List of socialist and communist organizations

Socialist parties and organizations often have values ​​similar to social democratic parties . Both terms are often used synonymously. Most of the socialist or social democratic parties are united in the Socialist International . Communist parties usually, but not always, advocate a revolutionary way to achieve change.

Many former socialist or communist parties today describe themselves as social democratic. Trotskyist organizations often refer to themselves as socialist or communist parties.

list

Europe

The European continent , including countries that are partly in Europe, such as Turkey and Kazakhstan, and the countries in the Caucasus, and including Cyprus (EU member).

• Albania :
  • Partia e Punës e Shqipërisë (PPSh), from 1941 to 1991, communist
  • Partia Komuniste e Shqipërisë (1991) , communist
  • Partia Komuniste e Shqipërisë 8 Nëntori , communist
• Armenia : Armenian Communist Party
• Azerbaijan :
  • Azerbaijani Communist Party , Communist
  • Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic (1920–1991): Communist Party of the Azerbaijani SSR
• Belgium :
  • Belgian Labor Party , Communist
  • Wallonia :
    • Parti Communiste
  • Flanders :
    • Communist Party
• Bulgaria : Bulgarian Communist Party
• Denmark :
  • Socialistisk Folkeparti (SF), green, democratic-socialist
  • Enhedslisten - De Rød-Grønne (EL), left-wing socialist, green-socialist
  • Faroe Islands :
    • Tjóðveldi (T; republic), separatist, green-socialist
  • Greenland :
    • Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA; Inuit community), separatist, democratic-socialist
    • Partii Inuit (PI; Inuit Party), separatist, green-socialist
• Germany :
  • Communist Party of Germany (KPD), 1919–1946 / 1956, banned by the Federal Constitutional Court in 1956
  • Communist Workers' Party of Germany (KAPD), 1920–1933, council or left communist party in the Weimar Republic
  • Communist Party of Germany (structural organization) (KPD), 1970–1980, initially "KPD structural organization"
  • Communist Party of Germany (1990) (KPD; also KPD-Ost), party founded in 1990 by former members of the SED
  • Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), emerged in 1946 from the forced unification of the SPD and KPD in the Soviet zone of occupation, ruling party of the GDR (1949–1990) - renamed PDS in 1990
  • PDS , 2007 merger with WASG to form Die Linke
  • Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin (SEW), 1946–1991, SED organization in West Berlin
  • The left (see above), democratic-socialist
  • German Communist Party (DKP), newly constituted Communist Party of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1968
  • Communist Workers' Union of Germany (KABD), Maoist from 1972 to 1982, founded the MLPD in 1982
  • Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD), founded in 1982, Maoist
  • Communist League (KB), from 1971 to 1991, Maoist
  • Communist Federation of West Germany (KBW), from 1973 to 1985, Maoist
  • Association of West German Communists (BWK), from 1980 to 1995, Maoist, split off from the KBW
  • Communist Party of Germany / Marxist-Leninists (KPD / ML), since 1968, Maoist, split up into KPD (Red Morning), KPD / ML (Red Star), KPD (Stalinist-Hoxhaists)
  • Revolutionary Socialist Federation / Fourth International (RSB), Trotskyist, united with ISL to form the International Socialist Organization (ISO)
  • international socialist left (ISL), Trotskyist
  • Socialist Equality Party (SGP), Trotskyist
  • Group of International Marxists (GIM), Trotskyist, disbanded
  • United Socialist Party (VSP), Trotskyist, dissolved
  • Left shift , Trotskyist, dissolved (today marx21 )
  • Socialist Alternative (SAV) , Trotskyist, in East Germany of the Left joined
  • The spark , Trotskyist
  • Mountain party, the “ÜberPartei” , eco-anarchist / Dadaist
• Estonian SSR (1940–1990):
  • Communist Party of Estonia
• Finland :
  • Vasemmistoliitto (VAS; Left Alliance), socialist
  • Communist Party of Finland (KPFi)
• France :
  • Parti Communiste Français (PCF), communist
  • Mouvement Républicain et Citoyen (MRC), socialist
  • Fédération pour une Alternative Sociale et Écologique (FASE), eco-socialist, anti-capitalist
  • Parti de Gauche (PG), democratic socialist
  • Ligue communiste révolutionnaire
  • Lutte Ouvrière (Labor Party)
• Georgia :
  • Georgian Labor Party
• Greece :
  • Communist Party of Greece (Greek abbreviation: KKE), communist, Marxist-Leninist
    • the Greek Communist Party (Inland), split off from the KKE in 1968, and its successor Elliniki Aristera
  • Laiki Enotita (LAE; national unity), socialist, critical of globalization, eurosceptic
  • Synaspismos Rizospastikis Aristeras (SYRIZA; Coalition of the Radical Left), democratic socialist, eco-socialist, critical of globalization
  • ANTARSYA , alliance of several groups and parties, socialist-communist, anti-capitalist

• Ireland :
  • Communist Party of Ireland
  • Independents 4 Change
  • People Before Profit (PBP), Trotskyist
  • Right to change
  • RISE
  • Sinn Féin (SF), Irish nationalist, democratic socialist
  • Socialist Party of Ireland from 1971 to 1980, communist
  • Socialist Party (SP), Trotskyist
  • Solidarity
  • Solidarity – People Before Profit
  • Workers' Party of Ireland

• Iceland : Vinstrihreyfingin - grænt framboð (VG; Left Green Movement), green-socialist

• Italy :
  • Partito Rifondazione Comunista (PRC), communist
  • Partito dei Comunisti Italiani (PdCI), communist
  • Communist Party of Italy (PCI, Communist Party of Italy - KPI), renamed Partito Democratico della Sinistra (PDS, Democratic Party of the Left ) in 1990
  • Internationalist Communist Party
  • International Communist Party

• Yugoslavia :
  • Union of Communists of Yugoslavia (BDKJ)
  • Nova Komunistička Partija Jugoslavije (NKPJ)

• Kazakhstan :
  • Communist Party of Kazakhstan , Communist (1936-2015)
  • Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan

• Croatia : Communist Party of Croatia (Republic of Croatia)

• Latvia : Latvijas Sociālistiskā partija (LSP; Socialist Party), communist

• Luxembourg :
  • Déi Lénk (the left), socialist
  • Communist Party of Luxembourg (KPL; Parti Communiste Luxembourgois; PCL), communist

• Malta :
  • Communist Party of Malta (PKM, Partit Komunista Malti), communist

• Moldova :
  • Partidul Comuniștilor din Republica Moldova (PCRM), communist
  • Blocul Electoral Patria - Rodina (BEPR; Wahlblock Heimat), communist

• Kingdom of the Netherlands :
  • Netherlands :
    • Socialist Partij (SP), socialist
    • Nieuwe Communistische Partij (NCPN), communist

• Norway :
  • Sosialistisk Folkeparti (SF) from 1961 to 1975, socialist, Contra-NATO / EEA
  • Sosialistisk Venstreparti (SV), green-socialist
  • Rødt , socialist-communist
  • Samfunnspartiet , anarchist

• Austria :
  • Socialist Party of Austria (name of the SPÖ 1945 to 1991, today the Social Democratic Party of Austria ), democratic-socialist
  • Socialist Left Party (SLP), Trotskyist
  • The spark , Trotskyist
  • Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ), communist
  • Left (LEFT)
  • Marxist-Leninist Party of Austria (MLPÖ), Stalinist, Maoist, from 1967 to 2016
  • Workers' Standpoint (AST), Trotskyist
  • Party of Labor Austria (PdA), communist, Marxist-Leninist

• Poland :
  • Historical: Communist Workers 'Party of Poland , KPRP (1918–1938), Polska Partia Robotnicza Polish Workers' Party , PPR (1942–1948)
  • Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza (1948–1989)

• Portugal :
  • Partido Comunista Português (PCP), communist
  • Bloco de Esquerda (BE), communist

• Romania : Communist Party of Romania (KPR)

• Russia :
  • Agrarian Party of Russia (APR), agrarian
  • All-Russian Communist Party of the Future (WKPBu), communist, Marxist-Leninist (2004-2005)
  • All-Unionist Party “Union of Communists” (SK), communist, Marxist-Leninist, Stalinist
  • All-Unionist Communist Party of the Bolsheviks (WKPB), communist, Marxist-Leninist, Bolshevik, Stalinist
  • Different Russia , national Bolshevik
  • Working Russia , communist, Stalinist
  • Just Russia (SR), democratic-socialist
  • Communists - Working Russia - For the Soviet Union , Communist, Marxist-Leninist, Stalinist (1995)
  • Communist Party of the Republic of Tatarstan (KPRT), Communist, Marxist-Leninist (1991-2002)
  • Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF; Communist Party), Communist, Marxist-Leninist, Stalinist
  • Communists of Russia , communist, Marxist-Leninist, Stalinist
  • Communist Social Justice Party , Communist, Socialist
  • National Bolshevik Party of Russia (NBP), National Bolshevik (1993-2007)
  • Labor Party (Russia) , democratic-socialist
  • Party of Peace and Unity , democratic-socialist
  • Party of the Rebirth of Russia , Democratic-Socialist
  • Russian Communist Labor Party within the CPSU (RKRP-KPSS), (2001-2007)
  • Russian Maoist Party , Maoist
  • Russian Communist Party (RPK), Communist, Marxist (1991-2001)
  • Russian Socialist Party (RSP), socialist, left nationalist
  • Russian United Workers Front (ROTFRONT), socialist, Marxist-Leninist
  • Socialist Party of Workers , democratic-socialist
  • Socialist Some Party of Russia (SEPR), socialist, left nationalist
  • United Communist Party (Russia) (OKP), Communist, Socialist, Marxist-Leninist, Bolshevik

• Russian SFSR from 1917 to 1991: Communist Party of Russia

• San Marino : Rifondazione Comunista Sammarinese (RCS; Rifondazione Comunista), communist, emerged in 1991 from the disbanded Communist Party of San Marino
• Sweden :
  • Vänsterpartiet (VP), socialist
  • Kommunistiska Partiet , communist

• Switzerland :
  • Alternative left
  • SolidaritéS (SOL), communist
  • Communist Party of Switzerland (split from the Social Democrats 1921, 1940 prohibited)
  • Communist Party Opposition (Switzerland) , KPS-O, 1930–1935
  • Swiss Labor Party (PdA, communist) from 1944, successor to the KPS
  • Communist Party of Switzerland / Marxist-Leninists , KPS / ML, 1969–1987
  • Revolutionary Marxist League from 1969 to 1990, 1980 name change to the Socialist Workers' Party (SAP)
  • Communist Party (Switzerland) , created in 2007 from the Ticino section of the PdA
  • The spark , Trotskyist

• Serbia :
  • Communist Party (Serbia) (KP; Communist Party (Serbia)), since 2010
  • Socijalistička Partija Srbije (Socialist Party of Serbia SPS), since 1990
  • Nova Komunistička Partija Jugoslavije (NKPJ; New Communist Party of Yugoslavia), since 1990

• Slovakia : Komunistická strana Slovenska (KSS; Communist Party), communist

• Soviet Union : Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)

• Spain :
  • Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE)
  • Izquerda Unida (IU), socialist
  • Partido Comunista de España , (PCE)
  • Podemos
  • POUM ( Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista ), historical
  • Spain - Aragon : Chunta Aragonesista (CHA), socialist
  • Spain - Galicia : Bloque Nacionalista Galego (BNG), socialist
  • Spain - Catalonia : Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC), socialist

• Czech Republic :
  • Komunistická strana Čech a Moravy (KSČM; Communist Party), communist
  • Strana Demokratického socialismu (SDS; Party of Democratic Socialism (Czech Republic)), democratic-socialist

• Czechoslovakia : Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KPTsch), historical

• Turkey :
  • Communist Party of Turkey (TKP, 2001-2014)
  • Communist Party (KP, since 2014)
  • Communist People's Party of Turkey (HTKP, since 2014)
  • Communist Party of Turkey / Marxist-Leninist (TKP / ML, since 1972)
  • Party of Freedom and Solidarity (ÖDP, since 1996)
  • Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLKP, since 1994)
  • Revolutionary People's Liberation Party Front (DHKP-C, since 1993)
  • Labor Party (IP, 1992-2015)
  • Workers' Party of Turkey (TİP, 1961–1988)
  • Dev-Genç (1965–1971)
  • Revolutionary Left (Dev-Sol, 1978-1993)
  • Revolutionary Way (Dev-Yol, since 1977)
  • See also: List of Communist Parties in Turkey

• Ukraine :
  • Komunistytschna Partija Ukrajiny (KPU; Communist Party), communist
  • Progresyvna Sozialistytschna Partija Ukrajiny (PSPU; Progressive Socialist Party), communist

• Ukrainian SSR (1919–1991): Communist Party of Ukraine

• Hungary :
  • Kommunisták Magyarországi Pártja (MKP; from 1918)
  • Magyar Dolgozók Pártja (MDP; Party of the Hungarian Working People), emerged in 1948 from the merger of KP and SP, ruling party of Hungary, dissolved in 1956
  • Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt (MSzMP; Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party) (1956–1989), successor to the MDP, ruling party in Hungary until 1989
  • Magyar Kommunista Munkáspárt (MKMP; Hungarian Communist Workers' Party), communist split from the MSzMP ("Old Communists")

• United Kingdom :
  • British Socialist Party , from 1911 to 1920
  • Communist Party of Britain
  • Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist)
  • Communist Party of Great Britain , from 1920 to 1991
  • Independent Labor Party
  • Left Unity
  • New Communist Party of Britain
  • Respect party
  • Revolutionary Communist Party
  • Social Democratic Federation
  • Socialist Equality Party
  • Socialist Labor Party
  • Socialist Labor Party
  • Socialist Party of Great Britain
  • Socialist Workers Party , Trotskyist
  • Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
  • Militant tendency , Trotskyist, dissolved
  • England and Wales :
    • Socialist appeal , Trotskyist
    • Socialist Party (England and Wales) , Marxist
      • Wales :
        • Socialist Party Wales
  • Scotland :
    • Communist Party of Scotland
    • RISE
    • Scottish Socialist Party
    • Socialist Party Scotland
    • Solidarity
    • Revolution , Trotskyist
  • Northern Ireland :
    • People Before Profit (PBP), Trotskyist
    • Sinn Féin (SF), Irish nationalist, democratic socialist
    • Socialist Party (SP), Trotskyist
    • Workers' Party of Ireland

• Belarus :
  • Communist Party of Belarus , KPB
  • Belarusian Social-Sports Party
  • Belarusian United Left Party "Just World"

• Cyprus :
  • Anorthotiko Komma Ergazomenou Laou (AKEL; Progressive Party of the Working People), socialist

Other continents

• Afghanistan : Democratic People's Party of Afghanistan (DVPA)
• Egypt :
  • Hizb al-Dimuqratiyah al Wataniyah (HDW; National Democratic Party), authoritarian-socialist
  • National-Progressive Unionist Party (HTWTW; National-Progressive Unionist Party), communist
  • Nasserist party , Arab socialist
• Algeria :
  • National Liberation Front , socialist
  • Labor Party (Algeria) , Trotskyist
  • Front of Socialist Forces
• Argentina :
  • Movimento al Socialismo , Trotskyist
  • Partido Comunista Revolucionario
  • Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores , Alliance of 3 Trotskyist Parties
• Ethiopia :
  • People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (1984–1990): Labor Party of Ethiopia
  • Amharic National Democratic Movement , Marxist-Leninist
  • All-Ethiopian Socialist Movement , Socialist
  • Tigray People's Liberation Front , Marxist-Leninist and Socialist
• Benin : People's Revolutionary Party of Benin
• Bolivia : Communist Party of Bolivia (PCB)
• Brazil :
  • Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), socialist
  • Partido Socialista Brasileiro (PSB), socialist
  • Partido Democrático Trabalhista (PDT), socialist
  • Partido Popular Socialista (PPS), socialist
  • Partido Comunista Brasileiro (PCB), communist
  • Partido Comunista do Brasil (PCdoB), communist
  • Partido Socialismo e Liberdade , left-wing socialist
• Chile :
  • Communist Party of Chile
• Republic of China (Taiwan)
  • Taiwan Communist Party (KPT)
• People's Republic of China :
  • Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
• Ecuador :
  • Partido Comunista del Ecuador
  • Partido Comunista Marxista Leninista del Ecuador
  • Movimiento Popular Democrático
• Eritrea :
  • Popular Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), formerly Marxist, today socialist
  • Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF), Marxist
  • Eritrean People's Liberation Front , predecessor of the ELF, Marxist
• Gambia :
  • People's Democratic Organization for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS), socialist
  • Gambian People's Party (GPP), banned from 1987 to 1994, socialist
  • Gambian Socialist Revolutionary Party (GSRP), Marxist and left-wing socialist
• Ghana :
  • Convention People's Party (CPP), socialist
• India :
  • Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M), communist
  • Samajwadi Party (SP), socialist
  • Communist Party of India (CPI), communist
  • Socialist Party of India (existed essentially between 1948 and 1952, today only splinter groups)
• Indonesia : Communist Party of Indonesia
• Iraq :
  • Iraqi Communist Party
  • Kurdish Communist Party
  • Workers Communist Party of Iraq
  • Left Worker Communist Party of Iraq
  • Independent Party of Kurdistan Workers
• Iran :
  • Tudeh Party of Iran , Marxist-Leninist
  • Workers Communist Party of Iran (API)
  • Socialist Party of Iran (SPI)
• Israel :
  • Chadasch (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality), socialist-communist list connection, contains the Maki (party)
  • Am Ekhad (AE; trade union party), socialist
• Japan : Communist Party of Japan , reform communist
• Yemen : Yemeni Socialist Party (YSM), democratic-socialist
• Cambodia : Cambodian People's Party (CPP = Cambodian People's Party) governs there as the strongest faction in a coalition with other parties in a parliamentary monarchy
• Kyrgyzstan :
  • Ata-Meken , socialist business party
  • Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan , successor party to the Communist Party of the Kyrgyz SSR
  • Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan , communist
• Cuba : Communist Party of Cuba (PCC)
• Kurdistan :
  • Socialist Party of Kurdistan (PSK)
  • Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
  • Kurdish Communist Party (KKP)
• Laos : Laotian People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP or LRVP) (see Pathet Lao )
• Lebanon
  • Lebanese Communist Party , Communist
  • Progressive Socialist Party , socialist
• Mexico : Partido del Trabajo (PT), socialist
• Mongolia : Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MRVP), re-elected to government in 2000
• Nepal :
  • Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
  • Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxists-Leninists
• North Korea : Chosŏn Rodongdang (Party of Labor of Korea), Stalinist, Chuch'e ideology
• Peru : Communist Party of Peru (PCP), communist
• Philippines : Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)
• Senegal : And Jëf / PADS , left-wing socialist
• South Africa : South African Communist Party
• Syria :
  • Ba'ath Party (Syria)
  • Syrian Communist Party , Marxist-Leninist
  • United Syrian Communist Party
• Tajikistan :
  • Communist Party of Tajikistan , communist
  • People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan , secular
• Taiwan :
  • Communist Party of Taiwan (1928-1931) (KPT)
• Tanzania : Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), African-socialist
• Thailand
  • Communist Party of Thailand (1942-1995)
• USA :
  • Communist Party USA (CPUSA; Communist Party of the United States of America)
  • Workers' Party of America (APOL; American Party of Labor)
  • Revolutionary Communist Party
  • Socialist Equality Party
  • Socialist Party USA
  • Socialist Workers Party
  • Party for Socialism and Liberation
• Venezuela :
  • United Socialist Party of Venezuela
  • Communist Party of Venezuela
• Vietnam : Communist Party of Vietnam (KPV)

See also

• International
• List of Trotskyist organizations
• World Socialist Movement

literature

• Dieter Oberndörfer (Ed.): Socialist and Communist Parties in Western Europe. Publication of the social science research institute of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung . Volume 1: Südländer (= Uni-Taschenbücher . Volume 761). Leske + Budrich (UTB), Opladen 1978, ISBN 3-8100-0240-2 .
• Hans Rühle , Hans-Joachim Veen (Ed.): Socialist and Communist Parties in Western Europe. Publication of the social science research institute of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung . Volume 2: Nordländer (= Uni-Taschenbücher . Vol. 762). Leske + Budrich (UTB), Opladen 1979, ISBN 3-8100-0241-0 .