List of communist parties

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

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

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

Officially ruling in communist states

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

Country	Logo		Name	Abbr.	Leader	Founded	Ideology	Legislature	Notes
Template:Flag	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Danghui.svg	Communist Party of China Template:Lang	CPC Template:Lang	Xi Jinping	Template:Start date	Socialism with Chinese characteristics Maoism	National People's Congress: Template:Composition bar	Leads the United front
Template:Flagcountry	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Flag of the Communist Party of Cuba.svg	Communist Party of Cuba Template:Lang	PCC	Miguel Díaz-Canel	Template:Start date	Marxism–Leninism Castroism Guevarism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar	Leads the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution
Template:Flagcountry	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:LPRP logo.svg	Lao People's Revolutionary Party Template:Lang	LPRP Template:Lang	Thongloun Sisoulith	Template:Start date	Marxism–Leninism Kaysone Phomvihane Thought	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar	Leads the Lao Front for National Development
Template:Flagcountry	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:WPK symbol.svg	Workers' Party of Korea Template:Lang	WPK Template:Lang	Kim Jong Un	Template:Start date	Kimilsungism–Kimjongilism	Supreme People's Assembly: Template:Composition bar	Leads the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea
Template:Flagcountry	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Communist Party of Vietnam flag logo.svg	Communist Party of Vietnam Template:Lang	CPV Template:Lang	Nguyễn Phú Trọng	Template:Start date	Marxism–Leninism Ho Chi Minh Thought	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar	Leads the Vietnamese Fatherland Front

Ruling or part of ruling coalition in multi-party states

Country	Logo		Name	Abbr.	Leader	Founded	Ideology	Legislature	Notes
Template:Flagcountry	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Logo del Partido Comunista Argentino.svg	Communist Party of Argentina Template:Lang	PC; PCA	Víctor Kot	Template:Start date	Marxism–Leninism Internationalism	Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar	Participates in the ruling Frente de Todos
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Logo of the Communist Party of Argentina (Extraordinary Congress).svg	Communist Party of Argentina (Extraordinary Congress) Template:Lang	PCCE	Pablo Pereyra	Template:Start date	Marxism–Leninism Kirchnerism	Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Pcrcolor 0.svg	Revolutionary Communist Party Template:Lang	PCR	Juan Carlos Alderete	Template:Start date	Marxism–Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism	Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flagcountry	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Flag of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (1951–1991).svg	Communist Party of Belarus Template:Lang	CPB Template:Lang	Aliaksiej Sokal	Template:Start date	Marxism–Leninism Belarusian–Russian unionism	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar	Supports the government of president Alexander Lukashenko
Template:Flagcountry	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:PCdoB logo.svg	Communist Party of Brazil Template:Lang	PCdoB	Luciana Santos	25 March 1922	Marxism–Leninism	Chamber of Deputies:	Member of the ruling federation, Brazil of Hope
Template:Flagcountry	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Partido Comunista de Chile.svg	Communist Party of Chile Template:Lang	PCCh	Guillermo Teillier	Template:Start date	Marxism–Leninism	Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar	Member of the ruling Apruebo Dignidad coalition
Template:Flagcountry	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Partido Comunista Colombiano.svg	Colombian Communist Party Template:Lang	PCC	Jaime Caycedo	1930	Marxism–Leninism Bolivarianism	Chamber of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar	Member of the ruling Historic Pact for Colombia
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:ComunesColombia.png	Commons Template:Lang		Timoleón Jiménez	1 September 2017	Marxism–Leninism Bolivarianism	Chamber of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flagcountry	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Logo of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre).png	Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) Template:Lang	CPN (Maoist) Template:Lang	Pushpa Kamal Dahal	Template:Start date	Prachanda Path Left-wing nationalism	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar	Member of the coalition government
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Flag of the CPN (Unified Socialist).svg	Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist) Template:Lang	CPN (Unified Socialist) Template:Lang	Madhav Kumar Nepal	Template:Start date	Marxism–Leninism People's Multiparty Democracy	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flagcountry	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:PFLP Infobox Flag.svg	Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Template:Lang	PFLP	Ahmad Sa'adat	Template:Start date	Palestinian nationalism Marxism–Leninism Revolutionary socialism One-state solution Anti-zionism	Legislative Council: Template:Composition bar	Member of the PLO
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine - Flag.svg	Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine Template:Lang	DFLP	Nayef Hawatmeh	Template:Start date	Marxism–Leninism Palestinian nationalism Left-wing nationalism Anti-Zionism	Legislative Council: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Palestinian People's Party Template:Lang	PPP	Bassam Al-Salhi	Template:Start date	Marxism Palestinian nationalism Left-wing nationalism	Legislative Council: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flagcountry	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Emblem of the South African Communist Party.svg	South African Communist Party	SACP	Blade Nzimande	Template:Start date	Marxism–Leninism Left-wing nationalism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar	Participates in the ruling Tripartite Alliance
Template:Flagcountry	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Pce 2014.svg	Communist Party of Spain Template:Lang	PCE	Enrique Santiago	Template:Start date	Marxism–Leninism Republicanism Internationalism Federalism	Congress of Deputies: Template:Composition bar	Participates in the United Left and Unidas Podemos, member of the PSOE-led government
Template:Flagcountry	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Flag of the Syrian Communist Party (Bakdash).svg	Syrian Communist Party Template:Lang	SCP	Ammar Bakdash	Template:Start date	Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism	People's Assembly: Template:Composition bar	Participates in the ruling National Progressive Front
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Syrian Communist Party (Unified) Template:Lang	SCP(U)	Hanin Nimir	Template:Start date	Marxism–Leninism	People's Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag country	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Tupamaro Venezuela logo.png	Revolutionary Movement Tupamaro Template:Lang	MRT	Oswaldo Jiménez	Template:Start date	Marxism-Leninism Guevarism	Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar	Participates in the ruling Great Patriotic Pole
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:UPVlogo.jpg	Venezuelan Popular Unity Template:Lang	UPV	Lina Ron	Template:Start date	Marxism-Leninism Anti-imperialism Bolivarianism	Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar
			Venezuelan Revolutionary Currents Template:Lang	CRV	Template:Ill	Template:Start date	Guevarism Chavismo Anti-imperialism	Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar

Main opposition in multi-party states

Country	Logo		Name	Abbr.	Leader	Founded	Ideology	Legislature	Notes
Template:Flagcountry	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:AKEL Logo.png	Progressive Party of Working People Template:Lang	AKEL	Stefanos Stefanou	Template:Start date	Marxism–Leninism Pacifism Cypriot nationalism	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flagcountry	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Logo – Parti communiste français (2018).svg	French Communist Party Template:Lang	PCF	Fabien Roussel	30 December 1920	Marxism–Leninism	National Assembly:	An important pillar of New Ecologic and Social People's Union
Template:Flagcountry	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Logo of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova.svg	Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova Template:Lang	PCRM	Vladimir Voronin	Template:Start date	Marxism–Leninism Moldovenism	Parliament: Template:Composition bar	Member of BECS
Template:Flagcountry	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:CPN-UML.svg	Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Template:Lang	CPN (UML)	KP Sharma Oli	Template:Start date	Marxism–Leninism People's Multiparty Democracy	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar National Assembly: Template:Composition bar	Highest popular vote in the 2022 general election.
Template:Flagcountry	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:KPRF Logo.svg	Communist Party of the Russian Federation Template:Lang	CPRF	Gennady Zyuganov	Template:Start date	Marxism–Leninism	State Duma: Template:Composition bar Federation Council: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flagcountry	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Hammer&SickleFlag02.svg	Communist Party of Uruguay Template:Lang	PCU	Juan Castillo	Template:Start date	Marxism–Leninism Internationalism	Chamber of Representatives: Template:Composition bar	Member of the Broad Front Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Logo MPP Uruguay.png	Movement of Popular Participation Template:Lang	MPP	José Mujica	Template:Start date	Marxism–Leninism Anti-capitalism	Chamber of Representatives: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:BanderaPVP.png	People's Victory Party Template:Lang	PVP		July 1975	Marxism Guevarism	Chamber of Representatives:

Formerly ruling

One-party system

Country	Logo		Name	Abbr.	Leaders	Founded	Dissolved	Ideology	Notes
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Emblem of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan.svg	People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan Template:Lang Template:Lang	PDPA	Nur Muhammad Taraki (first) Mohammad Najibullah (last)	Template:Start date	Template:End date	Marxism–Leninism Left-wing nationalism Secularism	Abandoned Marxism–Leninism in 1987, deposed in 1992
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Ppshsymbol1981.png	Party of Labour of Albania Template:Lang	PPSh	Enver Hoxha (first) Ramiz Alia (last)	Template:Start date	Template:End date	Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism	Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy in 1991 and now known as the Socialist Party of Albania
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Logo of the MPLA (Angola).svg	People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola Template:Lang	MPLA	Agostinho Neto (first) João Lourenço (current)	Template:Start date		Marxism–Leninism	Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy
File:Flag of the Azerbaijan People's Government.svg Azerbaijan People's Government Template:Small		File:Coat of arms of Azerbaijan People's Government.svg	Azerbaijani Democratic Party Template:Lang Template:Lang<	ADP Template:Lang Template:Lang<	Ja'far Pishevari	Template:Start date	Template:End date	Marxism–Leninism Azerbaijani nationalism Left-wing nationalism	Ceased to exist in exile
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Flag of PRPB.svg	People's Revolutionary Party of Benin Template:Lang	PRPB	Mathieu Kérékou	Template:Start date	Template:End date	Marxism–Leninism Scientific socialism	Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy and is now known as the Union of Forces of Progress
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:LogoBKP.svg	Bulgarian Communist Party Template:Lang	PRPB Template:Lang	Dimitar Blagoev (first) Aleksandar Lilov (last)	Template:Start date	Template:End date	Marxism–Leninism	Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy and is now known as the Bulgarian Socialist Party
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Emblem of the Communist Party of Kampuchea.svg	Communist Party of Kampuchea Template:Lang	CPK Template:Lang	Tou Samouth (first) Pol Pot (last)	Template:Start date	Template:End date	Maoism Khmer nationalism Agrarianism Anti-intellectualism Autarky	Succeeded by the exiled, non-ruling and now defunct Party of Democratic Kampuchea
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small		File:Flag of the People's Republic of Kampuchea.svg	Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party Template:Lang	KPRP	Pen Sovan (first) Heng Samrin (last)	Template:Start date Template:Start date	Template:End date	Marxism–Leninism Revisionism	Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for centrism and is now known as the Cambodian People's Party
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small		File:Emblem of PAICV.svg	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
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Roundel of Congo 1970.svg	Congolese Party of Labour Template:Lang	PCT	Marien Ngouabi (first) Denis Sassou Nguesso (current)	Template:Start date		Marxism–Leninism Scientific socialism	Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Emblem of the SKH.svg	League of Communists of Croatia Template:Lang	SKH	Pavle Gregorić (first) Ivica Račan (last)	Template:Start date	Template:End date	Marxism–Leninism Titoism Template:Small	Abandoned Marxism–Leninism and Titoism for social democracy in 1989–1990 and is now known as the Social Democratic Party of Croatia
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Emblem of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.svg	Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Template:Lang	KSČ	Václav Šturc (first) Ladislav Adamec (last)	Template:Start date	Template:End date	Marxism–Leninism Socialism with a human face Template:Small Husakism Template:Small	Split into the non-ruling Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia and the social democratic Party of the Democratic Left (Slovakia)
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia Template:Lang	COPWE	Mengistu Haile Mariam	Template:Start date	Template:End date	Marxism–Leninism	Succeeded by the Workers' Party of Ethiopia
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Workers-Party-of-Ethiopia-flag.png	Workers' Party of Ethiopia Template:Lang	WPE Template:Lang		Template:Start date	Template:End date	Marxism–Leninism	Deposed in 1991
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands Logo.svg	Socialist Unity Party of Germany Template:Lang	SED	Wilhelm Pieck & Otto Grotewohl (first) Egon Krenz (last)	Template:Start date	Template:End date	Marxism–Leninism Socialist patriotism	Became the Party of Democratic Socialism and is now a part of The Left
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Kke.svg	Communist Party of Greece Template:Lang	KKE Template:Lang	Avraam Benaroya (first) Dimitris Koutsoumpas (current)	Template:Start date		Marxism–Leninism Internationalism Anti-capitalism Euroscepticism	Overthrown during the Greek Civil War
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		New Jewel Movement	NJM	Maurice Bishop	Template:Start date	Template:End date	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
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Logo of the Party of Communists in Hungary.svg	Hungarian Communist Party Template:Lang	MKP	Béla Kun (first) Mátyás Rákosi (last)	Template:Start date	Template:End date	Marxism–Leninism State atheism Revolutionary socialism Republicanism	Deposed in August 1919
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	File:Logo of the Hungarian Communist Party.svg	Merged with the Social Democratic Party of Hungary in the Hungarian Working People's Party
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Logo of the Hungarian Working People's Party.svg	Hungarian Working People's Party Template:Lang	MDP	Mátyás Rákosi (first) János Kádár (last)	Template:Start date	Template:End date	Marxism–Leninism Stalinism	Reorganized into the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Logo of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (1989-1993).svg	Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party Template:Lang	MSZMP	János Kádár (first) Rezső Nyers (last)	Template:Start date	Template:End date	Marxism–Leninism Kádárism	Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy and is now known as the Hungarian Socialist Party
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Vanguard of the Malagasy Revolution Template:Lang	AREMA	Didier Ratsiraka (first) Annick Zoary Ratsiraka (current)	Template:Start date		Marxism–Leninism Left-wing nationalism	Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy and is now known as the Malagasy Revolutionary Party
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party Template:Lang	MAKhN Template:Lang	Damdin Sükhbaatar (first) Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene (current)	Template:Start date		Marxism–Leninism	Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Partido FRELIMO Emblem.svg	FRELIMO Party Template:Lang	FRELIMO	Eduardo Mondlane (first) Filipe Nyusi (current)	Template:Start date		Marxism–Leninism	Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for democratic socialism
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Socialist red flag.svg	Polish Workers' Party Template:Lang	PPR	Władysław Gomułka	Template:Start date	Template:End date	Marxism–Leninism Stalinism	Merged with the Polish Socialist Party to form the Polish United Workers' Party
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:POL PZPR logo.svg	Polish United Workers' Party Template:Lang	PZPR	Bolesław Bierut (first) Mieczysław Rakowski (last)	Template:Start date	Template:End date	Marxism–Leninism Left-wing nationalism	Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy and later known as the Democratic Left Alliance
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Coat of arms of PCR.svg	Romanian Communist Party Template:Lang	PCR	Gheorghe Cristescu (first) Nicolae Ceaușescu (last)	Template:Start date	Template:End date	Marxism–Leninism Neo-Stalinism Anti-revisionism National Communism	Dissolved after the Romanian Revolution
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Emblem of Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party.svg	Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party Template:Lang	XHKS	Siad Barre	Template:Start date	Template:End date	Marxism–Leninism Islamic socialism Pan-Somalism Scientific socialism Somali nationalism Militarism	Deposed in 1991
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:КПСС.svg	Communist Party of the Soviet Union Template:Lang	CPSU Template:Lang	Vladimir Lenin (first) Mikhail Gorbachev (last)	Template:Start date	Template:End date	Leninism Template:Small Stalinism Template:Small Marxism–Leninism Template:Small Soviet patriotism	Banned in 1991, de facto succeeded by UCP-CPSU and CPRF
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Flag of the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf.svg	National Liberation Front Template:Lang	NLF	Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi	Template:Start date	Template:End date	Marxism–Leninism Arab nationalism	Reorganized itself into the Yemeni Socialist Party
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Emblem of the Yemeni Socialist Party.svg	Yemeni Socialist Party Template:Lang	YSP	Abdul Fattah Ismail (first) Abdulraham Al-Saqqaf (current)	Template:Start date		Marxism–Leninism Arab nationalism	Abandoned Marxism–Leninism for social democracy
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Flag of the Tuvinian Peoples Revolutionary Party.svg	Tuvan People's Revolutionary Party Template:Lang Template:Lang	TPRP Template:Lang Template:Lang	Namachyn (first) Salchak Toka (last)	Template:Start date	Template:End date	Marxism–Leninism Stalinism	Became the Tuvan Regional Committee of the VKP(b), later CPSU
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Emblem of the SKJ.svg	League of Communists of Yugoslavia Template:Lang Template:Lang	SKJ Template:Lang	Josip Broz Tito (1939–1980) Milan Pančevski (last)	Template:Start date	Template:Start date	Marxism–Leninism Titoism	Splintered into its many constituent parties in 1990

Parliamentary majority or minority government

Country	Logo		Name	Abbr.	Leaders	Founded	Dissolved	Ideology	Notes
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Kommunistische Partei Österreichs Logo.svg	Communist Party of Austria Template:Lang	KPÖ	Ruth Fischer & Franz Koritschoner & Lucien Laurat (first) Mirko Messner (current)	Template:Start date		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
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Flag of Bangladesh.svg	Bangladesh Worker's-Peasants' People's League Template:Lang	BAKSAL Template:Lang	Sheikh Mujibur Rahman	Template:Start date	Template:End date	State socialism Bengali nationalism	Dissolved after the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small			Chadian Action for Unity and Socialism Template:Lang	ACTUS	Fidèle Moungar	Template:Start date		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.
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:AKEL Logo.png	Progressive Party of Working People Template:Lang	AKEL Template:Lang	Ploutis Servas (first) Stefanos Stefanou (current)	Template:Start date		Marxism–Leninism Pacifism Cypriot nationalism	Won the 2008 election and ruled until 2013
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:People's Progressive Party-Civic Flag (Guyana).svg	People's Progressive Party/Civic	PPP/С	Cheddi Jagan & Janet Jagan (first) Bharrat Jagdeo (current)	Template:Start date		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.
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color:Template:Party color"|	File:CPI symbol.svg	Communist Party of India	CPI	Sachchidanand Vishnu Ghate (first) D. Raja (current)	Template:Start date		Marxism–Leninism Left-wing nationalism	Member of the United Front and its coalition government
	style="background-color:Template:Party color"|	File:Cpm election symbol.svg	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	CPI(M)	Puchalapalli Sundarayya (first) Sitaram Yechury (current)	Template:Start date		Marxism–Leninism Left-wing nationalism	Member of the United Front and its coalition government
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Logo of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova.svg	Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova Template:Lang	PCRM	Vladimir Voronin	Template:Start date		Democratic socialism Left-wing populism Moldovenism Pro-Russia	Deposed after the 2009 protests
Template:Flagcountry Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:CPN-UML.svg	Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Template:Lang	CPN (UML) Template:Lang	Madan Bhandari (first) K. P. Sharma Oli (current)	Template:Start date Template:Start date	Template:End date	Marxism–Leninism People's Multiparty Democracy	Merged with the CPN (MC) to form the Nepal Communist Party in 2018, refounded in 2021
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Nepal Communist Party.svg	Nepal Communist Party Template:Lang	NCP Template:Lang	K. P. Sharma Oli Pushpa Kamal Dahal	Template:Start date	Template:End date	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

• Template:Flag+link (2005–2009, 2013–2014, 2021–2022) – Communist Party of Bulgaria, in coalition government as member of the Coalition for Bulgaria
• Template:Flag+link (1944–1948, 1966–1970, 1970–1971, 1975–1976 and 1977–1982) – Finnish People's Democratic League, in coalition governments with numerous other parties
• Template:Flag+link (1981–1989; 1997–2002) – French Communist Party as a part of the Union de la gauche and of the Gauche plurielle
• Template:Flag+link (2004–2008) – Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Communist Party of India, in the coalition government of the United Progressive Alliance
• Template:Flag+link (1946) – Tudeh Party of Iran, in the coalition government of Ahmad Qavam
• Template:Flag+link (1998–2001, 2006–2008) – Party of Italian Communists in the D'Alema I Cabinet, D'Alema II Cabinet, Amato II Cabinet with The Olive Tree; Communist Refoundation Party and Party of Italian Communists in the coalition government of The Union
• Template:Flag+link (2005–2014) – Malian Party of Labour, participated in the Alliance for Democracy in Mali
• Template:Flag+link (1945) – Communist Party of Norway in coalition government as member of Gerhardsen's First Cabinet led by the Labour Party
• Template:Flag+link (2011–2016) – Peruvian Communist Party, in coalition governments as member of Peru Wins
• Template:Flag+link (2015–2019) – Portuguese Communist Party in support of the XXI Constitutional Government of Portugal led by the Socialist Party
• Template:Flag+link (1945–1957, 1978–1992) – Sammarinese Communist Party, in coalition government with Sammarinese Socialist Party
• Template:Flag+link (1970–1975, 1994–2000, 2004–2015 and 2020–2022) – Communist Party of Sri Lanka and Lanka Sama Samaja Party, in coalition governments with numerous other parties
• Template:Flag+link (2005–2020) – Communist Party of Uruguay and People's Victory Party, in coalition governments as members of the Broad Front

Modern non-ruling

Country/Territory	Logo		Name	Abbr.	Leader	Founded	Ideology	Legislature	Notes
Template:Flagcountry			Communist Party of Abkhazia Template:Lang	CPA Template:Lang	Lev Shamba	March 1921	Marxism–Leninism	People's Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flagcountry		File:Flag of the Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan.svg	Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan Template:Lang	CMPM		2004	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism	Banned	Participant in the ongoing anti-Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan
		File:Afghan Liberation Organization Logo (Digitized).png	Afghanistan Liberation Organization Template:Lang	ALO		1973	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Template:Flagcountry		File:PKSh-LOGO.svg	Communist Party of Albania Template:Lang	PKSh	Qemal Cicollari	1991	Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism	Kuvendi: Template:Composition bar
			Communist Party of Albania 8 November Template:Lang	PKSh 8 Nëntori	Preng Çuni	2003	Marxism-Leninism	Kuvendi: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link		File:Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism logo.png	Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism Template:Lang	PADS	Abdelhamid Benzine	1993	Marxism–Leninism	People's National Assembly: Template:Composition bar Council: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link			Party of the Angolan Communist Community Template:Lang	PCCA	Baptista André José Simão	1994	Marxism–Leninism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link		File:Logo del Partido de la Liberación.png	Liberation Party Template:Lang	PL	Sergio Ortiz	5 April 1965	Marxism–Leninism	Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:Armenian Communist Party logo.png	Armenian Communist Party Template:Lang	HKK Template:Lang	Tachat Sargsyan	29 July 1991	Marxism–Leninism Pro-Russia Euroscepticism Soviet patriotism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
			United Communist Party of Armenia Template:Lang	HMKK Template:Lang		7 July 2003	Marxism–Leninism Euroscepticism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
			Progressive United Communist Party of Armenia Template:Lang	HAMK Template:Lang	Vazgen Safaryan	28 January 1998	Marxism–Leninism Soviet patriotism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Artsakh Template:Lang	AKK Template:Lang	Hrant Melkumyan	1996	Marxism–Leninism	National Assembly:
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:Communist Party of Australia logo 2020.png	Communist Party of Australia (1971)	CPA	Vinicio Molina	1971	Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
		File:Eureka Flag.svg	Communist Party of Australia (Marxist–Leninist)	CPA (ML)		15 March 1964	Marxism–Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:Kommunistische Partei Österreichs Logo.svg	Communist Party of Austria Template:Lang	KPO	Florian Birngruber	3 November 1918	Marxism–Leninism	National Council: Template:Composition bar Federal Council: Template:Composition bar
		File:Partei der Arbeit.png	Party of Labour of Austria Template:Lang	PdA	Tibor Zenker	12 October 2013	Marxism–Leninism	National Council: Template:Composition bar Federal Council: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link		File:Emblem of Azerbaijan Communist Party (1993).svg	Azerbaijan Communist Party (1993) Template:Lang	AzKP	Haji Hajiyev	1993	Marxism–Leninism	National Assembly:Template:Composition bar
			New Generation Communist Party of Azerbaijan Template:Lang	AYNKP	Niyazi Rajabov	2008	Marxism–Leninism	National Assembly:Template:Composition bar
			United Communist Party of Azerbaijan Template:Lang	AVKP	Sayad Sayadov	1993	Marxism–Leninism	National Assembly:Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link		File:Logo of the National Liberation Front - Bahrain.svg	National Liberation Front Template:Lang	NLF		15 February 1955	Marxism–Leninism	Council of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Shura Council: Template:Composition bar	Led the 1965 March Intifada
			Progressive Democratic Tribune Template:Lang	PDT	Hassan Madan	14 September 2001	Market socialism Arab nationalism Anti-globalization Anti-imperialism	Council of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Shura Council: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:বাংলাদেশ কমিউনিস্ট পার্টির পতাকা.svg	Communist Party of Bangladesh Template:Lang	CPB	Ruhin Hossain Prince	1971	Marxism–Leninism	Jatiya Sangsad: Template:Composition bar	Former member of the Bangladesh Worker's-Peasants' People's League and its coalition government
	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:Workers Party of Bangladesh logo.svg	Workers Party of Bangladesh Template:Lang	WPB	Fazle Hossain Badsha	1980	Marxism–Leninism	Jatiya Sangsad: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:Socialist Party of Bangladesh Official Logo.png	Socialist Party of Bangladesh Template:Lang	BASAD	Khalequzzaman	7 November 1980	Marxism–Leninism	Jatiya Sangsad: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:South Asian Communist Banner.svg	Revolutionary Workers Party of Bangladesh Template:Lang	RWPB	Saiful Haque	14 June 2004	Marxism–Leninism	Jatiya Sangsad: Template:Composition bar
			Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) (Dutta) Template:Lang	BSD-ML	Ajoy Dutta		Maoism	Jatiya Sangsad: Template:Composition bar
			Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) (Umar) Template:Lang	BSD-ML	Badruddin Umar		Maoism	Jatiya Sangsad: Template:Composition bar
			Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party Template:Lang	PBSP	Siraj Sikder	3 June 1971	Maoism	Jatiya Sangsad: Template:Composition bar
			Maoist Bolshevik Reorganisation Movement of the Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party Template:Lang	PBSP (MBRM)		2001	Maoism	Jatiya Sangsad: Template:Composition bar
			Workers Peasants Socialist Party Template:Lang	SKSD		1969	Marxism–Leninism Revolutionary socialism	Jatiya Sangsad: Template:Composition bar
			United Communist League of Bangladesh Template:Lang	UCLB	Mosharraf Hossain Nannu	April 2013	Marxism–Leninism	Jatiya Sangsad: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:Belarusian Left Party "A Just World" logo.svg	Belarusian Left Party "A Just World" Template:Lang		Sergey Kalyakin	25 October 2009	Democratic socialism Anti-Lukashenko	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Council of the Republic: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:PVDAPTB-2022-icon-profile01.png	Workers' Party of Belgium Template:Lang Template:Lang	PTB PVDA	Raoul Hedebouw	1979	Marxism Feminism	Chamber of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:Logo of Communist Party of Belgium (1989).png	Communist Party of Belgium Template:Lang Template:Lang	PCB	Arne Baillière	1989	Marxism–Leninism Hard Euroscepticism	Chamber of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:PCBeninlogo.svg	Communist Party of Benin Template:Lang	PCB	Philippe Noudjenoume	1977	Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
			Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Benin Template:Lang	PCMLB	Magloire Yansunnu	1999	Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link		File:Communist Party of Bhutan Logo.svg	Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist)	CPB (MLM)	Comrade Umesh (nom de guerre)	22 April 2003	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism New Democratic Revolution	Banned	Engaged in guerrilla warfare against the government of Bhutan, with the goal of starting a people's war
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color |		Communist Party of Bolivia Template:Lang	PCB	Ignacio Mendoza	1950	Marxism–Leninism	Deputies:Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
			People's Revolutionary Front (Marxist−Leninist−Maoist) Template:Lang	FRP-MLM			Marxism–Leninism–Maoism	Deputies:Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
			Communist Party of Bolivia (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) Template:Lang	PCB-MLM	Luis Alberto Echazú	1983	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism	Deputies:Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color |		Workers' Communist Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina Template:Lang / Template:Lang	RKP-Bih / РКП-БиХ	Goran Marković	2000	Luxemburgism Workers' self-management Anti-nationalism Yugoslavism	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar House of Peoples: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color |		Communist Party Template:Lang / Template:Lang	KP / КП	Muhamed Imamović	21 February 2012	Democratic socialism Yugo-nostalgia	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar House of Peoples: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color:Template:Party color |		Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin Movement	MELS	Mosalage Ditshoto	1994	Marxism–Leninism Maoism	Parliament:
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:PCdoB logo.svg	Communist Party of Brazil Template:Lang	PCdoB	Luciana Santos	23 June 1988	Marxism–Leninism	Chamber of Deputies Template:Composition bar Federal SenateTemplate:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:PSOL logo brazil.png	Socialism and Liberty Party Template:Lang	PSOL	Juliano Medeiros	6 June 2004	Democratic socialism Eco-socialism Socialism of the 21st century Libertarian socialism	Chamber of Deputies:
	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:PCB Logo.svg	Brazilian Communist Party Template:Lang	PCB	Edmilson Costa	25 March 1922	Marxism–Leninism	Chamber of Deputies Template:Composition bar Federal SenateTemplate:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:Logo PSTU.png	United Socialist Workers' Party Template:Lang	PSTU	Zé Maria	5 June 1994	Trotskyism Morenism	Chamber of Deputies Template:Composition bar Federal SenateTemplate:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:Logo PCO Institucional.svg	Workers' Cause Party Template:Lang	PCO	Rui Costa Pimenta	7 December 1995	Marxism Trotskyism Social libertarianism Anti-imperialism	Chamber of Deputies Template:Composition bar Federal SenateTemplate:Composition bar
		File:Logo PCR.svg	Revolutionary Communist Party Template:Lang	PCR		May 1966	Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Guevarism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism Foco theory	Chamber of Deputies Template:Composition bar Federal SenateTemplate:Composition bar	Not registered in Brazil's Superior Electoral Court
	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:UP Flag1.svg	Popular Unity Template:Lang	UP	Leonardo Péricles	16 June 2016	Revolutionary socialism Anti-capitalism Anti-imperialism Anti-racism	Chamber of Deputies Template:Composition bar Federal SenateTemplate:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color:Template:Party color|		Bulgarian Communist Party Template:Lang	BKP	Zonka Zlatkova Spasov	1990	Marxism–Leninism Stalinism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color:Template:Party color|		Communist Party of Bulgaria Template:Lang	CPB	Aleksandar Paunov	1996	Marxism–Leninism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color:Template:Party color|		Party of the Bulgarian Communists Template:Lang	PBK	Collective leadership	15 July 2006	Marxism–Leninism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color:Template:Party color|		Union of Communists in Bulgaria Template:Lang	SKB	Pavel Ivanov	1995	Marxism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:Star Green.svg	Party for Democracy and Socialism/Metba Template:Lang	PDS/ Metba	Hama Arba Diallo	31 March 2012	Socialism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
			Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party Template:Lang	PCRV		1 October 1978	Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link		File:Logo of the Communist Party of Canada.svg	Communist Party of Canada Template:Lang	CPC PCC	Elizabeth Rowley	28 May 1921	Marxism–Leninism	House of Commons: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
		File:CPC (ML) logo.png	Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist) Template:Lang	CPC (ML) PCC (ML)	Anna Di Carlo	31 March 1970	Marxism–Leninism	House of Commons: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link		File:Young Mao Zedong flag.png	Maoist Communist Party of China Template:Lang	MCPC	Bo Xilai (nominal) Ma Houzhi (actual)	28 November 2008	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism	Banned	De facto banned in China due to not being a member of the United Front.
		File:Logo of the Fourth International.svg	Revolutionary Communist Party of China Template:Lang	RCPC		September 1948	Marxism Trotskyism	Legislative Council: Template:Composition bar	Active in Hong Kong. Participant in the 1970s Hong Kong student protests.
Template:Flag+link		File:PCdeC-ML.png	Communist Party of Colombia (Marxist–Leninist) Template:Lang	PCdeC (M-L)		1965	Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism	Chamber of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
		File:PCC-M.svg	Colombian Communist Party – Maoist Template:Lang	PCC-M		7 August 2001	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism	Chamber of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
			Revolutionary Communist Group Template:Lang	GCR		1982	Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism	Chamber of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
		File:MOIR.png	Revolutionary Independent Labour Movement Template:Lang	MOIR	Gustavo Triana	1970	Maoism New Democracy Francisco Mosquera Thought	Chamber of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link		File:Bandera Partido Vanguardia Popular Costa Rica.svg	People's Vanguard Party Template:Lang	PVP	Humberto Vargas Carbonell	16 June 1931	Marxism–Leninism	Legislative Assembly: Template:Composition bar	Banned from 1949 to 1975
Template:Flag+link		File:PCCote-d-Ivoire.svg	Revolutionary Communist Party of Ivory Coast Template:Lang	PCRCI	Achy Ekissi	1990	Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Logo SRP.jpg	Socialist Labour Party of Croatia Template:Lang	SRP	Kristofor Stokić	25 October 1997	Marxism–Leninism	Sabor: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Logo of the Workers' Front (Croatia).svg	Workers Front Template:Lang	RF	Collective leadership	9 May 2014	Democratic socialism Social progressivism Socialist feminism Anti-fascism Anti-clericalism Eco-socialism	Sabor: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:AKEL Logo.png	Progressive Party of Working People Template:Lang Template:Lang	AKEL	Stefanos Stefanou	15 August 1926	Marxism–Leninism Pacifism Cypriot nationalism	House of RepresentativesTemplate:Composition bar	Won the 2008 election and ruled until 2013
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:KSČM text logo.svg	Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia Template:Lang	KSČM	Kateřina Konečná	31 March 1990	Marxism Euroscepticism Anti-capitalism Anti-fascism	Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar	Czech successor to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Served as confidence and supply to the second government of Andrej Babiš in 2018.
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:DKP logo.svg	Communist Party of Denmark Template:Lang	DKP	Henrik Stamer Hedin	9 November 1919	Marxism–Leninism	Folketing: Template:Composition bar
		File:Kp logo.jpg	Communist Party Template:Lang	KP	Lotte Rørtoft-Madsen	2006	Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism	Folketing: Template:Composition bar
		File:Logo of Communist Workers Party (Denmark).svg	Workers' Communist Party Template:Lang	APK	Dorte Grenaa	April 2000	Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism	Folketing: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:Communist Party in Denmark.png	Communist Party in Denmark Template:Lang	KPiD	Rikke G.F. Carlsson	1990	Marxism–Leninism	Folketing: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link		File:Communist Party of Labour (Dominican Republic).png	Communist Party of Labour Template:Lang	PCT	Manuel Salazar	1980	Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism	Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:Logo of the Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic.svg	Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic Template:Lang	CPDPR Template:Lang	Boris Litvinov	8 October 2014	Marxism–Leninism Soviet patriotism	People's Council: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:Logo of the Socialist Party of Timor.png	Socialist Party of Timor Template:Lang	PST	Avelino Coelho da Silva	11 February 1997	Marxism–Leninism	National Parliament: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:Logo del Partido Comunista del Ecuador.svg	Communist Party of Ecuador Template:Lang	PCE	Winston Alarcón Elizalde	23 May 1926	Marxism–Leninism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
		File:PCMLE-LOGO.svg	Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador Template:Lang	PCMLE	Oswaldo Palacios	1 August 1964	Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
			Workers' Party of Ecuador Template:Lang	PTE		1996	Marxism-Leninism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar	Not registered with Ecuador's National Electoral Council
		File:PCE-SR.svg	Communist Party of Ecuador – Red Sun Template:Lang	PCE-SR		1 June 1987	Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Gonzalo Thought Anti-revisionism Revolutionary socialism	Banned	Engaged in minor guerrilla warfare against the government of Ecuador, with the goal of starting a people's war
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:Egyptian Communist Party logo.svg	Egyptian Communist Party Template:Lang	ECP	Salah Adli	1975	Marxism–Leninism	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Bandera del pcs.gif	Communist Party of El Salvador Template:Lang	PCS		27 March 2005	Marxism–Leninism	Legislative Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:Emblem of the Estonian SSR.svg	Communist Party of Estonia Template:Lang	EKP	vacant	26 March 1990	Marxism–Leninism	Banned	Banned in Estonia following the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, continues to operate underground
Template:Flag+link		File:Communist Party of Swaziland flag.svg	Communist Party of Swaziland	CPS	Thokozane Kenneth	9 April 2011	Marxism–Leninism Republicanism	Banned	Participant in the 2021–2023 Eswatini protests
Template:Flag+link		File:Meison.jpg	All-Ethiopia Socialist Movement Template:Lang	MEISON		1968	Marxism–Leninism	House of Peoples' Representatives: Template:Composition bar House of Federation: Template:Composition bar	Supported and participated in the 1974 Ethiopian Revolution. Initially supported the Derg government, though later broke with Mengistu Haile Mariam's leadership during the Red Terror and was forced underground. Resumed legal activity following the end of the Ethiopian Civil War.
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:Suomen Kommunistisen Puolueen (1994) tunnus.png	Communist Party of Finland Template:Lang	SKP	Juha-Pekka Väisänen	1984	Marxism–Leninism	Parliament : Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color|		Communist Workers' Party – For Peace and Socialism Template:Lang	KTP	Mikko Vartiainen	1988	Marxism–Leninism Hard Euroscepticism	Parliament: Template:Composition bar
			League of Communists Template:Lang	KL	Kalevi Wahrman	14 September 2002	Marxism–Leninism	Parliament: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Logo – Parti communiste français (2018).svg	French Communist Party Template:Lang	PCF	Fabien Roussel	30 December 1920	Eurocommunism Soft Euroscepticism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Logo Lutte Ouvrière.svg	Lutte Ouvrière	LO	Nathalie Arthaud	1956	Trotskyism Anti-Capitalism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		New Anticapitalist Party Template:Lang	NPA	Collective leadership	8 February 2009	Trotskyism Alter-globalisation	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:PRCF.png	Pole of Communist Revival in France Template:Lang	PRCF	Léon Landini	January 2004	Marxism-Leninism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Logo-PCOF.svg	Workers' Communist Party of France Template:Lang	PCOF	Collective leadership	1979	Marxism-Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Marxist–Leninist Communist Organization – Proletarian Way Template:Lang	OCML-VP		September 1976	Marxism-Leninism-Maoism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Revolutionary Left Template:Lang	GR		1992	Marxism Trotskyism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color |		Communist Party of Georgia Template:Lang	SKP Template:Lang		1992	Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism	Parliament:
	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:Emblem of the Georgian SSR.svg	Unified Communist Party of Georgia Template:Lang	SEKP Template:Lang	Nugzar Shalvovich Avaliani	June 1994	Marxism–Leninism Soviet patriotism	Parliament:
	style="background-color: Template:Party color |		New Communist Party of Georgia Template:Lang	SAKP Template:Lang		2001	Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism	Parliament:
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Deutsche Kommunistische Partei Logo.svg	German Communist Party Template:Lang	DKP	Patrik Köbele	1968	Marxism-Leninism	Bundestag: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:MLPD Logo 2011 (2).svg	Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany Template:Lang	MLPD	Gabi Fechtner	1982	Marxism-Leninism	Bundestag: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Communist Party of Germany (Red Dawn) Template:Lang	KPD-RM		1985	Marxism-Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism	Bundestag: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Kke.svg	Communist Party of Greece Template:Lang	KKE Template:Lang	Dimitris Koutsoumpas	17 November 1918	Marxism-Leninism	Hellenic Parliament: Template:Composition bar	Banned by the government of Greece from 1936 to 1974. Led the Political Committee of National Liberation during World War II and the Provisional Democratic Government and Democratic Army of Greece during the 1946–1949 Greek Civil War.
		File:Λογότυπο του Μ-Λ ΚΚΕ.png	Marxist Leninist Communist Party of Greece Template:Lang	M-L KKE Template:Lang	Collective leadership	November 1976	Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism	Hellenic Parliament: Template:Composition bar
		File:Logo CPG(m-l).png	Communist Party of Greece (Marxist–Leninist) Template:Lang	KKE (m-l) Template:Lang	Grigoris Konstantopoulos	November 1976	Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism	Hellenic Parliament: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:OAKKE logo.svg	Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece Template:Lang	OAKKE Template:Lang	Elias Zafiropoulos.	20 July 1985	Marxism-Leninism Maoism	Hellenic Parliament: Template:Composition bar
		File:Sketch-1639523171255.png	Movement for the Reorganization of the Communist Party of Greece 1918–1955 Template:Lang	Anasintaxi Template:Lang	Tasos Mpallos	1996	Marxism-Leninism Stalinism Hoxhaism Zachariadism Anti-revisionism	Hellenic Parliament: Template:Composition bar
			Communist Renewal Template:Lang	KA Template:Lang	Collective leadership	2000	Marxism Euroscepticism	Hellenic Parliament: Template:Composition bar
			Left Anti-capitalist Group Template:Lang	AR.A.S Template:Lang	Collective leadership	1998	Maoism Anti-capitalism	Hellenic Parliament: Template:Composition bar
			Left Group Template:Lang	ARI.S Template:Lang	Collective leadership	25 October 2012	Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-capitalism Anti-revisionism	Hellenic Parliament: Template:Composition bar
			Left Recomposition Template:Lang	AR.ΑΝ Template:Lang		2003	Maoism Anti-capitalism	Hellenic Parliament: Template:Composition bar
		File:Nar-simaia-02.jpg	New Left Current Template:Lang	NAR Template:Lang	Collective leadership	1989	New Left Eco-socialism	Hellenic Parliament: Template:Composition bar
		File:Ekke-simaia-02.jpg	Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece Template:Lang	EKKE Template:Lang	Collective leadership	1970	Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism	Hellenic Parliament: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Guadeloupe Communist Party Template:Lang	PCG	Alain-Félix Flémin	30 March 1958	Marxism Guadeloupean autonomy	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:URNG Logo.png	Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity Template:Lang	URNG-MAIZ	Gregorio Chay	7 February 1982	Left-wing nationalism Indigenismo Christian socialism Socialism of the 21st century Anti-capitalism	Congress: Template:Composition bar	Founded as an umbrella organization uniting various leftist militant groups active in the Guatemalan Civil War. Laid down arms in 1996 and became a legally registered opposition party in 1998.
Template:Flag+link			New Haitian Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist) Template:Lang	NPCH(ML)	Vania Lubin	2000	Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Maoism Anti-revisionism	Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Magyar Kommunista Munkáspárt old logo.svg	Hungarian Workers' Party Template:Lang	MMP	Gyula Thürmer	17 December 1989	Marxism-Leninism Euroscepticism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
			Workers' Party of Hungary 2006 - European Left Template:Lang	EB	Attila Vajnai	November 2005	Marxism Eurocommunism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:CPI symbol.svg	Communist Party of India	CPI	D. Raja	26 December 1925	Marxism–Leninism	Lok Sabha:Template:Composition bar Rajya Sabha:Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Cpm election symbol.svg	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	CPI(M)	Sitaram Yechury	7 November 1964	Marxism–Leninism	Lok Sabha:Template:Composition bar Rajya Sabha:Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:RSP-flag.svg	Revolutionary Socialist Party	RSP	Manoj Bhattacharya	19 March 1940	Marxism–Leninism Trotskyism	Lok Sabha: Template:Composition bar Rajya Sabha: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Revolutionary Communist Party of India	RCPI	Biren Deka	1 August 1934	Marxism-Leninism Anti-Stalinism	Lok Sabha: Template:Composition bar Rajya Sabha: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		All India Forward Bloc	AIFB	Debabrata Biswas	22 June 1939	Marxism Left-wing nationalism	Lok Sabha: Template:Composition bar Rajya Sabha: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Marxist Forward Bloc	MFB	Jaihind Singh	12 November 1953	Marxism Left-wing populism	Lok Sabha: Template:Composition bar Rajya Sabha: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Bolshevik Party of India	BPI		1939	Marxism–Leninism	Lok Sabha: Template:Composition bar Rajya Sabha: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation	CPI(ML)L	Dipankar Bhattacharya	1974	Marxism–Leninism Mao-Zedong-Thought	Lok Sabha: Template:Composition bar Rajya Sabha: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Revolutionary Socialist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist)	RSPI(ML)		1969	Marxism–Leninism	Lok Sabha: Template:Composition bar Rajya Sabha: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)	SUCI(C)	Provash Ghosh	24 April 1948	Shibdas Ghosh Thought Marxism–Leninism	Lok Sabha: Template:Composition bar Rajya Sabha: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Revolutionary Marxist Party of India	RMPI	Mangat Ram Pasla	2016	Marxism–Leninism	Lok Sabha: Template:Composition bar Rajya Sabha: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Communist Marxist Party	CMP	C. P. John	1986	Marxism–Leninism Luxemburgism	Lok Sabha: Template:Composition bar Rajya Sabha: Template:Composition bar
			Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) New Democracy	CPIML ND	Yatendra Kumar	1988	Naxalism New Democracy	Lok Sabha: Template:Composition bar Rajya Sabha: Template:Composition bar
		File:South Asian Communist Banner.svg	Communist Party of India (Maoist)	CPI (Maoist)	Nambala Keshava Rao	21 September 2004	Naxalism Marxism–Leninism–Maoism	Banned	Leading the ongoing Naxalite–Maoist insurgency, designated a terrorist organization by the government of India
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color |		Tudeh Party of Iran Template:Lang		Collective leadership	2 October 1941	Marxism-Leninism Stalinism Left-wing nationalism Anti-revisionism	Banned
		File:Komele komonist iran komala.jpg	Komalah Template:Lang Template:Lang		Ibrahim Alizade	1984	Marxism-Leninism Internationalism		Kurdish branch of Communist Party of Iran, designated a terrorist organization by the government of Iran
		File:Communist Party of Iran logo.png	Communist Party of Iran Template:Lang	CPI	Collective leadership	2 September 1983	Marxism-Leninism Revolutionary socialism
			Communist Party of Iran (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) Template:Lang	CPI (MLM)		2001	Marxism-Leninism-Maoism New Synthesis Secularism
			Labour Party of Iran Template:Lang			1965	Marxism-Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism
			Worker-communist Party of Iran Template:Lang	WPI	Hamid Taqvaee	1991	Workerism Third camp
			Worker-communist Party of Iran – Hekmatist Template:Lang	WPI-Hekmatist	Jamal Kamangar	2004	Workerism
			Fedaian Organisation (Minority) Template:Lang		Akbar Kāmyābi	March 1987	Marxism-Leninism		Split from the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas (Minority)
			Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas (1985) Template:Lang		Ḥosayn Zohari	1985	Marxism-Leninism
			Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas – Followers of the Identity Platform Template:Lang		Mehdi Sāmeʿ	1983	Marxism-Leninism
		File:Emblem of the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas.svg	Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas Template:Lang	IFPG	Ashraf Dehghani	Template:Circa Template:Start date and age	Marxism-Leninism		Participant in the 1979 Kurdish rebellion
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color|	File:Flag of the Iraqi Communist Party.svg	Iraqi Communist Party Template:Lang	ICP	Raid Jahid Fahmi	31 March 1934	Classical Marxism Reformism Secularism Nonsectarianism	Council of Representatives: Template:Composition bar	Operated mostly underground in the Kingdom of Iraq (from 1934 to 1958) and Ba'athist Iraq (from 1963 to 2003). Supported the 14 July Revolution and the government of Abd al-Karim Qasim.
			Worker-communist Party of Iraq Template:Lang		Amir Adil	July 1993	Marxism Workerism Third camp	Council of Representatives: Template:Composition bar
			Left Worker-communist Party of Iraq Template:Lang		Issam Shukri	2004	Trotskyism Workerism Third camp	Council of Representatives: Template:Composition bar
			Communist Party of Kurdistan – Iraq Template:Lang Template:Lang		Kawa Mahmud	1993	Marxism-Leninism Kurdish nationalism Nonsectarianism	Council of Representatives (Iraq): Template:Composition bar Kurdistan Parliament: Template:Composition bar	Regional party active in Kurdistan
		File:Worker-communist Party of Kurdistan LOGO.jpg	Worker-communist Party of Kurdistan Template:Lang Template:Lang		Osman Hajy Marouf	2008	Marxism Workerism Third camp	Council of Representatives (Iraq): Template:Composition bar Kurdistan Parliament: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color|		Workers' Party Template:Lang		Collective leadership	28 November 1905	Marxism-Leninism Irish republicanism	Dáil Éireann: Template:Composition bar Seanad Éireann: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color|	File:Communist Party of Ireland.svg	Communist Party of Ireland Template:Lang	CPI	Janelle McAteer	3–4 June 1933	Marxism-Leninism Hard Euroscepticism	Dáil Éireann: Template:Composition bar Seanad Éireann: Template:Composition bar
		File:IRSP logo 2018.png	Irish Republican Socialist Party Template:Lang	IRSP	Collective leadership (Template:Lang)	8 December 1974	Marxism-Leninism Irish republicanism Anti-globalisation Hard Euroscepticism	Dáil Éireann: Template:Composition bar Seanad Éireann: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color|		Israeli Communist Party Template:Script/Hebrew Template:Lang	Maki Template:Script/Hebrew	Collective leadership	1 September 1965	Marxism-Leninism Alter-globalization Anti-Zionism	Knesset: Template:Composition bar	Merged into Hadash in 1977 and as of 2022 its largest faction
	style="background-color: Template:Party color|	File:Hadash-logo.jpg	The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality Template:Script/Hebrew Template:Lang	Hadash Template:Script/Hebrew	Ayman Odeh	15 March 1977	Marxism Communism Two-state Solution	Knesset: Template:Composition bar	Formed from a merger of Rakah, the Black Panthers, and Moked. Formerly ran as a part of the Joint List.
	style="background-color: Template:Party color|	File:דעם לוגו.jpg	Da'am Workers Party Template:Script/Hebrew Template:Lang	Da'am Template:Script/Hebrew Template:Lang	Collective leadership	1995	Secularism Marxism Eco-socialism Revolutionary socialism Postnationalism Non-Zionism One-state solution	Knesset: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color|	File:Rifondazione Comunista.svg	Communist Refoundation Party Template:Lang	PRC	Maurizio Acerbo	6 January 1991	Eco-socialism Feminism Anti-capitalism Anti-fascism Anti-imperialism Soft Euroscepticism	Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color|	File:Partito Comunista Italiano (2016).svg	Italian Communist Party Template:Lang	PCI	Mauro Alboresi	26 June 2016	Marxism-Leninism Anti-imperialism Euroscepticism	Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
		File:PMLI.svg	Italian Marxist–Leninist Party Template:Lang	PMLI	Giovanni Scuderi	April 1977	Marxism-Leninism Stalinism Maoism Bolshevism Anti-revisionism Anti-fascism	Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color:Template:Party color|	File:Logo of the Communist Party (Italy).svg	Communist Party Template:Lang	PC	Marco Rizzo	3 July 2009	Marxism-Leninism Anti-revisionism Hard Euroscepticism	Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color:Template:Party color|		Communist Alternative Party Template:Lang	PdAC	Francesco Ricci	7 January 2007	Trotskyism	Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color|	File:Flag of JCP.svg	Japanese Communist Party Template:Lang	JCP	Kazuo Shii	15 July 1922	Scientific socialism Progressivism Pacifism	Representatives: Template:Composition bar Councillors: Template:Composition bar	Banned in 1925 under the Peace Preservation Law. Legalized by the Allied military occupation following Japan's military defeat in World War II.
			Japanese Communist Party (Action Faction) Template:Lang			1980	Marxism-Leninism Stalinism Maoism Anti-revisionism	Representatives: Template:Composition bar Councillors: Template:Composition bar
			Japanese Communist Party (Left Faction) Template:Lang			1969	Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Anti-revisionism	Representatives: Template:Composition bar Councillors: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color|	File:JCPF.svg	Jordanian Communist Party Template:Lang	JCP	Faraj Al-Tameezi	1948	Marxism-Leninism Republicanism	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color|		Jordanian Democratic People's Party Template:Lang	HASHD		1989	Marxism-Leninism Palestinian nationalism Anti-Zionism Left-wing nationalism Secularism	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Kazakhstan Template:Lang / Template:Lang Template:Lang	ҚКП / QKP Template:Lang	Toleubek Makhzhanov	16 October 1991	Marxism-Leninism Soviet patriotism	Banned
			Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan Template:Lang / Template:Lang Template:Lang	ҚСҚ / QSQ Template:Lang	Ainur Kurmanov	20–21 May 2006	Marxism-Leninism
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color|	File:Communist Party of Kenya Flag.png	Communist Party of Kenya	CPK	Kinuthia Ndung'u	1992	Marxism–Leninism Pan-Africanism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link		File:Kuwaiti Progressive Movement.jpg	Kuwaiti Progressive Movement Template:Lang				Anti-capitalism Anti-imperialism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color|	File:Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan flag.svg	Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan Template:Lang Template:Lang	PKK Template:Lang	Iskhak Masaliyev	22 June 1992	Marxism-Leninism Soviet patriotism	Supreme Council: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color|		Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan Template:Lang Template:Lang	KPK Template:Lang	Clara Azhibekovna	29 August 1999	Marxism-Leninism	Supreme Council: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color|		Socialist Party of Latvia Template:Lang	LSP	Vladimirs Frolovs	15 January 1994	Marxism-Leninism	Saeima: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link		File:Flag of the Lebanese Communist Party.svg	Lebanese Communist Party Template:Lang Template:Lang	LCP Template:Lang	Hanna Gharib	1924	Marxism-Leninism Nonsectarianism	Parliament: Template:Composition bar
		File:OACLsymbol.PNG	Communist Action Organization in Lebanon Template:Lang Template:Lang	CAOL Template:Lang	Zaki Taha	1970	Marxism-Leninism Maoism	Parliament: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Lesotho Template:Lang	CPL	Manny Stevenson	5 May 1962	Marxism-Leninism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color|		Socialist People's Front Template:Lang	SLF	Giedrius Grabauskas	2009	Marxism-Leninism Democratic socialism Left-wing nationalism	Seimas: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color|	File:Emblem of the Lithuanian SSR.svg	Communist Party of Lithuania Template:Lang	LKP	vacant	1 October 1918	Marxism-Leninism Soviet patriotism	Banned	Banned in Lithuania following the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, continues to operate underground
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color|	File:Kommunistesch Partei Letzebuerg Logo.svg	Communist Party of Luxembourg Template:Lang Template:Lang Template:Lang	KPL PCL	Ali Ruckert	2 January 1921	Marxism-Leninism Hard Euroscepticism	Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color|		Congress Party for the Independence of Madagascar Template:Lang	AKFM		8 November 1958	Marxism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar	Member of the ruling National Front for the Defense of the Revolution from 1976 to 1989
Template:Flag+link			Malian Party of Labour Template:Lang	PMT		1965	Marxism-Leninism Hoxhaism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar	Member of the Alliance for Democracy in Mali since 1990
	style="background-color: Template:Party color|		African Solidarity for Democracy and Independence Template:Lang	SADI	Oumar Mariko	1996	Marxism-Leninism Pan-Africanism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color|		Communist Party of Malta Template:Lang	PKM	Victor Degiovanni	1969	Marxism-Leninism	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color|		Martinican Communist Party Template:Lang	PCM	Georges Erichot	September 1957	Autonomism	Assembly of Martinique: Template:Composition bar
		File:PKLS Logo.svg	Communist Party for Independence and Socialism Template:Lang Template:Lang	PCLS PKLS		22 May 1984	Marxism–Leninism Martinican independence	Assembly of Martinique: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color|		Popular Socialist Party of Mexico Template:Lang	PPSM	Cuauhtémoc Amezcua Dromundo	1997	Marxism–Leninism Anti-imperialism Latin American integration	Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar Senate of the Republic: Template:Composition bar	Not registered or recognized by the Instituto Nacional Electoral
		File:Emblema del Partido Comunista de Mexico.jpg	Communist Party of Mexico Template:Lang	PCM	Pável Blanco Cabrera	20 November 1994	Marxism–Leninism	Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar Senate of the Republic: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color|	File:Partido Comunista México ML.png	Communist Party of Mexico (Marxist–Leninist) Template:Lang	PCM (ML)		1978	Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism	Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar Senate of the Republic: Template:Composition bar
			Communists' Party Template:Lang	PdelosC	Luis Alfonso Vargas Silva	2003	Marxism–Leninism	Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar Senate of the Republic: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color|	File:Logo of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova.svg	Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova Template:Lang	PCRM	Vladimir Voronin	22 October 1993	Marxism–Leninism Social conservatism Soviet patriotism Moldovenism Pro-Russia	Parliament: Template:Composition bar	Member of BECS
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:Red star with hammer and sickle.svg	Yugoslav Communist Party of Montenegro Template:Lang Template:Lang	JKP CG / ЈКП-ЦГ	Radislav Stanišić	25 September 2009	Titoism Pensioners' rights Yugo-nostalgia	Parliament: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link		File:PVD-maroc.jpg	Democratic Way Template:Lang		Abdallah El Harif	1995	Marxism Anti-imperialism	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar House of Councillors: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link		File:Communist Party of Burma Banner.png	Communist Party of Burma Template:Lang	CPB		15 August 1939	Marxism-Leninism Mao-Zedong-Thought	Banned	Led the Communist insurgency in Burma from 1948 to 1989. Rearmed itself in 2021 and is currently engaged in guerrilla warfare against the State Administration Council
Template:Flag+link			Workers Revolutionary Party	WRP	Collective leadership	May 1989	Trotskyism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar National Council: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:CPN-UML.svg	Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Template:Lang	CPN (UML) Template:Lang	K. P. Sharma Oli	Template:Start date	Marxism–Leninism People's Multiparty Democracy	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar National Assembly: Template:Composition bar	Merged with the CPN (MC) to form the Nepal Communist Party in 2018, refounded in 2021
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:CPN-ML.jpg	Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist) Template:Lang	CPN (ML)	C. P. Mainali	17 February 2002	Marxism-Leninism	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:NWPP-logo.png	Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party Template:Lang	NWPP	Narayan Man Bijukchhe	23 January 1975	Marxism-Leninism Maoism	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
		File:Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist) (2006).svg	Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist) Template:Lang		Durga Prasad Gyawali	2006	Marxism-Leninism	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
		File:Communist Party of Nepal (Revolutionary Maoist).svg	Communist Party of Nepal (Revolutionary Maoist) Template:Lang	CPN (RM)	Mohan Baidya	19 June 2012	Marxism-Leninism-Maoism	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar National Assembly: Template:Composition bar	Operates underground and participates in elections through a front organization; the Patriotic People's Republican Front
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:NCPN logo 2021 small.svg	New Communist Party of the Netherlands Template:Lang	NCPN	Job Pruijser	14 November 1992	Marxism–Leninism	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
		File:VCP logo.svg	United Communist Party Template:Lang	VCP	Engel Modderman	1999	Marxism–Leninism	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
		File:Rode Morgen.svg	Group of Marxist–Leninists/Red Dawn Template:Lang	GML/Rode Morgen	Jeroen Toussaint	1977	Marxism–Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link			Communist League	The League		1969	Marxism–Leninism	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Communist Party of Nicaragua Template:Lang	PCdeN; PCN		12 October 1967	Marxism–Leninism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Marxist–Leninist Popular Action Movement Template:Lang	MAP-ML		1972	Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Macedonia — Tito's forces Template:Lang	KPM-TS Template:Lang	Goran Arsovski	26 October 2005	Marxism-Leninism Titoism	Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link		File:Norwegian Communist Party.svg	Communist Party of Norway Template:Lang	NKP	Runa Evensen	4 November 1923	Marxism-Leninism Hard Euroscepticism	Storting: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Rødt logo (bokmål).svg	Red Party Template:Lang	R	Bjørnar Moxnes	11 March 2007	Democratic socialism Revolutionary socialism	Storting: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link		File:Communist Party of Pakistan logo.png	Communist Party of Pakistan Template:Lang	CPP	Imdad Qazi	6 March 1948	Marxism-Leninism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar	Not registered with the Election Commission of Pakistan
		File:Flag of the Mazdoor Kisan Party.svg	Mazdoor Kisan Party Template:Lang	MKP	Afzal Khamosh	1 May 1968	Marxism-Leninism Maoism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:PFLP Infobox Flag.svg	Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Template:Lang	PFLP	Ahmad Sa'adat	Template:Start date	Palestinian nationalism Marxism–Leninism Revolutionary socialism One-state solution Anti-zionism	Legislative Council: Template:Composition bar	Member of the PLO, opposed to the Hamas government of the Gaza Strip
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine - Flag.svg	Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine Template:Lang	DFLP	Nayef Hawatmeh	Template:Start date	Marxism–Leninism Palestinian nationalism Left-wing nationalism Anti-Zionism	Legislative Council: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Palestinian People's Party Template:Lang	PPP	Bassam Al-Salhi	Template:Start date	Marxism Palestinian nationalism Left-wing nationalism	Legislative Council: Template:Composition bar
		File:PaCoPa new.png	Palestinian Communist Party Template:Lang		Mahmoud Saadeh	December 1991	Marxism-Leninism Palestinian nationalism	Legislative Council: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) of Panama Template:Lang	PC(ml)P		January 9, 1980	Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
			November 29 National Liberation Movement Template:Lang	MLN-29		July 29, 1970	Marxism Anti-imperialism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color|	File:PCP paraguay.jpg	Paraguayan Communist Party Template:Lang	PCP	Najeeb Amado	19 February 1928	Marxism-Leninism	Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color|	File:Bandera del Partido Patria Libre.svg	Partido Patria Libre	PPL		3 February 1990	Marxism–Leninism Guevarism Foco theory Socialist patriotism Anti-imperialism Revolutionary socialism	Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
			Paraguayan Communist Party (independent) Template:Lang	PCP(i)		1967	Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism	Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Template:PER		File:PCP Logo simplified.svg	Peruvian Communist Party Template:Lang	PCP	Luis Villanueva	Template:Start date	Marxism–Leninism Mariáteguism	Congress: Template:Composition bar	Member of Together for Peru, which participated in the Free Peru-led government
		File:Patria Roja logo.png	Communist Party of Peru – Red Fatherland Template:Lang	PCP-PR	Alberto Moreno	Template:Start date	Template:Ubl	Congress: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Perú Libre logo.svg	Free Peru Template:Lang	PL	Vladimir Cerron	Template:Start date	Socialism Marxism–Leninism Mariáteguism	Congress: Template:Composition bar
		File:PCPmlLogo simplified.svg	Peruvian Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist) Template:Lang	PCP (ML)		January 1964	Marxism-Leninism Stalinism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism	Congress: Template:Composition bar
		File:Shining Path Hammer and Sickle.svg	Shining Path Template:Lang	PCP; PCP-SL		1969	Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Gonzalo Thought Anti-revisionism Revolutionary socialism	Banned	Designated a terrorist organization by the government of Peru
Template:Flag+link		File:Communist Party of the Philippines Hammer and Sickle.svg	Communist Party of the Philippines Template:Lang	CPP	Benito Tiamzon (alleged)	26 December 1968	National democracy Marxism-Leninism-Maoism	Banned	Participant in the ongoing communist rebellion in the Philippines, designated a terrorist organization by the government of the Philippines and the United States Department of State
		File:Logo PKP-1930.png	Philippine Communist Party-1930 Template:Lang	PKP-1930	Antonio E. Paris	7 November 1930	Marxism-Leninism	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
			Marxist–Leninist Party of the Philippines Template:Lang	MLPP		1998	Marxism-Leninism	Banned	Participant in the ongoing communist rebellion in the Philippines
Template:Flag+link		File:Logo Komunistycznej Partii Polski (2002).svg	Polish Communist Party Template:Lang	KPP	Krzysztof Szwej	9 October 2002	Marxism-Leninism Stalinism Anti-revisionism	Sejm: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color|	File:Portuguese Communist Party logo.svg	Portuguese Communist Party Template:Lang	PCP	Collective leadership	6 March 1921	Marxism-Leninism	Assembly of the Republic: Template:Composition bar
		File:PCTP-MRPP logo.png	Portuguese Workers' Communist Party Template:Lang	PCTP/MRPP	Maria Cidália Guerreiro	1970	Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism	Assembly of the Republic: Template:Composition bar
			Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat – Bases for Revolution Template:Lang	PRP-BR	Luis Cardoso	17 July 2002	Marxism Guevarism	Assembly of the Republic: Template:Composition bar	Founded as a successor to the Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat - Revolutionary Brigades
Template:Flag+link			Communist Party of Puerto Rico Template:Lang	PCPR		2010	Marxism-Leninism Anti-imperialism Puerto Rican Independence	House: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Proposed flag of Réunion (Nationalist movement).svg	Communist Party of Réunion Template:Lang	PCR	Élie Hoarau	1959	Post-Marxism Regionalism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link			Communitarian Party of Romania Template:Lang	PCDR	Petre Ignatencu	19 March 2010	Communitarianism Progressivism	Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
			Romanian Socialist Party Template:Lang	PSR	Constantin Rotaru	July 2003	Eurocommunism Progressivism Equality feminism Left-wing nationalism	Chamber of Deputies: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:KPRF Logo.svg	Communist Party of the Russian Federation Template:Lang	CPRF Template:Lang	Gennady Zyuganov	Template:Start date	Marxism–Leninism Left-wing nationalism Soviet patriotism	State Duma: Template:Composition bar Federation Council: Template:Composition bar
		File:Logo of the Left Front (Russia).svg	Left Front Template:Lang		Sergei Udaltsov	18 October 2008	Marxism–Leninism Anti-fascism Anti-nationalism Anti-liberalism Anti-capitalism Internationalism	State Duma: Template:Composition bar Federation Council: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Logo of Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.svg	Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Template:Lang	RCWP-CPSU Template:Lang	Stepan Malentsov	27 October 2001	Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Anti-revisionism	State Duma: Template:Composition bar Federation Council: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Logo of the Russian Labour Front.svg	Russian Labour Front Template:Lang	RTF Template:Lang	Alexander Batov	22 February 2010	Marxism–Leninism	State Duma: Template:Composition bar Federation Council: Template:Composition bar
		File:Logo of the Russian Maoist Party (2022).svg	Russian Maoist Party Template:Lang	RMP Template:Lang	Collective leadership	9 June 2000	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Anti-revisionism Proletarian internationalism Feminism	State Duma: Template:Composition bar Federation Council: Template:Composition bar
		File:Trudovaya Rossiay logo.2.png	Labour Russia Template:Lang	LR Template:Lang	Stanislav Ruzanov	7 November 1991	Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Soviet patriotism Direct democracy Left-wing nationalism	State Duma: Template:Composition bar Federation Council: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |		Russian Party of Freedom and Justice Template:Lang	RPSS Template:Lang	Konstantin Rykov	8 April 2012	Social democracy Russian nationalism	State Duma: Template:Composition bar Federation Council: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |		Communists of Russia Template:Lang	CPCR Template:Lang	Sergey Malinkovich	23 May 2009	Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Anti-revisionism	State Duma: Template:Composition bar Federation Council: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |		New Communist Party of Yugoslavia Template:Lang / Template:Lang	NKPJ Template:Lang	Aleksandar Banjanac	30 June 1990	Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Anti-revisionism Yugoslavism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Logo of the Party of Labour (Serbia).png	Party of Labour Template:Lang / Template:Lang	PR Template:Lang	Collective leadership	28 March 1992	Marxism–Leninism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Logo of the Communist Party of Slovakia.svg	Communist Party of Slovakia Template:Lang	KSS	Jozef Hrdlička	29 August 1992	Marxism–Leninism	National Council: Template:Composition bar
			Dawn Template:Lang		Luciana Hoptová	25 May 2005	Marxism	National Council: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Eff-flag.png	Economic Freedom Fighters	EFF	Julius Malema	26 July 2013	Marxism–Leninism Fanonism Sankarism Anti-imperialism Pan-Africanism Black nationalism Anti-Zionism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar National Council of Provinces: Template:Composition bar	Currently the third-largest party in both houses of the South African Parliament.
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |		Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party	SRWP	Irvin Jim	March 2019	Marxism-Leninism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar National Council of Provinces: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |		Communist Party of South Ossetia Template:Lang	CPSO Template:Lang	Stanislav Kochiev	1993	Marxism–Leninism Soviet patriotism	Parliament: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |		Communist Party of South Sudan	CPSS	Joseph Wol Modesto	June 2011	Marxism–Leninism	National Legislative Assembly: Template:Composition bar Council of States: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:PCPE.svg	Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain Template:Lang	PCPE	Julio Díaz	15 January 1984	Marxism–Leninism Hard Euroscepticism Internationalism	Congress of Deputies: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Flag of the Second Spanish Republic (plain).svg	Communist Party of Spain (Marxist–Leninist) Template:Lang	PCE (m-l)		2006	Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism Republicanism	Congress of Deputies: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
		File:Bandera del GRAPO.svg	Communist Party of Spain (Reconstituted) Template:Lang	PCE(r)	Manuel Pérez Martínez	1975	Marxism–Leninism Republicanism	Banned	Banned in 2003 due to links to the First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups. Inactive as of 2006, though not officially dissolved.
		File:Reconstrucción Comunista RC flag.svg	Marxist–Leninist Party (Communist Reconstruction) Template:Lang	PML(RC) / RC	Roberto Vaquero Arribas	6 October 2014	Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Anti-fascism Republicanism	Congress of Deputies: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar	Temporarily banned from December 2014 to 2017 due to alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party.
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Logotipo similar a Unificacion Comunista de España.svg	Communist Unification of Spain Template:Lang	UCE		1973	Marxism–Leninism Mao Zedong thought	Congress of Deputies: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:PCOE Logo.PNG	Spanish Communist Workers' Party Template:Lang	PCOE	Francisco Barjas	1973	Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Anti-revisionism Anti-fascism Republicanism	Congress of Deputies: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |		Revolutionary Communist Party Template:Lang	PCR		1994	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Anti-revisionism	Congress of Deputies: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
			Marxist–Leninist Front of the Peoples of Spain Template:Lang	F(M-L)PE	Gregorio Fernandez Lopez	1987	Marxism–Leninism	Congress of Deputies: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
			Democratic Labour Party Template:Lang	PTD	Miguel Ángel Villalón	2013	Marxism–Leninism Republicanism Feminism	Congress of Deputies: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
		File:PSUC viu.png	Living Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia Template:Lang Template:Lang	PSUC Viu	Collective leadership	June 1997	Republicanism Federalism	Parliament of Catalonia: Template:Composition bar	Regional party active in Catalonia
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Logotip d'EUiA.svg	United and Alternative Left Template:Lang Template:Lang	EUiA	Joan Josep Nuet	1998	Marxism Ecologism Catalan self-determination Republicanism	Parliament of Catalonia: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Upg2.PNG	Galician People's Union Template:Lang Template:Lang	UPG	Néstor Rego	November 1963	Marxism-Leninism Galician nationalism	Parliament of Galicia: Template:Composition bar	Regional party active in Galicia. Member of the Galician Nationalist Bloc.
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Mgs-logo1.PNG	Galician Movement for Socialism Template:Lang Template:Lang	MGS	Rafa Villar	2009	Galician nationalism Galician self-determination Euroscepticism Feminism	Parliament of Galicia: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:FPG logo.png	Galician People's Front Template:Lang Template:Lang	FPG	Mariano Abalo	1986	Marxism-Leninism Galician self-determination	Parliament of Galicia: Template:Composition bar	Regional party active in Galicia
Template:Flag+link		File:Emblem of the Sudanese Communist Party.svg	Sudanese Communist Party	SCP	Muhammad Mukhtar Al-Khatib	1946	Marxism–Leninism	Transitional Legislative Council:
Template:Flag+link		File:Sveriges-kommunistiska-partiskp.jpg	Communist Party of Sweden Template:Lang	SKP	Andreas Sörensen	1977	Marxism–Leninism Hard Euroscepticism	Riksdag:
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Kommunistiska partiet logotyp 2018.svg	Communist Party Template:Lang	K	Povel Johansson	1970	Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism	Riksdag:
Template:Flag+link		File:Partito Comunista (Svizzera).tif	Communist Party Template:Lang	PC	Massimiliano Arif Ay	May 1944	Marxism–Leninism	National Council: Template:Composition bar Council of States: Template:Composition bar	Currently only active in Ticino and the Grisons
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Logo of the Swiss Party of Labour.svg	Swiss Party of Labour Template:Lang Template:Lang Template:Lang	PdA PST-POP PdL-POP	Norberto Crivelli	14 October 1944	Marxism	National Council: Template:Composition bar Council of States: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:JVPwallpaper.jpg	Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna Template:Lang Template:Lang	JVP Template:Lang Template:Lang	Anura Kumara Dissanayake	14 May 1965	Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Revolutionary socialism Anti-imperialism	Parliament: Template:Composition bar
		File:Communist Party of Sri Lanka logo.jpg	Communist Party of Sri Lanka Template:Lang Template:Lang	CPSL Template:Lang Template:Lang	G. Weerasinghe	1943	Marxism–Leninism	Parliament: Template:Composition bar	Part of various different coalition governments from 1970–1975, 1994–2000, 2004–2015 and 2020–2022
		File:LankaSamaSamajaLogo.png	Lanka Sama Samaja Party Template:Lang Template:Lang	LSSP Template:Lang Template:Lang	Tissa Vitharana	18 December 1935	Trotskyism	Parliament: Template:Composition bar
		File:South Asian Communist Banner.svg	Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist) Template:Lang Template:Lang	CCP (Maoist)		1964	Marxism–Leninism Mao Zedong Thought Anti-revisionism	Parliament: Template:Composition bar
			Socialist Equality Party Template:Lang Template:Lang	SEP Template:Lang Template:Lang	Deepal Jayasekera	1964	Trotskyism	Parliament: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Socialist Party of Sri Lanka Template:Lang Template:Lang	SPSL		2006	Marxism Trotskyism	Parliament: Template:Composition bar
			United Socialist Party Template:Lang Template:Lang	USP Template:Lang Template:Lang	Siritunga Jayasuriya	2006	Marxism Trotskyism	Parliament: Template:Composition bar
			New Democratic Marxist–Leninist Party Template:Lang Template:Lang	NDMLP Template:Lang Template:Lang	S. K. Senthivel	3 July 1978	Marxism-Leninism Mao Zedong Thought Anti-revisionism	Parliament: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:FSPlogo.png	Frontline Socialist Party Template:Lang Template:Lang	FLSP Template:Lang Template:Lang	Premakumar Gunaratnam	9 April 2012	Marxism-Leninism Anti-imperialism Revolutionary socialism	Parliament: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link			People's Will Party Template:Lang	PWP	Collective leadership	2012	Marxism-Leninism	People's Assembly: Template:Composition bar
		File:Ahewar Logo.jpg	Communist Action Party Template:Lang		Fateh Jamous	August 1976	Marxism-Leninism	Banned
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Taiwan People's Communist Party Template:Lang	TPCP	Lin Te-wang	4 February 2017	Chinese unification	Legislative Yuan: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:LogoKPT.svg	Communist Party of Tajikistan	KPT		6 December 1924	Marxism–Leninism
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Communist Party of Togo	PCT		4 May 1980	Hoxhaism
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Pridnestrovie Communist Party	PCP	Nadezhda Bondarenko	20 April 2003	Marxism–Leninism Soviet patriotism
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Parti des travailleurs (Tunisie).svg	Workers' Party
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Democratic Patriots' Unified Party
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:TKP logo (2023).svg	Communist Party of Turkey	TKP	Kemal Okuyan	11 November 2001	Marxism–Leninism	Grand National Assembly:Template:Composition bar
		File:Türkiye İşçi Partisi.svg	Workers' Party of Turkey	TİP	Erkan Baş	7 November 2001	Marxism–Leninism Left-wing populism	Grand National Assembly:Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Emek Partisi Logo.svg	Labour Party	EMEP	Selma Gürkan	25 November 1996	Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism	Grand National Assembly:Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:TKPML.svg	Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist	TKP/ML		24 April 1972	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism	Banned
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:MLKP Badge.svg	Marxist–Leninist Communist Party	MLKP		10 September 1994	Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Hoxhaism
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:TKEP-L Logo.svg	Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist	TKEP/L		1 September 1990	Marxism–Leninism
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Communist Workers Party of Turkey	TKİP		November 1998
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:HAMMER-SICKLE-STAR.svg	Maoist Communist Party	MKP		15 September 2002	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:DHKP.svg	Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front	DHKP/C		30 March 1994
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Flag of the Communist Party of Kurdistan.svg	Communist Party of Kurdistan	KKP		1982
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Bolshevik Party (North Kurdistan – Turkey)	BP (KK-T)		1981
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Emblem of the Turkmen SSR.svg	Communist Party of Turkmenistan	TKP		1998	Marxism–Leninism	Banned
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:Ukrainian Communist Party logo.svg	Communist Party of Ukraine Template:Lang Template:Lang	KPU Template:Lang	Petro Symonenko	19 June 1993	Marxism–Leninism Left-wing populism Soviet patriotism Pro-Russia	Banned	Banned in 2015 under Ukraine's decommunization laws, continues to operate underground
			Union of Communists of Ukraine Template:Lang Template:Lang	SKU Template:Lang		December 19, 1992	Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:Logo of the Communist Party of Britain.svg	Communist Party of Britain	CPB	Robert Griffiths	1988	Marxism–Leninism
	style="background-color: Template:Party color |		Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist)	CPB-ML
	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:Emblem of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist).svg	Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist)	CPGB-ML
	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:CPGB hi res.png	Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee)	CPGB (PCC)
	style="background-color: Template:Party color |	File:New Communist Party of Britain logo.svg	New Communist Party of Britain	NCP
	style="background-color: Template:Party color |		Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist)
	style="background-color: Template:Party color |		Revolutionary Communist Group
	style="background-color: Template:Party color |		Communist League
	style="background-color: Template:Party color |		Communist Party Alliance
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:CPUSA.svg	Communist Party USA	CPUSA	Collective leadership (National Convention)	1 September 1919	Marxism-Leninism Bill of Rights socialism	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Party for Socialism and Liberation Logo.svg	Party for Socialism and Liberation	PSL	Collective leadership	June 2004	Marxism–Leninism Revolutionary socialism Anti-imperialism	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Socialist Alternative (USA) logo.svg	Socialist Alternative	SA	Collective leadership	April 1986	Marxism Revolutionary socialism Trotskyism	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Socialist Equality Party (United States) logo.svg	Socialist Equality Party	SEP	David North	September 1964	Revolutionary socialism Trotskyism	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
			Workers World Party	WWP	Larry Holmes	1959	Marxism-Leninism Proletarian internationalism	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Socialist Workers Party	SWP	Jack Barnes	January 1938	Marxism Castroism	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
		File:Socialist Action logo (black).jpg	Socialist Action		Jeff Mackler	1983	Trotskyism	House of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link		File:Logo pcu.svg	Revolutionary Communist Party of Uruguay Template:Lang	PCR	Ricardo Cohen	1972	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism	Chamber of Representatives: Template:Composition bar Senate: Template:Composition bar
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Emblem of the Uzbek SSR.svg	Communist Party of Uzbekistan Template:Lang / Template:Lang Template:Lang	КПУз / OʻzKP Template:Lang	Kaxramon Mahmudov	1994	Marxism–Leninism	Banned	Banned immediately after attempting to register with Uzbekistan's Central Election Commission
Template:Flag+link	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:PCV logo.svg	Communist Party of Venezuela Template:Lang	PCV	Óscar Figuera	5 March 1931	Marxism–Leninism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
		File:Logo of the Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Venezuela.svg	Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Venezuela Template:Lang	PCMLV		2009	Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism Anti-imperialism Anti-Chavismo	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
		File:Bandera Roja (Venezuela).svg	Red Flag Party Template:Lang	BR	Gabriel Puerta Aponte	20 January 1970	Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Anti-Chavismo	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Tupamaro Venezuela logo.png	Revolutionary Movement Tupamaro (Popular Revolutionary Alternative) Template:Lang	MRT		Template:Start date	Marxism-Leninism Guevarism	National Assembly: Template:Composition bar	Section of the party supporting the Popular Revolutionary Alternative

• All-Union Communist Party, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Bolshevik Platform of the KPSS[17]

Formerly communist

Country	Before	TurnedTemplate:Efn	Notes
Template:Flag+link	Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola	same name	Has abandoned Marxist-Leninism for social democracy
	National Union for the Total Independence of Angola	same name	Abandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy and then for social conservatism
Template:Flag+link	Popular Socialist Party	Cidadania	Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy and later social liberalism
Template:Flag+link	Bulgarian Communist Party	Bulgarian Socialist Party	Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy
Template:Flag+link	Kampuchean Revolutionary People's Party	Cambodian People's Party	Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for centrism
Template:Flag+link	Congolese Party of Labour	same name	Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy
Template:Flag+link	League of Communists of Croatia	Social Democratic Party	Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism-Titoism for social democracy
Template:Flag+link	Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan	People's Party of Kazakhstan	Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for democratic socialism
Template:Flag+link	Vanguard of the Malagasy Revolution	Malagasy Revolutionary Party	Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy
Template:Flag+link	Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party	Mongolian People's Party	Has abandoned Marxist-Leninism for social democracy
Template:Flag+link	League of Communists of Montenegro	Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro	Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism-Titoism for social democracy and later neoliberalism
Template:Flag+link	Party of Progress and Socialism	same name	Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for democratic socialism
Template:Flag+link	FRELIMO	same name	Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for democratic socialism
Template:Flag+link	League of Communists of Serbia	Socialist Party of Serbia	Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism-Titoism for social democracy
Template:Flag+link	League of Communists of Slovenia	Social Democrats	Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism-Titoism for social democracy
Template:Flag+link	Yemeni Socialist Party	same name	Has abandoned Marxism-Leninism for social democracy

Defunct

Once ruling

State	Defunct Party	Notes
Template:Flag+link	People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
Template:Flag+link	Party of Labour of Albania	Succeeded by Socialist Party of Albania
Template:Flag+link	People's Revolutionary Party of Benin
Template:Flag+link	Bulgarian Communist Party	Succeeded by the Bulgarian Socialist Party came Bulgarian Socialist Party
Template:Flag+link	Communist Party of Kampuchea
Template:Flag+link	Communist Party of Czechoslovakia	Czech Republic branch became the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia, and the Slovak branch became the Party of the Democratic Left
Template:Flag+link	Workers' Party of Ethiopia
Template:Flag+link
Template:Flag+link	New Jewel Movement
Template:Flag+link	Hungarian Working People's Party
	Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party	Became the Hungarian Socialist Party
Template:Flag+link	Polish United Workers' Party
Template:Flag+link	Romanian Communist Party
Template:Flag+link	Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party
Template:Flag+link	Communist Party of the Soviet Union	Formerly the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party
Template:Flag+link	League of Communists of Yugoslavia

Non-ruling

• Template:Flag+link – Armenian Workers Communist Party, Armenian Workers Union, Marxist Party of Armenia, Union of Communists of Armenia, Renewed Communist Party of Armenia
• Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of Australia
• Template:Flag+link- Workers Party of Barbados
• Template:Flagicon 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
• Template:Flag+link – Union of Marxist–Leninist Communists of Belgium, founded in 1970
• Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of Belgium – Marxist–Leninist, founded in 1976.
• Template:Flag+link – Free Homeland Party
• Template:Flag+link – Bulgarian Communist Party – Marxists
• Template:Flag+link – 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
• Template:Flag+link – Labor-Progressive Party (legal front of the Communist Party of Canada from 1943 to 1959), Workers' Communist Party of Canada
• Template:Flagicon Channel Islands – Jersey Communist Party
• Template:Flag+link – Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action), Revolutionary Left Movement
• Template:Flag+link – Workers Revolutionary Party of Colombia
• Template:Flag+link – Costa Rican People's Party
• Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of Cyprus
• Template:Flag+link – Popular Socialist Party, joined Cuban Communist Party
• Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of El Salvador, merged into the FMLN
• Template:Flag+link – Swaziland Communist Party
• Template:Flag+link – Gambia Socialist Revolutionary Party
• Template:Flag+link – Revived Communist Party of Georgia, Georgian Workers Communist Party
• Template:Flag+link – Spartacist League formed in 1918 and became the Communist Party of Germany
• Template:Flag+link – Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin, Communist Party of Germany (banned 1956 in West Germany)
• Template:Flag+link – Guatemalan Party of Labour, merged into the URNG
• Template:Flag+link – Haitian Communist Party, Haitian Workers Party, Unified Party of Haitian Communists, merged into the National Reconstruction Movement in 1990
• Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of Honduras, merged into the Patriotic Renewal Party
• Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of Iceland, Communist Party of Iceland (Marxist–Leninist)
• Template:Flag+link – Indian Communist Party (Sen)
• Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of Indonesia
• Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist–Leninist)
• Template:Flag+link – Leninist Group in the Iraqi Communist Movement
• Template:Flag+link – Maki (1948–1973) split in 1965 with formation of largely Arab Rakah which changed its name to Maki in 1989
• Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of Italy, Italian Communist Party of the Julian March, Marxist–Leninist Italian Communist Party, Marxist–Leninist Revolutionary Party of Italy, Movement for Peace and Socialism, Movement for the Confederation of the Communists
• Template:Flag+link – Lebanese People's Party
• Template:Flag+link – Malayan Communist Party, North Kalimantan Communist Party
• Template:Flag+link – Mexican Communist Party
• Template:Flag+link – Communist Reformers Party of Moldova
• Template:Flag+link – Communist Party (Burma)
• Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of Namibia
• Template:Flag+link - New Caledonian Communist Party
• Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of the Netherlands merged into the GroenLinks in 1989, marxist-leninist dissidents within the party formed the NCPN in 1992.
• Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of New Zealand, Socialist Unity Party
• Template:Flag+link – Nigerian Communist Party, Socialist Workers and Farmers Party of Nigeria
• Template:Flag+link – Workers' Party of North Korea
• Template:Flag+link – Workers' Communist Party merged into the Red Party
• Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of Palestine (1921–1948)
• Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of Poland
• Template:Flag+link – Communist Party in Saudi Arabia
• Template:Flag+link – Workers' Party of South Korea
• Template:Flag+link – Party of Labour Basel, founded in 1944
• Template:Flag+link – Taiwanese Communist Party, China Communist Alliance, Communist Party of the Republic of China, Taiwan Democratic Communist Party
• Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of the Republic of Tatarstan
• Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of Thailand
• Template:Flag+link (unrecognized country) – Communist Party of Pridnestrovie
• Template:Flagicon image Trieste – Communist Party of the Free Territory of Trieste, merged into the Italian Communist Party
• Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of Trinidad and Tobago
• Template:Flag+link – Communist Party of Great Britain, Communist Party of Scotland
• Template:Flag+link – Communist Party Marxist–Leninist, May 19th Communist Movement, Communist Workers Party, Black Panther Party, Communist Labor Party of America, International Socialist Organization

Left communist organizations by country

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

Organisations

Country	Organizations
Ideologically left communist organizations
Template:Flag+link	International Communist Party Lotta Comunista
Template:Flag+link	Internationalist Voice
Template:Flag+link	Communist Workers' Organisation World Revolution
Template:Flag+link	International Communist Party Internationalism Internationalist Workers Group Workers Offensive
Template:Flag+link	Internationalism

See also

• List of communist parties represented in European Parliament
• List of socialist parties with national parliamentary representation
• List of democratic socialist parties and organizations
• List of left-wing political parties

External links

• Leftist Parties of the World (last updated 4 October 2006)
• Communist States animation (1850–2016)