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Candidates

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Constituency
AITC BJP Left Front INC
1 Cooch Behar (SC) AITC Jagadish Chandra Basunia BJP Nisith Pramanik AIFB Nitish Chandra Roy INC Piya Roy Chowdhury
2 Alipurduars (ST) AITC Prakash Chik Baraik BJP Manoj Tigga RSP Mili Oraon Supports Left Front
3 Jalpaiguri (SC) AITC Nirmal Chandra Roy BJP Jayanta Kumar Roy CPI(M) Debraj Barman Supports Left Front
4 Darjeeling AITC Gopal Lama BJP Raju Bista
5 Raiganj AITC Krishna Kalyani BJP Kartick Paul Supports INC INC Ali Ramz (Victor)
6 Balurghat AITC Biplab Mitra BJP Sukanta Majumdar RSP Jaydeb Siddhanta
7 Maldaha Uttar AITC Prasun Banerjee BJP Khagen Murmu INC Mostaque Alam
8 Maldaha Dakshin AITC Shahnawaz Ali Raihan BJP Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury INC Isha Khan Choudhury
9 Jangipur AITC Khalilur Rahaman BJP Dhananjay Ghosh INC Mortaza Hossain
10 Baharampur AITC Yusuf Pathan BJP Nirmal Kumar Saha INC Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
11 Murshidabad AITC Abu Taher Khan BJP Gouri Shankar Ghosh CPI(M) Mohammed Salim
12 Krishnanagar AITC Mahua Moitra BJP Amrita Roy CPI(M) S. M. Saadi
13 Ranaghat (SC) AITC Mukut Mani Adhikari BJP Jagannath Sarkar CPI(M) Alokesh Das
14 Bangaon (SC) AITC Biswajit Das BJP Shantanu Thakur
15 Barrackpur AITC Partha Bhowmick BJP Arjun Singh
16 Dum Dum AITC Saugata Roy BJP Shilbhadra Dutta CPI(M) Sujan Chakraborty
17 Barasat AITC Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar BJP Swapan Majumder
18 Basirhat AITC Haji Nurul Islam BJP Rekha Patra
19 Jaynagar (SC) AITC Pratima Mondal BJP Ashok Kandari
20 Mathurapur (SC) AITC Bapi Halder BJP Ashok Purkait
21 Diamond Harbour AITC Abhishek Banerjee BJP
22 Jadavpur AITC Saayoni Ghosh BJP Anirban Ganguly CPI(M) Srijan Bhattacharyya
23 Kolkata Dakshin AITC Mala Roy BJP Debasree Chaudhuri CPI(M) Saira Shah Halim
24 Kolkata Uttar AITC Sudip Bandyopadhyay BJP Tapas Roy INC Pradip Bhattacharya
25 Howrah AITC Prasun Banerjee BJP Rathin Chakraborty CPI(M) Sabyasachi Chatterjee
26 Uluberia AITC Sajda Ahmed BJP Arun Uday Paul Chowdhury
27 Serampore AITC Kalyan Banerjee BJP Kabir Sankar Bose CPI(M) Dipsita Dhar
28 Hooghly AITC Rachna Banerjee BJP Locket Chatterjee CPI(M) Monodip Ghosh
29 Arambagh (SC) AITC Mitali Bag BJP Arup Kanti Digar
30 Tamluk AITC Debangshu Bhattacharya BJP Abhijit Gangopadhyay CPI(M) Sayan Banerjee
31 Kanthi AITC Uttam Barik BJP Soumendu Adhikari
32 Ghatal AITC Dev BJP Hiran
33 Jhargram (ST) AITC Kalipada Soren BJP
34 Medinipur AITC June Malia BJP Agnimitra Paul CPI Biplab Bhatta
35 Purulia AITC Santiram Mahato BJP Jyotirmay Singh Mahato INC Nepal Mahato
36 Bankura AITC Arup Chakraborty BJP Subhas Sarkar CPI(M) Nilanjan Dasgupta
37 Bishnupur (SC) AITC Sujata Mondal BJP Saumitra Khan CPI(M) Shital Kaibartya
38 Bardhaman Purba (SC) AITC Sharmila Sarkar BJP Ashim Kumar Sarkar CPI(M) Nirav Kha
39 Bardhaman-Durgapur AITC Kirti Azad BJP Dilip Ghosh CPI(M) Sukriti Ghosal
40 Asansol AITC Shatrughan Sinha BJP CPI(M) Jahanara Khan
41 Bolpur (SC) AITC Asit Kumar Mal BJP Priya Saha CPI(M) Shyamali Pradhan
42 Birbhum AITC Satabdi Roy BJP INC Milton Rashid

Officially ruling in communist states

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

Country Logo Name Abbr. Leader Founded Ideology Legislature Notes
 China Communist Party of China
中国共产党
CPC
中共
Xi Jinping 1 July 1921 (1921-07-01) Socialism with Chinese characteristics
Socialist patriotism
Chinese nationalism
National People's Congress:
2,091 / 2,980
Leads the United Front
 Cuba Communist Party of Cuba
Partido Comunista de Cuba
PCC Miguel Díaz-Canel 3 October 1965 (1965-10-03) Marxism–Leninism
Castroism
Guevarism
Left-wing nationalism
Latin American integration
National Assembly:
605 / 605
Leads the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution
 Laos Lao People's Revolutionary Party
ພັກປະຊາຊົນປະຕິວັດລາວ
LPRP
ພປປລ
Thongloun Sisoulith 22 May 1955 (1955-05-22) Marxism–Leninism
Kaysone Phomvihane Thought
National Assembly:
158 / 164
Leads the Lao Front for National Development
 North Korea Workers' Party of Korea
조선로동당
WPK
로동당
Kim Jong-un 24 June 1948 (1948-06-24) Juche
Songun
Supreme People's Assembly:
607 / 687
Leads the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea
 Vietnam Communist Party of Vietnam
Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam
CPV
ĐCSVN
Nguyễn Phú Trọng 3 February 1930 (1930-02-03) Marxism–Leninism
Ho Chi Minh Thought
Socialist-oriented market economy
Socialist patriotism
Vietnamese nationalism
National Assembly:
485 / 499
Leads the Vietnamese Fatherland Front

Ruling or part of ruling coalition in multi-party states

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Country Logo Name Abbr. Leader Founded Ideology Legislature Notes
 Argentina Communist Party of Argentina
Partido Comunista de la Argentina
PC; PCA Víctor Kot 6 January 1918 (1918-01-06) Marxism–Leninism
Internationalism
Chamber of Deputies:
0 / 257
Participates in the ruling Frente de Todos
Communist Party of Argentina (Extraordinary Congress)
Partido Comunista (Congreso Extraordinario)
PCCE Pablo Pereyra 2 December 1996 (1996-12-02) Marxism–Leninism
Kirchnerism
Chamber of Deputies:
0 / 257
Revolutionary Communist Party
Partido Comunista Revolucionario
PCR Juan Carlos Alderete 6 January 1968 (1968-01-06) Marxism–Leninism
Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Chamber of Deputies:
2 / 257
 Belarus Communist Party of Belarus
Камуністычная партыя Беларусі
CPB
КПБ
Aliaksiej Sokal 2 November 1996 (1996-11-02) Marxism–Leninism
Belarusian–Russian unionism
House of Representatives:
11 / 110
Supports the government of president Alexander Lukashenko
 Chile Communist Party of Chile
Partido Comunista de Chile
PCCh Guillermo Teillier 4 June 1912 (1912-06-04) Marxism–Leninism Chamber of Deputies:
12 / 155
Member of the ruling Apruebo Dignidad coalition
   Nepal Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)
नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (माओवादी केन्द्र)
CPN (Maoist)
नेकपा (माओवादी)
Pushpa Kamal Dahal 1994 (1994) Prachanda Path
Left-wing nationalism
House of Representatives:
53 / 275
Member of the coalition government
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist)
नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (एकीकृत-समाजवादी)
CPN (Unified Socialist)
नकप (एकीकृत-समाजवादी)
Madhav Kumar Nepal 18 August 2021 (2021-08-18) Marxism–Leninism
People's Multiparty Democracy
House of Representatives:
25 / 275
National People's Front
राष्ट्रिय जनमोर्चा
RJ
राज
Chitra Bahadur K.C. 1994 (1994) Marxism–Leninism
Anti-federalism
House of Representatives:
1 / 275
Supports the coalition government
 Palestine Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين
PFLP Ahmad Sa'adat 11 December 1967 (1967-12-11) Palestinian nationalism
Marxism–Leninism
Revolutionary socialism
One-state solution
Anti-zionism
Legislative Council:
3 / 132
Member of the ruling PLO
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين
DFLP Nayef Hawatmeh 1969 (1969) Marxism–Leninism
Palestinian nationalism
Left-wing nationalism
Anti-Zionism
Legislative Council:
1 / 132
Palestinian People's Party
حزب الشعب الفلسطيني
PPP Bassam Al-Salhi February 1982 (1982-02) Marxism
Scientific socialism
Left-wing nationalism
Palestinian nationalism
Legislative Council:
1 / 132
 Peru Peruvian Communist Party
Partido Comunista Peruano
PCP Luis Villanueva 9 April 1928 (1928-04-09) Marxism–Leninism
Mariáteguism
Congress:
0 / 130
Member of Together for Peru, which participates in the Free Peru-led government
Communist Party of Peru – Red Fatherland
Partido Comunista del Perú – Patria Roja
PCP-PR Alberto Moreno 1970 (1970) Congress:
0 / 130
Free Peru[1]
Perú Libre
PL Vladimir Cerron 13 August 2008 (2008-08-13) Socialism
Marxism–Leninism
Mariáteguism
Congress:
32 / 130
In government
 South Africa South African Communist Party SACP Blade Nzimande 12 February 1921 (1921-02-12) Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing nationalism
National Assembly:
0 / 400
Participates in the ruling Tripartite Alliance
 Spain Communist Party of Spain
Partido Comunista de España
PCE Enrique Santiago 14 November 1921 (1921-11-14) Marxism–Leninism
Republicanism
Internationalism
Federalism
Congress of Deputies:
6 / 350
Participates in the United Left and Unidas Podemos, member of the PSOE-led government
 Syria Syrian Communist Party
الحزب الشيوعي السوري
SCP Ammar Bakdash 1986 (1986) Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
People's Assembly:
2 / 250
Participates in the ruling National Progressive Front
Syrian Communist Party (Unified)
الحزب الشيوعي السوري (الموحد)
SCP(U) Hanin Nimir 1986 (1986) Marxism–Leninism People's Assembly:
2 / 250
 Venezuela Revolutionary Movement Tupamaro
Movimiento Revolucionario Tupamaro
MRT Oswaldo Jiménez 1992 (1992) Marxism-Leninism
Guevarism
Chamber of Deputies:
7 / 277
Participates in the ruling Great Patriotic Pole
Venezuelan Popular Unity
Unidad Popular Venezolana
UPV Lina Ron 6 February 2004 (2004-02-06) Marxism-Leninism
Anti-imperialism
Bolivarianism
Chamber of Deputies:
2 / 277
Venezuelan Revolutionary Currents
Corrientes Revolucionarias Venezolanas
CRV Ramsés Augusto Reyes Colmenares [es] 2000 (2000) Communism
Guevarism
Chavismo
Anti-imperialism
Chamber of Deputies:
0 / 277

Main opposition in multi-party states

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Country Logo Name Abbr. Leader Founded Ideology Legislature Notes
 Brazil Communist Party of Brazil
Partido Comunista do Brasil
PCdoB Luciana Santos 25 March 1922 Marxism–Leninism Chamber of Deputies:
8 / 513
Part of the main opposition coalition, Brazil of Hope
 Colombia Commons
Comunes
Timoleón Jiménez 1 September 2017 Marxism–Leninism
Bolivarianism
House of Representatives:
5 / 172
Member of the main opposition alliance, Historic Pact for Colombia
 Cyprus Progressive Party of Working People
Anorthotikó Kómma Ergazómenou Laoú
AKEL Stefanos Stefanou 15 August 1926 (1926-08-15) Marxism–Leninism House of Representatives:
15 / 56
 Latvia Socialist Party of Latvia
Latvijas Sociālistiskā partija
LSP Vladimirs Frolovs 15 January 1994 Communism Saeima:
1 / 100
In alliance with Harmony, together they forms the main opposition alliance
 Moldova Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova
Partidul Comuniștilor din Republica Moldova
PCRM Vladimir Voronin 19 October 1993 (1993-10-19) Marxism–Leninism
Moldovenism
Parliament:
10 / 101
Participates in BECS
   Nepal Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (एकीकृत मार्क्सवादी-लेनिनवादी)
CPN (UML) KP Sharma Oli 6 January 1991 (1991-01-06) Marxism–Leninism
People's Multiparty Democracy
House of Representatives:
96 / 275
Largest party by seat count in both houses of the Federal Parliament
 Russia Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Коммунистическая Партия Российской Федерации
CPRF Gennady Zyuganov 14 February 1993 (1993-02-14) Marxism–Leninism State Duma:
57 / 450
 Uruguay Communist Party of Uruguay
Partido Comunista del Uruguay
PCU Juan Castillo 19 September 1920 (1920-09-19) Marxism–Leninism
Internationalism
Chamber of Representatives:
6 / 99
Member of the Broad Front
42 / 99
Movement of Popular Participation
Movimiento de Participación Popular
MPP José Mujica 6 April 1989 (1989-04-06) Marxism–Leninism
Anti-capitalism
Chamber of Representatives:
25 / 99

Formerly ruling

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One-party system

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

Parliamentary majority or minority government

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Country Logo Name Abbr. Leaders Founded Dissolved Ideology Notes
 Austria
(1945–1949)
Communist Party of Austria
Kommunistische Partei Österreichs
KPÖ Ruth Fischer & Franz Koritschoner & Lucien Laurat (first)
Mirko Messner (current)
3 November 1918 (1918-11-03) Marxism–Leninism
Anti-fascism
Participated in the provisional coalition of the Government of Austria after World War II and for four years after the 1945 Austrian legislative election
 Bangladesh
(1975)
Bangladesh Worker's-Peasants' People's League
বাংলাদেশ কৃষক শ্রমিক আওয়ামী লীগ
BAKSAL
বাংকশ্আল
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman 24 February 1975 (1975-02-24) 15 August 1975 (1975-08-15) State socialism
Bengali nationalism
Dissolved after the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
 Chad
(1993)
Chadian Action for Unity and Socialism
Action Tchadienne pour l'unité et le socialisme
ACTUS/prpe Fidèle Moungar 1 May 1981 (1981-05-01) Marxism–Leninism
Ecologism
The party's leader was chosen as Prime Minister in April 1993 by the Sovereign National Conference, but subsequently lost an October 1993 vote of no-confidence and resigned.
 Cyprus
(2008–2013)
Progressive Party of Working People
Ανορθωτικό Κόμμα Εργαζόμενου Λαού
AKEL
ΑΚΕΛ
Ploutis Servas (first)
Stefanos Stefanou (current)
15 August 1926 (1926-08-15) Marxism–Leninism
Cypriot nationalism
Won the 2008 election and ruled until 2013
 Guyana
(1992–2015)
People's Progressive Party/Civic PPP/С Cheddi Jagan & Janet Jagan (first)
Bharrat Jagdeo (current)
1 January 1950 (1950-01-01) Social democracy
Left-wing populism
Left-wing nationalism
Nominally:
Marxism–Leninism
The party de facto abandoned Marxism–Leninism in favor of social democracy by 2015.
 India
(1996–1998)
Communist Party of India CPI Sachchidanand Vishnu Ghate (first)
D. Raja (current)
1 June 1996 (1996-06-01) 19 March 1998 (1998-03-19) Marxism–Leninism
Left-wing nationalism
Member of the United Front and its coalition government
 Moldova
(2001–2009)
Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova
Partidul Comuniștilor din Republica Moldova
PCRM Vladimir Voronin 22 October 1993 (1993-10-22) Democratic socialism
Left-wing populism
Moldovenism
Russophilia
Deposed after the 2009 protests
   Nepal
(1994–1995, 2008–2013, 2015–2017, 2018–2021)
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (एकीकृत मार्क्सवादी-लेनिनवादी)
CPN (UML)
नेकपा (एमाले)
Madan Bhandari (first)
K. P. Sharma Oli (current)
6 January 1991 (1991-01-06)
8 March 2021 (2021-03-08)
17 May 2018 (2018-05-17) Marxism–Leninism
People's Multiparty Democracy
The party merged with the CPN (MC) to form the Nepal Communist Party in 2018, refounded in 2021.
Nepal Communist Party
नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी
NCP
नेकपा
K. P. Sharma Oli
Pushpa Kamal Dahal
17 May 2018 (2018-05-17) 8 March 2021 (2021-03-08) Marxism–Leninism
People's Multiparty Democracy
Prachanda Path
Democratic centralism
Secularism
Federalism
Dissolved as a result of internal conflicts in 2021

Coalition partner or supporter

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Modern non-ruling

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Country Logo Name Abbr. Leader Founded Ideology Legislature Affliation Notes
 Abkhazia Communist Party of Abkhazia
Аԥсны Акомунисттә Апартиа
CPA Lev Shamba March 1921 Marxism–Leninism People's Assembly:
0 / 35
Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union
 Afghanistan Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan CMPM 2004 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Banned Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
Afghanistan Liberation Organization ALO 1973 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Marxist–Leninist Organization of Afghanistan MLOA Mao-Zedong-Thought International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organizations
 Albania Communist Party of Albania PKSh Qemal Cicollari 1991 Marxism–LeninismHoxhaism Kuvendi:
0 / 140
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
Communist Party of Albania 8 November PKSH 8 Preng Çuni Communism Kuvendi:
0 / 140
 Algeria Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism PADS Abdelhamid Benzine 1993 Marxism–Leninism People's National Assembly:
0 / 407
Council:
0 / 174
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
 Angola Party of the Angolan Communist Community Baptista André José Simão 1994 Marxism–Leninism National Assembly:
0 / 200
 Argentina Liberation Party PL Sergio Ortiz 5 April 1965 Marxism–Leninism Chamber of Deputies:
0 / 257
Senate:
0 / 72
 Armenia Armenian Communist Party HKK National Assembly:
0 / 107
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
United Communist Party of Armenia National Assembly:
0 / 107
Progressive United Communist Party of Armenia National Assembly:
0 / 107
 Republic of Artsakh Communist Party of Artsakh AKK Hrant Melkumyan Marxism–Leninism National Assembly:
0 / 33
 Australia Communist Party of Australia House of Representatives:
0 / 151
Senate:
0 / 76
Communist Party of Australia (Marxist–Leninist) International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organizations
 Austria Communist Party of Austria KPO Florian Birngruber 3 November 1918 Marxism–Leninism National Council:
0 / 183
Federal Council:
0 / 62
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
Party of Labour of Austria PdA Tibor Zenker 12 October 2013 Marxism–Leninism National Council:
0 / 183

Federal Council:

0 / 62
 Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Communist Party (1993) Communist Party of the Soviet Union (2001)
New Generation Communist Party of Azerbaijan
United Communist Party of Azerbaijan
 Bahrain National Liberation Front NLF 15 February 1955 Marxism–Leninism Council of Representatives:
0 / 40
Shura Council:
0 / 40
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
Progressive Democratic Tribune PDT Hassan Madan 14 September 2001 CommunismAnti-imperialism Council of Representatives:
1 / 40
Shura Council:
0 / 40
 Bangladesh Communist Party of Bangladesh CPB Ruhin Hossain Prince 1971 Marxism–Leninism Jatiya Sangsad:
0 / 350
Workers Party of Bangladesh WPB Fazle Hossain Badsha 1980 Marxism–Leninism Jatiya Sangsad:
4 / 350
Socialist Party of Bangladesh BASAD Khalequzzaman 7 November 1980 Marxism–Leninism Jatiya Sangsad:
0 / 350
International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organizations
Revolutionary Workers Party of Bangladesh RWPB Saiful Haque 14 June 2004 Marxism–Leninism
Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) (Dutta) BSD-ML Ajoy Dutta Maoism Coordination Committee of Maoist Parties and Organisations of South Asia
Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) (Umar) BSD-ML Badruddin Umar Maoism
Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party PBSP Siraj Sikder 3 June 1971 Maoism Coordination Committee of Maoist Parties and Organisations of South Asia
Maoist Bolshevik Reorganisation Movement of the Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party PBSP (MBRM) 2001 Maoism Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
Workers Peasants Socialist Party SKSD 1969 Marxism–LeninismRevolutionary socialism
United Communist League of Bangladesh UCLB Mosharraf Hossain Nannu April 2013
 Belarus Belarusian Left Party "A Just World" Sergey Kalyakin 25 October 2009 Communism
Anti-Lukashenko
House of Representatives:
0 / 110
Council of the Republic:
0 / 64
Forum of Socialists of the CIS countries
 Belgium Workers' Party of Belgium PTB PVDA Raoul Hedebouw 1979 Marxism
Feminism
Chamber of Representatives:
12 / 150
Senate:
5 / 60
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
Communist Party of Belgium PCB Arne Baillière 1989 Marxism–Leninism
Hard Euroscepticism
Chamber of Representatives:
0 / 150
Senate:
0 / 60
 Benin Communist Party of Benin PCB 1977 Marxism–LeninismHoxhaism National Council:
0 / 183
Federal Council:
0 / 62
International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations (Unity & Struggle)
Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Benin PCMLB Magloire Yansunnu 1999 Marxism–LeninismHoxhaism National Council:
0 / 183
Federal Council:
0 / 62
 Bhutan Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) CPB (MLM) Umesh 22 April 2003 Marxism–Leninism–MaoismNew Democratic Revolution
 Bolivia Communist Party of Bolivia PCB Ignacio Mendoza 1950 Marxism–Leninism Deputies:
0 / 183

Senate:

0 / 36
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
People's Revolutionary Front (Marxist−Leninist−Maoist) FRP-MLM Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Deputies:
0 / 183

Senate:

0 / 36
Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
Communist Party of Bolivia (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) PCB-MLM Luis Alberto Echazú 1983 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Deputies:
0 / 183

Senate:

0 / 36
International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organizations
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Workers' Communist Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina RKB-Bih Goran Markovic 2000 CommunismLuxemburgism House of Representatives:
0 / 42
House of Peoples:
0 / 15
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
Communist Party KP Muhamed Imamović 21 February 2012 Communism House of Representatives:
0 / 183
House of Peoples:
0 / 62
 Botswana Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin Movement MELS Mosalage Ditshoto 1994 Marxism–LeninismMaoism Parliament:
0 / 63
 Brazil Communist Party of Brazil PCdoB Luciana Santos 23 June 1988 Marxism–Leninism Chamber of Deputies
8 / 513
Federal Senate
0 / 81
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
Brazilian Communist Party PCB Edmilson Costa 25 March 1922 Marxism–Leninism Chamber of Deputies
0 / 513
Federal Senate
0 / 81
Revolutionary Communist Party PCR May 1966 Hoxhaism

Marxism–Leninism

Chamber of Deputies
0 / 513
Federal Senate
0 / 81
International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations (Unity & Struggle)
Popular Unity UP Leonardo Péricles 16 June 2016 Anti-racism

Marxism–Leninism

Chamber of Deputies
0 / 513
Federal Senate
0 / 81
Marxist Leninist Communist party PCML Marxism–Leninism Chamber of Deputies
0 / 513
Federal Senate
0 / 81
 Bulgaria Bulgarian Communist Party BKP Zonka Zlatkova Spasov 1990 Marxism–LeninismStalinism National Assembly:
0 / 240
International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organizations
Communist Party of Bulgaria CPB Aleksandar Paunov 1996 Marxism–Leninism National Assembly:
0 / 240
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
Party of the Bulgarian Communists PBK Mincho Petrov Minchev, Ivan Krastev Ivanov, Vasil Petrov Kolarov 15 July 2006 Marxism–Leninism National Assembly:
0 / 240
Union of Communists in Bulgaria SKB Pavel Ivanov 1995 Marxism National Council:
0 / 183
Federal Council:
0 / 62
Initiative of Communist and Workers' Parties
Bulgarian Workers and Peasants Party
Bulgarian Workers Socialist Party National Council:
0 / 183
Federal Council:
0 / 62
Bulgarian Workers Party National Council:
0 / 183
Federal Council:
0 / 62
23rd September resistance movement National Council:
0 / 183
Federal Council:
0 / 62
 Burkina Faso Party for Democracy and Socialism/Metba PDS/

Metba

Hama Arba Diallo 31 March 2012 CommunismSocialism National Council:
0 / 183
Federal Council:
0 / 62
Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party PCRV 1 October 1978 HoxhaismMarxism–Leninism National Council:
0 / 183
Federal Council:
0 / 62
International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organizations
 Canada Communist Party of Canada PCC Elizabeth Rowley 28 May 1921 Marxism–Leninism National Council:
0 / 183
Federal Council:
0 / 62
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist) CPC (ML) Anna Di Carlo 31 March 1970 Marxism–Leninism
Revolutionary Communist Party of Canada PCR-RCP Marxism–Leninism–Maoism REJECTS
 China Maoist Communist Party of China MCPC 28 November 2008 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Revolutionary Communist Party of China RCPC September 1948 Trotskyism Fourth International
 Colombia Colombian Communist Party PCC Jaime Caycedo 1930 Marxism–Leninism
Bolivarianism
National Council:
0 / 183
Federal Council:
0 / 62
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
Commons Timoleón Jiménez 1 September 2017 Marxism–Leninism
Bolivarianism
Chamber of Representatives:
5 / 172
Senate:
5 / 108
Communist Party of Colombia (Marxist–Leninist) PCdeC

C (M-L)

1965 HoxhaismMarxism–Leninism International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations (Unity & Struggle)
Colombian Communist Party – Maoist PCC-M 7 August 2001 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organizations
Revolutionary Communist Group of Colombia 1982 Maoism Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
Revolutionary Independent Labour Movement MOIR Gustavo Triana 1970 Maoism

New Democracy

Francisco Mosquera thought

Labour party of Colombia
 Costa Rica People's Vanguard Party PVP Humberto Vargas Carbonell 16 June 1931 Marxism–Leninism National Council:
0 / 183
Federal Council:
0 / 62
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
 Ivory Coast Revolutionary Communist Party of Ivory Coast PCRCI Achy Ekissi 1990 HoxhaismMarxism–Leninism International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations (Unity & Struggle)
Proletarian Communist Party of Côte d'Ivoire
 Croatia Socialist Labour Party of Croatia SRP Kristofor Stokić 25 October 1997 Marxism–Leninism National Council:
0 / 183
Federal Council:
0 / 62
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
Workers Front Party of the European Left
 Cyprus Progressive Party of Working People AKEL Stefanos Stefanou 15 August 1926 Marxism–Leninism House of Representatives
15 / 56
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
Committee for a Radical Left Rally ERAS Collective leadership October 2011 CommunismEuroscepticism
 Czech Republic Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia KSČM Kateřina Konečná 31 March 1990 Communism Chamber of Deputies:
0 / 200
Senate:
0 / 81
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
 Denmark Communist Party of Denmark DKP Marxism–Leninism National Council:
0 / 183
Federal Council:
0 / 62
Communist Party (Denmark)
Workers' Communist Party National Council:
0 / 183
Federal Council:
0 / 62
International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations (Unity & Struggle)
Communist Party in Denmark National Council:
0 / 183
Federal Council:
0 / 62
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
 Dominican Republic Dominican Workers' Party
Communist Party of Labour International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations (Unity & Struggle)
International Communist Party
Communist Party of Dominican Republic
Dominican Workers' Party (Marxist–Leninist)
Force of the Revolution
Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
 Donetsk People's Republic Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic CPDPR Boris Litvinov 8 October 2014 Marxism–Leninism
Soviet patriotism
People's Council:
0 / 100
Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union
 East Timor Socialist Party of Timor Marxism–Leninism National Parliament:
0 / 65
 Ecuador Communist Party of Ecuador Winston Alarcón Elizalde Marxism–Leninism National Assembly:
0 / 137
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations (Unity & Struggle)
Workers' Party of Ecuador
Democratic People's Movement
Communist Party of Ecuador – Red Sun
 Egypt Egyptian Communist Party ECP Marxism–Leninism House of Representatives:
0 / 596
Senate:
0 / 300
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
 El Salvador Communist Party of El Salvador PCS 13 March 1930 Marxism–Leninism Legislative Assembly:
0 / 84
 Estonia Communist Party of Estonia KPE 26 March 1990 Marxism–Leninism Banned
 Eswatini Communist Party of Swaziland Marxism–Leninism National Council:
0 / 183
Federal Council:
0 / 62
 Ethiopia All-Ethiopia Socialist Movement MEISON 1968 Marxism–Leninism
 Finland Communist Party of Finland SKP Juha-Pekka Väisänen 1984 Marxism–Leninism Parliament :
0 / 200
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
Communist Workers' Party – For Peace and Socialism KTP Mikko Vartiainen 1988 Marxism–LeninismHard Euroscepticism Parliament:
0 / 200
Initiative of Communist and Workers' Parties
League of Communists KL Kalevi Wahrman 14 September 2002 Marxism–Leninism Parliament:
0 / 200
 France French Communist Party PCF Fabien Roussel 30 December 1920 Communism
Eurocommunism
National Assembly:
12 / 577
Senate:
14 / 348
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
Lutte Ouvrière LO Nathalie Arthaud 1956 Trotskyism
Anti-Capitalism
National Assembly:
0 / 577
Senate:
0 / 348
International Communist Union
New Anticapitalist Party NPA Central Committee

Spokesperson: Christine Poupin
8 February 2009 Trotskyism
Alter-globalisation
National Assembly:
0 / 577
Senate:
0 / 348
European Anti-Capitalist Left
Pole of Communist Revival in France PRCF Léon Landini January 2004 Marxism-Leninism National Assembly:
0 / 577
Senate:
0 / 348
Initiative of Communist and Workers' Parties
Workers' Communist Party of France PCOF 1979 Hoxhaism National Assembly:
0 / 577
Senate:
0 / 348
International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations (Unity & Struggle)
Marxist–Leninist Communist Organization – Proletarian Way OCML-VP September 1976 Marxism-Leninism-Maoism National Assembly:
0 / 577
Senate:
0 / 348
Revolutionary Left GR 1992 Trotskyism
Marxism
National Assembly:
0 / 577
Senate:
0 / 348
Comittee for a Workers' International
 Georgia Communist Party of Georgia SKP Parliament:
0 / 150
Unified Communist Party of Georgia SEKP Nugzar Shalvovich Avaliani June 1994 Marxism–LeninismSoviet patriotism Parliament:
0 / 150
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties/

Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union

New Communist Party of Georgia SAKP Parliament:
0 / 150
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (2001)
 Germany German Communist Party DKP Patrik Köbele 1968 Communism
Marxism-Leninism
Bundestag:
0 / 709
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany MLPD Gabi Fechtner 1982 Marxism-Leninism Bundestag:
0 / 709
ICMLPO
International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organizations
Communist Party of Germany (Red Dawn) KPD-RM 1985 Marxism-Leninism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
Bundestag:
0 / 709
International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations (Unity & Struggle)
 Greece Communist Party of Greece KKE Dimitris Koutsoumpas 17 November 1918 Communism
Marxism-Leninism
Hellenic Parliament:
15 / 300
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
Marxist Leninist Communist Party of Greece
Communist Party of Greece (Marxist–Leninist)
Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece
Movement for the Reorganization of the Communist Party of Greece 1918–1955 International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations (Unity & Struggle)
Communist Renewal
Left Anti-capitalist Group
Left Group
Left Recomposition
New Left Current
Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece
 Guadeloupe Guadeloupe Communist Party PCG Alain-Félix Flémin 30 March 1958 Communism
Marxism
National Assembly:
0 / 577
Senate:
0 / 348
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
 Guatemala Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity URNG- MAIZ Gregorio Chay 7 February 1982 Socialism
Indigenismo
Congress:
3 / 160
São Paulo Forum
 Haiti New Haitian Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist) International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organizations
 Hungary Hungarian Workers' Party International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
Workers' Party of Hungary 2006 Party of the European Left
 India Communist Party of India CPI D. Raja 17 October 1920

26 December 1925

Marxism–Leninism Lok Sabha:
2 / 543
Rajya Sabha:
2 / 245
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI(M) Sitaram Yechury 17 October 1920

7 November 1964

Marxism–Leninism Lok Sabha:
3 / 543
Rajya Sabha:
5 / 245
Revolutionary Socialist Party RSP Manoj Bhattacharya 19 March 1940 Marxism–Leninism
Trotskyism
Lok Sabha:
1 / 543
Rajya Sabha:
0 / 245
Revolutionary Communist Party of India RCPI Biren Deka 1 August 1934 Communism
Anti-Stalinism
Lok Sabha:
0 / 543
Rajya Sabha:
0 / 245
All India Forward Bloc AIFB Debabrata Biswas 22 June 1939 Marxism
Left-wing nationalism
Lok Sabha:
0 / 543
Rajya Sabha:
0 / 245
Marxist Forward Bloc MFB Jaihind Singh 12 November 1953 Marxism
Left-wing populism
Lok Sabha:
0 / 543
Rajya Sabha:
0 / 245
Bolshevik Party of India BPI 1939 Marxism–Leninism Lok Sabha:
0 / 543
Rajya Sabha:
0 / 245
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation CPI(ML)L Dipankar Bhattacharya 1974 Marxism–Leninism
Mao-Zedong-Thought
Lok Sabha:
0 / 543
Rajya Sabha:
0 / 245
Revolutionary Socialist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) RSPI(ML) 1969 Marxism–Leninism Lok Sabha:
0 / 543
Rajya Sabha:
0 / 245
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) SUCI(C) Provash Ghosh 24 April 1948 Shibdas Ghosh Thought
Marxism–Leninism
Lok Sabha:
0 / 543
Rajya Sabha:
0 / 245
Revolutionary Marxist Party of India RMPI Mangat Ram Pasla 2016 Marxism–Leninism Lok Sabha:
0 / 543
Rajya Sabha:
0 / 245
Communist Marxist Party CMP C. P. John 1986 Marxism–Leninism
Luxemburgism
Lok Sabha:
0 / 543
Rajya Sabha:
0 / 245
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) New Democracy CPIML ND Yatendra Kumar 1988 Naxalism
New Democracy
Lok Sabha:
0 / 543
Rajya Sabha:
0 / 245
Communist Party of India (Maoist) CPI (Maoist) Nambala Keshava Rao 21 September 2004 Naxalism
Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Banned
 Iran Tudeh Party of Iran National Council:
0 / 183
Federal Council:
0 / 62
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
Komalah
Communist Party of Iran
Communist Party of Iran (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist)
Labour Party of Iran
Worker-communist Party of Iran
Worker-communist Party of Iran – Hekmatist
Worker-communism Unity Party of Iran
Workers Left Unity
Fedaian Organisation (Minority)
Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas
Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas – Followers of the Identity Platform
Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas
 Iraq Iraqi Communist Party
Worker-communist Party of Iraq
Left Worker-communist Party of Iraq
Popular Unity Party
Iraqi Revolutionary Marxist–Leninists Regroupment
Communist Party of Kurdistan – Iraq
Worker-communist Party of Kurdistan
 Ireland Workers' Party of Ireland
Communist Party of Ireland
Irish Republican Socialist Party
 Israel Israeli Communist Party International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
Da'am Workers Party
 Italy Communist Refoundation Party
Italian Communist Party
Italian Marxist–Leninist Party
Communist Party
Communist Alternative Party
Unified communist party of Italy
Communist Front
 Japan Japanese Communist Party
Japanese Communist Party (Action Faction)
Japanese Communist Party (Left Faction)
Japan Labor Party
Workers Communist Party in Japan
 Jordan Jordanian Communist Party
Jordanian Democratic People's Party
 Kazakhstan Communist Party of Kazakhstan
Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan
 Kenya Communist Party of Kenya
 Kuwait Kuwaiti Progressive Movement
 Kyrgyzstan Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan
Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan
 Latvia Socialist Party of Latvia
Communist Party of Latvia
 Lebanon Lebanese Communist Party
Communist Action Organization in Lebanon
 Lesotho Communist Party of Lesotho
 Lithuania Socialist People's Front
Communist Party of Lithuania
 Luhansk People's Republic
 Luxembourg Communist Party of Luxembourg
 Madagascar Congress Party for the Independence of Madagascar
 Mali Malian Party of Labour
African Solidarity for Democracy and Independence
 Malta Communist Party of Malta
 Martinique Martinican Communist Party
Communist Party for Independence and Socialism
 Mexico Popular Socialist Party
Popular Socialist Party of Mexico
Communist Party of Mexico
Communist Party of Mexico (Marxist–Leninist)
Marxist–Leninist Centre in Mexico
Communists' Party
 Moldova Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova
 Montenegro Yugoslav Communist Party of Montenegro
 Morocco Democratic Way Abdallah El Harif 1995 Marxism
 Myanmar Communist Party of Burma CPB Mao-Zedong-Thought
 Namibia Workers Revolutionary Party WRP Attie Beukes


Harry Boesak

Trotskyism Workers International to Rebuild the Fourth International
 Nepal Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist)
Nepal Workers' and Peasants' Party
Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist)
Communist Party of Nepal (Revolutionary Maoist)
 Netherlands New Communist Party of the Netherlands
United Communist Party
Group of Marxist–Leninists/Red Dawn
 New Zealand Socialist Party of Aotearoa
Communist League
 Nicaragua Communist Party of Nicaragua
Marxist–Leninist Popular Action Movement
Nicaraguan Socialist Party
 North Macedonia League of Communists of Macedonia
Union of Tito's Left Forces
Communist Party of Macedonia
 Norway Communist Party of Norway
Red Party
Radical Socialists
 Pakistan Communist Party of Pakistan
Mazdoor Kisan Party
Communist Party of Pakistan (Thaheem)
 Palestine Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Revolutionary Palestinian Communist Party
Palestinian People's Party
Palestinian Communist Party
 Panama People's Party of Panama
Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) of Panama
November 29 National Liberation Movement
 Paraguay Paraguayan Communist Party
Partido Patria Libre
Paraguayan Communist Party (independent)
 Peru Peruvian Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist)
Shining Path
Proletarian Party of Peru
 Philippines Communist Party of the Philippines
Phillipine Communist Party-1930
Filipino Workers Party
Marxist–Leninist Party of the Philippines
Revolutionary Workers' Party of the Philippines
 Poland Polish Communist Party (2002)
Polish Party of the Working Class- Initiative group
 Portugal Portuguese Communist Party
Portuguese Workers' Communist Party
Proletarian Communist Organization (Marxist–Bolshevik) of Portugal
Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat – Bases for Revolution
Workers Politics Communist Organisation
 Puerto Rico Puerto Rican Workers' Revolutionary Party
Communist Party of Puerto Rico
 Réunion Communist Party of Réunion European United Left-Nordic Green Left
 Romania Communitarian Party of Romania
Communist Party (Nepeceriști)
Romanian Socialist Party
 Russia Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Russian United Labour Front
Russian Maoist Party
Party of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Alliance of the Revolutionary Socialists
Labour Russia
Russian Party of Freedom and Justice
Communists of Russia
Regional Party of Communists
Marxist Leninist Platform
 Serbia New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
Party of Labour
Communist Party
 Slovakia Communist Party of Slovakia
Dawn
RESISTANCE - Labour Movement
 South Africa Economic Freedom Fighters
Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party
 South Ossetia Communist Party of South Ossetia CPSO Stanislav Kochiev 1993 Marxism–LeninismSoviet patriotism Parliament:
2 / 34
Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union
 South Sudan Communist Party of South Sudan CPSS Joseph Wol Modesto June 2011 Marxism–Leninism
 Spain Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain
Communist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist)
Communist Party of Spain (Reconstituted)
Marxist–Leninist Party (Communist Reconstruction)
Communist Unification of Spain
Spanish Communist Workers' Party
Revolutionary Communist Party
Marxist–Leninist Front of the Peoples of Spain
Party of the Communists of Catalonia
Living Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia
United and Alternative Left
Communist Workers Bloc of Andalusia
Galician People's Union
Communist Party of the Menadores
Communist Party of Spain (Maoist)
Communist Initiative
Primeira Linha
Democratic Labour Party
Kimetz
Communist Party of the Basque Homelands
Galician People's Front
Galician Movement for Socialism
Andalucia Comunista
Red Roja
 Sudan Sudanese Communist Party SCP Muhammad Mukhtar Al-Khatib 1946 Marxism–Leninism Transitional Legislative Council:
0 / 300
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
 Sweden Communist Party of Sweden
Communist Party
Communist League
 Switzerland Communist Party
Swiss Party of Labour
 Sri Lanka Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna
Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist)
 Syria Syrian Communist Party (Bakdash)
Syrian Communist Party (Unified)
People's Will Party
Communist Labour Party
 Taiwan Taiwan People's Communist Party TPCP Lin Te-wang 4 February 2017 Chinese unification
 Tajikistan Communist Party of Tajikistan KPT 6 December 1924 Marxism–Leninism International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
 Togo Communist Party of Togo PCT 4 May 1980 Hoxhaism
 Transnistria Pridnestrovie Communist Party PCP Nadezhda Bondarenko 20 April 2003 Marxism–LeninismSoviet patriotism International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
 Tunisia Workers' Party
Democratic Patriots' Unified Party
 Turkey Communist Party of Turkey
Marxist–Leninist Communist Party
Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist
Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey
Labour Party
Communist Party of Turkey (Workers Voice)
Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist
Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist (Maoist Party Centre)
Communist Revolution Movement/Leninist
Communist Workers Party of Turkey
Maoist Communist Party
Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front
Communist Party of Kurdistan
Bolshevik Party (North Kurdistan – Turkey)
 Turkmenistan Communist Party of Turkmenistan TKP 1998 Marxism–Leninism Banned Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union
 Ukraine Communist Party of Ukraine
Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed)
Workers Party of Ukraine (Marxist–Leninist)
Communist Party of Workers and Peasants
Union of Communists of Ukraine
Borotba
All Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks- Ukraine
 United Kingdom Communist Party of Britain
Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist)
Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist)
Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee)
New Communist Party of Britain
Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist)
Revolutionary Communist Group
Communist League
Communist Party Alliance
 United States Communist Party USA
Party for Socialism and Liberation
Socialist Alternative
Socialist Equality Party
Workers World Party
Socialist Workers Party
Socialist Action
 Uruguay Revolutionary Communist Party of Uruguay PCR Marxism–Leninism–Maoism International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organizations
 Uzbekistan Communist Party of Uzbekistan KPU Kaxramon Mahmudov 1994 BANNED Marxism–Leninism Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union
 Venezuela Communist Party of Venezuela
Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Venezuela
Red Flag Party
Tupamaro
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Formerly communist

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Defunct

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Once ruling

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Non-ruling

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Left communist organizations by country

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

Organisations

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