Country/Territory Logo Name Abbr. Leader Founded Ideology Legislature Notes Abkhazia Communist Party of Abkhazia Аԥсны Акомунисттә Апартиа CPAААА Lev Shamba March 1921 Marxism–Leninism People's Assembly :Afghanistan Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan حزب كمونيست (مائوئيست) افغانستان CMPM 2004 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Banned Participant in the ongoing anti-Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan Afghanistan Liberation Organization سازمان رهایی افغانستان ALO 1973 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Anti-revisionism Marxist–Leninist Organization of Afghanistan MLOA Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism Albania Communist Party of Albania Partia Komuniste e Shqipërisë PKSh Qemal Cicollari 1991 Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Stalinism Anti-revisionism Kuvendi :Communist Party of Albania 8 November Partia Komuniste e Shqipërisë 8 Nëntori PKSh 8 Nëntori Preng Çuni 2003 Marxism-Leninism Reorganised Party of Labour of Albania Partia e Punes e Shqiperise e Riorganizuar
PPSR Marko Dajti July 4, 2007 Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Algeria Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism الحزب الجزائري للديمقراطية والاشتراكية PADS Abdelhamid Benzine 1993 Marxism–Leninism People's National Assembly :Council :People's Provincial Assemblies :Municipalities :People's Municipal Assembly :Socialist Workers Party حزب العمال الاشتراكي Parti socialiste des travailleurs SWP 1989 Marxism Trotskyism Socialism Communism Workers' Party حزب العمال ⴰⴽⴰⴱⴰⵔ ⵢⵅⴻⴷⴷⴰⵎⴻⵏ
WP Louisa Hanoune 1990 Trotskyism Communism
People's National Assembly :Council :People's Provincial Assemblies :Municipalities :People's Municipal Assembly :Angola Party of the Angolan Communist Community Partido da Comunidade Comunista Angolana PCCA Baptista André José Simão 1994 Marxism–Leninism National Assembly :People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola MPLA Agostinho Neto Viriato da Cruz 10 December 1956 National Assembly :Argentina Liberation Party Partido de la Liberación PL Sergio Ortiz 5 April 1965 Chamber of Deputies :Senate :Communist Party of Argentina (Extraordinary Congress) Partido Comunista (Congreso Extraordinario) CPA (EC) 2 December 1996 Revolutionary Communist Party Partido Comunista Revolucionario RCP 6 January 1968 Maoism Socialist Left Izquierda Socialista SL 21 September 2006 Trotskyism United Socialist Workers' Party USWPPSTU 2011 Workers' Socialist Movement Movimiento Socialista de los Trabajadores WSM 1992 Workers' Party Partido Obrero WP 1964 Chamber of Deputies :Senate :Socialist Workers' Party Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas SWP 1988 Chamber of Deputies :Senate :Workers' Left Front Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores WLF 14 April 2011 Chamber of Deputies :Senate :Armenia Armenian Communist Party Հայաստանի կոմունիստական կուսակցություն HKKՀԿԿ Tachat Sargsyan 29 July 1991 Marxism–Leninism Pro-Russia Euroscepticism Soviet patriotism National Assembly :United Communist Party of Armenia Հայաստանի Միավորված Կոմունիստական Կուսակցության HMKKՀՄԿԿ 7 July 2003 Marxism–Leninism Euroscepticism Progressive United Communist Party of Armenia Հայաստանի Առաջադիմական Միացյալ Կոմունիստական Կուսակցություն HAMKՀԱՄԿ Vazgen Safaryan 28 January 1998 Marxism–Leninism Soviet patriotism Australia Communist Party of Australia (1971) CPA Vinicio Molina 1971 Marxism–Leninism House of Representatives :Senate :Communist Party of Australia (Marxist–Leninist) CPA (ML) 15 March 1964 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Anti-revisionism Socialist Equality Party SEP 2010 Marxism Trotskyism Eureka Initiative EI 2024 Marxism–Leninism Austria Communist Party of Austria Kommunistische Partei Österreichs KPO Günther Hopfgartner 3 November 1918 Marxism–Leninism Socialism National Council :Federal Council :The mayor ofGraz , Austria's second largest city, is a member of the KPÖ Party of Labour of Austria Partei der Arbeit Österreichs PdA Tibor Zenker 12 October 2013 Marxism–Leninism Hard Euroscepticism Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Communist Party (1993) Azərbaycan Kommunist Partiyası AzKP Haji Hajiyev 1993 Marxism–Leninism National Assembly :New Generation Communist Party of AzerbaijanAzərbaycan Yeni Nəsil Kommunist Partiyası AYNKP Niyazi Rajabov 2008 United Communist Party of Azerbaijan Azərbaycan Birləşmiş Kommunist Partiyası AVKP Sayad Sayadov 1993 Bahrain National Liberation Front جبهة التحرير الوطني NLF 15 February 1955 Marxism–Leninism Republicanism Council of Representatives :Shura Council :Led the 1965March Intifada Progressive Democratic Tribune جمعية المنبر الديمقراطي التقدمي PDT Hassan Madan 14 September 2001 Market socialism Arab nationalism Anti-globalization Anti-imperialism Bangladesh Communist Party of Bangladesh বাংলাদেশের কমিউনিস্ট পার্টি CPB Ruhin Hossain Prince 1971 Marxism–Leninism Jatiya Sangsad :Former member of theBangladesh Worker's-Peasants' People's League and its coalition government Biplobi Communist Party বিপ্লবী কমিউনিস্ট পার্টি BCP Gazi Kamrul 1998 Maoism Banned Workers Party of Bangladesh বাংলাদেশের ওয়ার্কার্স পার্টি WPB Fazle Hossain Badsha 1980 Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Jatiya Sangsad :Parliament dissolved since 6 August 2024 Socialist Party of Bangladesh বাংলাদেশের সমাজতান্ত্রিক দল BASAD Khalequzzaman 7 November 1980 Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Maoism Anti-revisionism Jatiya Sangsad :Revolutionary Workers Party of Bangladesh বাংলাদেশের বিপ্লবী ওয়ার্কার্স পার্টি RWPB Saiful Haque 14 June 2004 Marxism–Leninism Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) (Dutta) বাংলাদেশের সাম্যবাদী দল (মার্কসবাদী-লেনিনবাদী) BSD-ML Ajoy Dutta Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) (Umar) বাংলাদেশের সাম্যবাদী দল (মার্কসবাদী-লেনিনবাদী) BSD-ML Badruddin Umar Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party পূর্ব বাংলার সর্বহারা পার্টি PBSP Siraj Sikder 3 June 1971 Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Maoist Bolshevik Reorganisation Movement of the Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party পূর্ববাংলার সর্বহারা পার্টি – মাওবাদী বলশেভিক পুনর্গঠন আন্দোলন PBSP (MBRM) 2001 Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Anti-revisionism Workers Peasants Socialist Party শ্রমিক কৃষক সমাজবাদী দল SKSD 1969 Marxism–Leninism Revolutionary socialism United Communist League of Bangladesh বাংলাদেশের ইউনাইটেড কমিউনিস্ট লীগ UCLB Mosharraf Hossain Nannu April 2013 Marxism–Leninism Belarus Belarusian Left Party "A Just World" Беларуская партыя левых «Справядлівы свет» Sergey Kalyakin 25 October 2009 Democratic socialism Revolutionary nationalism Left-wing nationalism Socialism Lukashenko Banned Belgium Workers' Party of Belgium Partij van de Arbeid van België Parti du Travail de Belgique PTB Raoul Hedebouw 1979 Marxism Feminism Socialism Chamber of Representatives :Senate :Communist Party of Belgium Communistische Partij van België Parti Communiste de Belgique PCB Arne Baillière 1989 Marxism–Leninism Hard Euroscepticism Chamber of Representatives :Senate :Benin Communist Party of Benin Parti Communiste du Bénin PCB Philippe Noudjenoume 1977 Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Stalinism Anti-revisionism National Assembly :Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Benin Parti communiste marxiste-léniniste du Bénin PCMLB Magloire Yansunnu 1999 Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism Bhutan Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) CPB (MLM) Comrade Umesh (nom de guerre ) 22 April 2003 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism New Democratic Revolution Republicanism Banned Engaged inguerrilla warfare against the government of Bhutan, with the goal of starting apeople's war Bolivia Communist Party of Bolivia Partido Comunista de Bolivia PCB Ignacio Mendoza 1950 Marxism–Leninism Deputies :Senate :People's Revolutionary Front (Marxist−Leninist−Maoist) Frente Revolucionario del Pueblo (Marxista–Leninista–Maoísta) FRP-MLM Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Communist Party of Bolivia (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) Partido Comunista de Bolivia (Marxista-Leninista-Maoísta) PCB-MLM Luis Alberto Echazú 1983 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Revolutionary Workers' Party Partido Obrero Revolucionario
POR December 1935 Trotskyism Bosnia and Herzegovina Workers' Communist Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina Radničko-komunistička partija Bosne i Hercegovine Радничко-комунистичка партија Босне и Херцеговине RKP-Bih / РКП-БиХ Goran Marković 2000 Luxemburgism Workers' self-management Anti-nationalism Yugoslavism House of Representatives :House of Peoples :Communist Party Komunistička partija Комунистичка партија KP / КП Muhamed Imamović 21 February 2012 Democratic socialism Yugo-nostalgia Botswana Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin Movement MELS Mosalage Ditshoto 1994 Marxism–Leninism Maoism Maoism Anti-revisionism Pan-Africanism Parliament :Brazil Communist Party of Brazil Partido Comunista do Brasil PCdoB Luciana Santos 23 June 1988 Marxism–Leninism Chamber of Deputies :Federal Senate :Brazilian Communist Party Partido Comunista Brasileiro PCB Edmilson Costa 25 March 1922 Chamber of Deputies :Federal Senate :United Socialist Workers' Party Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores Unificado PSTU Zé Maria 5 June 1994 Trotskyism Morenism Workers' Cause Party Partido da Causa Operária PCO Rui Costa Pimenta 7 December 1995 Marxism Trotskyism Social libertarianism Anti-imperialism Revolutionary Communist Party Partido Comunista Revolucionário PCR May 1966 Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Guevarism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism Foco theory Not registered in Brazil's Superior Electoral Court Bulgaria Bulgarian Communist Party Българска комунистическа партия BKP Zonka Zlatkova Spasov 1990 Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Anti-revisionism National Assembly :Communist Party of Bulgaria Комунистическа Партия на България CPB Aleksandar Paunov 1996 Marxism–Leninism Party of the Bulgarian Communists Партия на Българските комунисти PBK Collective leadership 15 July 2006 Union of Communists in Bulgaria Съюз на Комунистите в България SKB Pavel Ivanov 1995 Marxism Bulgarian Workers' Party Българска работническа партия
BRP Ivan Vodenicharski 2000 Marxism–Leninism Stalinism
Burkina Faso Party for Democracy and Socialism/Metba Parti pour la démocratie et le socialisme/Metba PDS/Metba
Hama Arba Diallo 31 March 2012 Socialism National Assembly :Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party Parti communiste révolutionnaire voltaïque PCRV 1 October 1978 Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism National Assembly :Canada Communist Party of Canada Parti communiste du Canada CPC Elizabeth Rowley 28 May 1921 Marxism–Leninism House of Commons :Senate :Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist) Parti communiste du Canada (marxiste–léniniste) CPC (ML) Anna Di Carlo 31 March 1970 Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Maoism (1970–1977) Hoxhaism (1977–1990) Communist Party of Quebec Parti communiste du Québec
CPQPCQ
Adrien Welsh 1965 Marxism–Leninism China Maoist Communist Party of China 中国毛泽东主义共产党 MCPC Ma Houzhi 28 November 2008 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Anti-revisionism Banned De facto banned in China due to not being a member of theUnited Front .Revolutionary Communist Party of China 中国革命共产党 RCPC September 1948 Marxism Trotskyism Legislative Council :Active inHong Kong . Participant in the1970s Hong Kong student protests . Colombia Communist Party of Colombia (Marxist–Leninist) Partido Comunista de Colombia (Marxista-Leninista) PCdeC (M-L) 1965 Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Stalinism Anti-revisionism Colombian Communist Party – Maoist Partido Comunista de Colombia – Maoista PCC-M 7 August 2001 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Revolutionary Communist Group Grupo Comunista Revolucionario GCR 1982 Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism Revolutionary Independent Labour Movement Movimiento Obrero Independiente y Revolucionario MOIR Gustavo Triana 1970 Maoism Marxism-Leninism New Democracy Francisco Mosquera Thought Costa Rica People's Vanguard Party Partido Vanguardia Popular PVP Humberto Vargas Carbonell 16 June 1931 Marxism–Leninism Legislative Assembly :Banned from 1949 to 1975 Ivory Coast Revolutionary Communist Party of Ivory Coast Parti Communiste Révolutionnaire de Côte d'Ivoire PCRCI Achy Ekissi 1990 Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism Croatia Socialist Labour Party of Croatia Socijalistička radnička partija Hrvatske SRP Kristofor Stokić 25 October 1997 Titoism Democratic socialism Sabor :Workers Front Radnička fronta RF Collective leadership 9 May 2014 Democratic socialism Social progressivism Anti-fascism Anti-clericalism Left-wing populism Sabor :Cyprus Progressive Party of Working People Ανορθωτικό Κόμμα Εργαζόμενου Λαού Emekçi Halkın İlerici Partisi AKEL Stefanos Stefanou 15 August 1926 Marxism–Leninism Cypriot nationalism Federalism Soft euroscepticism House of Representatives Won the2008 election and ruled until2013 Czech Republic Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia Komunistická strana Čech a Moravy KSČM Kateřina Konečná 31 March 1990 Marxism Euroscepticism Socialism Anti-capitalism Anti-fascism Chamber of Deputies :Senate :Czech successor to theCommunist Party of Czechoslovakia . Served asconfidence and supply to thesecond government of Andrej Babiš in 2018. Denmark Communist Party of Denmark Danmarks Kommunistiske Parti DKP Henrik Stamer Hedin 9 November 1919 Marxism–Leninism Folketing :Communist Party Kommunistisk Parti KP Lotte Rørtoft-Madsen 2006 Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Factions: Hoxhaism Workers' Communist Party Arbejderpartiet Kommunisterne APK Dorte Grenaa April 2000 Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism Communist Party in Denmark Kommunistisk Parti i Danmark KPiD Rikke G.F. Carlsson 1990 Marxism–Leninism Dominican Republic Communist Party of Labour Partido Comunista del Trabajo PCT Manuel Salazar 1980 Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism Chamber of Deputies :Senate :Donetsk People's Republic Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic Коммунистическая партия Донецкой Народной Республики CPDPRКПДНР Boris Litvinov 8 October 2014 Marxism–Leninism Soviet patriotism Left-wing nationalism People's Council :Timor-Leste Socialist Party of Timor Partido Socialista de Timor PST Avelino Coelho da Silva 11 February 1997 Marxism–Leninism National Parliament :Ecuador Communist Party of Ecuador Partido Comunista del Ecuador PCE Winston Alarcón Elizalde 23 May 1926 National Assembly :Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador Partido Comunista Marxista-Leninista del Ecuador PCMLE Oswaldo Palacios 1 August 1964 Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism Workers' Party of Ecuador Partido de los Trabajadores del Ecuador PTE 1996 Marxism-Leninism Not registered with Ecuador's National Electoral Council Communist Party of Ecuador – Red Sun Partido Comunista de Ecuador – Sol Rojo PCE-SR 1 June 1987 Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Gonzalo Thought Anti-revisionism Revolutionary socialism Banned Engaged in minorguerrilla warfare against the government of Ecuador, with the goal of starting apeople's war Egypt Egyptian Communist Party الحزب الشيوعي المصري ECP Salah Adli 1975 Marxism–Leninism House of Representatives :Senate :Revolutionary Socialists الاشتراكيون الثوريون RS Collective leadership 1995 Trotskyism Workers Democratic Party حزب العمال الديمقراطي WDR 2011 Labourism Socialism Anti-Zionism El Salvador Communist Party of El Salvador Partido Comunista de El Salvador PCS 27 March 2005 Marxism–Leninism Legislative Assembly :Estonia Communist Party of Estonia Eestimaa Kommunistlik Partei EKP vacant 26 March 1990 Marxism–Leninism Soviet patriotism Banned Banned in Estonia following the1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt , continues to operate underground Eswatini Communist Party of Swaziland CPS Thokozane Kenneth 9 April 2011 Marxism–Leninism Republicanism Participant in the2021–2023 Eswatini protests Ethiopia All-Ethiopia Socialist Movement መላ ኢትዮጵያ ሶሻሊስት ንቅናቄ MEISON 1968 Marxism–Leninism House of Peoples' Representatives :House of Federation :Supported and participated in the 1974Ethiopian Revolution . Initially supported theDerg government, though later broke withMengistu Haile Mariam's leadership during theRed Terror and was forced underground. Resumed legal activity following the end of theEthiopian Civil War . Finland Communist Party of Finland Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue SKP Juha-Pekka Väisänen 1984 Marxism–Leninism Parliament :Communist Workers' Party – For Peace and Socialism Kommunistinen Työväenpuolue – Rauhan ja Sosialismin puolesta KTP Mikko Vartiainen 1988 Marxism–Leninism Hard Euroscepticism League of Communists Kommunistien Liitto KL Kalevi Wahrman 14 September 2002 Marxism–Leninism France French Communist Party Parti communiste français PCF Fabien Roussel 30 December 1920 Eurocommunism Soft Euroscepticism National Assembly :Senate :Lutte Ouvrière LO Nathalie Arthaud 1956 Trotskyism Anti-capitalism National Assembly :Senate :New Anticapitalist Party Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste NPA Collective leadership 8 February 2009 Trotskyism Alter-globalisation Pole of Communist Revival in France Pôle de renaissance communiste en France PRCF Léon Landini January 2004 Marxism-Leninism Left-wing nationalism Hard Euroscepticism Workers' Communist Party of France Parti communiste des ouvriers de France PCOF Collective leadership 1979 Marxism-Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism Marxist–Leninist Communist Organization – Proletarian Way Organisation communiste marxiste-léniniste – Voie prolétarienne OCML-VP September 1976 Marxism-Leninism Maoism Revolutionary LeftGauche révolutionnaire GR 1992 Marxism Trotskyism Georgia Unified Communist Party of Georgia საქართველოს ერთიანი კომუნისტური პარტია SEKPსეკპ Teimuraz Samnidze June 1994 Marxism–Leninism Soviet patriotism Parliament :Germany German Communist Party Deutsche Kommunistische Partei DKP Patrik Köbele 1968 Marxism-Leninism Bundestag :Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany Marxistisch-Leninistische Partei Deutschlands MLPD Gabi Fechtner 1982 Marxism-Leninism Greece Communist Party of Greece Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας KKEKKE Dimitris Koutsoumpas 17 November 1918 Marxism-Leninism Anti-imperialism Hard Euroscepticism Hellenic Parliament :Banned by the government of Greece from 1936 to 1974. Led thePEEA duringWorld War II and theProvisional Democratic Government andDAG during theGreek Civil War . Marxist Leninist Communist Party of Greece Μαρξιστικό-Λενινιστικό Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας M-L KKEΜ-Λ ΚΚΕ Collective leadership November 1976 Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism Euroscepticism Hellenic Parliament :Communist Party of Greece (Marxist–Leninist) Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας (μαρξιστικο-λενινιστικό) KKE (m–l)ΚΚΕ (μ-λ) Grigoris Konstantopoulos November 1976 Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism Hoxhaism Euroscepticism Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece Οργάνωση για την Ανασυγκρότηση του Κομουνιστικού Κόμματος Ελλάδας OAKKEOAKKE Elias Zafiropoulos. 20 July 1985 Marxism-Leninism Maoism Movement for the Reorganization of the Communist Party of Greece 1918–1955 Κίνηση για την Ανασύνταξη του Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας 1918–1955) AnasintaxiΑνασύνταξη Tasos Mpallos 1996 Marxism-Leninism Stalinism Hoxhaism Zachariadism Anti-revisionism Communist Renewal Κομμουνιστική Ανανέωση KAKA Collective leadership 2000 Marxism Euroscepticism Left Anti-capitalist Group Αριστερή Αντικαπιταλιστική Συσπείρωση AR.A.SΑΡ.Α.Σ 1998 Maoism Anti-capitalism Left GroupΑριστερή Συσπείρωση ARI.SΑΡΙ.Σ 25 October 2012 Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-capitalism Anti-revisionism Left Recomposition Αριστερή Ανασύνθεση AR.ΑΝΑΡ.ΑΝ 2003 Maoism Anti-capitalism New Left Current Νέο Αριστερό Ρεύμα NARΝΑΡ Collective leadership 1989 New Left Anti-capitalism Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece Επαναστατικό Κομμουνιστικό Κίνημα Ελλάδας EKKEEKKE 1970 Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism Guadeloupe Guadeloupe Communist Party Parti communiste guadeloupéen PCG Alain-Félix Flémin 30 March 1958 Marxism autonomy National Assembly :Senate :Guatemala Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca URNG-MAIZ Gregorio Chay 7 February 1982 Left-wing nationalism Socialism Indigenismo Christian socialism Anti-capitalism Congress :Founded as an umbrella organization uniting leftist militant groups active in theGuatemalan Civil War . Laid down arms in 1996 and became a legally registered party in 1998. Haiti New Haitian Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist) Nouveau Parti Communiste Haïtien (Marxiste–Léniniste) NPCH(ML) Vania Lubin 2000 Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Maoism Anti-revisionism Chamber of Deputies :Senate :Hungary Hungarian Workers' Party Magyar Munkáspárt MMP Gyula Thürmer 17 December 1989 Marxism-Leninism Euroscepticism National Assembly :Workers' Party of Hungary 2006 – European Left Magyarországi Munkáspárt 2006 – Európai Baloldal EB Attila Vajnai November 2005 Marxism Eurocommunism National Assembly :India Communist Party of India CPI D. Raja 26 December 1925 Marxism–Leninism Lok Sabha :Rajya Sabha :Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI(M) M. A. Baby 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 nationalism Socialism Anti-imperialism Marxist Forward Bloc MFB Jaihind Singh 12 November 1953 Marxism Left-wing populism Bolshevik Party of India BPI 1939 Marxism–Leninism Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation CPI(ML)L Dipankar Bhattacharya 1974 Marxism–Leninism Maoism Naxalism Lok Sabha :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–Leninism Anti-revisionism Revolutionary Marxist Party of India RMPI Mangat Ram Pasla 2016 Marxism–Leninism Communist Marxist Party CMP C. P. John 1986 Marxism–Leninism Marxism Luxemburgism Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) New Democracy CPIML ND Yatendra Kumar 1988 Naxalism New Democracy Maoism Communist Party of India (Maoist) CPI (Maoist) Nambala Keshava Rao 21 September 2004 Naxalism Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Banned Leading the ongoingNaxalite–Maoist insurgency , designated aterrorist organization by the government of India Iran Tudeh Party of Iran حزب تودۀ ایران Collective leadership 2 October 1941 Marxism-Leninism Stalinism Left-wing nationalism Anti-revisionism Komalah کۆمەڵە ڕێکخراوی کوردستانی حیزبی کۆمۆنیستی ئێران کومله سازمان کردستان حزب کمونیست ایران Ibrahim Alizade 1984 Marxism-Leninism Internationalism Kurdish minority interestsKurdish branch ofCPI , designated aterrorist organization by the government of Iran Communist Party of Iran حزب کمونیست ایران CPI Collective leadership 2 September 1983 Marxism-Leninism Revolutionary socialism Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan کومله زحمتکشان کردستان کۆمهڵهی زهحمهتکیشانی کوردستان KTK Omar Ilkhanizade 2007 Marxism-Leninism Communism Worker's Way راه کارگر WW 1978 Workers Left Unity – Iran WLU-I Laborers' Party of Iran حزب رنجبران ایران LPI 1979 Maoism Labour Party of Iran حزب کار ایران 1965 Marxism-Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism Communist Party of Iran (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) حزب کمونیست ایران (مارکسیست-لنینیست-مائوئیست) CPI (MLM) 2001 Marxism-Leninism-Maoism New Synthesis Secularism Worker-communist Party of Iran حزب کمونیست کارگری ایران WPI Hamid Taqvaee 1991 Workerism Marxism Third camp Worker-communist Party of Iran – Hekmatist حزب کمونیست کارگری ایران-حکمتیست WPI-Hekmatist Jamal Kamangar 2004 Workerism Fedaian Organisation (Minority) سازمان فدائیان (اقليت) FO Akbar Kāmyābi March 1987 Marxism-Leninism Split from theOrganization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas (Minority) Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas (1985) سازمان چریکهای فدایی خلق ایران OIPFG Ḥosayn Zohari 1985 Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas – Followers of the Identity Platform سازمان چریکهای فدایی خلق ایران – پیرو برنامه هویت OIPFG – FIP Mehdi Sāmeʿ 1983 Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas چریکهای فدایی خلق ایران IFPG Ashraf Dehghani 1979 Participant in the1979 Kurdish rebellion Socialist Workers' Party of Iran حزب کارگران سوسیالیست ایران SWPI Babak Zahraei Trotskyism Iraq Iraqi Communist Party الحزب الشيوعي العراقي ICP Raid Jahid Fahmi 31 March 1934 Marxism Leninism Classical Marxism Reformism Secularism Nonsectarianism Council of Representatives :Operated underground in theKingdom of Iraq (from 1934 to 1958) andBa'athist Iraq (from 1963 to 2003). Supported the14 July Revolution and the government ofAbd al-Karim Qasim . Movement of the Democratic People of Kurdistan بزووتنەوەی دیموکراتی گەلی کوردستان MDPK Mam Xidir 1994 Marxism Council of Representatives :Kurdistan Parliament :Worker-communist Party of Iraq الحزب الشيوعي العمالي العراقي Amir Adil July 1993 Marxism Workerism Third camp Council of Representatives :Left Worker-communist Party of Iraq الحزب الشيوعي العمالي اليساري العراقي Issam Shukri 2004 Trotskyism Workerism Third camp Communist Party of Kurdistan – Iraq حزبي شيوعى كوردستان – عيراق الحزب الشيوعي الكوردستاني – العراق Kawa Mahmud 1993 Marxism-Leninism Kurdish nationalism Nonsectarianism Council of Representatives :Kurdistan Parliament :Regional party active inKurdistan Worker-communist Party of Kurdistan حزبی کۆمۆنستی کرێکاریی کوردستان الحزب الشيوعي العمالي في كوردستان Osman Hajy Marouf 2008 Marxism Workerism Third camp Council of Representatives :Kurdistan Parliament :Ireland Workers' Party Páirtí na nOibrithe Collective leadership 28 November 1905 Marxism-Leninism Irish republicanism Dáil Éireann :Seanad Éireann :Communist Party of Ireland Páirtí Cumannach na hÉireann CPI Janelle McAteer 3–4 June 1933 Marxism-Leninism Hard Euroscepticism Dáil Éireann :Seanad Éireann :Irish Republican Socialist Party Páirtí Poblachtach Sóisalach na hÉireann IRSP Collective leadership (Ard Comhairle 8 December 1974 Marxism-Leninism Irish republicanism Anti-globalisation Hard Euroscepticism Dáil Éireann :Seanad Éireann :Israel The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality החזית הדמוקרטית לשלום ולשוויון الجبهة الديمقراطية للسلاموالمساواة Hadashחד״ש حداش Ayman Odeh 15 March 1977 Marxism-Leninism Communism Two-state solution Non-Zionism Israeli Arab interestsKnesset :Formed from a merger ofRakah , theBlack Panthers , andMoked . Formerly part of theJoint List . Communist Party of Israel המפלגה הקומוניסטית הישראלית الحزب الشيوعي الاسرائيلي Makiמק״י ماكي Collective leadership 1 September 1965 Marxism-Leninism Alter-globalization Anti-Zionism Knesset :Merged intoHadash in 1977 and as of 2022 its largest faction. Da'am Workers Party דעם מפלגת פועלים حزب دعم العمالي Da'amדע"ם دعم Collective leadership 1995 Secularism Marxism Revolutionary socialism Postnationalism Non-Zionism One-state solution Knesset :Italy Communist Refoundation Party Partito della Rifondazione Comunista PRC Maurizio Acerbo 6 January 1991 Anti-imperialism Soft Euroscepticism Chamber of Deputies :Senate :Italian Communist Party Partito Comunista Italiano PCI Mauro Alboresi 26 June 2016 Marxism-Leninism Anti-imperialism Euroscepticism Italian Marxist–Leninist Party Partito Marxista-Leninista Italiano PMLI Giovanni Scuderi April 1977 Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism Communist Party Partito Comunista PC Marco Rizzo 3 July 2009 Marxism-Leninism Anti-revisionism Hard Euroscepticism Sovereigntism Communist Alternative Party Partito di Alternativa Comunista PdAC Francesco Ricci 7 January 2007 Trotskyism Japan Japanese Communist Party 日本共産党 JCP Tomoko Tamura 15 July 1922 Scientific socialism Progressivism Pacifism Democratic socialism Representatives :Councillors :Banned in 1925 under thePeace Preservation Law . Legalized by theAllied military occupation followingJapan's military defeat inWorld War II . Japanese Communist Party (Action Faction) 日本共産党 (行動派) 1980 Marxism-Leninism Stalinism Maoism Anti-revisionism Representatives :Councillors :Japanese Communist Party (Left Faction) 日本共産党 (左派) 1969 Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Anti-revisionism Jordan Jordanian Communist Party الحزب الشیوعی الاردني JCP Faraj Al-Tameezi 1948 Marxism-Leninism Republicanism House of Representatives :Senate :Jordanian Democratic People's Party حزب الشعب الديمقراطي الأردني HASHD 1989 Marxism-Leninism Palestinian nationalism Anti-Zionism Left-wing nationalism Secularism Kazakhstan Communist Party of Kazakhstan Қазақстан Коммунистік партиясы Qazaqstan Kommunistık Partiasy Коммунистическая партия Казахстана ҚКП / QKPКПК Toleubek Makhzhanov 16 October 1991 Marxism-Leninism Soviet patriotism Banned Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan Қазақстанның Социалистік Қозғалысы Qazaqstannıñ Socïalïstik Qozğalısı Социалистическое Движение Казахстана ҚСҚ / QSQСДК Ainur Kurmanov 20–21 May 2006 Marxism-Leninism Kenya Communist Party of Kenya CPK Mwandawiro Mgangah[ 3] 1992 Marxism–Leninism Pan-Africanism Maoism Social democracy (until 2019) National Assembly :Senate :Kuwait Kuwaiti Progressive Movement الحركة التقدمية الكويتية Anti-capitalism Anti-imperialism Socialism Marxism-Leninism National Assembly :Kyrgyzstan Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan Кыргызстан Коммунисттеринин Партиясы Партия Коммунистов Киргизии PKKПКК Iskhak Masaliyev 22 June 1992 Marxism-Leninism Soviet patriotism Supreme Council :Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan Кыргызстан Коммунисттик партиясы Коммунистическая Партия Киргизстана KPKКПК Clara Azhibekovna 29 August 1999 Marxism-Leninism Supreme Council :Latvia Socialist Party of Latvia Latvijas Sociālistiskā partija LSP Vladimirs Frolovs 15 January 1994 Marxism-Leninism Saeima :Lebanon Lebanese Communist Party الحزب الشيوعي اللبناني Parti communiste libanais LCPPCL Hanna Gharib 1924 Marxism-Leninism Nonsectarianism Socialism Anti-Zionism Parliament :Toilers League رابطة الشغيلة Ligue des Travailleurs TLLDT Zaher el-Khatib 1960s Marxism–Leninism Parliament :Arab Socialist Action Party – Lebanon حزب العمل الاشتراكي العربي – لبنان Parti d’action socialiste arabe – Liban ASAP-LPASA-L George Habash 1969 Marxism Revolutionary Communist Group المجموعة الشيوعية الثورية Groupe communiste révolutionnaire RCGGCR Collective leadership 1970 Trotskyism Communist Action Organization in Lebanon منظمة العمل الشيوعي في لبنان Organisation de l'Action Communiste du Liban CAOLOACL Zaki Taha Marxism-Leninism Maoism Lesotho Communist Party of Lesotho Mokhatlo oa Makomonisi a Lesotho CPL Manny Stevenson 5 May 1962 Marxism-Leninism National Assembly :Senate :Lithuania Socialist People's Front Socialistinis liaudies frontas SLF Giedrius Grabauskas 2009 Marxism-Leninism Democratic socialism Left-wing nationalism Socialism Seimas :Communist Party of Lithuania Lietuvos komunistų partija LKP vacant 1 October 1918 Marxism-Leninism Soviet patriotism Banned Banned in Lithuania following the1991 Soviet coup attempt , continues to operate underground Luxembourg Communist Party of Luxembourg Kommunistesch Partei vu Lëtzebuerg Parti Communiste Luxembourgeois Kommunistische Partei Luxemburgs KPL Ali Ruckert 2 January 1921 Marxism-Leninism Hard Euroscepticism Chamber of Deputies :Madagascar Congress Party for the Independence of Madagascar Antoko'ny Kongresi'ny Fahaleovantenan'i Madagasikara AKFM 8 November 1958 Marxism National Assembly :Senate :Member of the rulingNational Front for the Defense of the Revolution from 1976 to 1989 Mali Malian Party of Labour Parti malien du travail PMT 1965 Marxism-Leninism Hoxhaism National Assembly :Member ofADEMA since 1990 African Solidarity for Democracy and Independence Solidarité Africaine pour la Démocratie et l'Indépendance SADI Oumar Mariko 1996 Marxism-Leninism Pan-Africanism National Assembly :Malta Communist Party of Malta Partit Komunista Malti PKM Victor Degiovanni 1969 Marxism-Leninism House of Representatives :Martinique Martinican Communist Party Parti communiste martiniquais PCM Georges Erichot September 1957 Autonomism Assembly of Martinique :Communist Party for Independence and Socialism Parti Communiste pour l'Indépendance et le Socialisme Pati Kominis pou Lendépandans èk Sosyalism PCLS 22 May 1984 Marxism–Leninism Martinican independence Mexico Popular Socialist Party PSP 1948 Marxism–Leninism Chamber of Deputies :Senate of the Republic :Popular Socialist Party of Mexico Partido Popular Socialista de México PPSM Cuauhtémoc Amezcua Dromundo 1997 Marxism–Leninism Anti-imperialism Latin American integration Not registered or recognized by theINE Workers' Revolutionary Party Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores WRP 2009 Trotskyism Dissolved in 1996, revived in 2009 Communist Party of Mexico Partido Comunista de México PCM Pável Blanco Cabrera 20 November 1994 Marxism–Leninism Communist Party of Mexico (Marxist–Leninist) Partido Comunista de México (Marxista-Leninista) PCM (ML) 1978 Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism Communists' Party Partido de los Comunistas PdelosC Luis Alfonso Vargas Silva 2003 Marxism–Leninism Moldova Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova Partidul Comuniștilor din Republica Moldova PCRM Vladimir Voronin 22 October 1993 Marxism–Leninism Social conservatism Soviet patriotism Moldovenism Pro-Russia Parliament :Member ofBECS Montenegro Yugoslav Communist Party of Montenegro Jugoslovenska komunistička partija Југословенска комунистичка партија JKP CG / ЈКП-ЦГ Radislav Stanišić 25 September 2009 Titoism Pensioners' rights Yugo-nostalgia Parliament :Morocco Democratic Way النهج الديمقراطي Abdallah El Harif 1995 Marxism Anti-imperialism Anti-revisionism Hoxhaism House of Representatives :House of Councillors :Myanmar Communist Party of Burma ဗမာပြည်ကွန်မြူနစ်ပါတီ CPB 15 August 1939 Marxism-Leninism Maoism Federalism Banned Led an insurgency from 1948 to 1989. Rearmed in 2021 and currently engaged inguerrilla warfare against theSAC Namibia Workers Revolutionary Party WRP Collective leadership May 1989 Trotskyism National Assembly :National Council :Nepal Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (एकीकृत मार्क्सवादी-लेनिनवादी) CPN (UML)नेकपा (एमाले) K. P. Sharma Oli 6 January 1991 (1991-01-06 ) Marxism–Leninism People's Multiparty Democracy House of Representatives :National Assembly :Merged with theCPN (MC) to form theNCP in 2018, refounded in 2021 Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist) नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (मार्क्सवादी-लेनिनवादी) CPN (ML) C. P. Mainali 17 February 2002 Marxism-Leninism House of Representatives :National Assembly :Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party नेपाल मजदुर किसान पार्टी NWPP Narayan Man Bijukchhe 23 January 1975 Marxism-Leninism Maoism Juche House of Representatives :National Assembly :Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist) नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (मार्क्सवादी) Durga Prasad Gyawali 2006 Marxism-Leninism House of Representatives :National Assembly :Communist Party of Nepal (Revolutionary Maoist) नेपाल कम्यूनिष्ट पार्टी (क्रान्तिकारी माओवादी) CPN (RM) Mohan Baidya 19 June 2012 Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Operates underground and participates in elections through afront organization ; the Patriotic People's Republican Front Netherlands New Communist Party of the Netherlands Nieuwe Communistische Partij Nederland NCPN Job Pruijser 14 November 1992 Marxism–Leninism Euroscepticism House of Representatives :Senate :United Communist Party Verenigde Communistische Partij VCP Engel Modderman 1999 Marxism–Leninism House of Representatives :Senate :Group of Marxist–Leninists/Red Dawn Groep Marxisten-Lenisten/Rode Morgen GML/Rode Morgen Jeroen Toussaint 1977 Marxism–Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism House of Representatives :Senate :New Zealand Communist League The League 1969 Marxism–Leninism House of Representatives :Nicaragua Communist Party of Nicaragua Partido Comunista de Nicaragua PCdeN; PCN 12 October 1967 Marxism–Leninism National Assembly :Marxist–Leninist Popular Action Movement Movimiento de Acción Popular – Marxista–Leninista MAP-ML 1972 Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism North Macedonia Communist Party of Macedonia–Tito's Forces Комунистичка партија на Македонија — Титови сили KPM-TSКПМ—ТС Goran Arsovski 26 October 2005 Marxism-Leninism Titoism Assembly :Norway Communist Party of Norway Norges Kommunistiske Parti NKP Runa Evensen 4 November 1923 Marxism-Leninism Hard Euroscepticism Storting :Red Party Rødt R Bjørnar Moxnes 11 March 2007 Democratic socialism Revolutionary socialism Marxism Storting :Pakistan Communist Party of Pakistan کمیونسٹ پارٹی آف پاکستان CPP Imdad Qazi 6 March 1948 Marxism-Leninism National Assembly :Senate :Not registered with theElection Commission of Pakistan Mazdoor Kisan Party مزدور کسان پارٹی MKP Afzal Khamosh 1 May 1968 Marxism-Leninism Maoism Palestine Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين PFLP Ahmad Sa'adat 11 December 1967 (1967-12-11 ) Palestinian nationalism Marxism–Leninism Revolutionary socialism Pan-Arabism Arab nationalism One-state solution Anti-Zionism Legislative Council :Member of thePalestine Liberation Organization Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين DFLP Nayef Hawatmeh 22 February 1969 (1969-02-22 ) Marxism–Leninism Maoism Palestinian nationalism Left-wing nationalism Anti-Zionism Legislative Council :Palestinian People's Party حزب الشعب الفلسطيني PPP Bassam Al-Salhi February 1982 (1982-02 ) Marxism Palestinian nationalism Left-wing nationalism Palestinian Communist Party الحزب الشیوعي الفلسطیني PCP Mahmoud Saadeh December 1991 Marxism-Leninism Palestinian nationalism Legislative Council :Revolutionary Palestinian Communist Party الحزب الشيوعي الفلسطيني-الثوري RPCP Arabi Awwad October 1982 Communism Panama Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) of PanamaPartido Comunista (marxista-leninista) de Panamá PC(ml)P January 9, 1980 Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism National Assembly :November 29 National Liberation Movement Movimiento de Liberación Nacional 29 de noviembre MLN-29 July 29, 1970 Marxism Anti-imperialism Paraguay Paraguayan Communist Party Partido Comunista Paraguayo PCP Najeeb Amado 19 February 1928 Marxism-Leninism Chamber of Deputies :Senate :Partido Patria Libre PPL 3 February 1990 Marxism–Leninism Guevarism Foco theory Socialist patriotism Anti-imperialism Revolutionary socialism Paraguayan Communist Party (independent) Partido Comunista Paraguayo (independiente) PCP(i) 1967 Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism Peru Peruvian Communist Party Partido Comunista Peruano PCP Luis Villanueva 9 April 1928 (1928-04-09 ) Marxism–Leninism Mariáteguism Congress :Member ofTogether for Peru , which participated in theFree Peru -led government Communist Party of Peru – Red Fatherland Partido Comunista del Perú – Patria Roja PCP-PR Alberto Moreno 1970 (1970 ) Free Peru [ 4] Perú Libre PL Vladimir Cerron 13 August 2008 (2008-08-13 ) Socialism Marxism–Leninism Mariáteguism Congress :Peruvian Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist) Partido Comunista Peruano (Marxista–Leninista) PCP (ML) January 1964 Marxism-Leninism Stalinism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism Maoism (until 1970s) Congress :Shining Path Sendero Luminoso PCP; PCP-SL 1969 Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Gonzalo Thought Anti-revisionism Revolutionary socialism Banned Designated aterrorist organization by the government of Peru Philippines Communist Party of the Philippines Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas CPP Benito Tiamzon (alleged) (deceased)26 December 1968 National democracy Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Participant in the ongoingcommunist rebellion in the Philippines , designated aterrorist organization by the government of the Philippines and theUnited States Philippine Communist Party-1930 Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930 PKP-1930 Antonio E. Paris 7 November 1930 Marxism-Leninism Democratic socialism House of Representatives :Senate :Marxist–Leninist Party of the Philippines Partido Marxista–Leninista ng Pilipinas MLPP 1998 Marxism-Leninism Banned Participant in the ongoingcommunist rebellion in the Philippines Poland Polish Communist Party Komunistyczna Partia Polski KPP Krzysztof Szwej 9 October 2002 Marxism-Leninism Stalinism Anti-revisionism Hard Euroscepticism Anti-clericalism Sejm :Senate :Portugal Portuguese Communist Party Partido Comunista Português PCP Collective leadership 6 March 1921 Marxism-Leninism Anti-revisionism Hard Euroscepticism Parliament :Portuguese Workers' Communist Party Partido Comunista dos Trabalhadores Portugueses PCTP/MRPP Maria Cidália Guerreiro 1970 Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism Parliament :Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat – Bases for Revolution Partido Revolucionário do Proletariado – Bases pela Revolução PRP-BR Luis Cardoso 17 July 2002 Marxism Guevarism Parliament :Founded as a successor to thePRP-BR Puerto Rico Communist Party of Puerto Rico Partido Comunista de Puerto Rico PCPR 2010 Marxism-Leninism Anti-imperialism Puerto Rican Independence House :Senate :Réunion Communist Party of Réunion Parti Communiste Réunionnais PCR Élie Hoarau 1959 Post-Marxism Regionalism National Assembly :Senate :Romania Communitarian Party of Romania Partidul Comunitar din România PCDR Petre Ignatencu 19 March 2010 Communitarianism Progressivism Anti-imperialism Anti-Americanism Anti-capitalism Chamber of Deputies :Senate :Romanian Socialist Party Partidul Socialist Român PSR Constantin Rotaru July 2003 Eurocommunism Progressivism Equality feminism Left-wing nationalism NATO Pro-Europeanism Russia Communist Party of the Russian Federation Коммунистическая Партия Российской Федерации CPRFКПРФ Gennady Zyuganov 14 February 1993 (1993-02-14 ) Marxism–Leninism Left-wing nationalism Soviet patriotism Social conservatism Neo-Stalinism State Duma :Federation Council :Left Front 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 Российская коммунистическая рабочая партия в составе Коммунистической партии Советского Союза RCWP-CPSUРКРП-КПСС Stepan Malentsov 27 October 2001 Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Anti-revisionism State Duma :Federation Council :Russian Labour Front Российский трудовой фронт RTFРТФ Alexander Batov 22 February 2010 Marxism–Leninism State Duma :Federation Council :Russian Maoist Party Российская маоистская партия RMPРМП Collective leadership 9 June 2000 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Anti-revisionism Proletarian internationalism Feminism State Duma :Federation Council :Labour Russia Трудовая Россия LRТР 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 Российская партия свободы и справедливости RPSSРПСС Konstantin Rykov 8 April 2012 Social democracy Russian nationalism State Duma :Federation Council :Communists of Russia Коммунисты России CPCRРПСС Sergey Malinkovich 23 May 2009 Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Anti-revisionism State Duma :Federation Council :Serbia New Communist Party of Yugoslavia Нова комунистичка партија Југославије Nova Komunistička Partija Jugoslavije NKPJНKПЈ Aleksandar Banjanac 30 June 1990 Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Anti-revisionism Yugoslavism Russophilia National Assembly :Party of Labour Партија рада Partija rada PRПР Collective leadership 28 March 1992 Marxism–Leninism National Assembly :Slovakia Communist Party of Slovakia Komunistická strana Slovenska KSS Jozef Hrdlička 29 August 1992 Marxism–Leninism National Council :Dawn Úsvit Luciana Hoptová 25 May 2005 Marxism South Africa Economic Freedom Fighters EFF Julius Malema 26 July 2013 Marxism–Leninism Fanonism Sankarism Anti-imperialism Pan-Africanism Black nationalism Anti-Zionism Left-wing populism National Assembly :NCOP :Currently the third-largest party in both houses of theSouth African Parliament . Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party SRWP Irvin Jim March 2019 Marxism-Leninism National Assembly :NCOP :South Ossetia Communist Party of South Ossetia Хуссар Ирыстоны Коммунистон парти CPSOХИКп Stanislav Kochiev 1993 Marxism–Leninism Soviet patriotism Parliament :South Sudan Communist Party of South Sudan CPSS Joseph Wol Modesto June 2011 Marxism–Leninism Legislative Assembly :Council of States :Spain Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain Partido Comunista de los Pueblos de España PCPE Julio Díaz 15 January 1984 Marxism–Leninism Hard Euroscepticism Internationalism Congress of Deputies :Senate :Communist Party of Spain (Marxist–Leninist) Partido Comunista de España (marxista-leninista) PCE (M–L) 2006 Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism Republicanism Communist Party of Spain (Reconstituted) Partido Comunista de España (Reconstituido) PCE(r) Manuel Pérez Martínez 1975 Marxism–Leninism Republicanism Maoism (until 1990s)Banned Banned in 2003 due to links to theFirst of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups . Inactive as of 2006; not officially dissolved. Marxist–Leninist Party (Communist Reconstruction) Partido Marxista–Leninista (Reconstrucción Comunista) PML(RC) / RC Roberto Vaquero Arribas 6 October 2014 Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Anti-fascism Republicanism Proletarian internationalism Congress of Deputies :Senate :Temporarily banned from December 2014 to 2017 due to alleged links to thePKK . Communist Unification of Spain Unificación Comunista de España UCE 1973 Marxism–Leninism Maoism Spanish Communist Workers' Party Partido Comunista Obrero Español PCOE Francisco Barjas 1973 Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Anti-revisionism Anti-fascism Republicanism Revolutionary Communist Party Partido Comunista Revolucionario PCR 1994 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Anti-revisionism Maoism Marxist–Leninist Front of the Peoples of Spain Frente Marxista-Leninista de los Pueblos de España F(M-L)PE Gregorio Fernandez Lopez 1987 Marxism–Leninism Democratic Labour Party Partido del Trabajo Democrático PTD Miguel Ángel Villalón 2013 Marxism–Leninism Republicanism Feminism Living Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya Viu Partido Socialista Unificado de Cataluña Vivo PSUC Viu Collective leadership June 1997 Republicanism Federalism Parliament of Catalonia :Regional party active inCatalonia United and Alternative Left Esquerra Unida i Alternativa Izquierda Unida y Alternativa EUiA Joan Josep Nuet 1998 Marxism Catalan self-determination Republicanism Parliament of Catalonia :Forward–Socialist Organisation of National Liberation Endavant–Organització Socialista d'Alliberament Nacional Endavant 2000 Marxism Catalan independence Catalan Countries Socialist feminism Anti-fascism Euroscepticism Parliament of Catalonia :Member of thePopular Unity Candidacy Galician People's Union Unión do Povo Galego Unión del Pueblo Gallego UPG Néstor Rego November 1963 Marxism-Leninism Galician nationalism Parliament of Galicia :Regional party active inGalicia . Member of theGalician Nationalist Bloc . Galician Movement for Socialism Movemento Galego ao Socialismo Movimiento Gallego al Socialismo MGS Rafa Villar 2009 Galician nationalism Galician self-determination Euroscepticism Feminism Parliament of Galicia :Galician People's Front Frente Popular Galega Frente Popular Gallego FPG Mariano Abalo 1986 Marxism-Leninism Galician self-determination Parliament of Galicia :Regional party active in Galicia Sudan Sudanese Communist Party SCP Muhammad Mukhtar Al-Khatib 1946 Marxism–Leninism Transitional Legislative Council :Sweden Communist Party of Sweden Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti SKP Andreas Sörensen 1977 Marxism–Leninism Hard Euroscepticism Riksdag :Communist Party Kommunistiska partiet K Povel Johansson 1970 Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Riksdag :Switzerland Communist Party Partito Comunista PC Massimiliano Arif Ay May 1944 Marxism–Leninism National Council :Council of States :Currently only active inTicino andthe Grisons Swiss Party of Labour Partei der Arbeit der Schweiz Parti Suisse du Travail – Parti Ouvrier et Populaire Partito Svizzero del Lavoro – Partito Operaio e Popolare PdA Norberto Crivelli 14 October 1944 Marxism Socialism National Council :Council of States :Sri Lanka Communist Party of Sri Lanka ශ්රී ලංකාවේ කොමියුනිස්ට් පක්ෂය இலங்கை கம்யூனிஸ்ட் கட்சி CPSLශ්රීලංකොප இ.க.க. G. Weerasinghe 1943 Marxism–Leninism Parliament :Part of various different coalition governments from 1970–1975, 1994–2000, 2004–2015 and 2020–2022 Lanka Sama Samaja Party ලංකා සම සමාජ පක්ෂය லங்கா சமசமாஜக் கட்சி LSSPලසසප ல.ச.ச.க. Tissa Vitharana 18 December 1935 Trotskyism Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist) ලංකා කොමියුනිස්ට් පක්ෂය (මාඕවාදී) சிலோன் கம்யூனிஸ்ட் கட்சி (மாவோயிஸ்ட்) CCP (Maoist) 1964 Marxism–Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism Socialist Equality Party සමාජවාදී සමානතා පක්ෂය சோசலிச சமத்துவக் கட்சி SEPසසප சோ.ச.க. Deepal Jayasekera 1964 Trotskyism Socialist Party of Sri Lanka ශ්රී ලංකා සමාජවාදී පක්ෂය இலங்கை சோசலிச கட்சி SPSL 2006 Marxism Trotskyism United Socialist Party එක්සත් සමාජවාදි පකෂය ஐக்கிய சோசலிச கட்சி USPඑසප ஐ.சோ.க. Siritunga Jayasuriya 2006 Marxism Trotskyism New Democratic Marxist–Leninist Party නව-ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදී මාක්ස්-ලෙනින්වාදී පක්ෂය புதிய-ஜனநாயக மார்க்சிச-லெனினிச கட்சி NDMLPනප්රමාලෙප பு.ஜ.மா.லெ.க. S. K. Senthivel 3 July 1978 Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism Frontline Socialist Party පෙරටුගාමී සමාජවාදී පක්ෂය முன்னிலை சோசலிசக் கட்சி FLSPපෙසප மு.சோ.க. Premakumar Gunaratnam 9 April 2012 Marxism-Leninism Anti-imperialism Revolutionary socialism Syria People's Will Party حزب الإرادة الشعبية PWP Collective leadership 2012 Marxism-Leninism People's Assembly :Syrian Revolutionary Left Current تيار اليسار الثوري في سوريا SRLC Ghayath Naisse October 2011 Revolutionary socialism Communist Action Party حزب العمل الشيوعي CAP Fateh Jamous August 1976 Marxism-Leninism Banned Arab Communist Party الحزب الشيوعي العربي ACP Collective leadership February 1968 Syrian Communist Party (Bakdash) الحزب الشيوعي السوري SCP(B) Ammar Bakdash 1986 People's Assembly :Syrian Communist Party (Unified) الحزب الشيوعي السوري (الموحد) SCP(U) Yusuf Faisal Taiwan Taiwan People's Communist Party 臺灣人民共產黨 TPCP Lin Te-wang 4 February 2017 Chinese unification Socialism with Chinese characteristics Legislative Yuan :Tajikistan Communist Party of Tajikistan KPT 6 December 1924 Marxism–Leninism Soviet patriotism Togo Communist Party of Togo PCT 4 May 1980 Hoxhaism Marxism-Leninism Anti-revisionism Transnistria Transnistrian Communist Party PKP Nadezhda Bondarenko 20 April 2003 Marxism–Leninism Soviet patriotism Tunisia Workers' Party Hamma Hammami January 3, 1986 Marxism-Leninism Hoxhaism Pan-Arabism Democratic Patriots' Unified Party Ziad Lakhdar 1982 Marxism-Leninism Anti-revisionism Maoism Arab nationalism Anti-Islamism
Turkey Communist Party of Turkey TKP Kemal Okuyan 11 November 2001 Marxism–Leninism Parliament :Workers' Party of Turkey TİP Erkan Baş 7 November 2001 Marxism–Leninism Left-wing populism Progressivism Parliament :Labour Party EMEP Selma Gürkan 25 November 1996 Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism Parliament :Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist TKP/ML 24 April 1972 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Banned Marxist–Leninist Communist Party MLKP 10 September 1994 Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Hoxhaism Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist TKEP/L 1 September 1990 Marxism–Leninism Communist Workers Party of Turkey TKİP November 1998 Marxism-Leninism Maoist Communist Party MKP 15 September 2002 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front DHKP/C 30 March 1994 Marxism-Leninism Guevarism Foco theory Socialist patriotism Revolutionary socialism Communist Party of Kurdistan KKP 1982 Kurdish self-determination Bolshevik Party (North Kurdistan – Turkey) BP (KK-T) 1981 Marxism-Leninism Anti-revisionism Turkmenistan Communist Party of Turkmenistan TKP 1998 Marxism–Leninism Soviet patriotism Ukraine Communist Party of Ukraine Комуністична партія України Коммунистическая партия Украины KPUКПУ Petro Symonenko 19 June 1993 Marxism–Leninism Left-wing populism Soviet patriotism Pro-Russia Social conservatism Banned in 2015 under Ukraine'sdecommunization laws , continues to operate underground Union of Communists of Ukraine Союз комуністів України Союз коммунистов Украины SKUСКУ December 19, 1992 Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Stalinism United Kingdom Communist Party of Britain CPB Robert Griffiths 1988 Marxism–Leninism Britain's Road to Socialism Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist) CPB-ML 1968 Marxism-Leninism Hard Euroscepticism Hoxhaism Maoism (until 1979) Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist) CPGB-ML Ella Rule July 3, 2004 Marxism-Leninism Stalinism Anti-revisionism Hard Euroscepticism Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee) CPGB (PCC) 1991 Leninism Anti-Stalinism New Communist Party of Britain NCP Andy Brooks 1977 Marxism-Leninism Stalinism Anti-revisionism Hard Euroscepticism Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist) CPE (ML) 1979 Marxism-Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism Revolutionary Communist Group RCG 1974 Marxism-Leninism Anti-imperialism Communist League 1998 Fidelismo Communism
Workers Revolutionary Party WRP Joshua Ogunley 1959 Trotskyism Socialist Workers Party SWP Alex Callinicos and Lewis Nielsen1977 Trotskyism Cliffism Revolutionary socialism
United States American Communist Party ACP Haz Al-Din 21 July 2024 Marxism-Leninism Anti-revisionism House :Senate :Communist Party USA CPUSA Joe Sims 1 September 1919 Marxism-Leninism Bill of Rights socialism House :Senate :Party for Socialism and Liberation PSL Collective leadership June 2004 Marxism–Leninism Revolutionary socialism Anti-imperialism House :Senate :Socialist Alternative SA Collective leadership April 1986 Marxism Revolutionary socialism Trotskyism House :Senate :Socialist Equality Party SEP David North September 1964 Revolutionary socialism Trotskyism House :Senate :Workers World Party WWP Larry Holmes 1959 Marxism-Leninism Proletarian internationalism House :Senate :Socialist Workers Party SWP Jack Barnes January 1938 Marxism Castroism House :Senate :Socialist Action Jeff Mackler 1983 Trotskyism House :Senate :Uruguay Revolutionary Communist Party of Uruguay Partido Comunista Revolucionario PCR Ricardo Cohen 1972 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Chamber of Representatives :Senate :Uzbekistan Communist Party of Uzbekistan Ўзбекистон коммунистик партияси Oʻzbekiston kommunistik partiyasi Коммунистическая партия Узбекистана КПУз / OʻzKPСДК Kaxramon Mahmudov 1994 Marxism–Leninism Socialism Soviet patriotism Anti-clericalism Banned Banned immediately after attempting to register with Uzbekistan's Central Election Commission Venezuela Communist Party of Venezuela Partido Comunista de Venezuela PCV Óscar Figuera 5 March 1931 Marxism–Leninism National Assembly :Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Venezuela Partido Comunista Marxista Leninista de Venezuela PCMLV 2009 Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism Anti-imperialism Chavismo National Assembly :Red Flag Party Partido Bandera Roja BR Gabriel Puerta Aponte 20 January 1970 Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Chavismo National Assembly :Revolutionary Movement Tupamaro (Popular Revolutionary Alternative ) Movimiento Revolucionario Tupamaro MRT 1992 (1992 ) Marxism-Leninism Guevarism Foco theory Left-wing nationalism Revolutionary socialism National Assembly :Section of the party supporting theAPR 
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Belgium (1946–1947) –Communist Party of Belgium, in theVan Acker I Government
Finland (1944–1948, 1966–1970, 1970–1971, 1975–1976 and 1977–1982) –Finnish People's Democratic League, in coalition governments with numerous other parties
France (1981–1989; 1997–2002) –French Communist Party as a part of theUnion de la gauche and of theGauche plurielle
Iran (1946) –Tudeh Party of Iran, in thecoalition government of Ahmad Qavam[2]
Italy (1998–2001, 2006–2008) –Party of Italian Communists in theD'Alema I Cabinet,D'Alema II Cabinet,Amato II Cabinet withThe Olive Tree;Communist Refoundation Party and Party of Italian Communists in the coalition government ofThe Union
Mali (2005–2014) –Malian Party of Labour, participated in theAlliance for Democracy in Mali
Norway (1945) –Communist Party of Norway in coalition government as member ofGerhardsen's First Cabinet led by theLabour Party
Peru (2011–2016) –Peruvian Communist Party, in coalition governments as member ofPeru Wins
Portugal (2015–2019) –Portuguese Communist Party in support of theXXI Constitutional Government of Portugal led by theSocialist Party
Sri Lanka (1970–1975, 1994–2000, 2004–2015 and 2020–2022) –Communist Party of Sri Lanka andLanka Sama Samaja Party, in coalition governments with numerous other parties
Uruguay (2005–2020) –Communist Party of Uruguay andPeople's Victory Party, in coalition governments as members of theBroad Front
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Armenia – Armenian Workers Communist Party,Armenian Workers Union,Marxist Party of Armenia,Union of Communists of Armenia,Renewed Communist Party of Armenia
Australia –Communist Party of Australia
Barbados –Workers Party of Barbados
Basque Country –Auzolan,Communist Movement of Euskadi,Communist Party of the Basque Homelands,Euskadiko Sozialisten Batasuna,Euskal Herriko Alderdi Sozialista,Euskal Iraultzarako Alderdia,Eusko Alderdi Sozialista,Herriko Alderdi Sozialista,Navarrese Left Union,Party of the Revolutionary Patriotic Workers,People's Socialist Revolutionary Party
Burkina Faso –African Independence Party (Burkina Faso),Burkinabé Bolshevik Party,Burkinabé Communist Group,Marxist–Leninist Group,Organization for Popular Democracy – Labour Movement,Party for Democracy and Socialism,Party of Labour of Burkina,Patriotic League for Development,Union of Burkinabé Communists,Union of Communist Struggles,Union of Communist Struggles – Reconstructed,Union of Communist Struggles – The Flame,Voltaic Communist Organization
Catalonia –Catalan Communist Party,Catalan-Balear Communist Federation,Workers and Peasants' Bloc,Catalan State-Proletarian Party,Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia,Socialist Party of National Liberation,Party of the Communists of Catalonia
Canada –Labor-Progressive Party (legal front of the Communist Party of Canada from 1943 to 1959),Workers' Communist Party of Canada
Channel Islands –Jersey Communist Party
Chile –Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action),Revolutionary Left Movement
Colombia –Workers Revolutionary Party of Colombia
Costa Rica –Costa Rican People's Party
Cuba –Popular Socialist Party, joinedCuban Communist Party
El Salvador –Communist Party of El Salvador, merged into theFMLN
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Gambia –Gambia Socialist Revolutionary Party
Georgia –Revived Communist Party of Georgia,Georgian Workers Communist Party,Communist Party of Georgia,New Communist Party of Georgia
Germany –Spartacist League formed in 1918 and became theCommunist Party of Germany
Guatemala –Guatemalan Party of Labour, merged into theURNG
Haiti –Haitian Communist Party,Haitian Workers Party,Unified Party of Haitian Communists, merged into theNational Reconstruction Movement in 1990
Honduras –Communist Party of Honduras, merged into thePatriotic Renewal Party
Iceland –Communist Party of Iceland,Communist Party of Iceland (Marxist–Leninist)
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Israel –Maki (1948–1973) split in 1965 with formation of largely ArabRakah which changed its name to Maki in 1989
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Myanmar –Communist Party (Burma)
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New Caledonia –Communist Party of New Caledonia[7]
Netherlands –Communist Party of the Netherlands merged into theGroenLinks in 1989, marxist-leninist dissidents within the party formed the NCPN in 1992.
New Zealand –Communist Party of New Zealand,Socialist Unity Party
Nigeria –Nigerian Communist Party,Socialist Workers and Farmers Party of Nigeria
North Korea –Workers' Party of North Korea
Palestine –Communist Party of Palestine (1921–1948)
Poland –Communist Party of Poland
Saudi Arabia –Communist Party in Saudi Arabia
South Korea –Workers' Party of South Korea
Switzerland –Party of Labour Basel, founded in 1944
Taiwan –Taiwanese Communist Party,China Communist Alliance,Communist Party of the Republic of China,Taiwan Democratic Communist Party
Tatarstan –Communist Party of the Republic of Tatarstan
Thailand –Communist Party of Thailand
Transnistria (unrecognized country) –Communist Party of Transnistria
Trieste –Communist Party of the Free Territory of Trieste, merged into theItalian Communist Party
Trinidad and Tobago –Communist Party of Trinidad and Tobago
United Kingdom –Communist Party of Great Britain,Communist Party of Scotland
United States –Communist Party Marxist–Leninist,May 19th Communist Movement,Communist Workers Party,Black Panther Party,Communist Labor Party of America,International Socialist Organization
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