List of socialist parties with national parliamentary representation explained

The following is a list of political parties presently espousing a variety of socialism which have representation in national parliaments, grouped by states in which they operate. The list does not contain parties previously represented in parliaments, nor social democratic parties. 178 socialist, communist and anti-capitalist parties have been elected worldwide to parliament in 83 different recognized and non-recognized states. Of the 83 states listed here, 18 of them are republics ruled by a socialist, communist or anti-capitalist party, five of them are official socialist states ruled by a communist party; four of which espouse Marxism–Leninism (China, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam) while the fifth (North Korea) espouses Juche.[1]

List

CountryContinentPartyElectoral CoalitionElectionLower houseUpper houseOfficial ideology
AlgeriaAfrica National Liberation Front—2021 electionArab socialism
ArgentinaAmericaSocialist Workers' PartyWorkers' Left FrontTrotskyism
Workers' Party2021 & 2023 electionsTrotskyism
Patria Grande FrontUnion for the HomelandSocialism of the 21st century
Solidary PartyDemocratic socialism
Europe Armenian Revolutionary FederationArmenia Alliance2021 Armenian parliamentary election—Democratic Socialism
Asia Syrian National Democratic Alliance—2017 election—Democratic confederalism
Democratic Socialist Arab Ba'ath Party——Democratic socialism
Democratic Union PartyDemocratic Nation List—Democratic confederalism
BangladeshAsia Workers Party of BangladeshGrand Alliance2024 election—Marxism–Leninism
National Socialist Party—Socialism
BelarusEurope Communist Party of BelarusRepublican Coordinating Council of Heads of Political Parties and Public Associations2024 electionMarxism–Leninism
Republican Party of Labour and JusticeSocialism
BelgiumEuropeWorkers' Party of Belgium—2024 electionMarxism
AmericaMovement for Socialism—2020 election
AfricaBotswana People's PartyUmbrella for Democratic Change2019 election—Democratic socialism
BrazilAmerica Communist Party of BrazilBrazil of Hope2022 electionMarxism–Leninism[2]
Socialism and Liberty PartyPSOL REDE FederationDemocratic socialism
ChileAmerica Communist Party of Chile Apruebo Dignidad2021 electionMarxism–Leninism[3]
Social ConvergenceDemocratic socialism
Democratic RevolutionDemocratic socialism
CommonsSocialism of the 21st century
Social Green Regionalist FederationEco-socialism
Humanist PartyDignidad AhoraDemocratic socialism
ChinaAsia—2017–2018 election—
ColombiaAmericaHistoric Pact for ColombiaHistoric Pact for Colombia2022 electionDemocratic socialism
CommonsMarxism-Leninism
AfricaUnified Lumumbist Party—2023 electionLumumbism
Costa RicaAmerica Broad Front—2022 election—Socialism of the 21st century
CroatiaEuropeWe Can!—2024 election—Eco-socialism
America Communist Party of Cuba—2023 election—Castroism
CyprusEurope Progressive Party of Working People—2021 election—Marxism–Leninism
DenmarkEurope Socialist People's Party—2022 election—Democratic socialism
Red–Green Alliance——Eco-socialism[4]
Inuit Ataqatigiit——Democratic socialism
Asia FRETILIN—2023 election—Democratic socialism
EcuadorAmerica<-- --> Citizen Revolution MovementUnion for Hope2023 election—Socialism of the 21st century
Popular Unity——Communism, Marxism-Leninism
Ecuadorian Socialist Party——Socialism
AfricaNational Progressive Unionist PartyNational Front Alliance2020 Egyptian Parliamentary and Senate ElectionsNasserism
Africa People's Front for Democracy and Justice—1992 election—Socialism
FinlandEuropeLeft Alliance—2023 election—Democratic socialism
FranceEuropeLa France InsoumiseNew Popular Front2024 electionDemocratic socialism
French Communist PartyCommunism
Génération.sDemocratic socialismEco-socialism
For ReunionPost-MarxismDemocratic socialism
Progressive Democratic Party of GuadeloupePost-MarxismDemocratic socialism
Decolonization and Social Emancipation MovementMarxism
Euskal Herria BaiSocialism
Republican and Socialist LeftSocialismEco-socialism
Independent Worker's PartyCommunism
New Anticapitalist PartyEco-socialismSocialism of the 21st Century
Picardie deboutEco-socialism
Caledonian Union—Melanesian socialism
AfricaPeople's Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism—2022 electionSocialism
GermanyEuropeThe Left—2021 electionDemocratic socialism
GreeceEurope Communist Party of Greece—2023 election—Marxism–Leninism
Syriza——Democratic socialism[5]
GuatemalaAmerica Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity — Winaq—2023 election—Revolutionary socialism[6]
AfricaInclusive Alliance Platform – Terra Ranka [<nowiki/>[[:fr:Plateforme de l'alliance inclusive-Terra Ranka|fr]]]2023 election—Democratic socialism
Assembly of the People United——Democratic socialism
GuyanaAmerica People's Progressive Party/Civic—2020 election—Democratic socialism
HondurasAmerica Liberty and Refoundation—2021 election—Democratic socialism
Socialism of the 21st Century
IcelandEuropeLeft-Green Movement—2021 election—Eco-socialism
IndiaAsiaSamajwadi PartyIndian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance2024 electionDemocratic socialism
Communist Party of India (Marxist)Marxism–Leninism[7]
Rashtriya Janata DalSocialism
Jharkhand Mukti MorchaSocialism
Communist Party of IndiaMarxism–Leninism
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) LiberationMarxism–Leninism
Mao Zedong Thought
Revolutionary Socialist PartyMarxism–Leninism
AsiaCommunist Party of Kurdistan - IraqKurdistan List2018 election—Communism
IrelandEuropePeople Before ProfitPeople Before Profit–Solidarity2020 electionSocialism
Solidarity (Ireland)Trotskyism
IsraelAsiaIsraeli Communist PartyDemocratic Front for Peace and Equality2022 election—Marxism–Leninism[8]
ItalyEuropeGreens and Left AllianceCentre-left coalition2022 electionDemocratic socialism[9]
JapanAsia Japanese Communist Party—2021—2022 electionsScientific socialism[10]
Asia Lao People's Revolutionary PartyLao Front for National Development2021 election—Kaysone Phomvihane Thought
Asia Armenian Revolutionary Federation in LebanonMarch 8 Alliance2022 election—Democratic socialism
Popular Nasserist Organization—Nasserism
Union Party—Nasserism
Lebanese Communist Party——Communism
Marxism-Leninism
AfricaSocialist Revolutionaries—2022 election—Socialism
Popular Front for Democracy——Democratic socialism
LuxembourgEuropeThe Left—2023 election—Democratic socialism
MauritiusAfrica Mauritian Militant MovementNational Alliance2019 election—Democratic socialism
Muvman LiberaterMauritian Alliance—Democratic socialism
MexicoAmericaLabor PartyJuntos Haremos Historia2021 & 2024 electionsDemocratic socialism
Socialism of the 21st century
EuropeParty of Socialists of the Republic of MoldovaBloc of Communists and Socialists2021 election—Democratic socialism
Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova—Communism
MoroccoAfricaParty of Progress and Socialism—2021 electionSocialism
Front of Democratic Forces—Democratic socialism
Federation of the Democratic Left—Democratic socialism
Unified Socialist Party—Democratic socialism
AfricaFRELIMO—2019 election—Democratic socialism
NamibiaAfricaLandless People's Movement—2019 electionDemocratic socialism
Namibian Economic Freedom Fighters—Anti-capitalism
South West Africa National Union—Democratic socialism
South West Africa People's Organisation—Socialism
NepalAsia CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)Fourth Oli Cabinet2022 electionMarxism-Leninism
People's Socialist Party, NepalDemocratic socialism
People's Socialist PartyDemocratic socialism
CPN (Maoist Center)Socialist FrontPrachanda Path
CPN (Unified Socialist)Marxism-Leninism
Rastriya Janamorcha—Marxism-Leninism
Aam Janata Party—CommunismMaoism
Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party—Marxism-Leninism Mao Zedong Thought Juche
OceaniaNational Union for Independence—2019 election—Melanesian socialism
Caledonian Union——Melanesian socialism
Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front——Melanesian socialism
Labour Party (New Caledonia)——Revolutionary socialism
Kanak Socialist Liberation——Melanesian socialism
NicaraguaAmerica Sandinista National Liberation Front—2021 election—Sandinismo[11]
Northern IrelandEuropePeople Before Profit—2022 election—Socialism
Asia Workers' Party of KoreaDemocratic Front for the Reunification of Korea2019 election—Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism[12]
EuropeThe Left (North Macedonia)—2020 election—Socialism
NorwayEuropeSocialist Left Party—2021 election—Democratic socialism
Red Party——Communism
PakistanAsiaBalochistan National Party (Mengal)—2024 electionDemocratic socialism
Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen—Islamic socialism
AsiaPopular Front for the Liberation of PalestinePalestine Liberation Organization2006 election—Marxism–Leninism
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine—Marxism–Leninism
Palestinian People's Party—Scientific socialism
ParaguayAmericaGuasú Front—2023 electionDemocratic socialism
PeruAmerica Free Peru—2021 election—SocialismMarxism-Leninism
Magisterial Bloc—Socialism
Bicentennial Peru—Socialism
Together for PeruDemocratic Change – Together for PeruDemocratic socialism
New PeruDemocratic socialismMariáteguism
Citizen Force—Democratic socialism
PhilippinesAsiaGabriela Women's PartyMakabayan2022 electionMarxist feminismSocialist feminism
PortugalEurope Left Bloc—2024 election—Democratic socialism
Portuguese Communist PartyUnitary Democratic Coalition—Marxism–Leninism[13]
LIVRE——Eco-socialism
Democratic socialism
Europe Communist Party of the Russian FederationNational Patriotic Forces of Russia2021 electionMarxism–Leninism
Africa Polisario Front—2020 election—Democratic socialism
SloveniaEuropeLEVICA—2022 election—Eco-socialism
South AfricaAfricaEconomic Freedom Fighters—2024 electionMarxism–Leninism[14]
uMkhonto weSizwe—Socialism
South African Communist PartyTripartite AllianceMarxism–Leninism
EuropeCommunist Party of South Ossetia— 2024 election—Marxism–Leninism
SpainEuropeUnited LeftSumar2023 electionCommunismSocialism
Chunta AragonesistaEco-socialism
Més per MallorcaDemocratic socialism
Podemos—Democratic socialism
EH BilduAhora RepublicasSocialism
Galician Nationalist BlocSocialism
Sri LankaAsiaJanatha Vimukthi PeramunaNational People's Power2020 electionMarxism–Leninism
Ceylon Workers' CongressSri Lanka People's Freedom AllianceAgrarian socialism
Communist Party of Sri LankaFreedom People's AllianceMarxism–Leninism
Democratic Left FrontSocialism
Lanka Sama Samaja PartyTrotskyism
SwedenEuropeLeft Party—2022 election—Socialism
Asia Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria RegionNational Progressive Front2024 election—Neo-Ba'athism
Arab Socialist Union Party—Nasserism
Syrian Communist Party (Bakdash)—Marxism–Leninism[15]
Socialist Unionist Party—Nasserism
Syrian Communist Party (Unified)—Communism
National Covenant Party—Islamic socialism
Arab Democratic Union Party—Nasserism
Democratic Socialist Unionist Party—Democratic socialism
TajikistanAsiaCommunist Party of Tajikistan—2020 electionMarxism–Leninism[16]
Socialist Party of Tajikistan—Socialism
AfricaAlliance for Change and Transparency—2020 election—Democratic socialism
TurkeyAsiaParty of the Greens and Left FutureLabour and Freedom Alliance2023 election—Anti-capitalism
Workers' Party of Turkey—Marxism-Leninism
EuropeWorkers Party of Britain—2024 electionSocialism
UruguayAmerica Communist Party of Uruguay Broad Front2019 electionMarxism–Leninism
Movement of Popular ParticipationSocialism of the 21st century
Oceania Vanua'aku Pati—2022 election—Melanesian socialism
America United Socialist Party of VenezuelaGreat Patriotic Pole2020 election—Socialism of the 21st century
Fatherland for All—Democratic socialism
Tupamaro—Marxism–Leninism
Movement We Are Venezuela—Socialism
For Social Democracy—Democratic socialism
Alliance for Change—Democratic socialism
People's Electoral Movement—Socialism
Venezuelan Popular Unity—SocialismMarxism
Communist Party of VenezuelaPopular Revolutionary Alternative—Marxism–Leninism
Asia Communist Party of VietnamVietnamese Fatherland Front2021 election—Ho Chi Minh Thought
YemenAsiaNasserist Unionist People's Organisation—2003 election—Nasserism
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Yemen Region—Ba'athism

See also

Notes and References

  1. Kim Jong-un, "Let Us Brilliantly Accomplish the Revolutionary Cause of Juche, Holding the Great Comrade Kim Jong Il in High Esteem as the Eternal General Secretary of Our Party", 6 April 2002.
  2. The first reference is for the lower house, the second for the upper house.
  3. Web site: South America: Chile – Government. Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook. 13 January 2012.
  4. Web site: Denmark. Nordsieck. Wolfram. 2019. Parties and Elections in Europe.
  5. Web site: Wolfram. Nordsieck. Greece. Parties and Elections in Europe. 2019.
  6. Web site: es. Acuerdo No. 1319-2011 – Resultados oficiales. elecciones2011.tse.org.gt. 13 January 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110930165509/http://www.elecciones2011.tse.org.gt/resultados.oficiales.primera.vuelta.2011.php. 30 September 2011.
  7. The first two references are about seats in parliament.
  8. Web site: Middle East: Israel – Government. Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook. 13 January 2012.
  9. Web site: Parties and Elections in Europe - Italy. 8 February 2017.
  10. Web site: East & Southeast Asia: Japan – Government. Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook. 13 January 2012.
  11. Web site: Central America and Caribbean: Nicaragua – Government. Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook. 13 January 2012.
  12. Web site: Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Inter-Parliamentary Union. 13 January 2012.
  14. Web site: About us. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140508205706/http://effighters.org.za/about-us. 2014-05-08.
  15. Web site: S. Saleh Waziruddin, "Communist Parties Win 11 Seats in Syrian Parliamentary Elections". Yoshie Furuhashi. 18 June 2012. 24 February 2015.
  16. Web site: Central Asia: Tajikistan – Government. Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook. 13 January 2012.

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