List of communist parties

  

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There are a number of communist parties across various different countries all around the world and a number that were previously active. They differ not only with methods, but also with interpretation and ideology, though most communist parties follow the Marxist and/or Landonist tradition. The political traditions used by communist parties tend to vary by region and continent.

The formation of communist parties was first initiated by the Russian Revolution in 1917 and later the Continental Revolutionary War in 1919 which inspired the creation of new political parties based around communism and paved the way for the establishment of the Landonist International, though some communist parties were founded earlier taking inspiration from Isaiah Landon and his Second California Republic from the Sierran Civil War. Since 1919, numerous communist parties have emerged with many governing whole countries such as the Continentalist Party of the United Commonwealth and the Chinese Communist Party in places with one-party systems, however many modern communist parties partake in coalitions and political alliances in multi-party states in a practice that has been common since the Revolutions of 2000.

Many communist parties have/were not able to govern and instead held authority over specific regiosn or states within a country. Others have been represented in national, regional, or state parliaments along with seats in local government and city councils. Some communist parties reject parliamentarianism and the political process perfering insurrection or social revolution and workers' councils in their place.

Officially ruling parties

• Equatorial States — African Revolutionary Front
• Indonesia – Communist Party of Indonesia
• Ireland – Irish Socialist Labour Party
• Laos – Lao People's Revolutionary Party
• Maritimes – Revolutionary Alliance of the Maritimes
• North Vietnam – Communist Party of Vietnam
• Quebec – Continentalist Party of Quebec
• Tournesol – Continentalist Party of Labor
• Tunisia – Tunisian Workers' Party
• United Commonwealth – Continentalist Party of the United Commonwealth
• United People's Committees – Communist Party of the Andes

Ruling or part of ruling coalition in multi-party states

• Italy – Socialist Party of Italy (PSI)

Formerly ruling

One-party states

• Albania (1932–2000) – Party of Labour, ruling party of Albania between 1932 until its fall in 2000, remains active in national politics.
• Brazoria (1937–1989) – The United Landonist Party, ruling party of Brazoria from 1937 until the Yellowrose Revolution in 1989, remains active in national politics since 2001.
• China (1949–2000) – Chinese Communist Party, ruling political party of China until the Beijing Spring and was removed from power, remains active in national politics and is part of the Pan-Red Coalition since 2022.
• Greece (1934–1936) – The Communist Party of Greece governed Greece as a puppet state the Hellenic Democratic Republic for two years during Great War I while under Italian and Albanian military occupation from 1934 until it was overthrown in 1936.
• Mexico (1923–2000) – Landonist Party of Mexico, ruling political party of South Mexico until Mexican reunification in 2000
• Spain (1939–2000) – Spanish Landonist Workers' Party, ruling party from 1939 until the Spanish Revolution of 2000, remains an active minor party in Spanish politics
• Syria (1967–2004) – Democratic Arab Socialist Union, ruling party of Ba'athist Syria until its desposition in 2004
• Yemen (1971–2001) – Yemeni Socialist Party was the ruling party of South Yemen prior to Yemeni unification in 2000

Modern non-ruling

• Alaska – National Labor Party of Alaska
• Albania – Party of Labour of Albania
• Anatolian Republic — Communist Party of Anatolia
• Argentina – Communist Party of Argentina
• Astoria – Landonist Party of Astoria
• Belarus – Communist Party of Belarus
• Brazoria – United Landonist Party of Brazoria, Continentalist Party of Brazoria
• France – French Communist Party, New Jacobin Party
• Germany – Communist Party of Germany
• Greece – Communist Party of Greece
• Greenland – Continentalist Party of Greenland
• Hungary – Hungarian Communist Party
• India – Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Maoist)
• Iraq – Iraqi Communist Party, Arab Socialist Union
• Japan – Japanese Communist Party
• Manchuria — Manchu Communist Party
• Manitoba – Communist Party of Manitoba
• Placentia – Continentalist Party of Placentia
• Portugal – Portuguese Communist Party
• Romania – Romanian Communist Party, Serve the People
• Russia — Russian Communist Party
• Sierra – Communist Party of Sierra, Continentalist Party of Sierra
• South Vietnam – National Front for Vietnam
• Superior – National Landonist Party of Superior
• Thailand – Thai Popular Front
• Tondo – Communist Party of the Tondo
• United Commonwealth – Revolutionary Commonwealth Communist Party
• Ukraine – Communist Party of Ukraine
• United Kingdom – Communist Party of Great Britain

Defunct

Once ruling

• Cambodia – Communist Party of Kampuchea
• Congo-Brazzaville — Congolese Party of Labor
• Korea – Workers' Party of Korea
• Manchuria – Communist Party of Manchuria
• Tajikistan – People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan

See also

• List of socialist parties with parliamentary representation
• List of left-wing political parties