List of Communist Parties
There are presently a number of Communist Parties active in various countries across the world, and a number who used to be active. The formation of Communist Parties in various countries was instigated by the formation of the Communist Third International by the Russian Bolsheviks. Undoubtably the most important of these parties were those of the Soviet Union and the Peoples Republic of China. This is a list of some of these parties:
- Communist Mazdoor Kisaan Party (Pakistan)
- Communist Party of Argentina
- Communist Party of Australia
- Communist Party of Austria
- Communist Party of Bangladesh
- Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
- Workers Communist Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Communist Party of Brazil
- Communist Party of Britain
- Communist Party of Canada
- Communist Party of Chile
- Communist Party of China
- Communist Party of Colombia
- Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
- Communist Party of Cuba
- Communist Party of Denmark
- Communist Party of Finland
- Communist Party of France
- Communist Party of Germany
- Communist Party of Great Britain
- Communist Party of Great Britain (PCC) (PCC = Provisional Central Committee)
- Communist Party of Greece
- Communist Party of India
- Communist Party of Indonesia
- Communist Party of Ireland
- Communist Party of Israel
- Communist Party of Italy
- Communist Party of Moldova
- Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
- Communist Party of the Netherlands
- Communist Party of the Netherlands (Communistische Partij Nederland, became part of GroenLinks in 1989.)
- Communist Party of New Zealand (see also Socialism in New Zealand)
- Communist Party of Norway
- Communist Party of Peru
- Communist Party of Poland
- Communist Party of Portugal
- Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF)
- Communist Workers Party of Russia (RKRP)
- Communist Party of Scotland
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Communist Party of Slovakia
- Communist Party of Spain
- Communist Party of Sweden
- Communist Party of Ukraine
- Communist Party USA
- Communist Party of Venezuela
- Communist Party of Vietnam
- Communist Party of Yugoslavia
- Communist Refoundation Party (Italy)
- Hungarian Communist Party
- Hungarian Workers Party
- Japanese Communist Party
- Korean Workers' Party
- New Communist Party of Britain
- Polish United Workers Party
- Revolutionary Communist Party (United Kingdom)
- Revolutionary Communist Party (United States)
- Socialist Unity Party of Germany
- South African Communist Party
- Syrian Communist Party
- TKP (Turkish Communist Party)
- Worker-Communist Party of Iran
- Worker-Communist Party of Iraq
