List of Communist Parties
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There are a number of Communist Parties around the world. The first Communist Parties were set up after the Russian Revolution. Their aim was to support the Bolsheviks (the Russian Communists).
In world history, the Russian and Chinese Communists are very important.
In Western Europe, the French, Spanish and Italian Communist Parties are the biggest. They have taken part in either local, regional or central government in those countries.
Some Communist parties have different names, such as Socialist Party, Socialist Workers Party, or Workers Party. But most Socialist parties are social democratic and not Communist.
See also: Communism, List of members of the Comintern, List of left communist internationals, List of political parties
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[edit] Communists who rule their countries
- People's Republic of China - Communist Party of China
- Cuba - Communist Party of Cuba
- Laos - Lao People's Revolutionary Party
- North Korea - Korean Workers' Party
- Vietnam - Communist Party of Vietnam
[edit] Other Communist parties in today's world
- Algeria - Algerian Party of Peace and Socialism
- Argentina - Communist Party of Argentina
- Australia - Communist Party of Australia
- Austria - Communist Party of Austria
- Bangladesh - Communist Party of Bangladesh
- Belarus - Communist Party of Belarus
- Belgium - Communist Party of Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina - Workers’ Communist Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Brazil - Brazilian Communist Party, Communist Party of Brazil
- Canada - Communist Party of Canada, Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada
- Chile - Communist Party of Chile
- Colombia - Communist Party of Colombia
- Cyprus - Progressive Party of the Working People of Cyprus
- Czech Republic - Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
- Denmark - Communist Party in Denmark
- Finland - Communist Party of Finland
- France Communist Party of France
- Germany - German Communist Party
- Greece - Communist Party of Greece (KKE)
- Hungary - Workers Party of Hungary
- India - Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India - Marxist
- Indonesia - Communist Party of Indonesia
- Iraq - Communist Party of Iraq
- Israel - Communist Party of Israel
- Italy - Communist Party of Italy, Communist Refoundation Party
- Ireland - Communist Party of Ireland, Workers Party of Ireland
- Japan - Japanese Communist Party
- Kazakstan - Communist Party of Kazakhstan
- Mexico - Popular Socialist Party of Mexico
- Moldova - Communist Party of Moldova
- Nepal - Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)
- Netherlands - New Communist Party of the Netherlands
- New Zealand - Socialist Party of Aotearoa
- Norway - Communist Party of Norway
- Pakistan - Communist Mazdoor Kisaan Party
- Palestinian Authority - Palestine People's Party
- Peru - Communist Party of Peru
- Poland - Communist Party of Poland
- Portugal - Communist Party of Portugal, Portuguese Communist Party
- Russia - Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Communist Workers Party of Russia
- San Marino - Communist Refoundation (San Marino)
- Serbia and Montenegro - New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
- Slovakia - Communist Party of Slovakia
- South Africa - South African Communist Party
- Spain - Communist Party of Spain
- Sudan - Communist Party of the Sudan
- Sweden - Communist Party of Sweden
- Switzerland - Swiss Party of Labor
- Syria - Syrian Communist Party
- Tajikistan - Communist Party of Tajikistan
- Turkey - Workers Party of Turkey IP
- Ukraine - Communist Party of Ukraine
- United Kingdom - Communist Party of Britain, Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist), Communist Party of Scotland, New Communist Party of Britain, Revolutionary Communist Group
- United States - Communist Party USA, Revolutionary Communist Party
- Venezuela - Communist Party of Venezuela
[edit] Old Communist parties which do not exist today
- Cambodia - Communist Party of Cambodia (Khmer Rouge)
- Czechoslovakia - Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
- Germany - Communist Party of Germany
- Germany (East) - Socialist Unity Party of Germany
- Hungary - Hungarian Communist Party, Hungarian Workers Party
- Mexico - Mexican Communist Party (PCM)
- Netherlands - Communist Party of the Netherlands became part of GroenLinks in 1989
- New Zealand - Communist Party of New Zealand
- Poland - Polish United Workers Party
- Poland - Communist Party of Poland massacred by Stalin in 1938, see Polish minority in Soviet Union
- Romania - Romanian Workers' Party
- Soviet Union - Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- United Kingdom - Communist Party of Great Britain
- Yugoslavia - Communist Party of Yugoslavia
- Switzerland - Communist Party of Switzerland
- Turkey - Turkish Workers Party (TIP)