List of communist parties

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Template:Communism sidebar 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 Communist Party of China 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[edit]

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	Name	Abbr.	Leader	Founded	Ideology	Legislature	Notes
China	Communist Party of China	CPC	Xi Jinping	1 July 1921 (1921-07-01)	Socialism with Chinese characteristics Maoism	National People's Congress: 2,091 / 2,980	Leads the United front
Cuba	Communist Party of Cuba	PCC	Miguel Díaz-Canel	3 October 1965 (1965-10-03)	Marxism–Leninism Castroism Guevarism	National Assembly: 605 / 605	Leads the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution
Laos	Lao People's Revolutionary Party	LPRP	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	WPK	Kim Jong Un	24 June 1948 (1948-06-24)	Kimilsungism–Kimjongilism	Supreme People's Assembly: 607 / 687	Leads the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea
Vietnam	Communist Party of Vietnam	CPV	Nguyễn Phú Trọng	3 February 1930 (1930-02-03)	Marxism–Leninism Ho Chi Minh Thought	National Assembly: 485 / 499	Leads the Vietnamese Fatherland Front

Ruling or part of ruling coalition in multi-party states[edit]

Country		Name	Abbr.	Leader	Founded	Ideology	Legislature	Notes
Argentina		Communist Party of Argentina	PC; PCA	Víctor Kot	6 January 1918 (1918-01-06)	Marxism–Leninism Internationalism	Chamber of Deputies: 0 / 257	Participates in the ruling Frente de Todos
		Communist Party of Argentina (Extraordinary Congress)	PCCE	Pablo Pereyra	2 December 1996 (1996-12-02)	Marxism–Leninism Kirchnerism	Chamber of Deputies: 0 / 257
		Revolutionary Communist Party	PCR	Juan Carlos Alderete	6 January 1968 (1968-01-06)	Marxism–Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism	Chamber of Deputies: 2 / 257
Belarus		Communist Party of Belarus	CPB	Aliaksiej Sokal	2 November 1996 (1996-11-02)	Marxism–Leninism Belarusian–Russian unionism	House of Representatives: 11 / 110	Supports the government of president Alexander Lukashenko
Brazil		Communist Party of Brazil	PCdoB	Luciana Santos	25 March 1922	Marxism–Leninism	Chamber of Deputies: 6 / 513	Member of the ruling federation, Brazil of Hope
Chile		Communist Party of Chile	PCCh	Guillermo Teillier	4 June 1912 (1912-06-04)	Marxism–Leninism	Chamber of Deputies: 12 / 155	Member of the ruling Apruebo Dignidad coalition
Colombia		Colombian Communist Party	PCC	Jaime Caycedo	1930	Marxism–Leninism Bolivarianism	Chamber of Representatives: 0 / 188 Senate: 0 / 108	Member of the ruling Historic Pact for Colombia
Colombia		Commons		Timoleón Jiménez	1 September 2017	Marxism–Leninism Bolivarianism	Chamber of Representatives: 5 / 188 Senate: 5 / 108	Member of the ruling Historic Pact for Colombia
Nepal		Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)	CPN (Maoist)	Pushpa Kamal Dahal	1994 (1994)	Prachanda Path Left-wing nationalism	House of Representatives: 32 / 275	Member of the coalition government
Nepal		Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist)	CPN (Unified Socialist)	Madhav Kumar Nepal	18 August 2021 (2021-08-18)	Marxism–Leninism People's Multiparty Democracy	House of Representatives: 10 / 275	Member of the coalition government
Palestine	File:PFLP Infobox Flag.svg	Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine	PFLP	Ahmad Sa'adat	11 December 1967 (1967-12-11)	Palestinian nationalism Marxism–Leninism Revolutionary socialism One-state solution Anti-zionism	Legislative Council: 3 / 132	Member of the PLO
		Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine	DFLP	Nayef Hawatmeh	1969 (1969)	Marxism–Leninism Palestinian nationalism Left-wing nationalism Anti-Zionism	Legislative Council: 1 / 132
		Palestinian People's Party	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	PCE	Enrique Santiago	14 November 1921 (1921-11-14)	Marxism–Leninism Republicanism Internationalism Federalism	Congress of Deputies: 6 / 350	Participates in the United Left and Unidas Podemos, member of the PSOE-led government
Syria		Syrian Communist Party	SCP	Ammar Bakdash	1986 (1986)	Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism	People's Assembly: 2 / 250	Participates in the ruling National Progressive Front
Syria		Syrian Communist Party (Unified)	SCP(U)	Hanin Nimir	1986 (1986)	Marxism–Leninism	People's Assembly: 2 / 250	Participates in the ruling National Progressive Front
Template:Flag country		Revolutionary Movement Tupamaro	MRT	Oswaldo Jiménez	1992 (1992)	Marxism-Leninism Guevarism	Chamber of Deputies: 7 / 277	Participates in the ruling Great Patriotic Pole
	File:UPVlogo.jpg	Venezuelan Popular Unity	UPV	Lina Ron	6 February 2004 (2004-02-06)	Marxism-Leninism Anti-imperialism Bolivarianism	Chamber of Deputies: 2 / 277
		Venezuelan Revolutionary Currents	CRV	Ramsés Augusto Reyes Colmenares [es]	2000 (2000)	Guevarism Chavismo Anti-imperialism	Chamber of Deputies: 0 / 277

Main opposition in multi-party states[edit]

Country	Name	Abbr.	Leader	Founded	Ideology	Legislature	Notes
Cyprus	Progressive Party of Working People	AKEL	Stefanos Stefanou	15 August 1926 (1926-08-15)	Marxism–Leninism Pacifism Cypriot nationalism	House of Representatives: 15 / 56
France	French Communist Party	PCF	Fabien Roussel	30 December 1920	Marxism–Leninism	National Assembly: 12 / 577	An important pillar of New Ecologic and Social People's Union
Moldova	Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova	PCRM	Vladimir Voronin	19 October 1993 (1993-10-19)	Marxism–Leninism Moldovenism	Parliament: 10 / 101	Member of BECS
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	House of Representatives: 78 / 275 National Assembly: 17 / 59	Highest popular vote in the 2022 general election.
Russia	Communist Party of the Russian Federation	CPRF	Gennady Zyuganov	14 February 1993 (1993-02-14)	Marxism–Leninism	State Duma: 57 / 450 Federation Council: 4 / 178
Uruguay	Communist Party of Uruguay	PCU	Juan Castillo	19 September 1920 (1920-09-19)	Marxism–Leninism Internationalism	Chamber of Representatives: 6 / 99	Member of the Broad Front 42 / 99
	Movement of Popular Participation	MPP	José Mujica	6 April 1989 (1989-04-06)	Marxism–Leninism Anti-capitalism	Chamber of Representatives: 25 / 99
	People's Victory Party	PVP		July 1975	Marxism Guevarism	Chamber of Representatives: 1 / 99

Formerly ruling[edit]

One-party system[edit]

Country	Name	Abbr.	Leaders	Founded	Dissolved	Ideology	Notes
Afghanistan (1978–1992)	People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan	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	Abandoned Marxism–Leninism in 1987, deposed in 1992
Albania (1946–1992)	Party of Labour of Albania	PPSh	Enver Hoxha (first) Ramiz Alia (last)	8 November 1941 (1941-11-08)	13 June 1991 (1991-06-13)	Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism	Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy in 1991 and now known as the Socialist Party of Albania
Angola (1975–1992)	People's Movement for the Liberation of 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 <	ADP <	Ja'far Pishevari	3 September 1945 (1945-09-03)	1960 (1960)	Marxism–Leninism Azerbaijani nationalism Left-wing nationalism	Ceased to exist in exile
Benin (1975–1990)	People's Revolutionary Party of Benin	PRPB	Mathieu Kérékou	30 November 1975 (1975-11-30)	30 April 1990 (1990-04-30)	Marxism–Leninism Scientific socialism	Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy and is now known as the Union of Forces of Progress
Bulgaria (1946–1990)	Bulgarian Communist Party	PRPB	Dimitar Blagoev (first) Aleksandar Lilov (last)	27 May 1919 (1919-05-27)	3 April 1990 (1990-04-03)	Marxism–Leninism	Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy and is now known as the Bulgarian Socialist Party
Cambodia (1975–1979)	Communist Party of Kampuchea	CPK	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	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 and is now known as the Cambodian People's Party
Cape Verde (1981–1990)	African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde	PAICV	Aristides Pereira	20 January 1981		Marxism–Leninism Left-wing nationalism	Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for democratic socialism
Congo (1979–1992)	Congolese Party of Labour	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	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 and is now known as the Social Democratic Party of Croatia
Czechoslovakia (1948–1990)	Communist Party of Czechoslovakia	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 Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia and the social democratic Party of the Democratic Left (Slovakia)
Ethiopia (1979–1984)	Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia	COPWE	Mengistu Haile Mariam	17 December 1979 (1979-12-17)	12 September 1984 (1984-09-12)	Marxism–Leninism	Succeeded by the Workers' Party of Ethiopia
Ethiopia (1984–1991)	Workers' Party of Ethiopia	WPE	Mengistu Haile Mariam	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	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	Became the Party of Democratic Socialism and is now a part of The Left
Greece (1944, 1947–1949)	Communist Party of Greece	KKE	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	Lost power and ceased to exist after an internal party split, a military coup and the American invasion, succeeded by the Maurice Bishop Patriotic Movement
Hungary (1919)	Hungarian Communist Party	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	Deposed in August 1919
Hungary (1948–1989)	Hungarian Communist Party	MKP	Béla Kun (first) Mátyás Rákosi (last)	24 November 1918 (1918-11-24)	22 July 1948 (1948-07-22)		Merged with the Social Democratic Party of Hungary in the Hungarian Working People's Party
	Hungarian Working People's Party	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 Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
	Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party	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 and is now known as the Hungarian Socialist Party
Madagascar (1976–1992)	Vanguard of the Malagasy Revolution	AREMA	Didier Ratsiraka (first) Annick Zoary Ratsiraka (current)	30 November 1976 (1976-11-30)		Marxism–Leninism Left-wing nationalism	Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy and is now known as the Malagasy Revolutionary Party
Mongolia (1921–1992)	Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party	MAKhN	Damdin Sükhbaatar (first) Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene (current)	25 June 1920 (1920-06-25)		Marxism–Leninism	Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy
Mozambique (1975–1990)	FRELIMO Party	FRELIMO	Eduardo Mondlane (first) Filipe Nyusi (current)	25 June 1962 (1962-06-25)		Marxism–Leninism	Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for democratic socialism
Poland (1944–1989)	Polish Workers' Party	PPR	Władysław Gomułka	5 January 1942 (1942-01-05)	16 December 1948 (1948-12-16)	Marxism–Leninism Stalinism	Merged with the Polish Socialist Party to form the Polish United Workers' Party
Poland (1944–1989)	Polish United Workers' Party	PZPR	Bolesław Bierut (first) Mieczysław Rakowski (last)	16 December 1948 (1948-12-16)	30 January 1990 (1990-01-30)	Marxism–Leninism Left-wing nationalism	Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy and later known as the Democratic Left Alliance
Romania (1945–1989)	Romanian Communist Party	PCR	Gheorghe Cristescu (first) Nicolae Ceaușescu (last)	8 May 1921 (1921-05-08)	22 December 1989 (1989-12-22)	Marxism–Leninism Neo-Stalinism Anti-revisionism National Communism	Dissolved after the Romanian Revolution
Somalia (1976–1991)	Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party	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
Template:Country data Soviet Union (1922–1991)	Communist Party of the Soviet Union	CPSU	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	NLF	Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi	1963 (1963)	13 October 1978 (1978-10-13)	Marxism–Leninism Arab nationalism	Reorganized itself into the Yemeni Socialist Party
South Yemen (1967–1990)	Yemeni Socialist Party	YSP	Abdul Fattah Ismail (first) Abdulraham Al-Saqqaf (current)	13 October 1978 (1978-10-13)		Marxism–Leninism Arab nationalism	Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy
Template:Country data Tannu Tuva (1921–1944)	Tuvan People's Revolutionary Party	TPRP	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
Template:Country data Yugoslavia (1945–1990)	League of Communists of Yugoslavia	SKJ	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[edit]

Country	Name	Abbr.	Leaders	Founded	Dissolved	Ideology	Notes
Austria (1945–1949)	Communist Party of Austria	KPÖ	Ruth Fischer & Franz Koritschoner & Lucien Laurat (first) Mirko Messner (current)	3 November 1918 (1918-11-03)		Marxism–Leninism Anti-fascism	Participated in the provisional coalition of the Government of Austria after World War II and for four years after the 1945 Austrian legislative election
Bangladesh (1975)	Bangladesh Worker's-Peasants' People's League	BAKSAL	Sheikh Mujibur Rahman	24 February 1975 (1975-02-24)	15 August 1975 (1975-08-15)	State socialism Bengali nationalism	Dissolved after the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Chad (1993)	Chadian Action for Unity and Socialism	ACTUS	Fidèle Moungar	1 May 1981 (1981-05-01)		Marxism–Leninism Ecologism	The party's leader was chosen as Prime Minister in April 1993 by the Sovereign National Conference, but subsequently lost an October 1993 vote of no-confidence and resigned.
Cyprus (2008–2013)	Progressive Party of Working People	AKEL	Ploutis Servas (first) Stefanos Stefanou (current)	15 August 1926 (1926-08-15)		Marxism–Leninism Pacifism Cypriot nationalism	Won the 2008 election and ruled until 2013
Guyana (1992–2015)	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 Nominally: Marxism–Leninism	The party de facto abandoned Marxism–Leninism in favor of social democracy by 2015.
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
India (1996–1998)	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	PCRM	Vladimir Voronin	22 October 1993 (1993-10-22)		Democratic socialism Left-wing populism Moldovenism Pro-Russia	Deposed after the 2009 protests
Nepal (1994–1995, 2008–2013, 2015–2017, 2018–2021)	Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	CPN (UML)	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 Nepal Communist Party in 2018, refounded in 2021
Nepal (1994–1995, 2008–2013, 2015–2017, 2018–2021)	Nepal Communist Party	NCP	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

Coalition partner or supporter[edit]

Template:Flag+link (2005–2009, 2013–2014, 2021–2022) – Communist Party of Bulgaria, in coalition government as member of the Coalition for Bulgaria
Template:Flag+link (1944–1948, 1966–1970, 1970–1971, 1975–1976 and 1977–1982) – Finnish People's Democratic League, in coalition governments with numerous other parties
Template:Flag+link (1981–1989; 1997–2002) – French Communist Party as a part of the Union de la gauche and of the Gauche plurielle
Template:Flag+link (2004–2008) – Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Communist Party of India, in the coalition government of the United Progressive Alliance
Template:Flag+link (1946) – Tudeh Party of Iran, in the coalition government of Ahmad Qavam^[1]
Template:Flag+link (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
Template:Flag+link (2005–2014) – Malian Party of Labour, participated in the Alliance for Democracy in Mali
Template:Flag+link (1945) – Communist Party of Norway in coalition government as member of Gerhardsen's First Cabinet led by the Labour Party
Template:Flag+link (2011–2016) – Peruvian Communist Party, in coalition governments as member of Peru Wins
Template:Flag+link (2015–2019) – Portuguese Communist Party in support of the XXI Constitutional Government of Portugal led by the Socialist Party
Template:Flag+link (1945–1957, 1978–1992) – Sammarinese Communist Party, in coalition government with Sammarinese Socialist Party
Template:Flag+link (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
Template:Flag+link (2005–2020) – Communist Party of Uruguay and People's Victory Party, in coalition governments as members of the Broad Front

Modern non-ruling[edit]

Country/Territory	Logo		Name	Abbr.	Leader	Founded	Ideology	Legislature	Notes
Template:Country data Abkhazia			Communist Party of Abkhazia	CPA	Lev Shamba	March 1921	Marxism–Leninism	People's Assembly: 0 / 35
Afghanistan			Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan	CMPM		2004	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism	Banned	Participant in the ongoing anti-Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan
Afghanistan		File:Afghan Liberation Organization Logo (Digitized).png	Afghanistan Liberation Organization	ALO		1973	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism	Banned
Albania			Communist Party of Albania	PKSh	Qemal Cicollari	1991	Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism	Kuvendi: 0 / 140
Albania			Communist Party of Albania 8 November	PKSh 8 Nëntori	Preng Çuni	2003	Marxism-Leninism	Kuvendi: 0 / 140
Template:Flag+link			Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism	PADS	Abdelhamid Benzine	1993	Marxism–Leninism	People's National Assembly: 0 / 407 Council: 0 / 174
Template:Flag+link			Party of the Angolan Communist Community	PCCA	Baptista André José Simão	1994	Marxism–Leninism	National Assembly: 0 / 200
Template:Flag+link			Liberation Party	PL	Sergio Ortiz	5 April 1965	Marxism–Leninism	Chamber of Deputies: 0 / 257 Senate: 0 / 72
Template:Flag+link			Armenian Communist Party	HKK	Tachat Sargsyan	29 July 1991	Marxism–Leninism Pro-Russia Euroscepticism Soviet patriotism	National Assembly: 0 / 107
			United Communist Party of Armenia	HMKK		7 July 2003	Marxism–Leninism Euroscepticism	National Assembly: 0 / 107
			Progressive United Communist Party of Armenia	HAMK	Vazgen Safaryan	28 January 1998	Marxism–Leninism Soviet patriotism	National Assembly: 0 / 107
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Artsakh	AKK	Hrant Melkumyan	1996	Marxism–Leninism	National Assembly: 0 / 33
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Australia (1971)	CPA	Vinicio Molina	1971	Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism	House of Representatives: 0 / 151 Senate: 0 / 76
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Australia (Marxist–Leninist)	CPA (ML)		15 March 1964	Marxism–Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism	House of Representatives: 0 / 151 Senate: 0 / 76
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Austria	KPO	Florian Birngruber	3 November 1918	Marxism–Leninism	National Council: 0 / 183 Federal Council: 0 / 62
Template:Flag+link			Party of Labour of Austria	PdA	Tibor Zenker	12 October 2013	Marxism–Leninism	National Council: 0 / 183 Federal Council: 0 / 62
Template:Flag+link			Azerbaijan Communist Party (1993)	AzKP	Haji Hajiyev	1993	Marxism–Leninism	National Assembly: 0 / 125
			New Generation Communist Party of Azerbaijan	AYNKP	Niyazi Rajabov	2008	Marxism–Leninism	National Assembly: 0 / 125
			United Communist Party of Azerbaijan	AVKP	Sayad Sayadov	1993	Marxism–Leninism	National Assembly: 0 / 125
Template:Flag+link			National Liberation Front	NLF		15 February 1955	Marxism–Leninism	Council of Representatives: 0 / 40 Shura Council: 0 / 40	Led the 1965 March Intifada
Template:Flag+link			Progressive Democratic Tribune	PDT	Hassan Madan	14 September 2001	Market socialism Arab nationalism Anti-globalization Anti-imperialism	Council of Representatives: 1 / 40 Shura Council: 0 / 40
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Bangladesh	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
			Workers Party of Bangladesh	WPB	Fazle Hossain Badsha	1980	Marxism–Leninism	Jatiya Sangsad: 4 / 350
			Socialist Party of Bangladesh	BASAD	Khalequzzaman	7 November 1980	Marxism–Leninism	Jatiya Sangsad: 0 / 350
			Revolutionary Workers Party of Bangladesh	RWPB	Saiful Haque	14 June 2004	Marxism–Leninism	Jatiya Sangsad: 0 / 350
			Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) (Dutta)	BSD-ML	Ajoy Dutta		Maoism	Jatiya Sangsad: 0 / 350
			Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) (Umar)	BSD-ML	Badruddin Umar		Maoism	Jatiya Sangsad: 0 / 350
			Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party	PBSP	Siraj Sikder	3 June 1971	Maoism	Jatiya Sangsad: 0 / 350
			Maoist Bolshevik Reorganisation Movement of the Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party	PBSP (MBRM)		2001	Maoism	Jatiya Sangsad: 0 / 350
			Workers Peasants Socialist Party	SKSD		1969	Marxism–Leninism Revolutionary socialism	Jatiya Sangsad: 0 / 350
			United Communist League of Bangladesh	UCLB	Mosharraf Hossain Nannu	April 2013	Marxism–Leninism	Jatiya Sangsad: 0 / 350
Template:Flag+link			Belarusian Left Party "A Just World"		Sergey Kalyakin	25 October 2009	Democratic socialism Anti-Lukashenko	House of Representatives: 0 / 110 Council of the Republic: 0 / 64
Template:Flag+link			Workers' Party of Belgium	PTB PVDA	Raoul Hedebouw	1979	Marxism Feminism	Chamber of Representatives: 12 / 150 Senate: 5 / 60
Template:Flag+link		File:Logo of Communist Party of Belgium (1989).png	Communist Party of Belgium	PCB	Arne Baillière	1989	Marxism–Leninism Hard Euroscepticism	Chamber of Representatives: 0 / 150 Senate: 0 / 60
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Benin	PCB	Philippe Noudjenoume	1977	Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism	National Assembly: 0 / 83
Template:Flag+link			Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Benin	PCMLB	Magloire Yansunnu	1999	Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism	National Assembly: 0 / 83
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist)	CPB (MLM)	Comrade Umesh (nom de guerre)	22 April 2003	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism New Democratic Revolution	Banned	Engaged in guerrilla warfare against the government of Bhutan, with the goal of starting a people's war
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Bolivia	PCB	Ignacio Mendoza	1950	Marxism–Leninism	Deputies: 0 / 183 Senate: 0 / 36
			People's Revolutionary Front (Marxist−Leninist−Maoist)	FRP-MLM			Marxism–Leninism–Maoism	Deputies: 0 / 183 Senate: 0 / 36
			Communist Party of Bolivia (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist)	PCB-MLM	Luis Alberto Echazú	1983	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism	Deputies: 0 / 183 Senate: 0 / 36
Template:Flag+link			Workers' Communist Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina /	RKP-Bih / РКП-БиХ	Goran Marković	2000	Luxemburgism Workers' self-management Anti-nationalism Yugoslavism	House of Representatives: 0 / 42 House of Peoples: 0 / 15
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party /	KP / КП	Muhamed Imamović	21 February 2012	Democratic socialism Yugo-nostalgia	House of Representatives: 0 / 42 House of Peoples: 0 / 15
Template:Flag+link			Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin Movement	MELS	Mosalage Ditshoto	1994	Marxism–Leninism Maoism	Parliament: 0 / 63
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Brazil	PCdoB	Luciana Santos	23 June 1988	Marxism–Leninism	Chamber of Deputies 8 / 513 Federal Senate 0 / 81
		File:PSOL logo brazil.png	Socialism and Liberty Party	PSOL	Juliano Medeiros	6 June 2004	Democratic socialism Eco-socialism Socialism of the 21st century Libertarian socialism	Chamber of Deputies: 8 / 513
			Brazilian Communist Party	PCB	Edmilson Costa	25 March 1922	Marxism–Leninism	Chamber of Deputies 0 / 513 Federal Senate 0 / 81
			United Socialist Workers' Party	PSTU	Zé Maria	5 June 1994	Trotskyism Morenism	Chamber of Deputies 0 / 513 Federal Senate 0 / 81
			Workers' Cause Party	PCO	Rui Costa Pimenta	7 December 1995	Marxism Trotskyism Social libertarianism Anti-imperialism	Chamber of Deputies 0 / 513 Federal Senate 0 / 81
			Revolutionary Communist Party	PCR		May 1966	Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Guevarism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism Foco theory	Chamber of Deputies 0 / 513 Federal Senate 0 / 81	Not registered in Brazil's Superior Electoral Court
			Popular Unity	UP	Leonardo Péricles	16 June 2016	Revolutionary socialism Anti-capitalism Anti-imperialism Anti-racism	Chamber of Deputies 0 / 513 Federal Senate 0 / 81
Template:Flag+link			Bulgarian Communist Party	BKP	Zonka Zlatkova Spasov	1990	Marxism–Leninism Stalinism	National Assembly: 0 / 240
			Communist Party of Bulgaria	CPB	Aleksandar Paunov	1996	Marxism–Leninism	National Assembly: 0 / 240
			Party of the Bulgarian Communists	PBK	Collective leadership	15 July 2006	Marxism–Leninism	National Assembly: 0 / 240
			Union of Communists in Bulgaria	SKB	Pavel Ivanov	1995	Marxism	National Assembly: 0 / 240
Template:Flag+link			Party for Democracy and Socialism/Metba	PDS/ Metba	Hama Arba Diallo	31 March 2012	Socialism	National Assembly: 1 / 127
Template:Flag+link			Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party	PCRV		1 October 1978	Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism	National Assembly: 0 / 127
Template:Flag+link		File:Logo of the Communist Party of Canada.svg	Communist Party of Canada	CPC PCC	Elizabeth Rowley	28 May 1921	Marxism–Leninism	House of Commons: 0 / 338 Senate: 0 / 105
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist)	CPC (ML) PCC (ML)	Anna Di Carlo	31 March 1970	Marxism–Leninism	House of Commons: 0 / 338 Senate: 0 / 105
Template:Flag+link			Maoist Communist Party of China	MCPC	Bo Xilai (nominal) Ma Houzhi (actual)	28 November 2008	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism	Banned	De facto banned in China due to not being a member of the United Front.
Template:Flag+link			Revolutionary Communist Party of China	RCPC		September 1948	Marxism Trotskyism	Legislative Council: 0 / 183	Active in Hong Kong. Participant in the 1970s Hong Kong student protests.
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Colombia (Marxist–Leninist)	PCdeC (M-L)		1965	Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism	Chamber of Representatives: 0 / 188 Senate: 0 / 108
			Colombian Communist Party – Maoist	PCC-M		7 August 2001	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism	Chamber of Representatives: 0 / 188 Senate: 0 / 108
			Revolutionary Communist Group	GCR		1982	Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism	Chamber of Representatives: 0 / 188 Senate: 0 / 108
			Revolutionary Independent Labour Movement	MOIR	Gustavo Triana	1970	Maoism New Democracy Francisco Mosquera Thought	Chamber of Representatives: 0 / 188 Senate: 0 / 108
Template:Flag+link			People's Vanguard Party	PVP	Humberto Vargas Carbonell	16 June 1931	Marxism–Leninism	Legislative Assembly: 0 / 57	Banned from 1949 to 1975
Template:Flag+link			Revolutionary Communist Party of Ivory Coast	PCRCI	Achy Ekissi	1990	Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism
Template:Flag+link			Socialist Labour Party of Croatia	SRP	Kristofor Stokić	25 October 1997	Marxism–Leninism	Sabor: 0 / 151
Template:Flag+link			Workers Front	RF	Collective leadership	9 May 2014	Democratic socialism Social progressivism Socialist feminism Anti-fascism Anti-clericalism Eco-socialism	Sabor: 1 / 151
Template:Flag+link			Progressive Party of Working People	AKEL	Stefanos Stefanou	15 August 1926	Marxism–Leninism Pacifism Cypriot nationalism	House of Representatives 15 / 56	Won the 2008 election and ruled until 2013
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia	KSČM	Kateřina Konečná	31 March 1990	Marxism Euroscepticism 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.
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Denmark	DKP	Henrik Stamer Hedin	9 November 1919	Marxism–Leninism	Folketing: 0 / 179
			Communist Party	KP	Lotte Rørtoft-Madsen	2006	Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism	Folketing: 0 / 179
			Workers' Communist Party	APK	Dorte Grenaa	April 2000	Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism	Folketing: 0 / 179
			Communist Party in Denmark	KPiD	Rikke G.F. Carlsson	1990	Marxism–Leninism	Folketing: 0 / 179
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Labour	PCT	Manuel Salazar	1980	Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism	Chamber of Deputies: 0 / 190 Senate: 0 / 32
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic	CPDPR	Boris Litvinov	8 October 2014	Marxism–Leninism Soviet patriotism	People's Council: 0 / 100
Template:Flag+link			Socialist Party of Timor	PST	Avelino Coelho da Silva	11 February 1997	Marxism–Leninism	National Parliament: 0 / 65
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Ecuador	PCE	Winston Alarcón Elizalde	23 May 1926	Marxism–Leninism	National Assembly: 0 / 137
			Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador	PCMLE	Oswaldo Palacios	1 August 1964	Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism	National Assembly: 0 / 137
			Workers' Party of Ecuador	PTE		1996	Marxism-Leninism	National Assembly: 0 / 137	Not registered with Ecuador's National Electoral Council
			Communist Party of Ecuador – Red Sun	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
Template:Flag+link			Egyptian Communist Party	ECP	Salah Adli	1975	Marxism–Leninism	House of Representatives: 0 / 596 Senate: 0 / 300
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of El Salvador	PCS		27 March 2005	Marxism–Leninism	Legislative Assembly: 0 / 84
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Estonia	EKP	vacant	26 March 1990	Marxism–Leninism	Banned	Banned in Estonia following the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, continues to operate underground
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Swaziland	CPS	Thokozane Kenneth	9 April 2011	Marxism–Leninism Republicanism	Banned	Participant in the 2021–2023 Eswatini protests
Template:Flag+link			All-Ethiopia Socialist Movement	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.
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Finland	SKP	Juha-Pekka Väisänen	1984	Marxism–Leninism	Parliament : 0 / 200
			Communist Workers' Party – For Peace and Socialism	KTP	Mikko Vartiainen	1988	Marxism–Leninism Hard Euroscepticism	Parliament: 0 / 200
			League of Communists	KL	Kalevi Wahrman	14 September 2002	Marxism–Leninism	Parliament: 0 / 200
Template:Flag+link			French Communist Party	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	NPA	Collective leadership	8 February 2009	Trotskyism Alter-globalisation	National Assembly: 0 / 577 Senate: 0 / 348
			Pole of Communist Revival in France	PRCF	Léon Landini	January 2004	Marxism-Leninism	National Assembly: 0 / 577 Senate: 0 / 348
			Workers' Communist Party of France	PCOF	Collective leadership	1979	Marxism-Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism	National Assembly: 0 / 577 Senate: 0 / 348
			Marxist–Leninist Communist Organization – Proletarian Way	OCML-VP		September 1976	Marxism-Leninism-Maoism	National Assembly: 0 / 577 Senate: 0 / 348
			Revolutionary Left	GR		1992	Marxism Trotskyism	National Assembly: 0 / 577 Senate: 0 / 348
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Georgia	SKP		1992	Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism	Parliament: 0 / 150
			Unified Communist Party of Georgia	SEKP	Nugzar Shalvovich Avaliani	June 1994	Marxism–Leninism Soviet patriotism	Parliament: 0 / 150
			New Communist Party of Georgia	SAKP		2001	Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism	Parliament: 0 / 150
Template:Flag+link			German Communist Party	DKP	Patrik Köbele	1968	Marxism-Leninism	Bundestag: 0 / 709
			Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany	MLPD	Gabi Fechtner	1982	Marxism-Leninism	Bundestag: 0 / 709
			Communist Party of Germany (Red Dawn)	KPD-RM		1985	Marxism-Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism	Bundestag: 0 / 709
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Greece	KKE	Dimitris Koutsoumpas	17 November 1918	Marxism-Leninism	Hellenic Parliament: 26 / 300	Banned by the government of Greece from 1936 to 1974. Led the Political Committee of National Liberation during World War II and the Provisional Democratic Government and Democratic Army of Greece during the 1946–1949 Greek Civil War.
			Marxist Leninist Communist Party of Greece	M-L KKE	Collective leadership	November 1976	Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism	Hellenic Parliament: 0 / 300
		File:Logo CPG(m-l).png	Communist Party of Greece (Marxist–Leninist)	KKE (m-l)	Grigoris Konstantopoulos	November 1976	Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism	Hellenic Parliament: 0 / 300
			Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece	OAKKE	Elias Zafiropoulos.	20 July 1985	Marxism-Leninism Maoism	Hellenic Parliament: 0 / 300
			Movement for the Reorganization of the Communist Party of Greece 1918–1955	Anasintaxi	Tasos Mpallos	1996	Marxism-Leninism Stalinism Hoxhaism Zachariadism Anti-revisionism	Hellenic Parliament: 0 / 300
			Communist Renewal	KA	Collective leadership	2000	Marxism Euroscepticism	Hellenic Parliament: 0 / 300
			Left Anti-capitalist Group	AR.A.S	Collective leadership	1998	Maoism Anti-capitalism	Hellenic Parliament: 0 / 300
			Left Group	ARI.S	Collective leadership	25 October 2012	Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-capitalism Anti-revisionism	Hellenic Parliament: 0 / 300
			Left Recomposition	AR.ΑΝ		2003	Maoism Anti-capitalism	Hellenic Parliament: 0 / 300
			New Left Current	NAR	Collective leadership	1989	New Left Eco-socialism	Hellenic Parliament: 0 / 300
			Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece	EKKE	Collective leadership	1970	Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism	Hellenic Parliament: 0 / 300
Template:Flag+link			Guadeloupe Communist Party	PCG	Alain-Félix Flémin	30 March 1958	Marxism Guadeloupean autonomy	National Assembly: 0 / 577 Senate: 0 / 348
Template:Flag+link			Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity	URNG-MAIZ	Gregorio Chay	7 February 1982	Left-wing nationalism Indigenismo Christian socialism Socialism of the 21st century Anti-capitalism	Congress: 3 / 160	Founded as an umbrella organization uniting various leftist militant groups active in the Guatemalan Civil War. Laid down arms in 1996 and became a legally registered opposition party in 1998.
Template:Flag+link			New Haitian Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist)	NPCH(ML)	Vania Lubin	2000	Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Maoism Anti-revisionism	Chamber of Deputies: 0 / 119 Senate: 0 / 30
Template:Flag+link			Hungarian Workers' Party	MMP	Gyula Thürmer	17 December 1989	Marxism-Leninism Euroscepticism	National Assembly: 0 / 199
Template:Flag+link			Workers' Party of Hungary 2006 - European Left	EB	Attila Vajnai	November 2005	Marxism Eurocommunism	National Assembly: 0 / 199
Template:Flag+link			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: 3 / 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	Lok Sabha: 0 / 543 Rajya Sabha: 0 / 245
			Marxist Forward Bloc	MFB	Jaihind Singh	12 November 1953	Marxism Left-wing populism	Lok Sabha: 0 / 543 Rajya Sabha: 0 / 245
			Bolshevik Party of India	BPI		1939	Marxism–Leninism	Lok Sabha: 0 / 543 Rajya Sabha: 0 / 245
			Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation	CPI(ML)L	Dipankar Bhattacharya	1974	Marxism–Leninism Mao-Zedong-Thought	Lok Sabha: 0 / 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	Lok Sabha: 0 / 543 Rajya Sabha: 0 / 245
			Revolutionary Marxist Party of India	RMPI	Mangat Ram Pasla	2016	Marxism–Leninism	Lok Sabha: 0 / 543 Rajya Sabha: 0 / 245
			Communist Marxist Party	CMP	C. P. John	1986	Marxism–Leninism Luxemburgism	Lok Sabha: 0 / 543 Rajya Sabha: 0 / 245
			Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) New Democracy	CPIML ND	Yatendra Kumar	1988	Naxalism New Democracy	Lok Sabha: 0 / 543 Rajya Sabha: 0 / 245
			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
Template:Flag+link			Tudeh Party of Iran		Collective leadership	2 October 1941	Marxism-Leninism Stalinism Left-wing nationalism Anti-revisionism	Banned
			Komalah		Ibrahim Alizade	1984	Marxism-Leninism Internationalism		Kurdish branch of Communist Party of Iran, designated a terrorist organization by the government of Iran
			Communist Party of Iran	CPI	Collective leadership	2 September 1983	Marxism-Leninism Revolutionary socialism
			Communist Party of Iran (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist)	CPI (MLM)		2001	Marxism-Leninism-Maoism New Synthesis Secularism
			Labour Party of Iran			1965	Marxism-Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism
			Worker-communist Party of Iran	WPI	Hamid Taqvaee	1991	Workerism Third camp
			Worker-communist Party of Iran – Hekmatist	WPI-Hekmatist	Jamal Kamangar	2004	Workerism
			Fedaian Organisation (Minority)		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)		Ḥosayn Zohari	1985	Marxism-Leninism
			Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas – Followers of the Identity Platform		Mehdi Sāmeʿ	1983	Marxism-Leninism
			Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas	IFPG	Ashraf Dehghani	c. April 1979; 46 years ago (1979-04)	Marxism-Leninism		Participant in the 1979 Kurdish rebellion
Template:Flag+link			Iraqi Communist Party	ICP	Raid Jahid Fahmi	31 March 1934	Classical Marxism Reformism Secularism Nonsectarianism	Council of Representatives: 0 / 329	Operated mostly 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.
			Worker-communist Party of Iraq		Amir Adil	July 1993	Marxism Workerism Third camp	Council of Representatives: 0 / 329
			Left Worker-communist Party of Iraq		Issam Shukri	2004	Trotskyism Workerism Third camp	Council of Representatives: 0 / 329
			Communist Party of Kurdistan – Iraq		Kawa Mahmud	1993	Marxism-Leninism Kurdish nationalism Nonsectarianism	Council of Representatives (Iraq): 0 / 329 Kurdistan Parliament: 1 / 111	Regional party active in Kurdistan
			Worker-communist Party of Kurdistan		Osman Hajy Marouf	2008	Marxism Workerism Third camp	Council of Representatives (Iraq): 0 / 329 Kurdistan Parliament: 0 / 111	Regional party active in Kurdistan
Template:Flag+link			Workers' Party		Collective leadership	28 November 1905	Marxism-Leninism Irish republicanism	Dáil Éireann: 0 / 160 Seanad Éireann: 0 / 60
			Communist Party of Ireland	CPI	Janelle McAteer	3–4 June 1933	Marxism-Leninism Hard Euroscepticism	Dáil Éireann: 0 / 160 Seanad Éireann: 0 / 60
			Irish Republican Socialist Party	IRSP	Collective leadership ()	8 December 1974	Marxism-Leninism Irish republicanism Anti-globalisation Hard Euroscepticism	Dáil Éireann: 0 / 160 Seanad Éireann: 0 / 60
Template:Flag+link			Israeli Communist Party המפלגה הקומוניסטית הישראלית‎	Maki מק״י‎‎	Collective leadership	1 September 1965	Marxism-Leninism Alter-globalization Anti-Zionism	Knesset: 0 / 120	Merged into Hadash in 1977 and as of 2022 its largest faction
			The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality החזית הדמוקרטית לשלום ולשוויון‎‎‎	Hadash חד״ש‎‎	Ayman Odeh	15 March 1977	Marxism Communism Two-state Solution	Knesset: 4 / 120	Formed from a merger of Rakah, the Black Panthers, and Moked. Formerly ran as a part of the Joint List.
			Da'am Workers Party דעם מפלגת פועלים‎	Da'am דע"ם‎	Collective leadership	1995	Secularism Marxism Eco-socialism Revolutionary socialism Postnationalism Non-Zionism One-state solution	Knesset: 0 / 120
Template:Flag+link			Communist Refoundation Party	PRC	Maurizio Acerbo	6 January 1991	Eco-socialism Feminism Anti-capitalism Anti-fascism Anti-imperialism Soft Euroscepticism	Chamber of Deputies: 0 / 400 Senate: 0 / 206
			Italian Communist Party	PCI	Mauro Alboresi	26 June 2016	Marxism-Leninism Anti-imperialism Euroscepticism	Chamber of Deputies: 0 / 400 Senate: 0 / 206
		File:PMLI.svg	Italian Marxist–Leninist Party	PMLI	Giovanni Scuderi	April 1977	Marxism-Leninism Stalinism Maoism Bolshevism Anti-revisionism Anti-fascism	Chamber of Deputies: 0 / 400 Senate: 0 / 206
			Communist Party	PC	Marco Rizzo	3 July 2009	Marxism-Leninism Anti-revisionism Hard Euroscepticism	Chamber of Deputies: 0 / 400 Senate: 0 / 206
			Communist Alternative Party	PdAC	Francesco Ricci	7 January 2007	Trotskyism	Chamber of Deputies: 0 / 400 Senate: 0 / 206
Template:Flag+link			Japanese Communist Party	JCP	Kazuo Shii	15 July 1922	Scientific socialism Progressivism Pacifism	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)			1980	Marxism-Leninism Stalinism Maoism Anti-revisionism	Representatives: 0 / 465 Councillors: 0 / 248
			Japanese Communist Party (Left Faction)			1969	Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Anti-revisionism	Representatives: 0 / 465 Councillors: 0 / 248
Template:Flag+link			Jordanian Communist Party	JCP	Faraj Al-Tameezi	1948	Marxism-Leninism Republicanism	House of Representatives: 0 / 130 Senate: 0 / 75
Template:Flag+link			Jordanian Democratic People's Party	HASHD		1989	Marxism-Leninism Palestinian nationalism Anti-Zionism Left-wing nationalism Secularism	House of Representatives: 0 / 130 Senate: 0 / 75
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Kazakhstan /	ҚКП / QKP	Toleubek Makhzhanov	16 October 1991	Marxism-Leninism Soviet patriotism	Banned
Template:Flag+link			Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan /	ҚСҚ / QSQ	Ainur Kurmanov	20–21 May 2006	Marxism-Leninism	Banned
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Kenya	CPK	Kinuthia Ndung'u	1992	Marxism–Leninism Pan-Africanism	National Assembly: 0 / 349 Senate: 0 / 67
Template:Flag+link			Kuwaiti Progressive Movement				Anti-capitalism Anti-imperialism	National Assembly: 0 / 64
Template:Flag+link			Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan	PKK	Iskhak Masaliyev	22 June 1992	Marxism-Leninism Soviet patriotism	Supreme Council: 0 / 90
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan	KPK	Clara Azhibekovna	29 August 1999	Marxism-Leninism	Supreme Council: 0 / 90
Template:Flag+link			Socialist Party of Latvia	LSP	Vladimirs Frolovs	15 January 1994	Marxism-Leninism	Saeima: 0 / 100
Template:Flag+link			Lebanese Communist Party	LCP	Hanna Gharib	1924	Marxism-Leninism Nonsectarianism	Parliament: 1 / 128
Template:Flag+link			Communist Action Organization in Lebanon	CAOL	Zaki Taha	1970	Marxism-Leninism Maoism	Parliament: 0 / 128
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Lesotho	CPL	Manny Stevenson	5 May 1962	Marxism-Leninism	National Assembly: 0 / 120 Senate: 0 / 33
Template:Flag+link			Socialist People's Front	SLF	Giedrius Grabauskas	2009	Marxism-Leninism Democratic socialism Left-wing nationalism	Seimas: 0 / 141
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Lithuania	LKP	vacant	1 October 1918	Marxism-Leninism Soviet patriotism	Banned	Banned in Lithuania following the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, continues to operate underground
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Luxembourg	KPL PCL	Ali Ruckert	2 January 1921	Marxism-Leninism Hard Euroscepticism	Chamber of Deputies: 0 / 60
Template:Flag+link			Congress Party for the Independence of Madagascar	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
Template:Flag+link			Malian Party of Labour	PMT		1965	Marxism-Leninism Hoxhaism	National Assembly: 0 / 147	Member of the Alliance for Democracy in Mali since 1990
Template:Flag+link			African Solidarity for Democracy and Independence	SADI	Oumar Mariko	1996	Marxism-Leninism Pan-Africanism	National Assembly: 3 / 147
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Malta	PKM	Victor Degiovanni	1969	Marxism-Leninism	House of Representatives: 0 / 79
Template:Flag+link			Martinican Communist Party	PCM	Georges Erichot	September 1957	Autonomism	Assembly of Martinique: 0 / 51
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party for Independence and Socialism	PCLS PKLS		22 May 1984	Marxism–Leninism Martinican independence	Assembly of Martinique: 0 / 51
Template:Flag+link			Popular Socialist Party of Mexico	PPSM	Cuauhtémoc Amezcua Dromundo	1997	Marxism–Leninism Anti-imperialism Latin American integration	Chamber of Deputies: 0 / 500 Senate of the Republic: 0 / 128	Not registered or recognized by the Instituto Nacional Electoral
			Communist Party of Mexico	PCM	Pável Blanco Cabrera	20 November 1994	Marxism–Leninism	Chamber of Deputies: 0 / 500 Senate of the Republic: 0 / 128
			Communist Party of Mexico (Marxist–Leninist)	PCM (ML)		1978	Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism	Chamber of Deputies: 0 / 500 Senate of the Republic: 0 / 128
			Communists' Party	PdelosC	Luis Alfonso Vargas Silva	2003	Marxism–Leninism	Chamber of Deputies: 0 / 500 Senate of the Republic: 0 / 128
Template:Flag+link			Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova	PCRM	Vladimir Voronin	22 October 1993	Marxism–Leninism Social conservatism Soviet patriotism Moldovenism Pro-Russia	Parliament: 8 / 101	Member of BECS
Template:Flag+link			Yugoslav Communist Party of Montenegro	JKP CG / ЈКП-ЦГ	Radislav Stanišić	25 September 2009	Titoism Pensioners' rights Yugo-nostalgia	Parliament: 0 / 81
Template:Flag+link		File:PVD-maroc.jpg	Democratic Way		Abdallah El Harif	1995	Marxism Anti-imperialism	House of Representatives: 0 / 395 House of Councillors: 0 / 120
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Burma	CPB		15 August 1939	Marxism-Leninism Mao-Zedong-Thought	Banned	Led the Communist insurgency in Burma from 1948 to 1989. Rearmed itself in 2021 and is currently engaged in guerrilla warfare against the State Administration Council
Template:Flag+link			Workers Revolutionary Party	WRP	Collective leadership	May 1989	Trotskyism	National Assembly: 0 / 104 National Council: 0 / 42
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	CPN (UML)	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 Nepal Communist Party in 2018, refounded in 2021
			Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist)	CPN (ML)	C. P. Mainali	17 February 2002	Marxism-Leninism	House of Representatives: 0 / 275 National Assembly: 0 / 59
			Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party	NWPP	Narayan Man Bijukchhe	23 January 1975	Marxism-Leninism Maoism	House of Representatives: 1 / 275 National Assembly: 0 / 59
			Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist)		Durga Prasad Gyawali	2006	Marxism-Leninism	House of Representatives: 0 / 275 National Assembly: 0 / 59
			Communist Party of Nepal (Revolutionary Maoist)	CPN (RM)	Mohan Baidya	19 June 2012	Marxism-Leninism-Maoism	House of Representatives: 0 / 275 National Assembly: 0 / 59	Operates underground and participates in elections through a front organization; the Patriotic People's Republican Front
Template:Flag+link			New Communist Party of the Netherlands	NCPN	Job Pruijser	14 November 1992	Marxism–Leninism	House of Representatives: 0 / 150 Senate: 0 / 75
			United Communist Party	VCP	Engel Modderman	1999	Marxism–Leninism	House of Representatives: 0 / 150 Senate: 0 / 75
			Group of Marxist–Leninists/Red Dawn	GML/Rode Morgen	Jeroen Toussaint	1977	Marxism–Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism	House of Representatives: 0 / 150 Senate: 0 / 75
Template:Flag+link			Communist League	The League		1969	Marxism–Leninism	House of Representatives: 0 / 120
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Nicaragua	PCdeN; PCN		12 October 1967	Marxism–Leninism	National Assembly: 0 / 90
Template:Flag+link			Marxist–Leninist Popular Action Movement	MAP-ML		1972	Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism	National Assembly: 0 / 90
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Macedonia — Tito's forces	KPM-TS	Goran Arsovski	26 October 2005	Marxism-Leninism Titoism	Assembly: 0 / 120
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Norway	NKP	Runa Evensen	4 November 1923	Marxism-Leninism Hard Euroscepticism	Storting: 0 / 169
Template:Flag+link			Red Party	R	Bjørnar Moxnes	11 March 2007	Democratic socialism Revolutionary socialism	Storting: 8 / 169
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Pakistan	CPP	Imdad Qazi	6 March 1948	Marxism-Leninism	National Assembly: 0 / 342 Senate: 0 / 100	Not registered with the Election Commission of Pakistan
Template:Flag+link			Mazdoor Kisan Party	MKP	Afzal Khamosh	1 May 1968	Marxism-Leninism Maoism	National Assembly: 0 / 342 Senate: 0 / 100
Template:Flag+link		File:PFLP Infobox Flag.svg	Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine	PFLP	Ahmad Sa'adat	11 December 1967 (1967-12-11)	Palestinian nationalism Marxism–Leninism Revolutionary socialism One-state solution Anti-zionism	Legislative Council: 3 / 132	Member of the PLO, opposed to the Hamas government of the Gaza Strip
			Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine	DFLP	Nayef Hawatmeh	1969 (1969)	Marxism–Leninism Palestinian nationalism Left-wing nationalism Anti-Zionism	Legislative Council: 1 / 132
			Palestinian People's Party	PPP	Bassam Al-Salhi	February 1982 (1982-02)	Marxism Palestinian nationalism Left-wing nationalism	Legislative Council: 1 / 132
			Palestinian Communist Party		Mahmoud Saadeh	December 1991	Marxism-Leninism Palestinian nationalism	Legislative Council: 0 / 132
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) of Panama	PC(ml)P		January 9, 1980	Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism	National Assembly: 0 / 71
Template:Flag+link			November 29 National Liberation Movement	MLN-29		July 29, 1970	Marxism Anti-imperialism	National Assembly: 0 / 71
Template:Flag+link			Paraguayan Communist Party	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	Chamber of Deputies: 0 / 80 Senate: 0 / 45
			Paraguayan Communist Party (independent)	PCP(i)		1967	Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism	Chamber of Deputies: 0 / 80 Senate: 0 / 45
Peru			Peruvian Communist Party	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	PCP-PR	Alberto Moreno	1970 (1970)	Marxism–Leninism Mariáteguism Socialist patriotism	Congress: 0 / 130
			Free Peru^[2]	PL	Vladimir Cerron	13 August 2008 (2008-08-13)	Socialism Marxism–Leninism Mariáteguism	Congress: 32 / 130
			Peruvian Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist)	PCP (ML)		January 1964	Marxism-Leninism Stalinism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism	Congress: 0 / 130
			Shining Path	PCP; PCP-SL		1969	Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Gonzalo Thought Anti-revisionism Revolutionary socialism	Banned	Designated a terrorist organization by the government of Peru
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of the Philippines	CPP	Benito Tiamzon (alleged)	26 December 1968	National democracy Marxism-Leninism-Maoism	Banned	Participant in the ongoing communist rebellion in the Philippines, designated a terrorist organization by the government of the Philippines and the United States Department of State
			Philippine Communist Party-1930	PKP-1930	Antonio E. Paris	7 November 1930	Marxism-Leninism	House of Representatives: 0 / 316 Senate: 0 / 24
			Marxist–Leninist Party of the Philippines	MLPP		1998	Marxism-Leninism	Banned	Participant in the ongoing communist rebellion in the Philippines
Template:Flag+link		File:Logo Komunistycznej Partii Polski (2002).svg	Polish Communist Party	KPP	Krzysztof Szwej	9 October 2002	Marxism-Leninism Stalinism Anti-revisionism	Sejm: 0 / 460 Senate: 0 / 100
Template:Flag+link			Portuguese Communist Party	PCP	Collective leadership	6 March 1921	Marxism-Leninism	Assembly of the Republic: 6 / 230
			Portuguese Workers' Communist Party	PCTP/MRPP	Maria Cidália Guerreiro	1970	Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism	Assembly of the Republic: 0 / 230
			Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat – Bases for Revolution	PRP-BR	Luis Cardoso	17 July 2002	Marxism Guevarism	Assembly of the Republic: 0 / 230	Founded as a successor to the Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat - Revolutionary Brigades
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Puerto Rico	PCPR		2010	Marxism-Leninism Anti-imperialism Puerto Rican Independence	House: 0 / 51 Senate: 0 / 27
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Réunion	PCR	Élie Hoarau	1959	Post-Marxism Regionalism	National Assembly: 0 / 577 Senate: 1 / 348
Template:Flag+link			Communitarian Party of Romania	PCDR	Petre Ignatencu	19 March 2010	Communitarianism Progressivism	Chamber of Deputies: 0 / 330 Senate: 0 / 136
Template:Flag+link			Romanian Socialist Party	PSR	Constantin Rotaru	July 2003	Eurocommunism Progressivism Equality feminism Left-wing nationalism	Chamber of Deputies: 0 / 330 Senate: 0 / 136
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of the Russian Federation	CPRF	Gennady Zyuganov	14 February 1993 (1993-02-14)	Marxism–Leninism Left-wing nationalism Soviet patriotism	State Duma: 57 / 450 Federation Council: 4 / 178
			Left Front		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	RCWP-CPSU	Stepan Malentsov	27 October 2001	Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Anti-revisionism	State Duma: 0 / 450 Federation Council: 0 / 178
			Russian Labour Front	RTF	Alexander Batov	22 February 2010	Marxism–Leninism	State Duma: 0 / 450 Federation Council: 0 / 178
			Russian Maoist Party	RMP	Collective leadership	9 June 2000	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Anti-revisionism Proletarian internationalism Feminism	State Duma: 0 / 450 Federation Council: 0 / 178
		File:Trudovaya Rossiay logo.2.png	Labour Russia	LR	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	RPSS	Konstantin Rykov	8 April 2012	Social democracy Russian nationalism	State Duma: 0 / 450 Federation Council: 0 / 178
			Communists of Russia	CPCR	Sergey Malinkovich	23 May 2009	Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Anti-revisionism	State Duma: 0 / 450 Federation Council: 0 / 178
Template:Flag+link			New Communist Party of Yugoslavia /	NKPJ	Aleksandar Banjanac	30 June 1990	Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Anti-revisionism Yugoslavism	National Assembly: 0 / 250
Template:Flag+link			Party of Labour /	PR	Collective leadership	28 March 1992	Marxism–Leninism	National Assembly: 0 / 250
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Slovakia	KSS	Jozef Hrdlička	29 August 1992	Marxism–Leninism	National Council: 0 / 150
Template:Flag+link			Dawn		Luciana Hoptová	25 May 2005	Marxism	National Council: 0 / 150
Template:Flag+link		File:Eff-flag.png	Economic Freedom Fighters	EFF	Julius Malema	26 July 2013	Marxism–Leninism Fanonism Sankarism Anti-imperialism Pan-Africanism Black nationalism Anti-Zionism	National Assembly: 44 / 400 National Council of Provinces: 11 / 90	Currently the third-largest party in both houses of the South African Parliament.
Template:Flag+link			Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party	SRWP	Irvin Jim	March 2019	Marxism-Leninism	National Assembly: 0 / 400 National Council of Provinces: 0 / 90
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of South Ossetia	CPSO	Stanislav Kochiev	1993	Marxism–Leninism Soviet patriotism	Parliament: 1 / 34
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of South Sudan	CPSS	Joseph Wol Modesto	June 2011	Marxism–Leninism	National Legislative Assembly: 0 / 400 Council of States: 0 / 100
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain	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)	PCE (m-l)		2006	Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism Republicanism	Congress of Deputies: 0 / 350 Senate: 0 / 263
			Communist Party of Spain (Reconstituted)	PCE(r)	Manuel Pérez Martínez	1975	Marxism–Leninism Republicanism	Banned	Banned in 2003 due to links to the First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups. Inactive as of 2006, though not officially dissolved.
			Marxist–Leninist Party (Communist Reconstruction)	PML(RC) / RC	Roberto Vaquero Arribas	6 October 2014	Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Anti-fascism Republicanism	Congress of Deputies: 0 / 350 Senate: 0 / 263	Temporarily banned from December 2014 to 2017 due to alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party.
			Communist Unification of Spain	UCE		1973	Marxism–Leninism Mao Zedong thought	Congress of Deputies: 0 / 350 Senate: 0 / 263
			Spanish Communist Workers' Party	PCOE	Francisco Barjas	1973	Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Anti-revisionism Anti-fascism Republicanism	Congress of Deputies: 0 / 350 Senate: 0 / 263
			Revolutionary Communist Party	PCR		1994	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Anti-revisionism	Congress of Deputies: 0 / 350 Senate: 0 / 263
			Marxist–Leninist Front of the Peoples of Spain	F(M-L)PE	Gregorio Fernandez Lopez	1987	Marxism–Leninism	Congress of Deputies: 0 / 350 Senate: 0 / 263
			Democratic Labour Party	PTD	Miguel Ángel Villalón	2013	Marxism–Leninism Republicanism Feminism	Congress of Deputies: 0 / 350 Senate: 0 / 263
			Living Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia	PSUC Viu	Collective leadership	June 1997	Republicanism Federalism	Parliament of Catalonia: 0 / 135	Regional party active in Catalonia
			United and Alternative Left	EUiA	Joan Josep Nuet	1998	Marxism Ecologism Catalan self-determination Republicanism	Parliament of Catalonia: 0 / 135	Regional party active in Catalonia
			Galician People's Union	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	MGS	Rafa Villar	2009	Galician nationalism Galician self-determination Euroscepticism Feminism	Parliament of Galicia: 1 / 75
			Galician People's Front	FPG	Mariano Abalo	1986	Marxism-Leninism Galician self-determination	Parliament of Galicia: 0 / 75	Regional party active in Galicia
Template:Flag+link			Sudanese Communist Party	SCP	Muhammad Mukhtar Al-Khatib	1946	Marxism–Leninism	Transitional Legislative Council: 0 / 300
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Sweden	SKP	Andreas Sörensen	1977	Marxism–Leninism Hard Euroscepticism	Riksdag: 0 / 349
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party	K	Povel Johansson	1970	Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism	Riksdag: 0 / 349
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party	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
Template:Flag+link			Swiss Party of Labour	PdA PST-POP PdL-POP	Norberto Crivelli	14 October 1944	Marxism	National Council: 1 / 200 Council of States: 0 / 46
Template:Flag+link			Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna	JVP	Anura Kumara Dissanayake	14 May 1965	Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Revolutionary socialism Anti-imperialism	Parliament: 3 / 225
			Communist Party of Sri Lanka	CPSL	G. Weerasinghe	1943	Marxism–Leninism	Parliament: 1 / 225	Part of various different coalition governments from 1970–1975, 1994–2000, 2004–2015 and 2020–2022
			Lanka Sama Samaja Party	LSSP	Tissa Vitharana	18 December 1935	Trotskyism	Parliament: 1 / 225
			Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist)	CCP (Maoist)		1964	Marxism–Leninism Mao Zedong Thought Anti-revisionism	Parliament: 0 / 225
			Socialist Equality Party	SEP	Deepal Jayasekera	1964	Trotskyism	Parliament: 0 / 225
			Socialist Party of Sri Lanka	SPSL		2006	Marxism Trotskyism	Parliament: 0 / 225
			United Socialist Party	USP	Siritunga Jayasuriya	2006	Marxism Trotskyism	Parliament: 0 / 225
			New Democratic Marxist–Leninist Party	NDMLP	S. K. Senthivel	3 July 1978	Marxism-Leninism Mao Zedong Thought Anti-revisionism	Parliament: 0 / 225
			Frontline Socialist Party	FLSP	Premakumar Gunaratnam	9 April 2012	Marxism-Leninism Anti-imperialism Revolutionary socialism	Parliament: 0 / 225
Template:Flag+link			People's Will Party	PWP	Collective leadership	2012	Marxism-Leninism	People's Assembly: 0 / 250
Template:Flag+link			Communist Action Party		Fateh Jamous	August 1976	Marxism-Leninism	Banned
Template:Flag+link			Taiwan People's Communist Party	TPCP	Lin Te-wang	4 February 2017	Chinese unification	Legislative Yuan: 0 / 113
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Tajikistan	KPT		6 December 1924	Marxism–Leninism
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: F8F9FA" \|		Communist Party of Togo	PCT		4 May 1980	Hoxhaism
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: F8F9FA" \|		Pridnestrovie Communist Party	PCP	Nadezhda Bondarenko	20 April 2003	Marxism–Leninism Soviet patriotism
Template:Flag+link			Workers' Party
Template:Flag+link			Democratic Patriots' Unified Party
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Turkey	TKP	Kemal Okuyan	11 November 2001	Marxism–Leninism	Grand National Assembly: 0 / 600
			Workers' Party of Turkey	TİP	Erkan Baş	7 November 2001	Marxism–Leninism Left-wing populism	Grand National Assembly: 4 / 600
			Labour Party	EMEP	Selma Gürkan	25 November 1996	Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism	Grand National Assembly: 2 / 600
	style="background-color: F8F9FA" \|		Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist	TKP/ML		24 April 1972	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism	Banned
	style="background-color: F8F9FA" \|		Marxist–Leninist Communist Party	MLKP		10 September 1994	Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Hoxhaism
	style="background-color: F8F9FA" \|		Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist	TKEP/L		1 September 1990	Marxism–Leninism
			Communist Workers Party of Turkey	TKİP		November 1998
	style="background-color: F8F9FA" \|		Maoist Communist Party	MKP		15 September 2002	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
			Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front	DHKP/C		30 March 1994
	style="background-color: F8F9FA" \|		Communist Party of Kurdistan	KKP		1982
	style="background-color: F8F9FA" \|		Bolshevik Party (North Kurdistan – Turkey)	BP (KK-T)		1981
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: F8F9FA" \|		Communist Party of Turkmenistan	TKP		1998	Marxism–Leninism	Banned
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Ukraine	KPU	Petro Symonenko	19 June 1993	Marxism–Leninism Left-wing populism Soviet patriotism Pro-Russia	Banned	Banned in 2015 under Ukraine's decommunization laws, continues to operate underground
Template:Flag+link			Union of Communists of Ukraine	SKU		December 19, 1992	Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism	Banned
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Britain	CPB	Robert Griffiths	1988	Marxism–Leninism
			Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist)	CPB-ML
			Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist)	CPGB-ML
			Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee)	CPGB (PCC)
			New Communist Party of Britain	NCP
			Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist)
	style="background-color: F8F9FA \|		Revolutionary Communist Group
			Communist League
	style="background-color: F8F9FA \|		Communist Party Alliance
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party USA	CPUSA	Collective leadership (National Convention)	1 September 1919	Marxism-Leninism Bill of Rights socialism	House of Representatives: 0 / 435 Senate: 0 / 100
			Party for Socialism and Liberation	PSL	Collective leadership	June 2004	Marxism–Leninism Revolutionary socialism Anti-imperialism	House of Representatives: 0 / 435 Senate: 0 / 100
			Socialist Alternative	SA	Collective leadership	April 1986	Marxism Revolutionary socialism Trotskyism	House of Representatives: 0 / 435 Senate: 0 / 100
			Socialist Equality Party	SEP	David North	September 1964	Revolutionary socialism Trotskyism	House of Representatives: 0 / 435 Senate: 0 / 100
			Workers World Party	WWP	Larry Holmes	1959	Marxism-Leninism Proletarian internationalism	House of Representatives: 0 / 435 Senate: 0 / 100
			Socialist Workers Party	SWP	Jack Barnes	January 1938	Marxism Castroism	House of Representatives: 0 / 435 Senate: 0 / 100
			Socialist Action		Jeff Mackler	1983	Trotskyism	House of Representatives: 0 / 435 Senate: 0 / 100
Template:Flag+link			Revolutionary Communist Party of Uruguay	PCR	Ricardo Cohen	1972	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism	Chamber of Representatives: 0 / 99 Senate: 0 / 30
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Uzbekistan /	КПУз / OʻzKP	Kaxramon Mahmudov	1994	Marxism–Leninism	Banned	Banned immediately after attempting to register with Uzbekistan's Central Election Commission
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Venezuela	PCV	Óscar Figuera	5 March 1931	Marxism–Leninism	National Assembly: 1 / 277
			Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Venezuela	PCMLV		2009	Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism Anti-imperialism Anti-Chavismo	National Assembly: 0 / 277
			Red Flag Party	BR	Gabriel Puerta Aponte	20 January 1970	Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Anti-Chavismo	National Assembly: 0 / 277
			Revolutionary Movement Tupamaro (Popular Revolutionary Alternative)	MRT		1992 (1992)	Marxism-Leninism Guevarism	National Assembly: 0 / 277	Section of the party supporting the Popular Revolutionary Alternative

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

Formerly communist[edit]

Country	Before	Turned^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Notes
Template:Flag+link	Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola	same name	Has abandoned Marxist-Leninism for social democracy
Template:Flag+link	National Union for the Total Independence of Angola	same name	Abandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy and then for social conservatism
Template:Flag+link	Popular Socialist Party	Cidadania	Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy and later social liberalism
Template:Flag+link	Bulgarian Communist Party	Bulgarian Socialist Party	Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy
Template:Flag+link	Kampuchean Revolutionary People's Party	Cambodian People's Party	Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for centrism
Template:Flag+link	Congolese Party of Labour	same name	Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy
Template:Flag+link	League of Communists of Croatia	Social Democratic Party	Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism-Titoism for social democracy
Template:Flag+link	Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan	People's Party of Kazakhstan	Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for democratic socialism
Template:Flag+link	Vanguard of the Malagasy Revolution	Malagasy Revolutionary Party	Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy
Template:Flag+link	Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party	Mongolian People's Party	Has abandoned Marxist-Leninism for social democracy
Template:Flag+link	League of Communists of Montenegro	Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro	Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism-Titoism for social democracy and later neoliberalism
Template:Flag+link	Party of Progress and Socialism	same name	Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for democratic socialism
Template:Flag+link	FRELIMO	same name	Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for democratic socialism
Template:Flag+link	League of Communists of Serbia	Socialist Party of Serbia	Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism-Titoism for social democracy
Template:Flag+link	League of Communists of Slovenia	Social Democrats	Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism-Titoism for social democracy
Template:Flag+link	Yemeni Socialist Party	same name	Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy

Defunct[edit]

Once ruling[edit]

State	Defunct Party	Notes
Template:Flag+link	People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
Template:Flag+link	Party of Labour of Albania	Succeeded by Socialist Party of Albania
Template:Flag+link	People's Revolutionary Party of Benin
Template:Flag+link	Bulgarian Communist Party	Succeeded by the Bulgarian Socialist Party came Bulgarian Socialist Party
Template:Flag+link	Communist Party of Kampuchea
Template:Flag+link	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
Template:Flag+link	Workers' Party of Ethiopia
Template:Flag+link
Template:Flag+link	New Jewel Movement
Template:Flag+link	Hungarian Working People's Party
Template:Flag+link	Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party	Became the Hungarian Socialist Party
Template:Flag+link	Polish United Workers' Party
Template:Flag+link	Romanian Communist Party
Template:Flag+link	Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party
Template:Flag+link	Communist Party of the Soviet Union	Formerly the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party
Template:Flag+link	League of Communists of Yugoslavia

Non-ruling[edit]

Template:Flag+link – Armenian Workers Communist Party, Armenian Workers Union, Marxist Party of Armenia, Union of Communists of Armenia, Renewed Communist Party of Armenia
Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of Australia
Template:Flag+link- Workers Party of Barbados
Template:Country data Basque Country 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
Template:Flag+link – Union of Marxist–Leninist Communists of Belgium, founded in 1970^[3]^[4]
Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of Belgium – Marxist–Leninist, founded in 1976.
Template:Flag+link – Free Homeland Party
Template:Flag+link – Bulgarian Communist Party – Marxists
Template:Flag+link – 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
Template:Flag+link – Labor-Progressive Party (legal front of the Communist Party of Canada from 1943 to 1959), Workers' Communist Party of Canada
Template:Country data Channel Islands Channel Islands – Jersey Communist Party
Template:Flag+link – Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action), Revolutionary Left Movement
Template:Flag+link – Workers Revolutionary Party of Colombia
Template:Flag+link – Costa Rican People's Party
Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of Cyprus
Template:Flag+link – Popular Socialist Party, joined Cuban Communist Party
Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of El Salvador, merged into the FMLN
Template:Flag+link – Swaziland Communist Party
Template:Flag+link – Gambia Socialist Revolutionary Party
Template:Flag+link – Revived Communist Party of Georgia, Georgian Workers Communist Party
Template:Flag+link – Spartacist League formed in 1918 and became the Communist Party of Germany
Template:Flag+link – Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin, Communist Party of Germany (banned 1956 in West Germany)
Template:Flag+link – Guatemalan Party of Labour, merged into the URNG
Template:Flag+link – Haitian Communist Party, Haitian Workers Party, Unified Party of Haitian Communists, merged into the National Reconstruction Movement in 1990
Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of Honduras, merged into the Patriotic Renewal Party
Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of Iceland, Communist Party of Iceland (Marxist–Leninist)
Template:Flag+link – Indian Communist Party (Sen)
Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of Indonesia
Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist–Leninist)
Template:Flag+link – Leninist Group in the Iraqi Communist Movement
Template:Flag+link – Maki (1948–1973) split in 1965 with formation of largely Arab Rakah which changed its name to Maki in 1989
Template:Flag+link – 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
Template:Flag+link – Lebanese People's Party
Template:Flag+link – Malayan Communist Party, North Kalimantan Communist Party
Template:Flag+link – Mexican Communist Party
Template:Flag+link – Communist Reformers Party of Moldova
Template:Flag+link – Communist Party (Burma)
Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of Namibia
Template:Flag+link - New Caledonian Communist Party^[5]
Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of the Netherlands merged into the GroenLinks in 1989, marxist-leninist dissidents within the party formed the NCPN in 1992.
Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of New Zealand, Socialist Unity Party
Template:Flag+link – Nigerian Communist Party, Socialist Workers and Farmers Party of Nigeria
Template:Flag+link – Workers' Party of North Korea
Template:Flag+link – Workers' Communist Party merged into the Red Party
Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of Palestine (1921–1948)
Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of Poland
Template:Flag+link – Communist Party in Saudi Arabia
Template:Flag+link – Workers' Party of South Korea
Template:Flag+link – Party of Labour Basel, founded in 1944
Template:Flag+link – Taiwanese Communist Party, China Communist Alliance, Communist Party of the Republic of China, Taiwan Democratic Communist Party
Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of the Republic of Tatarstan
Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of Thailand
Template:Flag+link (unrecognized country) – Communist Party of Pridnestrovie
Trieste – Communist Party of the Free Territory of Trieste, merged into the Italian Communist Party
Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of Trinidad and Tobago
Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of Great Britain, Communist Party of Scotland
Template:Flag+link – 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[edit]

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.

Organisations[edit]

Country	Organizations
Ideologically left communist organizations
Template:Flag+link	International Communist Party Lotta Comunista
Template:Flag+link	Internationalist Voice
Template:Flag+link	Communist Workers' Organisation World Revolution
Template:Flag+link	International Communist Party Internationalism Internationalist Workers Group Workers Offensive
Template:Flag+link	Internationalism

Notes[edit]

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References[edit]

↑ Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. pp. 234–237. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.
↑ "Peru confirms new moderate-left cabinet". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
↑ "Syndicalisme de combat et parti révolutionnaire". Anticapitalist Left (in French). Retrieved 1 April 2020.
↑ "Emall NL" (in Dutch). Marxistische universiteit. Archived 15 January 2006 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
↑ 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.

External links[edit]

Leftist Parties of the World (last updated 4 October 2006)
Communist States animation (1850–2016)

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[1] Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. pp. 234–237. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.

[2] "Peru confirms new moderate-left cabinet". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2022-04-12.

[4] "Syndicalisme de combat et parti révolutionnaire". Anticapitalist Left (in French). Retrieved 1 April 2020.

[5] "Emall NL" (in Dutch). Marxistische universiteit. Archived 15 January 2006 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 1 April 2020.

[6] 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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