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List of Communist Parties: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

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 People's Republic of China.

Some Communist parties have names such as Socialist Party, Socialist Workers Party, Workers' Party, etc.

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Ruling

Modern

Former

Afghanistan - Peoples Democratic Party of Afghanistan (Parcham), became Watan Party
Brazil - Brazilian Communist Party, became Popular Socialist Party
Bulgaria - Communist Party of Bulgaria, became Bulgarian Socialist Party
Cambodia - Cambodia People's Party
Ethiopia - All Ethiopian Socialist Movement
Germany (East) - Socialist Unity Party of Germany, became Party of Democratic Socialism
Hungary - Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, became Hungarian Socialist Party
Iceland - Popular Alliance
Italy - Communist Party of Italy, became Left Democrats
Mongolia - Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party
Sweden - Left Party - Communists, became Left Party
Palestine - Palestine Communist Party, became Palestinian People's Party
Poland - Polish United Workers Party, became Alliance of the Democratic Left
Romania - Communist Party of Romania, became PDSR
San Marino - Communist Party of San Marino, became Party of Democrats
Tunisia - Communist Party of Tunisia, became Renovation Movement
Yemen - Yemeni Socialist Party

Defunct

Communist Party of Australia (original one)
Cambodia - Communist Party of Cambodia (Khmer Rouge)
Channel Islands - Communist Party of Jersey
Czechoslovakia - Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
El Salvador - Communist party of El Salvador, joined FMLN
Ethiopia - Workers' Party of Ethiopia
Germany - Communist Party of Germany
Germany (West) - Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin
Guatemala - Guatemalan Party of Labour, joined URNG
Indonesia - Communist Party of Indonesia
Malaysia - Communist Party of Malaya, North Kalimantan Communist Party
Mexico - Mexican Communist Party (PCM)
Netherlands - Communist Party of the Netherlands became part of GroenLinks in 1989
New Zealand - Communist Party of New Zealand, Socialist Unity Party
Nicaragua - Socialist party of Nicaragua
Poland - Communist Party of Poland, see Polish minority in Soviet Union
Saudi Arabia - Communist Party of Saudi Arabia
Soviet Union - Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Thailand - Communist Party of Thailand
United Kingdom - Communist Party of Great Britain
Yugoslavia - Communist Party of Yugoslavia

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