the party supporting the APR

* All-Union Communist Party, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Bolshevik Platform of the KPSS[17]

## Formerly communist

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Country  | Before  | Turned[a] | Notes

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|
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Angola | People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola | same name | Has abandoned Marxist-Leninism for social democracy
National Union for the Total Independence of Angola | same name | Abandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy and then for social conservatism
Brazil | Popular Socialist Party  | Cidadania | Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy and later social liberalism
Bulgaria | Bulgarian Communist Party | Bulgarian Socialist Party | Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy
Cambodia | Kampuchean Revolutionary People's Party | Cambodian People's Party | Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for centrism
Congo | Congolese Party of Labour | same name | Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy
Croatia | League of Communists of Croatia | Social Democratic Party | Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism-Titoism for social democracy
Kazakhstan | Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan | People's Party of Kazakhstan | Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for democratic socialism
Mongolia | Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party | Mongolian People's Party | Has abandoned Marxist-Leninism for social democracy
Montenegro | League of Communists of Montenegro | Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro | Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism-Titoism for social democracy and later neoliberalism
Morocco | Party of Progress and Socialism | same name | Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for democratic socialism
Mozambique | FRELIMO | same name | Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for democratic socialism
Serbia | League of Communists of Serbia | Socialist Party of Serbia | Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism-Titoism for social democracy
Slovenia | League of Communists of Slovenia | Social Democrats | Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism-Titoism for social democracy
Yemen | Yemeni Socialist Party | same name | Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy

## Defunct

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### Once ruling

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State  | Defunct Party  | Notes

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|

Afghanistan | People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan |
Albania | Party of Labour of Albania | Succeeded by Socialist Party of Albania
Benin | People's Revolutionary Party of Benin |
Bulgaria | Bulgarian Communist Party | Succeeded by the Bulgarian Socialist Party
Cambodia | Communist Party of Kampuchea |
Czechoslovakia | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia | Czech Republic branch became the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia, and the Slovak branch became the Party of the Democratic Left
Ethiopia | Workers' Party of Ethiopia |
Germany | Socialist Unity Party |
Grenada | New Jewel Movement |
Hungary | Hungarian Working People's Party |
Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party | Became the Hungarian Socialist Party
Poland | Polish United Workers' Party |
Romania | Romanian Communist Party |
Somalia | Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party |
Soviet Union | Communist Party of the Soviet Union | Formerly the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party
Yugoslavia | League of Communists of Yugoslavia |

### Non-ruling

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* 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
* Barbados\- Workers Party of Barbados
* Basque Country – Auzolan, Communist Movement of Euskadi, Communist Party of the Basque Homelands, Euskadiko Sozialisten Batasuna, Euskal Herriko Alderdi Sozialista, Euskal Iraultzarako Alderdia, Eusko Alderdi Sozialista, Herriko Alderdi Sozialista, Navarrese Left Union, Party of the Revolutionary Patriotic Workers, People's Socialist Revolutionary Party
* Belgium – Union of Marxist–Leninist Communists of Belgium, founded in 1970[5][6]
* Belgium – Communist Party of Belgium – Marxist–Leninist, founded in 1976.
* Brazil – Free Homeland Party
* Bulgaria – Bulgarian Communist Party – Marxists
* Burkina Faso – African Independence Party (Burkina Faso), Burkinabé Bolshevik Party, Burkinabé Communist Group, Marxist–Leninist Group, Organization for Popular Democracy – Labour Movement, Party for Democracy and Socialism, Party of Labour of Burkina, Patriotic League for Development, Union of Burkinabé Communists, Union of Communist Struggles, Union of Communist Struggles – Reconstructed, Union of Communist Struggles – The Flame, Voltaic Communist Organization
* Catalonia – Catalan Communist Party, Catalan-Balear Communist Federation, Workers and Peasants' Bloc, Catalan State-Proletarian Party, Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia, Socialist Party of National Liberation, Party of the Communists of Catalonia
* Canada – Labor-Progressive Party (legal front of the Communist Party of Canada from 1943 to 1959), Workers' Communist Party of Canada
* Channel Islands – Jersey Communist Party
* Chile – Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action), Revolutionary Left Movement
* Colombia – Workers Revolutionary Party of Colombia
* Costa Rica – Costa Rican People's Party
* Cyprus – Communist Party of Cyprus
* Cuba – Popular Socialist Party, joined Cuban Communist Party
* El Salvador – Communist Party of El Salvador, merged into the FMLN
* Eswatini – Swaziland Communist Party
* Gambia – Gambia Socialist Revolutionary Party
* Georgia – Revived Communist Party of Georgia, Georgian Workers Communist Party
* Germany – Spartacist League formed in 1918 and became the Communist Party of Germany
* West Germany – 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 – Haitian Communist Party, Haitian Workers Party, Unified Party of Haitian Communists, merged into the National Reconstruction Movement in 1990
* Honduras – Communist Party of Honduras, merged into the Patriotic Renewal Party
* Iceland – Communist Party of Iceland, Communist Party of Iceland (Marxist–Leninist)
* India – Indian Communist Party (Sen)
* Indonesia – Communist Party of Indonesia
* Ireland – Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist–Leninist)
* Iraq – Leninist Group in the Iraqi Communist Movement
* 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, Italian Communist Party of the Julian March, Marxist–Leninist Italian Communist Party, Marxist–Leninist Revolutionary Party of Italy, Movement for Peace and Socialism, Movement for the Confederation of the Communists
* Lebanon – Lebanese People's Party
* Malaysia – Malayan Communist Party, North Kalimantan Communist Party
* Mexico – Mexican Communist Party
* Moldova – Communist Reformers Party of Moldova
* Myanmar – Communist Party (Burma)
* Namibia – Communist Party of Namibia
* New Caledonia – Communist Party of New Caledonia[7]
* Netherlands – Communist Party of the Netherlands merged into the GroenLinks in 1989, marxist-leninist dissidents within the party formed the NCPN in 1992.
* New Zealand – Communist Party of New Zealand, Socialist Unity Party
* Nigeria – Nigerian Communist Party, Socialist Workers and Farmers Party of Nigeria
* North Korea – Workers' Party of North Korea
* Norway – Workers' Communist Party merged into the Red Party
* Palestine – Communist Party of Palestine (1921–1948)
* Poland – Communist Party of Poland
* Saudi Arabia – Communist Party in Saudi Arabia
* South Korea – Workers' Party of South Korea
* Switzerland – Party of Labour Basel, founded in 1944
* Taiwan – Taiwanese Communist Party, China Communist Alliance, Communist Party of the Republic of China, Taiwan Democratic Communist Party
* Tatarstan – Communist Party of the Republic of Tatarstan
* Thailand – Communist Party of Thailand
* Transnistria (unrecognized country) – Communist Party of Transnistria
* Trieste – Communist Party of the Free Territory of Trieste, merged into the Italian Communist Party
* Trinidad and Tobago – Communist Party of Trinidad and Tobago
* United Kingdom – Communist Party of Great Britain, Communist Party of Scotland
* United States – Communist Party Marxist–Leninist, May 19th Communist Movement, Communist Workers Party, Black Panther Party, Communist Labor Party of America, International Socialist Organization

## Left communist organizations by country

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The following is a list of left communist organizations by country which list only those political organizations and parties who officially call themselves left communist ideologically and still exist.

Country  | Organizations

|

Ideologically left communist organizations
Italy | International Communist Party
Lotta Comunista
Iran | Internationalist Voice
United Kingdom | Communist Workers' Organisation
World Revolution
United States | International Communist Party
Internationalism
Internationalist Workers Group
Workers Offensive

## See also

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* List of communist parties represented in European Parliament
* List of socialist parties with national parliamentary representation
* List of social democratic parties
* List of democratic socialist parties and organizations
* List of left-wing political parties

## Notes

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1. ^ Ideologically transformed parties which are currently in power

## References

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1. ^ "Marxism-Leninism, socialism no longer relevant to PPP – Jagdeo". 2024-05-05. Retrieved 2024-06-30.
2. ^ Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. pp. 234–237. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.
3. ^ "Central Committee".
4. ^ "Peru confirms new moderate-left cabinet". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
5. ^ "Syndicalisme de combat et parti révolutionnaire". Anticapitalist Left (in French). Retrieved 1 April 2020.
6. ^ "Emall NL" (in Dutch). Marxistische universiteit. Archived 15 January 2006 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
7. ^ Kurtovitch, Ismet (2000). "A Communist Party in New Caledonia (1941–1948)". The Journal of Pacific History. 35 (2): 163–179\. doi:10.1080/002233400445779. JSTOR 25169484. S2CID 153697401.

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