Country/Territory Logo Name Abbr. Leader Founded Ideology Legislature Notes Abkhazia Communist Party of Abkhazia Аԥсны Акомунисттә Апартиа CPAААА Lev Shamba March 1921 Marxism–Leninism People's Assembly : Afghanistan Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan حزب كمونيست (مائوئيست) افغانستان CMPM 2004 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Banned Participant in the ongoing anti-Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan Afghanistan Liberation Organization سازمان رهایی افغانستان ALO 1973 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Anti-revisionism
Marxist–Leninist Organization of Afghanistan MLOA 1973 Marxism-Leninism Mao Zedong Thought Anti-revisionism
Albania Communist Party of Albania Partia Komuniste e Shqipërisë PKSh Qemal Cicollari 1991 Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Stalinism Anti-revisionism
Kuvendi : Communist Party of Albania 8 November Partia Komuniste e Shqipërisë 8 Nëntori PKSh 8 Nëntori Preng Çuni 2003 Marxism-Leninism Kuvendi: Algeria Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism الحزب الجزائري للديمقراطية والاشتراكية PADS Abdelhamid Benzine 1993 Marxism–Leninism People's National Assembly : Council : Angola Party of the Angolan Communist Community Partido da Comunidade Comunista Angolana PCCA Baptista André José Simão 1994 Marxism–Leninism National Assembly : Argentina Liberation Party Partido de la Liberación PL Sergio Ortiz 5 April 1965 Marxism–Leninism Chamber of Deputies : Senate : Armenia Armenian Communist Party Հայաստանի կոմունիստական կուսակցություն HKKՀԿԿ Tachat Sargsyan 29 July 1991 Marxism–Leninism Pro-Russia Euroscepticism Soviet patriotism National Assembly : United Communist Party of Armenia Հայաստանի Միավորված Կոմունիստական Կուսակցության HMKKՀՄԿԿ 7 July 2003 Marxism–Leninism Euroscepticism National Assembly : Progressive United Communist Party of Armenia Հայաստանի Առաջադիմական Միացյալ Կոմունիստական Կուսակցություն HAMKՀԱՄԿ Vazgen Safaryan 28 January 1998 Marxism–Leninism Soviet patriotism National Assembly : Australia Communist Party of Australia (1971) CPA Vinicio Molina 1971 Marxism–Leninism House of Representatives : Senate : Communist Party of Australia (Marxist–Leninist) CPA (ML) 15 March 1964 Marxism–Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism House of Representatives : Senate : Austria Communist Party of Austria Kommunistische Partei Österreichs KPO Florian Birngruber 3 November 1918 Marxism–Leninism Socialism
National Council : Federal Council : Party of Labour of Austria Partei der Arbeit Österreichs PdA Tibor Zenker 12 October 2013 Marxism–Leninism Hard Euroscepticism
National Council : Federal Council :
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Communist Party (1993) Azərbaycan Kommunist Partiyası AzKP Haji Hajiyev 1993 Marxism–Leninism National Assembly : New Generation Communist Party of AzerbaijanAzərbaycan Yeni Nəsil Kommunist Partiyası AYNKP Niyazi Rajabov 2008 Marxism–Leninism National Assembly : United Communist Party of Azerbaijan Azərbaycan Birləşmiş Kommunist Partiyası AVKP Sayad Sayadov 1993 Marxism–Leninism National Assembly : Bahrain National Liberation Front جبهة التحرير الوطني—البحرين NLF 15 February 1955 Marxism–Leninism Republicanism
Council of Representatives : Shura Council : Led the 1965 March Intifada Progressive Democratic Tribune جمعية المنبر الديمقراطي التقدمي PDT Hassan Madan 14 September 2001 Market socialism Arab nationalism Anti-globalization Anti-imperialism Council of Representatives : Shura Council : Bangladesh Communist Party of Bangladesh বাংলাদেশের কমিউনিস্ট পার্টি CPB Ruhin Hossain Prince 1971 Marxism–Leninism Jatiya Sangsad : Former member of the Bangladesh Worker's-Peasants' People's League and its coalition government Workers Party of Bangladesh বাংলাদেশের ওয়ার্কার্স পার্টি WPB Fazle Hossain Badsha 1980 Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism
Jatiya Sangsad : Socialist Party of Bangladesh বাংলাদেশের সমাজতান্ত্রিক দল BASAD Khalequzzaman 7 November 1980 Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Maoism Anti-revisionism
Jatiya Sangsad : Revolutionary Workers Party of Bangladesh বাংলাদেশের বিপ্লবী ওয়ার্কার্স পার্টি RWPB Saiful Haque 14 June 2004 Marxism–Leninism Jatiya Sangsad : Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) (Dutta) বাংলাদেশের সাম্যবাদী দল (মার্কসবাদী-লেনিনবাদী) BSD-ML Ajoy Dutta Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Jatiya Sangsad : Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) (Umar) বাংলাদেশের সাম্যবাদী দল (মার্কসবাদী-লেনিনবাদী) BSD-ML Badruddin Umar Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Jatiya Sangsad : Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party পূর্ব বাংলার সর্বহারা পার্টি PBSP Siraj Sikder 3 June 1971 Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Jatiya Sangsad : Maoist Bolshevik Reorganisation Movement of the Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party পূর্ববাংলার সর্বহারা পার্টি – মাওবাদী বলশেভিক পুনর্গঠন আন্দোলন PBSP (MBRM) 2001 Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Anti-revisionism
Jatiya Sangsad : Workers Peasants Socialist Party শ্রমিক কৃষক সমাজবাদী দল SKSD 1969 Marxism–Leninism Revolutionary socialism Jatiya Sangsad : United Communist League of Bangladesh বাংলাদেশের ইউনাইটেড কমিউনিস্ট লীগ UCLB Mosharraf Hossain Nannu April 2013 Marxism–Leninism Jatiya Sangsad : Belarus Belarusian Left Party "A Just World" Беларуская партыя левых «Справядлівы свет» Sergey Kalyakin 25 October 2009 Democratic socialism Revolutionary nationalism Left-wing nationalism Socialism Anti-Lukashenko
House of Representatives : Council of the Republic : Belgium Workers' Party of Belgium Partij van de Arbeid van België Parti du Travail de Belgique PTB PVDA Raoul Hedebouw 1979 Marxism Feminism Socialism
Chamber of Representatives : Senate : Communist Party of Belgium Communistische Partij van België Parti Communiste de Belgique PCB Arne Baillière 1989 Marxism–Leninism Hard Euroscepticism Chamber of Representatives : Senate : Benin Communist Party of Benin Parti Communiste du Bénin PCB Philippe Noudjenoume 1977 Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Stalinism Anti-revisionism
National Assembly : Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Benin Parti communiste marxiste-léniniste du Bénin PCMLB Magloire Yansunnu 1999 Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism
National Assembly : Bhutan Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) CPB (MLM) Comrade Umesh (nom de guerre ) 22 April 2003 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism New Democratic Revolution Republicanism
Banned Engaged in guerrilla warfare against the government of Bhutan, with the goal of starting a people's war Bolivia Communist Party of Bolivia Partido Comunista de Bolivia PCB Ignacio Mendoza 1950 Marxism–Leninism Deputies : Senate :
People's Revolutionary Front (Marxist−Leninist−Maoist) Frente Revolucionario del Pueblo (Marxista–Leninista–Maoísta) FRP-MLM Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Deputies : Senate :
Communist Party of Bolivia (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) Partido Comunista de Bolivia (Marxista-Leninista-Maoísta) PCB-MLM Luis Alberto Echazú 1983 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Deputies : Senate :
Bosnia and Herzegovina Workers' Communist Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina Radničko-komunistička partija Bosne i Hercegovine / Радничко-комунистичка партија Босне и Херцеговине RKP-Bih / РКП-БиХ Goran Marković 2000 Luxemburgism Workers' self-management Anti-nationalism Yugoslavism House of Representatives : House of Peoples : Communist Party Komunistička partija / Комунистичка партија KP / КП Muhamed Imamović 21 February 2012 Democratic socialism Yugo-nostalgia House of Representatives : House of Peoples : Botswana Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin Movement MELS Mosalage Ditshoto 1994 Marxism–Leninism Maoism Maoism Anti-revisionism Pan-Africanism
Parliament : Brazil Communist Party of Brazil Partido Comunista do Brasil PCdoB Luciana Santos 23 June 1988 Marxism–Leninism Chamber of Deputies Federal Senate Socialism and Liberty Party Partido Socialismo e Liberdade PSOL Juliano Medeiros 6 June 2004 Democratic socialism Eco-socialism Socialism of the 21st century Libertarian socialism Chamber of Deputies : Brazilian Communist Party Partido Comunista Brasileiro PCB Edmilson Costa 25 March 1922 Marxism–Leninism Chamber of Deputies Federal Senate United Socialist Workers' Party Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores Unificado PSTU Zé Maria 5 June 1994 Trotskyism Morenism Chamber of Deputies Federal Senate Workers' Cause Party Partido da Causa Operária PCO Rui Costa Pimenta 7 December 1995 Marxism Trotskyism Social libertarianism Anti-imperialism Chamber of Deputies Federal Senate Revolutionary Communist Party Partido Comunista Revolucionário PCR May 1966 Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Guevarism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism Foco theory Chamber of Deputies Federal Senate Not registered in Brazil's Superior Electoral Court Popular Unity Unidade Popular UP Leonardo Péricles 16 June 2016 Revolutionary socialism Anti-capitalism Anti-imperialism Anti-racism Factions: Marxism-Leninism Syndicalism Marxist feminism
Chamber of Deputies Federal Senate Bulgaria Bulgarian Communist Party Българска комунистическа партия BKP Zonka Zlatkova Spasov 1990 Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Anti-revisionism
National Assembly : Communist Party of Bulgaria Комунистическа Партия на България CPB Aleksandar Paunov 1996 Marxism–Leninism National Assembly : Party of the Bulgarian Communists Партия на Българските комунисти PBK Collective leadership 15 July 2006 Marxism–Leninism National Assembly : Union of Communists in Bulgaria Съюз на Комунистите в България SKB Pavel Ivanov 1995 Marxism National Assembly : Burkina Faso Party for Democracy and Socialism/Metba Parti pour la démocratie et le socialisme/Metba PDS/ Metba
Hama Arba Diallo 31 March 2012 Socialism National Assembly : Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party Parti communiste révolutionnaire voltaïque PCRV 1 October 1978 Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism National Assembly : Canada Communist Party of Canada Parti communiste du Canada CPC PCC Elizabeth Rowley 28 May 1921 Marxism–Leninism House of Commons : Senate : Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist) Parti communiste du Canada (marxiste–léniniste) CPC (ML) PCC (ML) Anna Di Carlo 31 March 1970 Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Maoism (1970-1977) Hoxhaism (1977-1990)
House of Commons : Senate : China Maoist Communist Party of China 中国毛泽东主义共产党 MCPC Ma Houzhi 28 November 2008 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Anti-revisionism
Banned De facto banned in China due to not being a member of the United Front . Revolutionary Communist Party of China 中国革命共产党 RCPC September 1948 Marxism Trotskyism Legislative Council : Active in Hong Kong . Participant in the 1970s Hong Kong student protests . Colombia Communist Party of Colombia (Marxist–Leninist) Partido Comunista de Colombia (Marxista-Leninista) PCdeC (M-L) 1965 Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Stalinism Anti-revisionism
Chamber of Representatives : Senate : Colombian Communist Party – Maoist Partido Comunista de Colombia - Maoista PCC-M 7 August 2001 Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Chamber of Representatives : Senate : Revolutionary Communist Group Grupo Comunista Revolucionario GCR 1982 Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism Chamber of Representatives : Senate : Revolutionary Independent Labour Movement Movimiento Obrero Independiente y Revolucionario MOIR Gustavo Triana 1970 Maoism Marxism-Leninism New Democracy Francisco Mosquera Thought
Chamber of Representatives : Senate : Costa Rica People's Vanguard Party Partido Vanguardia Popular PVP Humberto Vargas Carbonell 16 June 1931 Marxism–Leninism Legislative Assembly : Banned from 1949 to 1975 Ivory Coast Revolutionary Communist Party of Ivory Coast Parti Communiste Révolutionnaire de Côte d'Ivoire PCRCI Achy Ekissi 1990 Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism Croatia Socialist Labour Party of Croatia Socijalistička radnička partija Hrvatske SRP Kristofor Stokić 25 October 1997 ¸Titoism Democratic socialism
Sabor : Workers Front Radnička fronta RF Collective leadership 9 May 2014 Democratic socialism Social progressivism Labour rights Socialist feminism Anti-fascism Anti-clericalism Eco-socialism Left-wing populism Anti-militarism
Sabor : Cyprus Progressive Party of Working People Ανορθωτικό Κόμμα Εργαζόμενου Λαού Emekçi Halkın İlerici Partisi AKEL Stefanos Stefanou 15 August 1926 Marxism–Leninism Pacifism Cypriot nationalism Federalism Soft euroscepticism
House of Representatives Won the 2008 election and ruled until 2013 Czech Republic Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia Komunistická strana Čech a Moravy KSČM Kateřina Konečná 31 March 1990 Marxism Euroscepticism Socialism Anti-capitalism Anti-fascism
Chamber of Deputies : Senate : Czech successor to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia . Served as confidence and supply to the second government of Andrej Babiš in 2018. Denmark Communist Party of Denmark Danmarks Kommunistiske Parti DKP Henrik Stamer Hedin 9 November 1919 Marxism–Leninism Folketing : Communist Party Kommunistisk Parti KP Lotte Rørtoft-Madsen 2006 Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Factions: Hoxhaism
Folketing : Workers' Communist Party Arbejderpartiet Kommunisterne APK Dorte Grenaa April 2000 Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism Folketing : Communist Party in Denmark Kommunistisk Parti i Danmark KPiD Rikke G.F. Carlsson 1990 Marxism–Leninism Folketing : Dominican Republic Communist Party of Labour Partido Comunista del Trabajo PCT Manuel Salazar 1980 Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism Chamber of Deputies : Senate : Donetsk People's Republic Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic Коммунистическая партия Донецкой Народной Республики CPDPRКПДНР Boris Litvinov 8 October 2014 Marxism–Leninism Soviet patriotism Left-wing nationalism
People's Council : East Timor Socialist Party of Timor Partido Socialista de Timor PST Avelino Coelho da Silva 11 February 1997 Marxism–Leninism National Parliament : Ecuador Communist Party of Ecuador Partido Comunista del Ecuador PCE Winston Alarcón Elizalde 23 May 1926 Marxism–Leninism National Assembly : Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador Partido Comunista Marxista-Leninista del Ecuador PCMLE Oswaldo Palacios 1 August 1964 Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism National Assembly : Workers' Party of Ecuador Partido de los Trabajadores del Ecuador PTE 1996 Marxism-Leninism National Assembly : Not registered with Ecuador's National Electoral Council Communist Party of Ecuador – Red Sun Partido Comunista de Ecuador - Sol Rojo PCE-SR 1 June 1987 Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Gonzalo Thought Anti-revisionism Revolutionary socialism Banned Engaged in minor guerrilla warfare against the government of Ecuador, with the goal of starting a people's war Egypt Egyptian Communist Party الحزب الشيوعي المصري ECP Salah Adli 1975 Marxism–Leninism House of Representatives : Senate : El Salvador Communist Party of El Salvador Partido Comunista de El Salvador PCS 27 March 2005 Marxism–Leninism Legislative Assembly : Estonia Communist Party of Estonia Eestimaa Kommunistlik Partei EKP vacant 26 March 1990 Marxism–Leninism Soviet patriotism
Banned Banned in Estonia following the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt , continues to operate underground Eswatini Communist Party of Swaziland CPS Thokozane Kenneth 9 April 2011 Marxism–Leninism Republicanism Banned Participant in the 2021–2023 Eswatini protests Ethiopia All-Ethiopia Socialist Movement መላ ኢትዮጵያ ሶሻሊስት ንቅናቄ MEISON 1968 Marxism–Leninism House of Peoples' Representatives : House of Federation : Supported and participated in the 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 . Finland Communist Party of Finland Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue SKP Juha-Pekka Väisänen 1984 Marxism–Leninism Parliament : Communist Workers' Party – For Peace and Socialism Kommunistinen Työväenpuolue – Rauhan ja Sosialismin puolesta KTP Mikko Vartiainen 1988 Marxism–Leninism Hard Euroscepticism Parliament : League of Communists Kommunistien Liitto KL Kalevi Wahrman 14 September 2002 Marxism–Leninism Parliament : France French Communist Party Parti communiste français PCF Fabien Roussel 30 December 1920 Eurocommunism Soft Euroscepticism National Assembly : Senate : Lutte Ouvrière LO Nathalie Arthaud 1956 Trotskyism Anti-capitalism National Assembly : Senate : New Anticapitalist Party Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste NPA Collective leadership 8 February 2009 Trotskyism Alter-globalisation National Assembly : Senate : Pole of Communist Revival in France Pôle de renaissance communiste en France PRCF Léon Landini January 2004 Marxism-Leninism Left-wing nationalism Hard Euroscepticism
National Assembly : Senate : Workers' Communist Party of France Parti communiste des ouvriers de France PCOF Collective leadership 1979 Marxism-Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism National Assembly : Senate : Marxist–Leninist Communist Organization – Proletarian Way Organisation communiste marxiste-léniniste – Voie prolétarienne OCML-VP September 1976 Marxism-Leninism Maoism
National Assembly : Senate : Revolutionary Left Gauche révolutionnaire GR 1992 Marxism Trotskyism National Assembly : Senate : Georgia Communist Party of Georgia საქართველოს კომუნისტური პარტია SKPსკპ 1992 Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Parliament : Unified Communist Party of Georgia საქართველოს ერთიანი კომუნისტური პარტია SEKPსეკპ Nugzar Shalvovich Avaliani June 1994 Marxism–Leninism Soviet patriotism Parliament : New Communist Party of Georgia საქართველოს ახალი კომუნისტური პარტია SAKPსაკპ 2001 Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Parliament : Germany German Communist Party Deutsche Kommunistische Partei DKP Patrik Köbele 1968 Marxism-Leninism Bundestag : Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany Marxistisch-Leninistische Partei Deutschlands MLPD Gabi Fechtner 1982 Marxism-Leninism Bundestag : Greece Communist Party of Greece Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας KKEKKE Dimitris Koutsoumpas 17 November 1918 Marxism-Leninism Anti-imperialism Hard Euroscepticism
Hellenic Parliament : Banned by the government of Greece from 1936 to 1974. Led 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 . Marxist Leninist Communist Party of Greece Μαρξιστικό-Λενινιστικό Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας M-L KKEΜ-Λ ΚΚΕ Collective leadership November 1976 Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism Euroscepticism
Hellenic Parliament : Communist Party of Greece (Marxist–Leninist) Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας (μαρξιστικο-λενινιστικό) KKE (m-l)ΚΚΕ (μ-λ) Grigoris Konstantopoulos November 1976 Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism Hoxhaism Euroscepticism
Hellenic Parliament : Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece Οργάνωση για την Ανασυγκρότηση του Κομουνιστικού Κόμματος Ελλάδας OAKKEOAKKE Elias Zafiropoulos. 20 July 1985 Marxism-Leninism Maoism Hellenic Parliament : Movement for the Reorganization of the Communist Party of Greece 1918–1955 Κίνηση για την Ανασύνταξη του Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας 1918–1955) AnasintaxiΑνασύνταξη Tasos Mpallos 1996 Marxism-Leninism Stalinism Hoxhaism Zachariadism Anti-revisionism Hellenic Parliament : Communist Renewal Κομμουνιστική Ανανέωση KAKA Collective leadership 2000 Marxism Euroscepticism Hellenic Parliament : Left Anti-capitalist Group Αριστερή Αντικαπιταλιστική Συσπείρωση AR.A.SΑΡ.Α.Σ Collective leadership 1998 Maoism Anti-capitalism Hellenic Parliament : Left GroupΑριστερή Συσπείρωση ARI.SΑΡΙ.Σ Collective leadership 25 October 2012 Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-capitalism Anti-revisionism Hellenic Parliament : Left Recomposition Αριστερή Ανασύνθεση AR.ΑΝΑΡ.ΑΝ 2003 Maoism Anti-capitalism Hellenic Parliament : New Left Current Νέο Αριστερό Ρεύμα NARΝΑΡ Collective leadership 1989 New Left Eco-socialism Anti-capitalism
Hellenic Parliament : Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece Επαναστατικό Κομμουνιστικό Κίνημα Ελλάδας EKKEEKKE Collective leadership 1970 Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism Hellenic Parliament : Guadeloupe Guadeloupe Communist Party Parti communiste guadeloupéen PCG Alain-Félix Flémin 30 March 1958 Marxism Guadeloupean autonomy National Assembly : Senate : Guatemala Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca URNG-MAIZ Gregorio Chay 7 February 1982 Left-wing nationalism Socialism Indigenismo Christian socialism Socialism of the 21st century Anti-capitalism
Congress : Founded as an umbrella organization uniting various leftist militant groups active in the Guatemalan Civil War . Laid down arms in 1996 and became a legally registered opposition party in 1998. Haiti New Haitian Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist) Nouveau Parti Communiste Haïtien (Marxiste–Léniniste) NPCH(ML) Vania Lubin 2000 Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Maoism Anti-revisionism Chamber of Deputies : Senate : Hungary Hungarian Workers' Party Magyar Munkáspárt MMP Gyula Thürmer 17 December 1989 Marxism-Leninism Euroscepticism National Assembly : Workers' Party of Hungary 2006 - European Left Magyarországi Munkáspárt 2006 - Európai Baloldal EB Attila Vajnai November 2005 Marxism Eurocommunism National Assembly : India Communist Party of India CPI D. Raja 26 December 1925 Marxism–Leninism Lok Sabha : Rajya Sabha : Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI(M) Sitaram Yechury 7 November 1964 Marxism–Leninism Lok Sabha : Rajya Sabha : Revolutionary Socialist Party RSP Manoj Bhattacharya 19 March 1940 Marxism–Leninism Trotskyism Lok Sabha : Rajya Sabha : Revolutionary Communist Party of India RCPI Biren Deka 1 August 1934 Marxism-Leninism Anti-Stalinism Lok Sabha : Rajya Sabha : All India Forward Bloc AIFB Debabrata Biswas 22 June 1939 Marxism Left-wing nationalism Socialism Anti-imperialism
Lok Sabha : Rajya Sabha : Marxist Forward Bloc MFB Jaihind Singh 12 November 1953 Marxism Left-wing populism Lok Sabha : Rajya Sabha : Bolshevik Party of India BPI 1939 Marxism–Leninism Lok Sabha : Rajya Sabha : Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation CPI(ML)L Dipankar Bhattacharya 1974 Marxism–Leninism Mao-Zedong-Thought Naxalism
Lok Sabha : Rajya Sabha : Revolutionary Socialist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) RSPI(ML) 1969 Marxism–Leninism Lok Sabha : Rajya Sabha : Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) SUCI(C) Provash Ghosh 24 April 1948 Shibdas Ghosh Thought Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism
Lok Sabha : Rajya Sabha : Revolutionary Marxist Party of India RMPI Mangat Ram Pasla 2016 Marxism–Leninism Lok Sabha : Rajya Sabha : Communist Marxist Party CMP C. P. John 1986 Marxism–Leninism Marxism Luxemburgism
Lok Sabha : Rajya Sabha : Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) New Democracy CPIML ND Yatendra Kumar 1988 Naxalism New Democracy Mao Zedong Thought
Lok Sabha : Rajya Sabha : 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 Iran Tudeh Party of Iran حزب تودۀ ایران Collective leadership 2 October 1941 Marxism-Leninism Stalinism Left-wing nationalism Anti-revisionism Banned Komalah کۆمەڵە ڕێکخراوی کوردستانی حیزبی کۆمۆنیستی ئێران کومله سازمان کردستان حزب کمونیست ایران Ibrahim Alizade 1984 Marxism-Leninism Internationalism Kurdish minority interests
Kurdish branch of Communist Party of Iran , designated a terrorist organization by the government of Iran Communist Party of Iran حزب کمونیست ایران CPI Collective leadership 2 September 1983 Marxism-Leninism Revolutionary socialism Communist Party of Iran (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) حزب کمونیست ایران (مارکسیست-لنینیست-مائوئیست) CPI (MLM) 2001 Marxism-Leninism-Maoism New Synthesis Secularism Labour Party of Iran حزب کار ایران 1965 Marxism-Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism Worker-communist Party of Iran حزب کمونیست کارگری ایران WPI Hamid Taqvaee 1991 Workerism Marxism Third camp
Worker-communist Party of Iran – Hekmatist حزب کمونیست کارگری ایران-حکمتیست WPI-Hekmatist Jamal Kamangar 2004 Workerism Fedaian Organisation (Minority) سازمان فدائیان (اقليت) 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) سازمان چریکهای فدایی خلق ایران Ḥosayn Zohari 1985 Marxism-Leninism Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas – Followers of the Identity Platform سازمان چریکهای فدایی خلق ایران – پیرو برنامه هویت Mehdi Sāmeʿ 1983 Marxism-Leninism Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas چریکهای فدایی خلق ایران IFPG Ashraf Dehghani c. April 1979; 45 years ago (1979-04 ) Marxism-Leninism Participant in the 1979 Kurdish rebellion Iraq Iraqi Communist Party الحزب الشيوعي العراقي ICP Raid Jahid Fahmi 31 March 1934 Classical Marxism Reformism Secularism Nonsectarianism Council of Representatives : Operated mostly underground in the Kingdom of Iraq (from 1934 to 1958) and Ba'athist Iraq (from 1963 to 2003). Supported the 14 July Revolution and the government of Abd al-Karim Qasim . Worker-communist Party of Iraq الحزب الشيوعي العمالي العراقي Amir Adil July 1993 Marxism Workerism Third camp Council of Representatives : Left Worker-communist Party of Iraq الحزب الشيوعي العمالي اليساري العراقي Issam Shukri 2004 Trotskyism Workerism Third camp Council of Representatives : Communist Party of Kurdistan – Iraq حزبي شيوعى كوردستان – عيراق الحزب الشيوعي الكوردستاني – العراق Kawa Mahmud 1993 Marxism-Leninism Kurdish nationalism Nonsectarianism Council of Representatives (Iraq) : Kurdistan Parliament : Regional party active in Kurdistan Worker-communist Party of Kurdistan حزبی کۆمۆنستی کرێکاریی کوردستان الحزب الشيوعي العمالي في كوردستان Osman Hajy Marouf 2008 Marxism Workerism Third camp Council of Representatives (Iraq) : Kurdistan Parliament : Ireland Workers' Party Páirtí na nOibrithe Collective leadership 28 November 1905 Marxism-Leninism Irish republicanism Dáil Éireann : Seanad Éireann : Communist Party of Ireland Páirtí Cumannach na hÉireann CPI Janelle McAteer 3–4 June 1933 Marxism-Leninism Hard Euroscepticism Dáil Éireann : Seanad Éireann : Irish Republican Socialist Party Páirtí Poblachtach Sóisalach na hÉireann IRSP Collective leadership (Ard Comhairle ) 8 December 1974 Marxism-Leninism Irish republicanism Anti-globalisation Hard Euroscepticism Dáil Éireann : Seanad Éireann : Israel Israeli Communist Party המפלגה הקומוניסטית הישראלית الحزب الشيوعي الاسرائيلي Makiמק״י Collective leadership 1 September 1965 Marxism-Leninism Alter-globalization Anti-Zionism Knesset : Merged into Hadash in 1977 and as of 2022 its largest faction The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality החזית הדמוקרטית לשלום ולשוויון الجبهة الديمقراطية للسلاموالمساواة Hadashחד״ש Ayman Odeh 15 March 1977 Marxism Marxism-Leninism Communism Two-state Solution Non-Zionism Israeli Arab interests
Knesset : Formed from a merger of Rakah , the Black Panthers , and Moked . Formerly ran as a part of the Joint List . Da'am Workers Party דעם מפלגת פועלים حزب دعم العمالي Da'amדע"ם دعم Collective leadership 1995 Secularism Marxism Eco-socialism Revolutionary socialism Postnationalism Non-Zionism One-state solution Knesset : Italy Communist Refoundation Party Partito della Rifondazione Comunista PRC Maurizio Acerbo 6 January 1991 Eco-socialism Feminism Anti-capitalism Anti-fascism Anti-imperialism Soft Euroscepticism Chamber of Deputies : Senate : Italian Communist Party Partito Comunista Italiano PCI Mauro Alboresi 26 June 2016 Marxism-Leninism Anti-imperialism Euroscepticism Chamber of Deputies : Senate : Italian Marxist–Leninist Party Partito Marxista-Leninista Italiano PMLI Giovanni Scuderi April 1977 Marxism-Leninism Stalinism Maoism Bolshevism Anti-revisionism Anti-fascism Chamber of Deputies : Senate : Communist Party Partito Comunista PC Marco Rizzo 3 July 2009 Marxism-Leninism Anti-revisionism Hard Euroscepticism Sovereigntism
Chamber of Deputies : Senate : Communist Alternative Party Partito di Alternativa Comunista PdAC Francesco Ricci 7 January 2007 Trotskyism Chamber of Deputies : Senate : Japan Japanese Communist Party 日本共産党 JCP Tomoko Tamura 15 July 1922 Scientific socialism Progressivism Pacifism Democratic socialism
Representatives : Councillors : Banned in 1925 under the Peace Preservation Law . Legalized by the Allied military occupation following Japan's military defeat in World War II . Japanese Communist Party (Action Faction) 日本共産党 (行動派) 1980 Marxism-Leninism Stalinism Maoism Anti-revisionism Representatives : Councillors : Japanese Communist Party (Left Faction) 日本共産党 (左派) 1969 Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Anti-revisionism Representatives : Councillors : Jordan Jordanian Communist Party الحزب الشیوعی الاردني JCP Faraj Al-Tameezi 1948 Marxism-Leninism Republicanism House of Representatives : Senate : Jordanian Democratic People's Party حزب الشعب الديمقراطي الأردني HASHD 1989 Marxism-Leninism Palestinian nationalism Anti-Zionism Left-wing nationalism Secularism House of Representatives : Senate : Kazakhstan Communist Party of Kazakhstan Қазақстан Коммунистік партиясы / Qazaqstan Kommunistık Partiasy Коммунистическая партия Казахстана ҚКП / QKP КПК Toleubek Makhzhanov 16 October 1991 Marxism-Leninism Soviet patriotism Banned Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan Қазақстанның Социалистік Қозғалысы / Qazaqstannıñ Socïalïstik Qozğalısı Социалистическое Движение Казахстана ҚСҚ / QSQ СДК Ainur Kurmanov 20–21 May 2006 Marxism-Leninism Kenya Communist Party of Kenya CPK Mwandawiro Mgangah[2] 1992 Marxism–Leninism Pan-Africanism Maoism Social democracy (until 2019)
National Assembly : Senate : Kuwait Kuwaiti Progressive Movement الحركة التقدمية الكويتية Anti-capitalism Anti-imperialism Socialism Marxism-Leninism
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