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American Communist Party (2024)
American Communist Party (ACP), founded July 2024 by Haz Al-Din and Jackson Hinkle, is a Marxist-Leninist party claiming to be the reconstitution of the CPUSA, associated with MAGA communism and distinct from the continuing Communist Party USA.
Anti-Party Group
Anti-Party Group: Soviet Presidium coalition of Malenkov, Molotov, and Kaganovich that tried to oust Khrushchev in June 1957; also the 1959 Chinese label for the Peng Dehuai faction condemned at Lushan.
Black Riders Liberation Party
Black Riders Liberation Party (BRLP): a black nationalist, revolutionary socialist group founded in 1996 in California by General T.A.C.O. (Mischa Culton), styling itself the New Generation Black Panther Party; designated a black separatist hate group by the SPLC.
Communist party
Communist party: Leninist-Marxist political party, organized on democratic centralism, spread via the 1919 Comintern; 24 of 162 countries were ruled by such parties in 1985, and five Marxist-Leninist ruling parties remain today.
Communist Party (Sweden)
Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti (SKP), Communist Party of Sweden, a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist party founded in 1917 from the Social Democratic left; renamed Vänsterpartiet Kommunisterna in 1967, name restored in 1995; opposes EU and NATO membership.
Communist Party of Australia (1971)
Communist Party of Australia (1971): the party founded in Sydney on 4-5 December 1971 as the Socialist Party of Australia by pro-Soviet members of the original CPA, renamed Communist Party of Australia in October 1996.
Communist Party of Canada
Communist Party of Canada (Parti communiste du Canada), Marxist-Leninist federal party founded illegally in May 1921 near Guelph, Ontario; banned 1931 under Section 98, led by Tim Buck 1929–64, registered federally since 1979.
Communist Party of India
Communist Party of India (CPI), founded 26 December 1925 in Kanpur, is India's oldest communist party; it split in 1964 when CPI(M) broke away, and lost national-party recognition in April 2023.
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist)
The Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist), or CPI(ML), is an Indian communist group whose members are called Naxalites, established in 1969 following a break from the CPI(M).
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation
CPI(ML) Liberation, an Indian communist party founded 22 April 1969 from the Naxalbari uprising, reorganised 1974 and named after its organ Liberation; Marxist-Leninist, Bihar-based, led by Dipankar Bhattacharya.
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre), नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (माओवादी केन्द्र), is Prachanda's Nepali communist party: founded 1994, fought the 1996–2006 People's War, now holds 32 of 275 House seats after mergers and a 2021 court revival.
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза)
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Kommunisticheskaia partiia Sovetskogo Soiuza, CPSU) was the Marxist-Leninist ruling party of Russia and the USSR from 1917 to 1991, organized on democratic centralism, dissolved and outlawed in 1991.
Communist Refoundation Party
Communist Refoundation Party (Partito della Rifondazione Comunista, PRC, later PRC-SE): Italian communist party founded 1991 from the PCI minority opposing dissolution. Peaked at 8.6% in 1996, split in 1998 (PdCI), lost all parliamentary seats in 2008.
Democratic-socialist organizations and internationals
Democratic-socialist organizations and internationals are associations of independent socialist, social-democratic, and labor parties that coordinate positions across borders, including the Socialist International, founded in 1951, and the Progressive Alliance.
Free Peru
Free Peru (Perú Libre) is a Marxist-Leninist-Mariateguist Peruvian party founded by Vladimir Cerrón; it won the 2021 presidency with Pedro Castillo (50.13%) and 37 congressional seats, and returned to the executive in February 2026 under José María Balcázar.
French Communist Party
The French Communist Party (PCF, Parti communiste français), founded at the 1920 Tours Congress when the SFIO majority joined the Comintern, was France's largest postwar party, declined after 1981, and now sits in the Nouveau Front Populaire alliance.
Greek Left Alliance (Ελληνική Αριστερή Συμπαράταξη)
Greek Left Alliance (Ελληνική Αριστερή Συμπαράταξη, ELAS), Greek left-wing party founded by Alexis Tsipras on 26 May 2026 after leaving SYRIZA; acronym echoes the WWII resistance army; aims to unite radical left, social democracy, and greens ahead of the 2027 elections.
Green Party of the United States
The Green Party of the United States (GPUS) is an independent left-green party formed in the mid-1990s from state Green Parties, known for the Four Pillars, Ten Key Values, Ralph Nader's 1996 and 2000 runs, Jill Stein's campaigns, and ballot-access struggles.
Internationalist Communist Organisation
Internationalist Communist Organisation (Organisation communiste internationaliste, OCI), the French Lambertist Trotskyist group led by Pierre Lambert, born from the 1952 PCI split, dissolved in 1968, later PCI, PT, and today's POI/POID.
Irish Republican Socialist Party
The Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) is a republican socialist party founded in Dublin in 1974 by Seamus Costello, seeking a thirty-two county socialist republic.
Japanese Communist Party (日本共産党)
The Japanese Communist Party (日本共産党, JCP), founded July 15, 1922, is Japan's oldest political party. Led by Tomoko Tamura, it holds 4 House of Representatives and 7 House of Councilors seats, claims about 250,000 members, publishes Akahata, and advocates gradual democratic change within capitalism, pacifism, and ending the Japan-US alliance.
Kommunistische Partei (Germany)
Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD), German communist party founded 1918 by the Spartacus League, banned 1956 by the Federal Constitutional Court; successors are the DKP (1968) and a namesake KPD (1989).
La France Insoumise
La France Insoumise, also known as France Unbowed, is a French left-wing political movement founded in 2016 by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, initially to carry his 2017 presidential candidacy.
League of Communists of Yugoslavia
League of Communists of Yugoslavia (Savez komunista Jugoslavije, SKJ), ruling party of socialist Yugoslavia from 1945; renamed from the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1952, federalized in 1969, and dissolved after its 14th Congress in January 1990.
Left Democratic Front (ഇടതുപക്ഷ ജനാധിപത്യ മുന്നണി)
Left Democratic Front (ഇടതുപക്ഷ ജനാധിപത്യ മുന്നണി, LDF): CPI(M)-led left-wing coalition in Kerala, India, formed 1980 by reunited CPI and CPI(M). Rival UDF; won 2016 (91/140) and 2021 (99/140) under Pinarayi Vijayan; defeated in 2026 with 35 seats after ten years in power.
Left Front-led Alliance
The Left Front-led Alliance (LF+) is a political alliance in West Bengal formed by the Left Front for the 2026 assembly election, winning 2 of 293 seats.
Left Unity (UK)
Left Unity (UK): radical left, ecosocialist party founded in 2013 after Ken Loach's Guardian appeal; founding conference 30 November 2013; stood ten parliamentary candidates in 2015, then suspended elections to support Corbyn; member of the Party of the European Left.
Levica and Vesna
Levica–Vesna (L–V), a Slovenian electoral coalition of the left party Levica and the green party Vesna for the March 2026 parliamentary election; won 5.64% and 5 seats, then dissolved in July 2026 after Vesna left the joint parliamentary group.
Mainstream (political organisation)
Mainstream (Mainstream Labour) is a soft-left faction within the UK Labour Party, founded in 2025. It campaigns for a democratic socialist program and merged with Open Labour in 2026.
Militant tendency
Militant tendency (Militant), a Trotskyist entryist group in the British Labour Party organized around the Militant newspaper (1964), controlled Liverpool City Council, won three MPs, and became the Socialist Party after 1991.