List of communist parties explained

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

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

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

Officially ruling in communist states

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.

CountryLogoNameAbbr.LeaderFoundedIdeologyLegislatureNotes
ChinaCommunist Party of China
Chinese: 中国共产党
CPC
Chinese: 中共
Xi Jinpingdata-sort-value="1921-07-01"National People's CongressLeads the United front
Communist Party of Cuba
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista de Cuba
PCCMiguel Díaz-Caneldata-sort-value="1965-10-03"Marxism–LeninismLeft-wing nationalism
Castroism
GuevarismSocialist patriotism
National AssemblyLeads the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution
Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Lao: ພັກປະຊາຊົນປະຕິວັດລາວ
LPRP
Lao: ພປປລ
Thongloun Sisoulithdata-sort-value="1955-05-22"Marxism–Leninism
Kaysone Phomvihane Thought
National AssemblyLeads the Lao Front for National Development
Workers' Party of Korea
Korean: 조선로동당
WPK
Korean: 로동당
Kim Jong Undata-sort-value="1948-06-24"Kimilsungism–KimjongilismSupreme People's AssemblyLeads the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea
Communist Party of Vietnam
Vietnamese: Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam
CPV
Vietnamese: ĐCSVN
Tô Lâmdata-sort-value="1930-02-03"Marxism–Leninism
Ho Chi Minh ThoughtSocialist patriotismVietnamese nationalism
National AssemblyLeads the Vietnamese Fatherland Front

Ruling or part of ruling coalition in multi-party states

CountryLogoNameAbbr.LeaderFoundedIdeologyLegislatureNotes
Workers Party of Bangladesh
Bengali: বাংলাদেশের ওয়ার্কার্স পার্টি
WPBRashed Khan Menon1980Marxism-LeninismAnti-revisionismJatiya SangsadConfidence and supply
Communist Party of Belarus
Belarusian: Камуністычная партыя Беларусі
CPB
Belarusian: КПБ
Aliaksiej Sokaldata-sort-value="1996-11-02"Marxism–LeninismSoviet patriotism
Pro-Lukashenko
House of RepresentativesSupports the government of president Alexander Lukashenko
Communist Party of Brazil
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista do Brasil
PCdoBLuciana Santos25 March 1922Marxism–LeninismChamber of DeputiesMember of the ruling federation, Brazil of Hope
Communist Party of Chile
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista de Chile
PCChGuillermo Teillierdata-sort-value="1912-06-04"Marxism–LeninismLeft-wing populismChamber of DeputiesMember of the ruling Apruebo Dignidad coalition
Colombian Communist Party
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista Colombiano
PCCJaime Caycedo1930Marxism–Leninism
Bolivarianism
Chamber of Representatives

Senate

Member of the ruling Historic Pact for Colombia
Commons
Spanish; Castilian: Comunes
Timoleón Jiménez1 September 2017Marxism–Leninism
Bolivarianism
Chamber of Representatives

Senate

French Communist Party
French: Parti communiste français
PCFFabien Roussel30 December 1920Marxism–LeninismSoft EuroscepticismNational AssemblyMember of the ruling New Popular Front
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
Spanish; Castilian: नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (एकीकृत मार्क्सवादी-लेनिनवादी)
CPN (UML)KP Sharma OliMarxism–Leninism
People's Multiparty Democracy
House of Representatives

National Assembly

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Arabic: الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين
PFLPAhmad Sa'adatdata-sort-value="1967-12-11"Palestinian nationalism
Marxism–Leninism
Revolutionary socialism
One-state solution
Anti-ZionismSecularismAnti-imperialismPan-ArabismArab nationalism
Legislative CouncilMember of the PLO
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Arabic: الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين
DFLPNayef Hawatmehdata-sort-value="1969"Marxism–LeninismMaoism
Palestinian nationalism
Left-wing nationalism
Anti-Zionism
Legislative Council
Palestinian People's Party
Arabic: حزب الشعب الفلسطيني
PPPBassam Al-Salhidata-sort-value="1982-02"Marxism
Palestinian nationalism
Left-wing nationalism
Legislative Council
South African Communist PartySACPBlade Nzimandedata-sort-value="1921-02-12"Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing nationalism
National AssemblyParticipates in the ruling Tripartite Alliance
Communist Party of Spain
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista de España
PCEEnrique Santiagodata-sort-value="1921-11-14"Marxism–Leninism
Republicanism
Internationalism
Federalism
Congress of DeputiesMember of United Left, which participates in the PSOESumar coalition government
Syrian Communist Party
Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي السوري
SCPAmmar Bakdashdata-sort-value="1986"Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
People's AssemblyParticipates in the ruling National Progressive Front
Syrian Communist Party (Unified)
Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي السوري (الموحد)
SCP(U)Hanin Nimirdata-sort-value="1986"Marxism–LeninismPeople's Assembly
Communist Party of Tajikistan
Tajik: Ҳизби Коммунистии Тоҷикистон
CPTMiroj Abdulloyev1924Marxism–LeninismSoviet patriotismAssembly of RepresentativesExternal support to government
Revolutionary Movement Tupamaro
Spanish; Castilian: Movimiento Revolucionario Tupamaro
MRTOswaldo Jiménezdata-sort-value="1992"Marxism-Leninism
GuevarismFoco theoryLeft-wing nationalismRevolutionary socialism
Chamber of DeputiesParticipates in the ruling Great Patriotic Pole
Venezuelan Popular Unity
Spanish; Castilian: Unidad Popular Venezolana
UPVLina Rondata-sort-value="2004-02-06"BolivarianismSocialismAnti-imperialismMarxismChamber of Deputies
Venezuelan Revolutionary Currents
Spanish; Castilian: Corrientes Revolucionarias Venezolanas
CRVdata-sort-value="2000"Guevarism
Chavismo
Anti-imperialismLeft-wing nationalism
Chamber of Deputies

Opposition parties in multi-party states

CountryLogoNameAbbr.LeaderFoundedIdeologyLegislatureNotes
Revolutionary Communist PartyPCROtto VargasMember of the Unión por la Patria
Progressive Party of Working People
Spanish; Castilian: Anorthotikó Kómma Ergazómenou Laoú
AKELStefanos StefanouMarxism–Leninism
Pacifism
Cypriot nationalismFederalismSoft euroscepticism
House of Representatives
Communist Party of India (Marxist)CPI(M)Sitaram YechuryMarxism–LeninismRajya Sabha

Lok Sabha

Member of non-organisational bloc Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance
Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova
Spanish; Castilian: Partidul Comuniștilor din Republica Moldova
PCRMVladimir VoroninMarxism–Leninism
MoldovenismSocial conservatismSoviet patriotismRussophilia
ParliamentMember of BECS
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)
Nepali: नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (माओवादी केन्द्र)
CPN (Maoist)
Nepali: नेकपा (माओवादी)
Pushpa Kamal Dahaldata-sort-value="1994" Prachanda Path
Left-wing nationalism
House of Representatives
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist)
Nepali: नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (एकीकृत-समाजवादी)
data-sort-value="2021-08-18"Marxism–Leninism
People's Multiparty Democracy
House of Representatives
Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Russian: Коммунистическая Партия Российской Федерации
CPRFGennady ZyuganovMarxism–LeninismLeft-wing nationalismSocial conservatismSoviet patriotismNeo-StalinismState Duma

Federation Council:

Transnistrian Communist Party
Приднестровская коммунистическая партия
PKPNadezhda BondarenkoMarxism-LeninismNo members in parliament but only opposition party with the second position in the votes
Communist Party of Uruguay
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista del Uruguay
PCUJuan CastilloMarxism–Leninism
Internationalism
Chamber of Representatives
Movement of Popular Participation
Spanish; Castilian: Movimiento de Participación Popular
MPPJosé MujicaMarxism–Leninism
Anti-capitalismSocialism of the 21st centuryDemocratic socialismProgressivism
Chamber of Representatives
People's Victory Party
Spanish; Castilian: Partido por la Victoria del Pueblo
PVPJuly 1975Marxism
GuevarismLibertarian socialismAnti-capitalismAnti-authoritarianism
Chamber of Representatives

Formerly ruling

One-party system

CountryLogoNameAbbr.LeadersFoundedDissolvedIdeologyNotes

People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
حزب دموکراتيک خلق افغانستان
Pushto; Pashto: د افغانستان د خلق دموکراټیک ګوند
PDPANur Muhammad Taraki (first)
Mohammad Najibullah (last)
Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing nationalism
SecularismRevolutionary socialism
Abandoned Marxism–Leninism in 1987, deposed in 1992

Party of Labour of Albania
Partia e Punës e Shqipërisë
PPShEnver Hoxha (first)
Ramiz Alia (last)
Marxism–Leninism
HoxhaismStalinism
Anti-revisionism
Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy in 1991 and now known as the Socialist Party of Albania

People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola
Portuguese: Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola
MPLAAgostinho Neto (first)
João Lourenço (current)
Marxism–LeninismAbandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy
Azerbaijan People's Government
Azerbaijani Democratic Party
Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Demokrat Firqəsi
Persian: فرقه دموکرات آذربایجان<
ADP
Azerbaijani: ADF
Persian: فدآ<
Ja'far PishevariMarxism–Leninism
Azerbaijani nationalism
Left-wing nationalismPan-Turkism
Ceased to exist in exile

People's Revolutionary Party of Benin
French: Parti de la révolution populaire du Bénin
PRPBMathieu KérékouMarxism–Leninism
Scientific socialismBeninese nationalism
Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy and is now known as the Union of Forces of Progress

Bulgarian Communist Party
Bulgarian: Българска комунистическа партия
PRPB
Bulgarian: БКП
Dimitar Blagoev (first)
Aleksandar Lilov (last)
Marxism–LeninismStalinism (until 1956)Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy and is now known as the Bulgarian Socialist Party

Communist Party of Kampuchea
Central Khmer: បក្សកុម្មុយនីស្តកម្ពុជា
CPK
Central Khmer: ប.ក.ក
Tou Samouth (first)
Pol Pot (last)
Maoism
Khmer nationalism
Agrarianism
Anti-intellectualism
Autarky
Succeeded by the exiled, non-ruling and now defunct Party of Democratic Kampuchea

Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party
Central Khmer: គណបក្សប្រជាជនបដិវត្តន៍កម្ពុជា
KPRPPen Sovan (first)
Heng Samrin (last)

Marxism–Leninism
Revisionism
Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for centrism and is now known as the Cambodian People's Party

African Party for the Independence of Cape VerdePAICVAristides Pereira20 January 1981Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing nationalism
Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for democratic socialism

Congolese Party of Labour
French: Parti congolais du travail
PCTMarien Ngouabi (first)
Denis Sassou Nguesso (current)
Marxism–Leninism
Scientific socialism
Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy

League of Communists of Croatia
Savez komunista Hrvatske
SKHPavle Gregorić (first)
Ivica Račan (last)
Abandoned Marxism–Leninism and Titoism for social democracy in 1989–1990 and is now known as the Social Democratic Party of Croatia

Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
Chamorro: Komunistická strana Československa
KSČVáclav Šturc (first)
Ladislav Adamec (last)
Split into the non-ruling Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia and the social democratic Party of the Democratic Left (Slovakia)

Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia
Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ የሥራ ሕዝብ ፓርቲ የማደራጀት ኮሚሽን
COPWEMengistu Haile MariamMarxism–LeninismSucceeded by the Workers' Party of Ethiopia

Workers' Party of Ethiopia
Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ሠራተኞች ፓርቲ
WPE
Amharic: የሠፓ
Marxism–LeninismDeposed in 1991

Socialist Unity Party of Germany
German: Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands
SEDWilhelm Pieck & Otto Grotewohl (first)
Egon Krenz (last)
Marxism–Leninism
Socialist patriotismStalinism (until 1956)
Became the Party of Democratic Socialism and is now a part of The Left

Communist Party of Greece
Greek, Modern (1453-);: Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας
KKE
Greek, Modern (1453-);: ΚΚΕ
Avraam Benaroya (first)
Dimitris Koutsoumpas (current)
Marxism–LeninismInternationalismAnti-capitalism
Euroscepticism
Overthrown during the Greek Civil War

New Jewel MovementNJMMaurice BishopMarxism–Leninism
State atheism
Revolutionary socialism
RepublicanismLeft-wing populismPan-AfricanismAnti-colonialism
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

Hungarian Communist Party
Hungarian: Magyar Kommunista Párt
MKPBéla Kun (first)
Mátyás Rákosi (last)
Marxism–Leninism
State atheism

RepublicanismStalinism
Deposed in August 1919

Merged with the Social Democratic Party of Hungary in the Hungarian Working People's Party
Hungarian Working People's Party
Hungarian: Magyar Dolgozók Pártja
MDPMátyás Rákosi (first)
János Kádár (last)
Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Reorganized into the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Hungarian: Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt
MSZMPJános Kádár (first)
Rezső Nyers (last)
Marxism–Leninism
Kádárism
Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy and is now known as the Hungarian Socialist Party

Vanguard of the Malagasy Revolution
Malagasy: Antokin'ny Revolisiona Malagasy
AREMADidier Ratsiraka (first)
Annick Zoary Ratsiraka (current)
Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing nationalism
Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy and is now known as the Malagasy Revolutionary Party

Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party
Mongolian: Монгол Ардын Хувьсгалт Нам
MAKhN
Mongolian: МАХН
Damdin Sükhbaatar (first)
Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene (current)
Marxism–LeninismStalinism (1928-1956)Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy

FRELIMO Party
Portuguese: Partido FRELIMO
FRELIMOEduardo Mondlane (first)
Filipe Nyusi (current)
Marxism–LeninismLeft-wing nationalismAbandoned Marxism–Leninism for democratic socialism

Polish Workers' Party
Polish: Polska Partia Robotnicza
PPRWładysław GomułkaMarxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Merged with the Polish Socialist Party to form the Polish United Workers' Party
Polish United Workers' Party
Polish: Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza
PZPRBolesław Bierut (first)
Mieczysław Rakowski (last)
Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing nationalismStalinism (until 1956)
Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy and later known as the Democratic Left Alliance

Romanian Communist Party
Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Partidul Comunist Român
PCRGheorghe Cristescu (first)
Nicolae Ceaușescu (last)
Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionismLeft-wing nationalismSocialist patriotismNeo-Stalinism (post-1971)
National Communism (post-1971)
Dissolved after the Romanian Revolution

Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party
Somali: Xisbiga Hantiwadaagga Kacaanka Soomaaliyeed
XHKSSiad BarreMarxism–Leninism
Islamic socialism
Pan-Somalism
Scientific socialism
Somali nationalism
Militarism
Deposed in 1991

Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Russian: Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза
CPSU
Russian: КПСС
Vladimir Lenin (first)
Mikhail Gorbachev (last)
Leninism
Stalinism
Marxism–Leninism
Soviet patriotism
Banned in 1991, de facto succeeded by UCP-CPSU and CPRF

National Liberation Front
Arabic: الجبهة القومية للتحرير
NLFMarxism–Leninism
Arab nationalism
Reorganized itself into the Yemeni Socialist Party
Yemeni Socialist Party
Arabic: الحزب الاشتراكي اليمني
YSPAbdul Fattah Ismail (first)
Abdulraham Al-Saqqaf (current)
Marxism–Leninism
Arab nationalismAnti-imperialism
Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy

Tuvan People's Revolutionary Party
Tuvinian: Тьва arat-хuviskaalçь nam
Russian: Тувинская народно-революционная партия
TPRP
Tuvinian: ТAХN
Russian: ТНРП
Namachyn (first)
Salchak Toka (last)
Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Became the Tuvan Regional Committee of the VKP(b), later CPSU

SKJ
Serbian: СКJ
Josip Broz Tito (1939–1980)
Milan Pančevski (last)
Marxism–Leninism
Titoism
Splintered into its many constituent parties in 1990

Parliamentary majority or minority government

CountryLogoNameAbbr.LeadersFoundedDissolvedIdeologyNotes

Communist Party of Austria
German: Kommunistische Partei Österreichs
KPÖRuth Fischer & Franz Koritschoner & Lucien Laurat (first)
Mirko Messner (current)
Marxism–Leninism
Anti-fascismSocialism
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 Worker's-Peasants' People's League
Belarusian: বাংলাদেশ কৃষক শ্রমিক আওয়ামী লীগ
BAKSAL
Belarusian: বাংকশ্আল
Sheikh Mujibur RahmanState socialism
Bengali nationalismMujibism
Dissolved after the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Chadian Action for Unity and Socialism
French: Action Tchadienne pour l'unité et le socialisme
ACTUSFidèle MoungarMarxism–Leninism
EcologismStalinism
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.

Progressive Party of Working People
Greek, Modern (1453-);: Ανορθωτικό Κόμμα Εργαζόμενου Λαού
AKEL
Greek, Modern (1453-);: ΑΚΕΛ
Ploutis Servas (first)
Stefanos Stefanou (current)
Marxism–Leninism
Pacifism
Cypriot nationalismFederalismSoft euroscepticism
Won the 2008 election and ruled until 2013

People's Progressive Party/CivicPPP/СCheddi Jagan & Janet Jagan (first)
Bharrat Jagdeo (current)
Social democracy
Left-wing populism
Left-wing nationalism
Historically:
Communism
Marxism–Leninism
The party abandoned Marxism–Leninism officially in 2024.[1]

Communist Party of IndiaCPISachchidanand Vishnu Ghate (first)
D. Raja (current)
Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing nationalism
Member of the United Front and its coalition government
Communist Party of India (Marxist)CPI(M)Puchalapalli Sundarayya (first)
Sitaram Yechury (current)
Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing nationalism
Member of the United Front and its coalition government

Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova
Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Partidul Comuniștilor din Republica Moldova
PCRMVladimir VoroninMarxism–Leninism
MoldovenismSocial conservatismSoviet patriotismRussophilia
Deposed after the 2009 protests

Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
Nepali: नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (एकीकृत मार्क्सवादी-लेनिनवादी)
CPN (UML)
Nepali: नेकपा (एमाले)
Madan Bhandari (first)
K. P. Sharma Oli (current)

Marxism–Leninism
People's Multiparty Democracy
Merged with the CPN (MC) to form the Nepal Communist Party in 2018, refounded in 2021
Nepal Communist Party
Nepali: नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी
NCP
Nepali: नेकपा
K. P. Sharma Oli
Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Marxism–Leninism

Prachanda Path
Democratic centralism
Secularism
Federalism
Dissolved as a result of internal conflicts in 2021

Sammarinese Communist Party
Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Partidul Comuniștilor din Republica Moldova
PCSErmenegildo GasperoniCommunismDeposed by coup d'etat orchestrated by Italy and America in Fatti di Rovereta

Coalition partner or supporter

Modern non-ruling

Country/TerritoryLogoNameAbbr.LeaderFoundedIdeologyLegislatureNotes
Communist Party of Abkhazia
Abkhazian: Аԥсны Акомунисттә Апартиа
CPA
Abkhazian: ААА
Lev ShambaMarch 1921Marxism–LeninismPeople's Assembly
Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan
Persian: حزب كمونيست (مائوئيست) افغانستان
CMPM2004Marxism–Leninism–MaoismBannedParticipant in the ongoing anti-Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan
Afghanistan Liberation Organization
Persian: سازمان رهایی افغانستان
ALO1973Marxism–Leninism–MaoismAnti-revisionism
Marxist–Leninist Organization of AfghanistanMLOA1973Marxism-LeninismMao Zedong ThoughtAnti-revisionism
Communist Party of Albania
Albanian: Partia Komuniste e Shqipërisë
PKShQemal Cicollari1991Marxism–Leninism
HoxhaismStalinismAnti-revisionism
Kuvendi
Communist Party of Albania 8 November
Albanian: Partia Komuniste e Shqipërisë 8 Nëntori
PKSh 8 NëntoriPreng Çuni2003Marxism-Leninism
Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism
Arabic: الحزب الجزائري للديمقراطية والاشتراكية
PADSAbdelhamid Benzine1993Marxism–LeninismPeople's National Assembly

Council

Party of the Angolan Communist Community
Portuguese: Partido da Comunidade Comunista Angolana
PCCABaptista André José Simão1994Marxism–LeninismNational Assembly
Liberation Party
Spanish; Castilian: Partido de la Liberación
PLSergio Ortiz5 April 1965Marxism–LeninismChamber of Deputies

Senate

Armenian Communist Party
Armenian: Հայաստանի կոմունիստական կուսակցություն
HKK
Armenian: ՀԿԿ
Tachat Sargsyan29 July 1991Marxism–Leninism
Pro-Russia
Euroscepticism
Soviet patriotism
National Assembly
United Communist Party of Armenia
Armenian: Հայաստանի Միավորված Կոմունիստական Կուսակցության
HMKK
Armenian: ՀՄԿԿ
7 July 2003Marxism–Leninism
Euroscepticism
National Assembly
Progressive United Communist Party of Armenia
Armenian: Հայաստանի Առաջադիմական Միացյալ Կոմունիստական Կուսակցություն
HAMK
Armenian: ՀԱՄԿ
Vazgen Safaryan28 January 1998Marxism–Leninism
Soviet patriotism
National Assembly
Communist Party of Australia (1971)CPAVinicio Molina1971Marxism–LeninismHouse of Representatives

Senate

Communist Party of Australia (Marxist–Leninist)CPA (ML)15 March 1964Marxism–Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism
House of Representatives

Senate

Communist Party of Austria
German: Kommunistische Partei Österreichs
KPOFlorian Birngruber3 November 1918Marxism–LeninismSocialismNational Council

Federal Council

The mayor of Graz, Austria's second largest city, is a member of the KPÖ
Party of Labour of Austria
German: Partei der Arbeit Österreichs
PdATibor Zenker12 October 2013Marxism–LeninismHard EuroscepticismNational Council

Federal Council

Azerbaijan Communist Party (1993)
Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Kommunist Partiyası
AzKPHaji Hajiyev1993Marxism–LeninismNational Assembly
New Generation Communist Party of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Yeni Nəsil Kommunist Partiyası
AYNKPNiyazi Rajabov2008Marxism–LeninismNational Assembly
United Communist Party of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Birləşmiş Kommunist Partiyası
AVKPSayad Sayadov1993Marxism–LeninismNational Assembly
National Liberation Front
Arabic: جبهة التحرير الوطني—البحرين
NLF15 February 1955Marxism–LeninismRepublicanismCouncil of Representatives

Shura Council

Led the 1965 March Intifada
Progressive Democratic Tribune
Arabic: جمعية المنبر الديمقراطي التقدمي
PDTHassan Madan14 September 2001Market socialism
Arab nationalism
Anti-globalization
Anti-imperialism
Council of Representatives

Shura Council

Communist Party of Bangladesh
Bengali: বাংলাদেশের কমিউনিস্ট পার্টি
CPBRuhin Hossain Prince1971Marxism–Leninism[Jatiya Sangsad|[[Jatiya Sangsad]]: |Former member of the Bangladesh Worker's-Peasants' People's League and its coalition government|-|||Workers Party of Bangladesh
Bengali: বাংলাদেশের ওয়ার্কার্স পার্টি|WPB|Fazle Hossain Badsha|1980|Marxism–LeninismAnti-revisionism|[Jatiya Sangsad|[[Jatiya Sangsad]]: ||-|||Socialist Party of Bangladesh
Bengali: বাংলাদেশের সমাজতান্ত্রিক দল|BASAD|Khalequzzaman|7 November 1980|Marxism–LeninismStalinismMaoismAnti-revisionism|[Jatiya Sangsad|[[Jatiya Sangsad]]: ||-|||Revolutionary Workers Party of Bangladesh
Bengali: বাংলাদেশের বিপ্লবী ওয়ার্কার্স পার্টি|RWPB|Saiful Haque|14 June 2004|Marxism–Leninism|[Jatiya Sangsad|[[Jatiya Sangsad]]: ||-|style="background-color: red |||Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) (Dutta)
Bengali: বাংলাদেশের সাম্যবাদী দল (মার্কসবাদী-লেনিনবাদী)|BSD-ML|Ajoy Dutta||Marxism-Leninism-Maoism|[Jatiya Sangsad|[[Jatiya Sangsad]]: ||-|style="background-color: red |||Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) (Umar)
Bengali: বাংলাদেশের সাম্যবাদী দল (মার্কসবাদী-লেনিনবাদী)|BSD-ML|Badruddin Umar||Marxism-Leninism-Maoism|[Jatiya Sangsad|[[Jatiya Sangsad]]: ||-|style="background-color: red |||Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party
Bengali: পূর্ব বাংলার সর্বহারা পার্টি|PBSP|Siraj Sikder|3 June 1971|Marxism-Leninism-Maoism|[Jatiya Sangsad|[[Jatiya Sangsad]]: ||-|style="background-color: red |||Maoist Bolshevik Reorganisation Movement of the Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party
Bengali: পূর্ববাংলার সর্বহারা পার্টি – মাওবাদী বলশেভিক পুনর্গঠন আন্দোলন|PBSP (MBRM)||2001|Marxism-Leninism-MaoismAnti-revisionism|[Jatiya Sangsad|[[Jatiya Sangsad]]: ||-|style="background-color: red |||Workers Peasants Socialist Party
Bengali: শ্রমিক কৃষক সমাজবাদী দল|SKSD||1969|Marxism–Leninism
Revolutionary socialism|[Jatiya Sangsad|[[Jatiya Sangsad]]: ||-|style="background-color: red |||United Communist League of Bangladesh
Bengali: বাংলাদেশের ইউনাইটেড কমিউনিস্ট লীগ|UCLB|Mosharraf Hossain Nannu|April 2013|Marxism–Leninism|[Jatiya Sangsad|[[Jatiya Sangsad]]: ||-||||Belarusian Left Party "A Just World"
Belarusian: Беларуская партыя левых «Справядлівы свет»||Sergey Kalyakin|25 October 2009|Democratic socialismRevolutionary nationalismLeft-wing nationalismSocialism
Anti-Lukashenko|House of Representatives: Council of the Republic

||-| rowspan="2" ||||Workers' Party of Belgium
Dutch; Flemish: Partij van de Arbeid van België
French: Parti du Travail de Belgique|PTB
PVDA|Raoul Hedebouw|1979|Marxism
FeminismSocialism|Chamber of Representatives: Senate

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

||-| rowspan="2" ||||Communist Party of Benin
French: Parti Communiste du Bénin|PCB|Philippe Noudjenoume|1977|Marxism–Leninism
HoxhaismStalinismAnti-revisionism|National Assembly: ||-|style="background-color: red |||Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Benin
French: Parti communiste marxiste-léniniste du Bénin|PCMLB|Magloire Yansunnu|1999|Marxism–Leninism
HoxhaismAnti-revisionism|National Assembly: ||-||style="background-color: red |||Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist)|CPB (MLM)|Comrade Umesh (nom de guerre)|22 April 2003|Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
New Democratic RevolutionRepublicanism|align="center" colspan="1" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Banned|Engaged in guerrilla warfare against the government of Bhutan, with the goal of starting a people's war|-| rowspan="3" ||||Communist Party of Bolivia
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista de Bolivia|PCB|Ignacio Mendoza|1950|Marxism–Leninism|Deputies:Senate

||-|style="background-color: #A50021|||People's Revolutionary Front (Marxist−Leninist−Maoist)
Spanish; Castilian: Frente Revolucionario del Pueblo (Marxista–Leninista–Maoísta)|FRP-MLM|||Marxism–Leninism–Maoism|Deputies:Senate

||-|style="background-color: #A50031|||Communist Party of Bolivia (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist)
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista de Bolivia (Marxista-Leninista-Maoísta)|PCB-MLM|Luis Alberto Echazú|1983|Marxism–Leninism–Maoism|Deputies:Senate

||-| rowspan="2" ||||Workers' Communist Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Radničko-komunistička partija Bosne i Hercegovine / Радничко-комунистичка партија Босне и Херцеговине|RKP-Bih / РКП-БиХ|Goran Marković|2000|Luxemburgism
Workers' self-management
Anti-nationalism
Yugoslavism
|House of Representatives: House of Peoples

||-|||Communist Party
Komunistička partija / Комунистичка партија|KP / КП|Muhamed Imamović|21 February 2012|Democratic socialism
Yugo-nostalgia|House of Representatives: House of Peoples

||-||||Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin Movement|MELS|Mosalage Ditshoto|1994|Marxism–Leninism
MaoismMaoismAnti-revisionismPan-Africanism|Parliament:||-| rowspan="7" ||||Communist Party of Brazil
Portuguese: Partido Comunista do Brasil|PCdoB|Luciana Santos|23 June 1988|Marxism–Leninism|Chamber of Deputies Federal Senate||-|||Socialism and Liberty Party
Portuguese: Partido Socialismo e Liberdade|PSOL|Juliano Medeiros|6 June 2004|Democratic socialism
Eco-socialism
Socialism of the 21st century
Libertarian socialism|Chamber of Deputies:||-|||Brazilian Communist Party
Portuguese: Partido Comunista Brasileiro|PCB|Edmilson Costa|25 March 1922|Marxism–Leninism|Chamber of Deputies Federal Senate||-|||United Socialist Workers' Party
Portuguese: Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores Unificado|PSTU|Zé Maria|5 June 1994|Trotskyism
Morenism|Chamber of Deputies Federal Senate||-|||Workers' Cause Party
Portuguese: Partido da Causa Operária|PCO|Rui Costa Pimenta|7 December 1995|Marxism
Trotskyism
Social libertarianism
Anti-imperialism|Chamber of Deputies Federal Senate||-|style="background-color: #DC143C |||Revolutionary Communist Party
Portuguese: Partido Comunista Revolucionário|PCR||May 1966|Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Guevarism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
Foco theory|Chamber of Deputies Federal Senate|Not registered in Brazil's Superior Electoral Court|-|||Popular Unity
Portuguese: Unidade Popular|UP|Leonardo Péricles|16 June 2016|Revolutionary socialism
Anti-capitalism
Anti-imperialism
Anti-racismFactions:Marxism-LeninismSyndicalismMarxist feminism|Chamber of Deputies Federal Senate||-| rowspan="4" ||||Bulgarian Communist Party
Bulgarian: Българска комунистическа партия|BKP|Zonka Zlatkova Spasov|1990|Marxism–Leninism
StalinismAnti-revisionism|National Assembly: ||-|||Communist Party of Bulgaria
Bulgarian: Комунистическа Партия на България|CPB|Aleksandar Paunov|1996|Marxism–Leninism|National Assembly: ||-|||Party of the Bulgarian Communists
Bulgarian: Партия на Българските комунисти|PBK|Collective leadership|15 July 2006|Marxism–Leninism|National Assembly: ||-|| |Union of Communists in Bulgaria
Bulgarian: Съюз на Комунистите в България|SKB|Pavel Ivanov|1995|Marxism|National Assembly: ||-| rowspan="2" ||||Party for Democracy and Socialism/Metba
French: Parti pour la démocratie et le socialisme/Metba|PDS/Metba|Hama Arba Diallo|31 March 2012|Socialism|National Assembly: ||-|style="background-color: #CA4145|||Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party
French: Parti communiste révolutionnaire voltaïque|PCRV||1 October 1978|Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism|National Assembly: ||-| rowspan="2" ||style="background-color: #EC1C24 || |Communist Party of Canada
French: Parti communiste du Canada|CPC
PCC|Elizabeth Rowley|28 May 1921|Marxism–Leninism|House of Commons: Senate

||-|style="background-color: #F5191A |||Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist)
French: Parti communiste du Canada (marxiste–léniniste)|CPC (ML)
PCC (ML)|Anna Di Carlo|31 March 1970|Marxism–LeninismAnti-revisionismMaoism (1970-1977)Hoxhaism (1977-1990)|House of Commons: Senate

||-| rowspan="2" || style="background-color: red " |||Maoist Communist Party of China
Chinese: 中国毛泽东主义共产党|MCPC|Ma Houzhi|28 November 2008|Marxism–Leninism–MaoismAnti-revisionism|align="center" colspan="1" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Banned|De facto banned in China due to not being a member of the United Front.|-| style="background-color: red " || |Revolutionary Communist Party of China
Chinese: 中国革命共产党|RCPC||September 1948|Marxism
Trotskyism|Legislative Council: |Active in Hong Kong. Participant in the 1970s Hong Kong student protests.|-| rowspan="4" || style="background-color: red " |||Communist Party of Colombia (Marxist–Leninist)
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista de Colombia (Marxista-Leninista)|PCdeC (M-L)||1965|Marxism–Leninism
HoxhaismStalinismAnti-revisionism|Chamber of Representatives: Senate

||-|style="background-color: red |||Colombian Communist Party – Maoist
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista de Colombia - Maoista|PCC-M||7 August 2001|Marxism–Leninism–Maoism|Chamber of Representatives: Senate

||-|style="background-color: red |||Revolutionary Communist Group
Spanish; Castilian: Grupo Comunista Revolucionario|GCR||1982|Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism|Chamber of Representatives: Senate

||-|style="background-color: red |||Revolutionary Independent Labour Movement
Spanish; Castilian: Movimiento Obrero Independiente y Revolucionario|MOIR|Gustavo Triana|1970|MaoismMarxism-Leninism
New Democracy
Francisco Mosquera Thought|Chamber of Representatives: Senate

||-||style="background-color:#AD0430 |||People's Vanguard Party
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Vanguardia Popular|PVP|Humberto Vargas Carbonell|16 June 1931|Marxism–Leninism|Legislative Assembly: |Banned from 1949 to 1975|-| rowspan="1" ||style="background-color:#B0241D |||Revolutionary Communist Party of Ivory Coast
French: Parti Communiste Révolutionnaire de Côte d'Ivoire|PCRCI|Achy Ekissi|1990|Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism|||-| rowspan="2" || ||Socialist Labour Party of Croatia
Croatian: Socijalistička radnička partija Hrvatske|SRP|Kristofor Stokić|25 October 1997|¸TitoismDemocratic socialism|Sabor: ||-| ||Workers Front
Croatian: Radnička fronta|RF|Collective leadership|9 May 2014|Democratic socialism
Social progressivismLabour rights
Socialist feminism
Anti-fascism
Anti-clericalism
Eco-socialismLeft-wing populismAnti-militarism|Sabor: ||-| rowspan="1" ||||Progressive Party of Working People
Greek, Modern (1453-);: Ανορθωτικό Κόμμα Εργαζόμενου Λαού
Turkish: Emekçi Halkın İlerici Partisi|AKEL|Stefanos Stefanou|15 August 1926|Marxism–Leninism
Pacifism
Cypriot nationalismFederalismSoft euroscepticism|House of Representatives|Won the 2008 election and ruled until 2013|-||||Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
Czech: Komunistická strana Čech a Moravy|KSČM|Kateřina Konečná|31 March 1990|Marxism
EuroscepticismSocialism
Anti-capitalism
Anti-fascism|Chamber of Deputies: Senate

|Czech successor to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Served as confidence and supply to the second government of Andrej Babiš in 2018.|-| rowspan="4" ||||Communist Party of Denmark
Danish: Danmarks Kommunistiske Parti|DKP|Henrik Stamer Hedin|9 November 1919|Marxism–Leninism|Folketing: ||-|style="background-color:#900D05 |||Communist Party
Danish: Kommunistisk Parti|KP|Lotte Rørtoft-Madsen|2006|Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionismFactions:Hoxhaism|Folketing: ||-|style="background-color: red |||Workers' Communist Party
Danish: Arbejderpartiet Kommunisterne|APK|Dorte Grenaa|April 2000|Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism|Folketing: ||-|||Communist Party in Denmark
Danish: Kommunistisk Parti i Danmark|KPiD|Rikke G.F. Carlsson|1990|Marxism–Leninism|Folketing: ||-| rowspan="1" ||style="background-color: red |||Communist Party of Labour
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista del Trabajo|PCT|Manuel Salazar|1980|Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism|Chamber of Deputies: Senate

||-||||Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic
Russian: Коммунистическая партия Донецкой Народной Республики|CPDPR
Russian: КПДНР|Boris Litvinov|8 October 2014|Marxism–Leninism
Soviet patriotismLeft-wing nationalism|People's Council: ||-||||Socialist Party of Timor
Portuguese: Partido Socialista de Timor|PST|Avelino Coelho da Silva|11 February 1997|Marxism–Leninism|National Parliament: ||-| rowspan="4" ||||Communist Party of Ecuador
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista del Ecuador|PCE|Winston Alarcón Elizalde|23 May 1926|Marxism–Leninism|National Assembly: ||-|style="background-color: red |||Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista Marxista-Leninista del Ecuador|PCMLE|Oswaldo Palacios|1 August 1964|Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism|National Assembly: ||-|style="background-color: red |||Workers' Party of Ecuador
Spanish; Castilian: Partido de los Trabajadores del Ecuador|PTE||1996|Marxism-Leninism|National Assembly: |Not registered with Ecuador's National Electoral Council|-|style="background-color: #EB0B03 |||Communist Party of Ecuador – Red Sun
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista de Ecuador - Sol Rojo|PCE-SR||1 June 1987|Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
Gonzalo Thought
Anti-revisionism
Revolutionary socialism|align="center" colspan="1" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Banned|Engaged in minor guerrilla warfare against the government of Ecuador, with the goal of starting a people's war|-||||Egyptian Communist Party
Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي المصري|ECP|Salah Adli|1975|Marxism–Leninism|House of Representatives: Senate

||-|| ||Communist Party of El Salvador
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista de El Salvador|PCS||27 March 2005|Marxism–Leninism|Legislative Assembly: ||-||| |Communist Party of Estonia
Estonian: Eestimaa Kommunistlik Partei|EKP|vacant|26 March 1990|Marxism–LeninismSoviet patriotism|align="center" colspan="1" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Banned|Banned in Estonia following the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, continues to operate underground|-||style="background-color: #65000B |||Communist Party of Swaziland|CPS|Thokozane Kenneth|9 April 2011|Marxism–Leninism
Republicanism|align="center" colspan="1" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Banned|Participant in the 2021–2023 Eswatini protests|-||style="background-color: red|||All-Ethiopia Socialist Movement
Amharic: መላ ኢትዮጵያ ሶሻሊስት ንቅናቄ|MEISON||1968|Marxism–Leninism|House of Peoples' Representatives: House of Federation

|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.|-| rowspan="3" ||||Communist Party of Finland
Finnish: Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue|SKP|Juha-Pekka Väisänen|1984|Marxism–Leninism|Parliament : ||-|| |Communist Workers' Party – For Peace and Socialism
Finnish: Kommunistinen Työväenpuolue – Rauhan ja Sosialismin puolesta|KTP|Mikko Vartiainen|1988|Marxism–Leninism
Hard Euroscepticism|Parliament: ||-|style="background-color: red|||League of Communists
Finnish: Kommunistien Liitto|KL|Kalevi Wahrman|14 September 2002|Marxism–Leninism|Parliament: ||-| rowspan="7" || ||French Communist Party
French: Parti communiste français| PCF| Fabien Roussel| 30 December 1920| Eurocommunism
Soft Euroscepticism| National Assembly: Senate: ||-| || Lutte Ouvrière| LO| Nathalie Arthaud| 1956| Trotskyism
Anti-capitalism| National Assembly: Senate: ||-| || New Anticapitalist Party
French: Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste| NPA| Collective leadership| 8 February 2009| Trotskyism
Alter-globalisation| National Assembly: Senate: ||-||| Pole of Communist Revival in France
French: Pôle de renaissance communiste en France| PRCF| Léon Landini| January 2004| Marxism-LeninismLeft-wing nationalismHard Euroscepticism| National Assembly: Senate: ||-| | | Workers' Communist Party of France
French: Parti communiste des ouvriers de France| PCOF| Collective leadership| 1979| Marxism-Leninism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism| National Assembly: Senate: ||-| ||Marxist–Leninist Communist Organization – Proletarian Way
French: Organisation communiste marxiste-léniniste – Voie prolétarienne| OCML-VP|| September 1976| Marxism-LeninismMaoism| National Assembly: Senate: ||-| || Revolutionary Left
French: Gauche révolutionnaire| GR| | 1992| Marxism
Trotskyism| National Assembly: Senate: ||-| rowspan="3" ||||Communist Party of Georgia
Georgian: საქართველოს კომუნისტური პარტია|SKP
Georgian: სკპ||1992|Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism|Parliament:||-|||Unified Communist Party of Georgia
Georgian: საქართველოს ერთიანი კომუნისტური პარტია|SEKP
Georgian: სეკპ|Nugzar Shalvovich Avaliani|June 1994|Marxism–Leninism
Soviet patriotism|Parliament:||-|||New Communist Party of Georgia
Georgian: საქართველოს ახალი კომუნისტური პარტია|SAKP
Georgian: საკპ||2001|Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism|Parliament:||-| rowspan="2" || | | German Communist Party
German: Deutsche Kommunistische Partei| DKP| Patrik Köbele| 1968| Marxism-Leninism| Bundestag: ||-|||Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany
German: Marxistisch-Leninistische Partei Deutschlands|MLPD|Gabi Fechtner|1982|Marxism-Leninism|Bundestag: ||-| rowspan="11" ||||Communist Party of Greece
Greek, Modern (1453-);: Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας|KKE
Greek, Modern (1453-);: KKE|Dimitris Koutsoumpas|17 November 1918|Marxism-LeninismAnti-imperialismHard Euroscepticism|Hellenic Parliament: |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.|-|style="background-color: #D71920 |||Marxist Leninist Communist Party of Greece
Greek, Modern (1453-);: Μαρξιστικό-Λενινιστικό Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας|M-L KKE
Greek, Modern (1453-);: Μ-Λ ΚΚΕ|Collective leadership|November 1976|Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionismEuroscepticism|Hellenic Parliament: ||-|style="background-color: red || |Communist Party of Greece (Marxist–Leninist)
Greek, Modern (1453-);: Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας (μαρξιστικο-λενινιστικό)|KKE (m-l)
Greek, Modern (1453-);: ΚΚΕ (μ-λ)|Grigoris Konstantopoulos|November 1976|Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionismHoxhaismEuroscepticism|Hellenic Parliament: ||-|||Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece
Greek, Modern (1453-);: Οργάνωση για την Ανασυγκρότηση του Κομουνιστικού Κόμματος Ελλάδας|OAKKE
Greek, Modern (1453-);: OAKKE|Elias Zafiropoulos.|20 July 1985|Marxism-Leninism
Maoism|Hellenic Parliament: ||-|style="background-color: red |||Movement for the Reorganization of the Communist Party of Greece 1918–1955
Greek, Modern (1453-);: Κίνηση για την Ανασύνταξη του Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας 1918–1955)|Anasintaxi
Greek, Modern (1453-);: Ανασύνταξη|Tasos Mpallos|1996|Marxism-Leninism
Stalinism
Hoxhaism
Zachariadism
Anti-revisionism|Hellenic Parliament: ||-|style="background-color: red |||Communist Renewal
Greek, Modern (1453-);: Κομμουνιστική Ανανέωση|KA
Greek, Modern (1453-);: KA|Collective leadership|2000|Marxism
Euroscepticism|Hellenic Parliament: ||-|style="background-color: red |||Left Anti-capitalist Group
Greek, Modern (1453-);: Αριστερή Αντικαπιταλιστική Συσπείρωση|AR.A.S
Greek, Modern (1453-);: ΑΡ.Α.Σ|Collective leadership|1998|Maoism
Anti-capitalism|Hellenic Parliament: ||-|style="background-color: red |||Left Group
Greek, Modern (1453-);: Αριστερή Συσπείρωση|ARI.S
Greek, Modern (1453-);: ΑΡΙ.Σ|Collective leadership|25 October 2012|Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-capitalism
Anti-revisionism|Hellenic Parliament: ||-|style="background-color: red |||Left Recomposition
Greek, Modern (1453-);: Αριστερή Ανασύνθεση|AR.ΑΝ
Greek, Modern (1453-);: ΑΡ.ΑΝ||2003|Maoism
Anti-capitalism|Hellenic Parliament: ||-|style="background-color: red |||New Left Current
Greek, Modern (1453-);: Νέο Αριστερό Ρεύμα|NAR
Greek, Modern (1453-);: ΝΑΡ|Collective leadership|1989|New Left
Eco-socialismAnti-capitalism|Hellenic Parliament: ||-|style="background-color: red |||Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece
Greek, Modern (1453-);: Επαναστατικό Κομμουνιστικό Κίνημα Ελλάδας|EKKE
Greek, Modern (1453-);: EKKE|Collective leadership|1970|Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism|Hellenic Parliament: ||-||||Guadeloupe Communist Party
French: Parti communiste guadeloupéen|PCG|Alain-Félix Flémin|30 March 1958|Marxism
Guadeloupean autonomy|National Assembly: Senate: ||-||||Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity
Spanish; Castilian: Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca|URNG-MAIZ|Gregorio Chay|7 February 1982|Left-wing nationalismSocialism
Indigenismo
Christian socialism
Socialism of the 21st century
Anti-capitalism|Congress: |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.|-||style="background-color: #545AA7 |||New Haitian Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist)
French: Nouveau Parti Communiste Haïtien (Marxiste–Léniniste)|NPCH(ML)|Vania Lubin|2000|Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism|Chamber of Deputies: Senate

||-| rowspan="2" ||| |Hungarian Workers' Party
Hungarian: Magyar Munkáspárt|MMP|Gyula Thürmer|17 December 1989|Marxism-Leninism
Euroscepticism|National Assembly: ||-|style="background-color: red |||Workers' Party of Hungary 2006 - European Left
Hungarian: Magyarországi Munkáspárt 2006 - Európai Baloldal|EB|Attila Vajnai|November 2005|Marxism
Eurocommunism|National Assembly: ||-| rowspan="14" || ||Communist Party of India|CPI|D. Raja|26 December 1925|Marxism–Leninism|Lok Sabha:Rajya Sabha

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

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

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

||-| | |All India Forward Bloc|AIFB|Debabrata Biswas|22 June 1939|Marxism
Left-wing nationalismSocialismAnti-imperialism|Lok Sabha: Rajya Sabha

||-|||Marxist Forward Bloc|MFB|Jaihind Singh|12 November 1953|Marxism
Left-wing populism|Lok Sabha: Rajya Sabha

||-|||Bolshevik Party of India|BPI||1939|Marxism–Leninism|Lok Sabha: Rajya Sabha

||-| ||Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation|CPI(ML)L|Dipankar Bhattacharya|1974|Marxism–Leninism
Mao-Zedong-ThoughtNaxalism|Lok Sabha: Rajya Sabha

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

||-|||Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)|SUCI(C)|Provash Ghosh|24 April 1948|Shibdas Ghosh Thought
Marxism–LeninismAnti-revisionism|Lok Sabha: Rajya Sabha

||-|||Revolutionary Marxist Party of India|RMPI|Mangat Ram Pasla|2016|Marxism–Leninism|Lok Sabha: Rajya Sabha

||-|||Communist Marxist Party|CMP|C. P. John|1986|Marxism–LeninismMarxism
Luxemburgism|Lok Sabha: Rajya Sabha

||-|style="background-color: red |||Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) New Democracy|CPIML ND|Yatendra Kumar|1988|Naxalism
New DemocracyMao Zedong Thought|Lok Sabha: Rajya Sabha

||-| style="background-color: red |||Communist Party of India (Maoist)|CPI (Maoist)|Nambala Keshava Rao|21 September 2004|Naxalism
Marxism–Leninism–Maoism| align="center" colspan="1" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Banned|Leading the ongoing Naxalite–Maoist insurgency, designated a terrorist organization by the government of India|-| rowspan="11" || ||Tudeh Party of Iran
Persian: حزب تودۀ ایران||Collective leadership|2 October 1941|Marxism-Leninism
Stalinism
Left-wing nationalism
Anti-revisionism|colspan="1" rowspan="11" align="center" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Banned||-|style="background-color: red |||Komalah
Kurdish: کۆمەڵە ڕێکخراوی کوردستانی حیزبی کۆمۆنیستی ئێران
Persian: کومله سازمان کردستان حزب کمونیست ایران||Ibrahim Alizade|1984|Marxism-Leninism
InternationalismKurdish minority interests|Kurdish branch of Communist Party of Iran, designated a terrorist organization by the government of Iran|-|style="background-color: red |||Communist Party of Iran
Persian: حزب کمونیست ایران|CPI|Collective leadership|2 September 1983|Marxism-Leninism
Revolutionary socialism||-|style="background-color: red |||Communist Party of Iran (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist)
Persian: حزب کمونیست ایران (مارکسیست-لنینیست-مائوئیست)|CPI (MLM)||2001|Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
New Synthesis
Secularism||-|style="background-color: red |||Labour Party of Iran
Persian: حزب کار ایران|||1965|Marxism-Leninism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism||-|style="background-color: #FF0000 |||Worker-communist Party of Iran
Persian: حزب کمونیست کارگری ایران|WPI|Hamid Taqvaee|1991|WorkerismMarxism
Third camp||-|style="background-color: #FF0000 |||Worker-communist Party of Iran – Hekmatist
Persian: حزب کمونیست کارگری ایران-حکمتیست|WPI-Hekmatist|Jamal Kamangar|2004|Workerism||-|style="background-color: red |||Fedaian Organisation (Minority)
Persian: سازمان فدائیان (اقليت)||Akbar Kāmyābi|March 1987|Marxism-Leninism|colspan="1" rowspan="3" |Split from the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas (Minority)|-|style="background-color: red |||Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas (1985)
Persian: سازمان چریک‌های فدایی خلق ایران||Ḥosayn Zohari|1985|Marxism-Leninism|-|style="background-color: red |||Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas – Followers of the Identity Platform
Persian: سازمان چریک‌های فدایی خلق ایران – پیرو برنامه هویت||Mehdi Sāmeʿ|1983|Marxism-Leninism|-|style="background-color: red || |Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas
Persian: چریک‌های فدایی خلق ایران|IFPG|Ashraf Dehghani| |Marxism-Leninism|Participant in the 1979 Kurdish rebellion|-| rowspan="5" ||||Iraqi Communist Party
Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي العراقي|ICP|Raid Jahid Fahmi|31 March 1934|Classical Marxism
Reformism
Secularism
Nonsectarianism|Council of Representatives: |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.|-|style="background-color: #790102|||Worker-communist Party of Iraq
Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي العمالي العراقي||Amir Adil|July 1993|Marxism
Workerism
Third camp|Council of Representatives: ||-|style="background-color: #A01B14|||Left Worker-communist Party of Iraq
Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي العمالي اليساري العراقي||Issam Shukri|2004|Trotskyism
Workerism
Third camp|Council of Representatives: ||-|style="background-color: red |||Communist Party of Kurdistan – Iraq
Kurdish: حزبي شيوعى كوردستان – عيراق
Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي الكوردستاني – العراق||Kawa Mahmud|1993|Marxism-Leninism
Kurdish nationalism
Nonsectarianism|Council of Representatives (Iraq): Kurdistan Parliament

|colspan="1" rowspan="2" |Regional party active in Kurdistan|-|style="background-color: #FF0001 |||Worker-communist Party of Kurdistan
Kurdish: حزبی کۆمۆنستی کرێکاریی کوردستان
Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي العمالي في كوردستان||Osman Hajy Marouf|2008|Marxism
Workerism
Third camp|Council of Representatives (Iraq): Kurdistan Parliament

|-| rowspan="3" ||||Workers' Party
Irish: Páirtí na nOibrithe||Collective leadership|28 November 1905|Marxism-Leninism
Irish republicanism|Dáil Éireann: Seanad Éireann

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

||-|style="background-color: #e80504 |||Irish Republican Socialist Party
Irish: Páirtí Poblachtach Sóisalach na hÉireann|IRSP|Collective leadership (Irish: [[Ardfheis#Ard Chomhairle|Ard Comhairle]])|8 December 1974|Marxism-Leninism
Irish republicanism
Anti-globalisation
Hard Euroscepticism|Dáil Éireann: Seanad Éireann

||-| rowspan="3" ||| |Israeli Communist Party

Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي الاسرائيلي|Maki
|Collective leadership|1 September 1965|Marxism-Leninism
Alter-globalization
Anti-Zionism|Knesset: | Merged into Hadash in 1977 and as of 2022 its largest faction|-|||The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality

Arabic: الجبهة الديمقراطية للسلاموالمساواة|Hadash
|Ayman Odeh|15 March 1977|MarxismMarxism-Leninism
Communism
Two-state SolutionNon-ZionismIsraeli Arab interests|Knesset: |Formed from a merger of Rakah, the Black Panthers, and Moked. Formerly ran as a part of the Joint List.|-|| |Da'am Workers Party

Arabic: حزب دعم العمالي|Da'am

Arabic: دعم|Collective leadership|1995|Secularism
Marxism
Eco-socialism
Revolutionary socialism
Postnationalism
Non-Zionism
One-state solution|Knesset: ||-| rowspan="5" ||||Communist Refoundation Party
Italian: Partito della Rifondazione Comunista|PRC|Maurizio Acerbo|6 January 1991|Eco-socialism
Feminism
Anti-capitalism
Anti-fascism
Anti-imperialism
Soft Euroscepticism|Chamber of Deputies: Senate

||-|||Italian Communist Party
Italian: Partito Comunista Italiano|PCI|Mauro Alboresi|26 June 2016|Marxism-Leninism
Anti-imperialism
Euroscepticism|Chamber of Deputies: Senate

||-|style="background-color: Red|||Italian Marxist–Leninist Party
Italian: Partito Marxista-Leninista Italiano|PMLI|Giovanni Scuderi|April 1977|Marxism-Leninism
Stalinism
Maoism
Bolshevism
Anti-revisionism
Anti-fascism|Chamber of Deputies: Senate

||-|||Communist Party
Italian: Partito Comunista|PC|Marco Rizzo|3 July 2009|Marxism-Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Hard EuroscepticismSovereigntism|Chamber of Deputies: Senate

||-|||Communist Alternative Party
Italian: Partito di Alternativa Comunista|PdAC|Francesco Ricci|7 January 2007|Trotskyism|Chamber of Deputies: Senate

||-| rowspan="3" ||||Japanese Communist Party
Japanese: 日本共産党|JCP|Tomoko Tamura|15 July 1922|Scientific socialism
Progressivism
PacifismDemocratic socialism|Representatives: Councillors

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

||-|style="background-color: Red|||Japanese Communist Party (Left Faction)
Japanese: 日本共産党 (左派)|||1969|Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
Anti-revisionism|Representatives: Councillors

|-| rowspan="2" ||||Jordanian Communist Party
Arabic: الحزب الشیوعی الاردني|JCP|Faraj Al-Tameezi|1948|Marxism-Leninism
Republicanism|House of Representatives: Senate

||-|| |Jordanian Democratic People's Party
Arabic: حزب الشعب الديمقراطي الأردني|HASHD||1989|Marxism-Leninism
Palestinian nationalism
Anti-Zionism
Left-wing nationalism
Secularism|House of Representatives: Senate

||-| rowspan="2" ||style="background-color: #E31E24|||Communist Party of Kazakhstan
Kazakh: Қазақстан Коммунистік партиясы / Kazakh: Qazaqstan Kommunistık Partiasy
Russian: Коммунистическая партия Казахстана|ҚКП / QKP
Russian: КПК|Toleubek Makhzhanov|16 October 1991|Marxism-Leninism
Soviet patriotism| colspan="1" rowspan="2" align="center" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Banned||-|style="background-color: #FE0000|| |Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan
Kazakh: Қазақстанның Социалистік Қозғалысы / Kazakh: Qazaqstannıñ Socïalïstik Qozğalısı
Russian: Социалистическое Движение Казахстана|ҚСҚ / QSQ
Russian: СДК|Ainur Kurmanov|20–21 May 2006|Marxism-Leninism||-||||Communist Party of Kenya|CPK|Mwandawiro Mgangah[3] |1992|Marxism–Leninism
Pan-AfricanismMaoismSocial democracy (until 2019)|National Assembly: Senate

||-||style="background-color: #81021f|||Kuwaiti Progressive Movement
Arabic: الحركة التقدمية الكويتية||||Anti-capitalism
Anti-imperialismSocialismMarxism-Leninism|National Assembly: ||-| rowspan="2" ||||Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan
Kirghiz; Kyrgyz: Кыргызстан Коммунисттеринин Партиясы
Russian: Партия Коммунистов Киргизии|PKK
Russian: ПКК|Iskhak Masaliyev|22 June 1992|Marxism-Leninism
Soviet patriotism|Supreme Council: ||-|||Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan
Kirghiz; Kyrgyz: Кыргызстан Коммунисттик партиясы
Russian: Коммунистическая Партия Киргизстана|KPK
Russian: КПК|Clara Azhibekovna|29 August 1999|Marxism-Leninism|Supreme Council: ||-| rowspan="1" ||||Socialist Party of Latvia
Latvian: Latvijas Sociālistiskā partija|LSP|Vladimirs Frolovs|15 January 1994|Marxism-Leninism|Saeima: ||-| rowspan="2" ||style="background-color: #CE1C18|||Lebanese Communist Party
Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي اللبناني
French: Parti communiste libanais|LCP
French: PCL|Hanna Gharib|1924|Marxism-Leninism
NonsectarianismSocialismAnti-Zionism|Parliament: ||-|style="background-color: #CE1C18|||Communist Action Organization in Lebanon
Arabic: منظمة العمل الشيوعي في لبنان‎
French: Organisation de l'Action Communiste du Liban|CAOL
French: OACL|Zaki Taha|1970|Marxism-Leninism
Maoism|Parliament: ||-||style="background-color: red" |||Communist Party of Lesotho
Sotho, Southern: Mokhatlo oa Makomonisi a Lesotho
|CPL|Manny Stevenson|5 May 1962|Marxism-Leninism|National Assembly: Senate

||-| rowspan="2" ||||Socialist People's Front
Lithuanian: Socialistinis liaudies frontas
|SLF|Giedrius Grabauskas|2009|Marxism-Leninism
Democratic socialism
Left-wing nationalismSocialism|Seimas: ||-|||Communist Party of Lithuania
Lithuanian: Lietuvos komunistų partija|LKP|vacant|1 October 1918|Marxism-Leninism
Soviet patriotism|align="center" colspan="1" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Banned|Banned in Lithuania following the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, continues to operate underground|-||||Communist Party of Luxembourg
Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch: Kommunistesch Partei vu Lëtzebuerg
French: Parti Communiste Luxembourgeois
German: Kommunistische Partei Luxemburgs|KPL
PCL|Ali Ruckert|2 January 1921|Marxism-Leninism
Hard Euroscepticism|Chamber of Deputies: ||-||||Congress Party for the Independence of Madagascar
Malagasy: Antoko'ny Kongresi'ny Fahaleovantenan'i Madagasikara|AKFM||8 November 1958|Marxism|National Assembly: Senate

|Member of the ruling National Front for the Defense of the Revolution from 1976 to 1989|-| rowspan="2" ||style="background-color: red|||Malian Party of Labour
French: Parti malien du travail|PMT||1965|Marxism-Leninism
Hoxhaism|National Assembly: |Member of the Alliance for Democracy in Mali since 1990|-|||African Solidarity for Democracy and Independence
French: Solidarité Africaine pour la Démocratie et l'Indépendance|SADI|Oumar Mariko|1996|Marxism-Leninism
Pan-Africanism|National Assembly: ||-||||Communist Party of Malta
Maltese: Partit Komunista Malti|PKM|Victor Degiovanni|1969|Marxism-Leninism|House of Representatives: ||-| rowspan="2" ||||Martinican Communist Party
French: Parti communiste martiniquais|PCM|Georges Erichot|September 1957|Autonomism|Assembly of Martinique: ||-|style="background-color: #FF0000" |||Communist Party for Independence and Socialism
French: Parti Communiste pour l'Indépendance et le Socialisme
Pati Kominis pou Lendépandans èk Sosyalism|PCLS
PKLS||22 May 1984|Marxism–Leninism
Martinican independence|Assembly of Martinique: ||-| rowspan="4" ||||Popular Socialist Party of Mexico
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Popular Socialista de México|PPSM|Cuauhtémoc Amezcua Dromundo|1997|Marxism–Leninism
Anti-imperialism
Latin American integration|Chamber of Deputies: Senate of the Republic

|Not registered or recognized by the Instituto Nacional Electoral|-|style="background-color: red |||Communist Party of Mexico
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista de México|PCM|Pável Blanco Cabrera|20 November 1994|Marxism–Leninism|Chamber of Deputies: Senate of the Republic

||-|||Communist Party of Mexico (Marxist–Leninist)
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista de México (Marxista-Leninista)|PCM (ML)||1978|Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism|Chamber of Deputies: Senate of the Republic

||-|style="background-color: red|||Communists' Party
Spanish; Castilian: Partido de los Comunistas|PdelosC|Luis Alfonso Vargas Silva|2003|Marxism–Leninism|Chamber of Deputies: Senate of the Republic

||-||||Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova
Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Partidul Comuniștilor din Republica Moldova|PCRM|Vladimir Voronin|22 October 1993|Marxism–Leninism
Social conservatism
Soviet patriotism
Moldovenism
Pro-Russia|Parliament: |Member of BECS|-||||Yugoslav Communist Party of Montenegro
Jugoslovenska komunistička partija
Југословенска комунистичка партија|JKP CG / ЈКП-ЦГ|Radislav Stanišić|25 September 2009|Titoism
Pensioners' rights
Yugo-nostalgia|Parliament: ||-||style="background-color: red" |||Democratic Way
Arabic: النهج الديمقراطي||Abdallah El Harif|1995|Marxism
Anti-imperialismAnti-revisionismHoxhaism|House of Representatives: House of Councillors

||-||style="background-color: #CC232A" |||Communist Party of Burma
Burmese: ဗမာပြည်ကွန်မြူနစ်ပါတီ|CPB||15 August 1939|Marxism-Leninism
Mao-Zedong-ThoughtFederalism|align="center" colspan="1" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|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|-||style="background-color: red" |||Workers Revolutionary Party|WRP|Collective leadership|May 1989|Trotskyism|National Assembly: National Council

||-| rowspan="5" || | | Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
Nepali: नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (एकीकृत मार्क्सवादी-लेनिनवादी)| CPN (UML)
Nepali: नेकपा (एमाले)| K. P. Sharma Oli| | Marxism–Leninism
People's Multiparty Democracy|House of Representatives: National Assembly

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

||-|||Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party
Nepali: नेपाल मजदुर किसान पार्टी|NWPP|Narayan Man Bijukchhe|23 January 1975|Marxism-Leninism
MaoismJuche|House of Representatives: National Assembly

||-|style="background-color: red" |||Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist)
Nepali: नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (मार्क्सवादी)||Durga Prasad Gyawali|2006|Marxism-Leninism|House of Representatives: National Assembly

||-|style="background-color: red" |||Communist Party of Nepal (Revolutionary Maoist)
Nepali: नेपाल कम्यूनिष्ट पार्टी (क्रान्तिकारी माओवादी)|CPN (RM)|Mohan Baidya|19 June 2012|Marxism-Leninism-Maoism|House of Representatives: National Assembly

|Operates underground and participates in elections through a front organization; the Patriotic People's Republican Front|-| rowspan="3" ||||New Communist Party of the Netherlands
Dutch; Flemish: Nieuwe Communistische Partij Nederlan|NCPN|Job Pruijser|14 November 1992|Marxism–LeninismEuroscepticism|House of Representatives: Senate

||-|style="background-color: #CC0000" |||United Communist Party
Dutch; Flemish: Verenigde Communistische Partij|VCP|Engel Modderman|1999|Marxism–Leninism|House of Representatives: Senate

||-|style="background-color: Red" |||Group of Marxist–Leninists/Red Dawn
Dutch; Flemish: Groep Marxisten-Lenisten/Rode Morgen|GML/Rode Morgen|Jeroen Toussaint|1977|Marxism–Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism|House of Representatives: Senate

||-| rowspan="1" ||style="background-color: Red" |||Communist League|The League||1969|Marxism–Leninism|House of Representatives: ||-| rowspan="2" ||||Communist Party of Nicaragua
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista de Nicaragua|PCdeN; PCN||12 October 1967|Marxism–Leninism|National Assembly: ||-|||Marxist–Leninist Popular Action Movement
Spanish; Castilian: Movimiento de Acción Popular - Marxista–Leninista|MAP-ML||1972|Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism|National Assembly: ||-| rowspan="1" ||style="background-color: red" | ||Communist Party of Macedonia — Tito's forces
Macedonian: Комунистичка партија на Македонија — Титови сили|KPM-TS
Macedonian: КПМ—ТС|Goran Arsovski|26 October 2005|Marxism-Leninism
Titoism|Assembly: ||-| rowspan="2" ||style="background-color: #FF0000" |||Communist Party of Norway
Norwegian: Norges Kommunistiske Parti|NKP|Runa Evensen|4 November 1923|Marxism-Leninism
Hard Euroscepticism|Storting: ||-|||Red Party
Norwegian: Rødt|R|Bjørnar Moxnes|11 March 2007|Democratic socialism
Revolutionary socialismMarxism|Storting: ||-| rowspan="2" ||style="background-color: #FF3028" |||Communist Party of Pakistan
Urdu: کمیونسٹ پارٹی آف پاکستان|CPP|Imdad Qazi|6 March 1948|Marxism-Leninism|National Assembly: Senate

|Not registered with the Election Commission of Pakistan|-|style="background-color: red" |||Mazdoor Kisan Party
Urdu: مزدور کسان پارٹی|MKP|Afzal Khamosh|1 May 1968|Marxism-Leninism
Maoism|National Assembly: Senate

||-| rowspan="4" || | | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Arabic: الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين| PFLP| Ahmad Sa'adat| data-sort-value="1967-12-11"|| Palestinian nationalism
Marxism–Leninism
Revolutionary socialismSecularismAnti-imperialismPan-ArabismArab nationalism
One-state solution
Anti-zionism| Legislative Council: | rowspan=3 | Member of the PLO, opposed to the Hamas government of the Gaza Strip|-| | | Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Arabic: الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين| DFLP| Nayef Hawatmeh| data-sort-value="1969"|| Marxism–LeninismMaoism
Palestinian nationalism
Left-wing nationalism
Anti-Zionism| Legislative Council: |-| || Palestinian People's Party
Arabic: حزب الشعب الفلسطيني| PPP| Bassam Al-Salhi| data-sort-value="1982-02"|| Marxism
Palestinian nationalism
Left-wing nationalism| Legislative Council: |-|style="background-color: #B00F15" |||Palestinian Communist Party
Arabic: الحزب الشیوعي الفلسطیني||Mahmoud Saadeh|December 1991|Marxism-Leninism
Palestinian nationalism|Legislative Council: ||-| rowspan="2" ||style="background-color: red |||Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) of Panama
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista (marxista-leninista) de Panamá|PC(ml)P||January 9, 1980|Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism|National Assembly: ||-|style="background-color: red |||November 29 National Liberation Movement
Spanish; Castilian: Movimiento de Liberación Nacional 29 de noviembre|MLN-29||July 29, 1970|Marxism
Anti-imperialism|National Assembly: ||-| rowspan="3" ||||Paraguayan Communist Party
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista Paraguayo|PCP|Najeeb Amado|19 February 1928|Marxism-Leninism|Chamber of Deputies: Senate

||-|||Partido Patria Libre|PPL||3 February 1990|Marxism–Leninism
Guevarism
Foco theory
Socialist patriotism
Anti-imperialism
Revolutionary socialism|Chamber of Deputies: Senate

||-|style="background-color: red|||Paraguayan Communist Party (independent)
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista Paraguayo (independiente)|PCP(i)||1967|Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism|Chamber of Deputies: Senate

||-| rowspan="5" | | style="background-color: #ED1C24" || | Peruvian Communist Party
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista Peruano| PCP| Luis Villanueva| data-sort-value="1928-04-09"|| Marxism–Leninism
Mariáteguism| Congress: | rowspan="2" | Member of Together for Peru, which participated in the Free Peru-led government|-| style="background-color: #B0070E" || | Communist Party of Peru – Red Fatherland
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista del Perú – Patria Roja| PCP-PR| Alberto Moreno| data-sort-value="1970"|| Anti-revisionism| Congress: |-| | | Free Peru[4]
Spanish; Castilian: Perú Libre| PL| Vladimir Cerron| data-sort-value="2008-08-13"|| Socialism
Marxism–Leninism
Mariáteguism| Congress: ||-|style="background-color: #BE0612|||Peruvian Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist)
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista Peruano (Marxista–Leninista)|PCP (ML)||January 1964|Marxism-Leninism
Stalinism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionismMaoism (until 1970s)|Congress: ||-|style="background-color: #CD0000|||Shining Path
Spanish; Castilian: Sendero Luminoso|PCP; PCP-SL||1969|Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
Gonzalo Thought
Anti-revisionism
Revolutionary socialism|align="center" colspan="1" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Banned|Designated a terrorist organization by the government of Peru|-| rowspan="3" ||style="background-color: red |||Communist Party of the Philippines
Filipino; Pilipino: Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas|CPP|Benito Tiamzon (alleged) (deceased)|26 December 1968|National democracy
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism|align="center" colspan="1" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|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|-|style="background-color: red || |Philippine Communist Party-1930
Filipino; Pilipino: Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930|PKP-1930|Antonio E. Paris|7 November 1930|Marxism-LeninismDemocratic socialism|House of Representatives: Senate

||-|style="background-color: red |||Marxist–Leninist Party of the Philippines
Filipino; Pilipino: Partido Marxista–Leninista ng Pilipinas|MLPP||1998|Marxism-Leninism|align="center" colspan="1" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Banned|Participant in the ongoing communist rebellion in the Philippines|-| rowspan="1" || style="background-color: #CC0000 || |Polish Communist Party
Polish: Komunistyczna Partia Polski|KPP|Krzysztof Szwej|9 October 2002|Marxism-Leninism
Stalinism
Anti-revisionismHard EuroscepticismAnti-clericalism|Sejm: Senate

||-| rowspan="3" || ||Portuguese Communist Party
Portuguese: Partido Comunista Português|PCP|Collective leadership|6 March 1921|Marxism-LeninismAnti-revisionismHard Euroscepticism|Assembly of the Republic: ||-|style="background-color: #cc0000 |||Portuguese Workers' Communist Party
Portuguese: Partido Comunista dos Trabalhadores Portugueses|PCTP/MRPP|Maria Cidália Guerreiro|1970|Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism|Assembly of the Republic: ||-|style="background-color: red |||Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat – Bases for Revolution
Portuguese: Partido Revolucionário do Proletariado - Bases pela Revolução|PRP-BR|Luis Cardoso|17 July 2002|Marxism
Guevarism|Assembly of the Republic: |Founded as a successor to the Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat - Revolutionary Brigades|-| rowspan="1" ||style="background-color: crimson |||Communist Party of Puerto Rico
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista de Puerto Rico|PCPR||2010|Marxism-Leninism
Anti-imperialism
Puerto Rican Independence|House: Senate

||-||||Communist Party of Réunion
French: Parti Communiste Réunionnais|PCR|Élie Hoarau|1959|Post-Marxism
Regionalism|National Assembly: Senate: ||-| rowspan="2" ||style="background-color: red" |||Communitarian Party of Romania
Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Partidul Comunitar din România|PCDR|Petre Ignatencu|19 March 2010|Communitarianism
ProgressivismAnti-imperialismAnti-AmericanismAnti-capitalism|Chamber of Deputies: Senate: ||-|style="background-color: red" |||Romanian Socialist Party
Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Partidul Socialist Român|PSR|Constantin Rotaru|July 2003|Eurocommunism
Progressivism
Equality feminism
Left-wing nationalismAnti-NATOEuropean federalismPro-Europeanism|Chamber of Deputies: Senate: ||-|rowspan="8" ||||Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Russian: Коммунистическая Партия Российской Федерации|CPRF
Russian: КПРФ|Gennady Zyuganov||Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing nationalism
Soviet patriotismSocial conservatismNeo-Stalinism|State Duma: Federation Council: ||-|style="background-color: #ED1515" |||Left Front
Russian: Левый фронт||Sergei Udaltsov|18 October 2008|Marxism–Leninism
Anti-fascism
Anti-nationalism
Anti-liberalism
Anti-capitalism
Internationalism|State Duma: Federation Council: ||-|||Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Russian: Российская коммунистическая рабочая партия в составе Коммунистической партии Советского Союза|RCWP-CPSU
Russian: РКРП-КПСС|Stepan Malentsov|27 October 2001|Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Anti-revisionism|State Duma: Federation Council: ||-|||Russian Labour Front
Russian: Российский трудовой фронт|RTF
Russian: РТФ|Alexander Batov|22 February 2010|Marxism–Leninism|State Duma: Federation Council: ||-|style="background-color: #CC1100" |||Russian Maoist Party
Russian: Российская маоистская партия|RMP
Russian: РМП|Collective leadership|9 June 2000|Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Proletarian internationalism
Feminism|State Duma: Federation Council: ||-|style="background-color: #C50534" |||Labour Russia
Russian: Трудовая Россия|LR
Russian: ТР|Stanislav Ruzanov|7 November 1991|Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Soviet patriotism
Direct democracy
Left-wing nationalism|State Duma: Federation Council: ||-|||Russian Party of Freedom and Justice
Russian: Российская партия свободы и справедливости|RPSS
Russian: РПСС|Konstantin Rykov|8 April 2012|Social democracy
Russian nationalism|State Duma: Federation Council: ||-|||Communists of Russia
Russian: Коммунисты России|CPCR
Russian: РПСС|Sergey Malinkovich|23 May 2009|Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Anti-revisionism|State Duma: Federation Council: ||-| rowspan="2" ||||New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
Serbian: Нова комунистичка партија Југославије / Serbian: Nova Komunistička Partija Jugoslavije|NKPJ
Serbian: НKПЈ|Aleksandar Banjanac|30 June 1990|Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Anti-revisionism
YugoslavismRussophilia|National Assembly: ||-|||Party of Labour
Serbian: Партија рада / Serbian: Partija rada|PR
Serbian: ПР|Collective leadership|28 March 1992|Marxism–Leninism|National Assembly: ||-| rowspan="2" ||||Communist Party of Slovakia
Slovak: Komunistická strana Slovenska|KSS|Jozef Hrdlička|29 August 1992|Marxism–Leninism|National Council: ||-|style="background-color:red" |||Dawn
Slovak: Úsvit||Luciana Hoptová|25 May 2005|Marxism|National Council: ||-| rowspan="2" ||| |Economic Freedom Fighters|EFF|Julius Malema|26 July 2013|Marxism–Leninism
Fanonism
Sankarism
Anti-imperialism
Pan-Africanism
Black nationalism
Anti-ZionismLeft-wing populismAnti-capitalism|National Assembly: National Council of Provinces

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

||-||||Communist Party of South Ossetia
Ossetian; Ossetic: Хуссар Ирыстоны Коммунистон парти|CPSO
Ossetian; Ossetic: ХИКп|Stanislav Kochiev|1993|Marxism–Leninism
Soviet patriotism|Parliament: ||-||||Communist Party of South Sudan|CPSS|Joseph Wol Modesto|June 2011|Marxism–Leninism|National Legislative Assembly: Council of States

||-| rowspan="14" ||||Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista de los Pueblos de España|PCPE|Julio Díaz|15 January 1984|Marxism–Leninism
Hard Euroscepticism
InternationalismAnti-capitalism|Congress of Deputies: Senate

||-|||Communist Party of Spain (Marxist–Leninist)
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista de España (marxista-leninista)|PCE (m-l)||2006|Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
Republicanism|Congress of Deputies: Senate

||-|style="background-color:#FF0000" |||Communist Party of Spain (Reconstituted)
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista de España (Reconstituido)|PCE(r)|Manuel Pérez Martínez|1975|Marxism–Leninism
RepublicanismMaoism (until 1990s)|align="center" colspan="1" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Banned|Banned in 2003 due to links to the First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups. Inactive as of 2006, though not officially dissolved.|-|style="background-color:red" |||Marxist–Leninist Party (Communist Reconstruction)
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Marxista–Leninista (Reconstrucción Comunista)|PML(RC) / RC|Roberto Vaquero Arribas|6 October 2014|Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Anti-fascism
RepublicanismProletarian internationalism|Congress of Deputies: Senate

|Temporarily banned from December 2014 to 2017 due to alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party.|-|||Communist Unification of Spain
Spanish; Castilian: Unificación Comunista de España|UCE||1973|Marxism–Leninism
Mao Zedong thought|Congress of Deputies: Senate

||-|||Spanish Communist Workers' Party
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista Obrero Español|PCOE|Francisco Barjas|1973|Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Anti-revisionism
Anti-fascism
Republicanism|Congress of Deputies: Senate

||-|||Revolutionary Communist Party
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista Revolucionario|PCR||1994|Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Anti-revisionismMaoism|Congress of Deputies: Senate

||-|style="background-color: red" |||Marxist–Leninist Front of the Peoples of Spain
Spanish; Castilian: Frente Marxista-Leninista de los Pueblos de España|F(M-L)PE|Gregorio Fernandez Lopez|1987|Marxism–Leninism|Congress of Deputies: Senate

||-|style="background-color: red" |||Democratic Labour Party
Spanish; Castilian: Partido del Trabajo Democrático|PTD|Miguel Ángel Villalón|2013|Marxism–Leninism
Republicanism
Feminism|Congress of Deputies: Senate

||-|style="background-color:red" |||Living Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia
Catalan; Valencian: Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya Viu
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Socialista Unificado de Cataluña Vivo|PSUC Viu|Collective leadership|June 1997|Republicanism
Federalism|Parliament of Catalonia: |colspan="1" rowspan="2" |Regional party active in Catalonia|-|||United and Alternative Left
Catalan; Valencian: Esquerra Unida i Alternativa
Spanish; Castilian: Izquierda Unida y Alternativa|EUiA|Joan Josep Nuet|1998|Marxism
Ecologism
Catalan self-determination
Republicanism|Parliament of Catalonia: |-|||Galician People's Union
Galician: Unión do Povo Galego
Spanish; Castilian: Unión del Pueblo Gallego|UPG|Néstor Rego|November 1963|Marxism-Leninism
Galician nationalism|Parliament of Galicia: |colspan="1" rowspan="2" |Regional party active in Galicia. Member of the Galician Nationalist Bloc.|-|||Galician Movement for Socialism
Galician: Movemento Galego ao Socialismo
Spanish; Castilian: Movimiento Gallego al Socialismo|MGS|Rafa Villar|2009|Galician nationalism
Galician self-determination
Euroscepticism
Feminism|Parliament of Galicia: |-|||Galician People's Front
Galician: Frente Popular Galega
Spanish; Castilian: Frente Popular Gallego|FPG|Mariano Abalo|1986|Marxism-Leninism
Galician self-determination|Parliament of Galicia: |Regional party active in Galicia|-|| style="background-color: #ED2224" |||Sudanese Communist Party|SCP|Muhammad Mukhtar Al-Khatib|1946|Marxism–Leninism|Transitional Legislative Council:||-| rowspan="2" || style="background-color: #C53737" |||Communist Party of Sweden
Northern Sami: Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti|SKP|Andreas Sörensen|1977|Marxism–Leninism
Hard Euroscepticism|Riksdag:||-| ||Communist Party
Northern Sami: Kommunistiska partiet|K|Povel Johansson|1970|Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism|Riksdag:||-| rowspan="2" || style="background-color: red |||Communist Party
Italian: Partito Comunista|PC|Massimiliano Arif Ay|May 1944|Marxism–Leninism|National Council: Council of States

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

||-| rowspan="9" || ||Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna
Sinhala; Sinhalese: ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ
Tamil: மக்கள் விடுதலை முன்னணி|JVP
Sinhala; Sinhalese: ජවිපේ
Tamil: ஜே.வி.பி.|Anura Kumara Dissanayake|14 May 1965|Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Revolutionary socialism
Anti-imperialismProgressivism|Parliament: ||-| style="background-color: red" |||Communist Party of Sri Lanka
Sinhala; Sinhalese: ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ කොමියුනිස්ට් පක්ෂය
Tamil: இலங்கை கம்யூனிஸ்ட் கட்சி|CPSL
Sinhala; Sinhalese: ශ්‍රීලංකොප
Tamil: இ.க.க.|G. Weerasinghe|1943|Marxism–Leninism|Parliament: | rowspan="2" |Part of various different coalition governments from 1970–1975, 1994–2000, 2004–2015 and 2020–2022|-| style="background-color: red" |||Lanka Sama Samaja Party
Sinhala; Sinhalese: ලංකා සම සමාජ පක්ෂය
Tamil: லங்கா சமசமாஜக் கட்சி|LSSP
Sinhala; Sinhalese: ලසසප
Tamil: ல.ச.ச.க.|Tissa Vitharana|18 December 1935|Trotskyism|Parliament: |-| style="background-color: #FF0000" |||Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist)
Sinhala; Sinhalese: ලංකා කොමියුනිස්ට් පක්ෂය (මාඕවාදී)
Tamil: சிலோன் கம்யூனிஸ்ட் கட்சி (மாவோயிஸ்ட்)|CCP (Maoist)||1964|Marxism–Leninism
Mao Zedong Thought
Anti-revisionism|Parliament: ||-| style="background-color: red" |||Socialist Equality Party
Sinhala; Sinhalese: සමාජවාදී සමානතා පක්ෂය
Tamil: சோசலிச சமத்துவக் கட்சி|SEP
Sinhala; Sinhalese: සසප
Tamil: சோ.ச.க.|Deepal Jayasekera|1964|Trotskyism|Parliament: ||-| ||Socialist Party of Sri Lanka
Sinhala; Sinhalese: ශ්‍රී ලංකා සමාජවාදී පක්ෂය
Tamil: இலங்கை சோசலிச கட்சி|SPSL||2006|Marxism
Trotskyism|Parliament: ||-| style="background-color: #FF0000" |||United Socialist Party
Sinhala; Sinhalese: එක්සත් සමාජවාදි පකෂය
Tamil: ஐக்கிய சோசலிச கட்சி|USP
Sinhala; Sinhalese: එසප
Tamil: ஐ.சோ.க.|Siritunga Jayasuriya|2006|Marxism
Trotskyism|Parliament: ||-| style="background-color: #FF0000" |||New Democratic Marxist–Leninist Party
Sinhala; Sinhalese: නව-ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී මාක්ස්-ලෙනින්වාදී පක්ෂය
Tamil: புதிய-ஜனநாயக மார்க்சிச-லெனினிச கட்சி|NDMLP
Sinhala; Sinhalese: නප්‍රමාලෙප
Tamil: பு.ஜ.மா.லெ.க.|S. K. Senthivel|3 July 1978|Marxism-Leninism
Mao Zedong Thought
Anti-revisionism|Parliament: ||-| ||Frontline Socialist Party
Sinhala; Sinhalese: පෙරටුගාමී සමාජවාදී පක්ෂය
Tamil: முன்னிலை சோசலிசக் கட்சி|FLSP
Sinhala; Sinhalese: පෙසප
Tamil: மு.சோ.க.|Premakumar Gunaratnam|9 April 2012|Marxism-Leninism
Anti-imperialism
Revolutionary socialism|Parliament: ||-| rowspan="2" || style="background-color: #E90606" |||People's Will Party
Arabic: حزب الإرادة الشعبية|PWP|Collective leadership|2012|Marxism-Leninism|People's Assembly: ||-| style="background-color: #FF0000" |||Communist Action Party
Arabic: حزب العمل الشيوعي||Fateh Jamous|August 1976|Marxism-Leninism|align="center" colspan="1" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Banned||-|| ||Taiwan People's Communist Party
Chinese: 臺灣人民共產黨|TPCP|Lin Te-wang|4 February 2017|Chinese unificationSocialism with Chinese characteristics|Legislative Yuan: ||-|| ||Communist Party of Tajikistan|KPT||6 December 1924|Marxism–LeninismSoviet patriotism|||-|| ||Communist Party of Togo|PCT||4 May 1980|HoxhaismMarxism-LeninismAnti-revisionism|||-|| ||Transnistrian Communist Party|PKP|Nadezhda Bondarenko|20 April 2003|Marxism–Leninism
Soviet patriotism|||-| rowspan="2" || ||Workers' Party||Hamma Hammami|January 3 1986|Marxism-LeninismHoxhaismPan-Arabism|||-| ||Democratic Patriots' Unified Party||Ziad Lakhdar|1982|Marxism-LeninismAnti-revisionismMaoismArab nationalismAnti-Islamism|||-| rowspan="11" || ||Communist Party of Turkey|TKP|Kemal Okuyan|11 November 2001|Marxism–Leninism|Grand National Assembly:||-|||Workers' Party of Turkey|TİP|Erkan Baş|7 November 2001|Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing populismProgressivism|Grand National Assembly:||-| ||Labour Party|EMEP|Selma Gürkan|25 November 1996|Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism|Grand National Assembly:||-| ||Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist|TKP/ML||24 April 1972|Marxism–Leninism–Maoism|colspan="1" rowspan="8" align="center" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Banned||-| ||Marxist–Leninist Communist Party|MLKP||10 September 1994|Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Hoxhaism||-| ||Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist|TKEP/L||1 September 1990|Marxism–Leninism||-| ||Communist Workers Party of Turkey|TKİP||November 1998|Marxism-Leninism||-| ||Maoist Communist Party|MKP||15 September 2002|Marxism–Leninism–Maoism||-| ||Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front|DHKP/C||30 March 1994|Marxism-LeninismGuevarismFoco theorySocialist patriotismRevolutionary socialism||-| ||Communist Party of Kurdistan|KKP||1982|Kurdish self-determination||-| ||Bolshevik Party (North Kurdistan – Turkey)|BP (KK-T)||1981|Marxism-LeninismAnti-revisionism||-|| ||Communist Party of Turkmenistan|TKP||1998|Marxism–LeninismSoviet patriotism|align="center" colspan="1" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Banned||-| rowspan="2" ||||Communist Party of Ukraine
Ukrainian: Комуністична партія України
Russian: Коммунистическая партия Украины|KPU
Russian: КПУ|Petro Symonenko|19 June 1993|Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing populism
Soviet patriotism
Pro-RussiaSocial conservatism|colspan="1" rowspan="2" align="center" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Banned|colspan="1" rowspan="2" |Banned in 2015 under Ukraine's decommunization laws, continues to operate underground|-|style="background-color: red |||Union of Communists of Ukraine
Ukrainian: Союз комуністів України
Russian: Союз коммунистов Украины|SKU
Russian: СКУ||December 19, 1992|Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionismStalinism|-| rowspan="8" ||||Communist Party of Britain|CPB|Robert Griffiths|1988|Marxism–LeninismBritain's Road to Socialism|||-|||Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist)|CPB-ML||1968|Marxism-LeninismHard EuroscepticismHoxhaismMaoism (until 1979)|||-|||Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist)| CPGB-ML|Ella Rule|July 3, 2004|Marxism-LeninismStalinismAnti-revisionismHard Euroscepticism|||-|||Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee)|CPGB (PCC)||1991|LeninismAnti-Stalinism|||-|||New Communist Party of Britain|NCP|Andy Brooks|1977|Marxism-LeninismStalinismAnti-revisionismHard Euroscepticism|||-|||Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist)|CPE (ML)||1979|Marxism-LeninismHoxhaismAnti-revisionism|||-|||Revolutionary Communist Group|RCG||1974|Marxism-LeninismAnti-imperialism|||-|||Communist League|||||||-| rowspan="7" || ||Communist Party USA|CPUSA|Collective leadership (National Convention)|1 September 1919|Marxism-Leninism
Bill of Rights socialism|House of Representatives: Senate

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

||-| ||Socialist Alternative|SA|Collective leadership|April 1986|Marxism
Revolutionary socialism
Trotskyism|House of Representatives: Senate

||-| ||Socialist Equality Party|SEP|David North|September 1964|Revolutionary socialism
Trotskyism|House of Representatives: Senate

||-| style="background-color: #df1e23" |||Workers World Party|WWP|Larry Holmes|1959|Marxism-Leninism
Proletarian internationalism|House of Representatives: Senate

||-| ||Socialist Workers Party|SWP|Jack Barnes|January 1938|Marxism
Castroism|House of Representatives: Senate

||-| style="background-color: red" |||Socialist Action||Jeff Mackler|1983|Trotskyism|House of Representatives: Senate

||-|| style="background-color: red" |||Revolutionary Communist Party of Uruguay
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista Revolucionario|PCR|Ricardo Cohen|1972|Marxism–Leninism–Maoism|Chamber of Representatives: Senate

||-|| ||Communist Party of Uzbekistan
Uzbek: Ўзбекистон коммунистик партияси / Uzbek: Oʻzbekiston kommunistik partiyasi
Russian: Коммунистическая партия Узбекистана|КПУз / OʻzKP
Russian: СДК|Kaxramon Mahmudov|1994|Marxism–LeninismSocialismSoviet patriotismAnti-clericalism|align="center" colspan="1" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Banned|Banned immediately after attempting to register with Uzbekistan's Central Election Commission|-| rowspan="4" || ||Communist Party of Venezuela
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista de Venezuela|PCV|Óscar Figuera|5 March 1931|Marxism–Leninism|National Assembly: ||-|style="background-color: crimson |||Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Venezuela
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Comunista Marxista Leninista de Venezuela|PCMLV||2009|Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
Anti-imperialism
Anti-Chavismo|National Assembly: ||-|style="background-color:red |||Red Flag Party
Spanish; Castilian: Partido Bandera Roja|BR|Gabriel Puerta Aponte|20 January 1970|Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Anti-Chavismo|National Assembly: ||-| | | Revolutionary Movement Tupamaro (Popular Revolutionary Alternative)
Spanish; Castilian: Movimiento Revolucionario Tupamaro| MRT| | data-sort-value="1992"|| Marxism-Leninism
GuevarismFoco theoryLeft-wing nationalismRevolutionary socialism| National Assembly: | 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

CountryBeforeTurnedNotes
Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angolasame nameHas abandoned Marxist-Leninism for social democracy
National Union for the Total Independence of Angolasame nameAbandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy and then for social conservatism
Popular Socialist PartyCidadaniaHas abandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy and later social liberalism
Bulgarian Communist PartyBulgarian Socialist PartyHas abandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy
Kampuchean Revolutionary People's PartyCambodian People's PartyHas abandoned Marxism-Leninism for centrism
Congolese Party of Laboursame nameHas abandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy
League of Communists of CroatiaSocial Democratic PartyHas abandoned Marxism-Leninism-Titoism for social democracy
Communist People's Party of KazakhstanPeople's Party of KazakhstanHas abandoned Marxism-Leninism for democratic socialism
Vanguard of the Malagasy RevolutionMalagasy Revolutionary PartyHas abandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy
Mongolian People's Revolutionary PartyMongolian People's PartyHas abandoned Marxist-Leninism for social democracy
League of Communists of MontenegroDemocratic Party of Socialists of MontenegroHas abandoned Marxism-Leninism-Titoism for social democracy and later neoliberalism
Party of Progress and Socialismsame nameHas abandoned Marxism-Leninism for democratic socialism
FRELIMOsame nameHas abandoned Marxism-Leninism for democratic socialism
League of Communists of SerbiaSocialist Party of SerbiaHas abandoned Marxism-Leninism-Titoism for social democracy
League of Communists of SloveniaSocial DemocratsHas abandoned Marxism-Leninism-Titoism for social democracy
Yemeni Socialist Partysame nameHas abandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy

Defunct

Once ruling

StateDefunct PartyNotes
People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
Party of Labour of AlbaniaSucceeded by Socialist Party of Albania
People's Revolutionary Party of Benin
Bulgarian Communist PartySucceeded by the Bulgarian Socialist Party
Communist Party of Kampuchea
Communist Party of CzechoslovakiaCzech Republic branch became the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia, and the Slovak branch became the Party of the Democratic Left
Workers' Party of Ethiopia
New Jewel Movement
Hungarian Working People's Party
Hungarian Socialist Workers' PartyBecame the Hungarian Socialist Party
Polish United Workers' Party
Romanian Communist Party
Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party
Communist Party of the Soviet UnionFormerly the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party
League of Communists of Yugoslavia

Non-ruling

Left communist organizations by country

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

CountryOrganizations
Ideologically left communist organizations
International Communist Party
Lotta Comunista
Internationalist Voice
Communist Workers' Organisation
World Revolution
International Communist Party
Internationalism
Internationalist Workers Group
Workers Offensive

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Marxism-Leninism, socialism no longer relevant to PPP – Jagdeo . 2024-06-30 . 2024-05-05 .
  2. Book: Abrahamian, Ervand. 1982. Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. 234–237. 0-691-10134-5.
  3. Web site: Central Committee .
  4. Web site: Peru confirms new moderate-left cabinet . 2022-04-12 . www.aljazeera.com . en.
  5. http://www.lcr-lagauche.be/cm/index.php?view=article&id=663&tmpl=component&print=1&page=&Itemid=53&option=com_content "Syndicalisme de combat et parti révolutionnaire"
  6. http://www.marx.be/NL/cgi/emall.php?action=get_doc&id=22&doc=64 "Emall NL"
  7. A Communist Party in New Caledonia (1941-1948) . 25169484 . Kurtovitch . Ismet . The Journal of Pacific History . 2000 . 35 . 2 . 163–179 . 10.1080/002233400445779 . 153697401 .