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Communism
Communism is a social structure and political ideology in which property is commonly controlled. Communism (written with a capital C) is a modern political movement that aims to overthrow capitalism via revolution to create a classless society where all goods are publicly owned. Karl Marx posited...
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Communist Party of China
The Communist Party of China (CPC), also known as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and the ruling political party of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the world's largest political party. While not a governing body...
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Central Committee
A central Committee is commonly the central executive unit of a Leninist (commonly also Trotskyist) or Communist party, whether ruling or non-ruling. In a Communist party, the Central Committee is made up of delegates elected at a Party Congress. In...
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Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) (Russian: Коммунистическая Партия Советского Союза, tr. Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza, IPA [kəmʊnʲɪˈsʲtʲiʨɪskəjə ˈpartʲɪja sɐˈvʲeʦkəvə sɐˈjʊzə], abbr.: КПСС (KPSS)) was the ruling and...
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Communist party
A political party described as a communist party includes those that advocate the application of the social principles of communism through a communist form of government. The name originates from the 1848 tract Manifesto of the Communist Party by...
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Polish United Workers' Party
The Polish United Workers' Party (PUWP, Polish: Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza - PZPR) was the Communist party which governed the People's Republic of Poland from 1948 to 1989. Ideologically it was based on the theories of Marxism-Leninism.
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Socialist Unity Party of Germany
The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (German: Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, SED) was the governing party of the German Democratic Republic from its formation on 7 October 1949 until the elections of March 1990. The SED was a Communist...
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South African Communist Party
South African Communist Party (SACP) is a political party in South Africa. It was founded in 1921 as the Communist Party of South Africa by the joining together of the International Socialist League and others under the leadership of Willam H....
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Communist Party of Great Britain
The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was the largest communist party in the United Kingdom, though it never became a mass party like the communist parties of France and Italy. It existed from 1920 to 1991.
The Communist Party of Great Britain...
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Lao People's Revolutionary Party
The Lao People's Revolutionary Party (Laotian: ພັກປະຊາຊົນປະຕິວັດລາວ) is a communist political party that has governed Laos since 1975. The policy-making organs are the politburo and the central committee. A party congress, which elects members to...
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Scottish Workers Republican Party
The Scottish Workers Republican Party (SWRP) were formed by the Scottish Marxist activist John Maclean MA (1879-1923) in the 1910s. They advocated the political doctrine of communism, whilst also supporting Scottish independence. This dual communist...
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Italian Communist Party
The Italian Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) was a communist political party in Italy.
The PCI was founded as Communist Party of Italy on 21 January 1921 in Livorno, by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). Amadeo Bordiga...
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Communist Party of Finland
The Communist Party of Finland (Finnish: Suomen kommunistinen puolue, Swedish: Finlands kommunistiska parti, abbreviated SKP) was a communist political party in Finland. The SKP was a section of Comintern and illegal in Finland until 1944.
In 1918...
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People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) (Persian: حزب دموکراتيک خلق افغانستان, Pashto: د افغانستان د خلق دموکراټیک ګوند) was a communist party established on the 1 January, 1965. While a minority, the party helped former president of...
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Communist Party of Germany
The Communist Party of Germany (German: Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands – KPD) was a major political party in Germany between 1918 and 1933, and a minor party in West Germany in the postwar period. Founded in the aftermath of the First World War...
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Communist Party of Spain
The Communist Party of Spain (Spanish: Partido Comunista de España, PCE) is the third largest national political party of Spain. It is the largest member organization of the coalition Izquierda Unida (IU, United Left) and has influence in the...
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Communism in Peru
Several different left-oriented organizations refer to themselves as the Communist Party of Peru (in Spanish: Partido Comunista del Perú) or similar names. Some are still active, others have disappeared and some joined the ranks of Shining Path or...
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Workers' Party of Marxist Unification
The POUM or Partido Obrero Unificación Marxista (Catalan: Partit Obrer d'Unificació Marxista; English: Workers' Party of Marxist Unification) was a Spanish communist political party formed during the Second Republic, and mainly active around the...
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Communist Party of Britain
The Communist Party of Britain is a communist party in Great Britain. Although founded in 1988 it traces its origins back to 1920 and the Communist Party of Great Britain, and claims the legacy of that party and its most influential members Harry...
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French Communist Party
The French Communist Party (French: Parti communiste français or PCF) is a political party in France which advocates the principles of communism.
Although its electoral support has declined in recent decades, it retains a large membership (behind...
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Communist Party of Australia
The Communist Party of Australia was founded in 1920 and dissolved in 1991. It achieved its greatest political strength in the 1940s and faced an attempted banning in 1951. Though it never presented a major challenge to the established order in...
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Workers Party of Ireland
The Workers Party of Ireland (in Irish Páirtí na nOibrithe, though its logo translates it erroneously as Pairti Na nOibri), is a left-wing republican political party in Ireland. The party evolved from Official Sinn Féin, which emerged from the split...
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Communist Party of Scotland
The Communist Party of Scotland (CPS), also known as Pàrtaidh Co-Mhaoineach na h-Alba, was established in 1991 when the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was disbanded and re-formed as the Democratic Left think-tank. Many Communists in...
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Workers' Struggle
Workers' Struggle (Lutte Ouvrière) is the usual name under which the Communist Union (Union Communiste) (Trotskyist), a French Trotskyist political party, is known. In fact, it is the name of the weekly paper published by the party. Arlette...
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Revolutionary Communist League
The Revolutionary Communist League (Ligue communiste révolutionnaire) (LCR) was a French democratic revolutionary socialist political party. It was the French section of the Fourth International (Post-Reunification). It published the weekly...
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Workers' Party
The Workers' Party (French: Parti des Travailleurs, PT) was a French socialist party. It was formed by the Trotskyist Internationalist Communist Party (PCI) led by Pierre Boussel, better known under his pseudonym Pierre Lambert, together with a...
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Communist Party of Turkey
The Communist Party of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye Komünist Partisi, TKP) was a political party in Turkey. The party was founded by Mustafa Suphi in 1920, and was soon to be banned. It worked as a clandestine opposition party throughout the Cold War...
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League of Communists of Croatia
League of Communists of Croatia (Croatian: Savez komunista Hrvatske, SKH) was the Croatian branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ). Until 1952 it was known as Communist Party of Croatia (Croatian: Komunistička partija Hrvatske, KPH)....
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Communist Party of Great Britain
The Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee) is a political group which publishes the Weekly Worker newspaper. The party favours the creation of a unified "Communist Party of the European Union". It is not to be confused with...
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Communist Party of New Zealand
The Communist Party of New Zealand (CPNZ) was a Communist political party in New Zealand from the 1920s to the early 1990s. It never achieved significant political success, and no longer exists as an independent group, although the Socialist Worker...
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Communist Party of Poland
The Communist Party of Poland (Polish: Komunistyczna Partia Polski) was a historical communist party in Poland. It was a result of the fusion of Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) and the Polish Socialist Party-Left in...
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German Communist Party
The German Communist Party (German: Deutsche Kommunistische Partei, DKP) is a Marxist-Leninist communist party in Germany.
It was formed in West Germany in 1968, in order to fill the place of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), which had been...
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Communist Party of Greece
The Communist Party of Greece (Greek: Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας, Kommounistikó Kómma Elládas), better known by its acronym, ΚΚΕ (usually pronounced "koo-koo-eh" or "kappa-kappa-epsilon"), is the oldest party in the Greek political scene.
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Communist Refoundation Party
The Communist Refoundation Party (Partito della Rifondazione Comunista, PRC) is a communist Italian political party. Its current secretary is Paolo Ferrero.
The party participates both in the Party of the European Left (of which Fausto Bertinotti, a...
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Portuguese Communist Party
The Portuguese Communist Party (Portuguese: Partido Comunista Português, pronounced [pɐɾˈtidu kumuˈniʃtɐ puɾtuˈɡeʃ]), or PCP, is a major left-wing political party in Portugal. It is a Marxist-Leninist party, and its organization is based upon...
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Swiss Labour Party
The Swiss Party of Labour (German: Partei der Arbeit der Schweiz; French: Parti Suisse du Travail - Parti Ouvrier et Populaire; Italian: Partito Comunista; Romansh: Partida svizra da la lavur) is a socialist party in Switzerland.
The party was...
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Progressive Party of Working People
The Progressive Party of Working People (Greek: Ανορθωτικό Κόμμα Εργαζόμενου Λαού, Anorthotikó Kómma Ergazómenou Laoú, AKEL; Turkish: Emekçi Halkın İlerici Partisi) is a communist party in Cyprus. It supports an independent, demilitarized and non...
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Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (Czech: Komunistická strana Čech a Moravy, KSČM) is a political party in the Czech Republic. It has a membership of 82,994 (2006) and is a member party of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left bloc...
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Communist Party of Slovakia
The Communist Party of Slovakia (Slovak: Komunistická strana Slovenska, KSS) is a communist party in Slovakia, formed in 1992, through the merger of the Communist Party of Slovakia – 91 and the Communist League of Slovakia.
In the 2002 elections,...
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Japanese Communist Party
The Japanese Communist Party (JCP, Japanese: 日本共産党, Nihon Kyōsan-tō) is a political party in Japan.
The JCP advocates the establishment of a society based on socialism, democracy and peace, and opposition to militarism. It proposes to achieve these...
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Communist Party of Austria
The Communist Party of Austria (de: Kommunistische Partei Österreichs, or KPÖ) is a communist party based in Austria. Established in 1918, it was banned between 1933 and 1945 under German control of Austria during World War II. It played an...
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Communist Party of Bangladesh
The Communist Party of Bangladesh (Bengali: বাংলাদেশের কমিউনিস্ট পার্টি) is a Marxist-Leninist political party in Bangladesh, founded in 1968 as the Communist Party of East Pakistan.
After the partitioning of India in 1947, during the 2nd Congress...
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Workers' Communist Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Workers' Communist Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnian: Radničko-komunistička partija Bosne i Hercegovine) is a communist party from Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was formed in 2000 and strongly opposes the nationalism of the region and the...
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Communist Party of Brazil
The Communist Party of Brazil (Partido Comunista do Brasil, PC do B) is a political party in Brazil. It currently takes part in the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Worker's Party.
The party originated as a splinter group...
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Communist Party of Argentina
The Communist Party of Argentina (Spanish: Partido Comunista de la Argentina, also simply known as "PC") is a communist party from Argentina. It was founded in 1918.
At the 2005 legislative elections, the Party joined the Encuentro Amplio with other...
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Communist Party of Nepal
The Communist Party of Nepal (Nepali: नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी) was founded in Calcutta, India, on April 29, 1949. CPN was formed to struggle against the autocratic Rana regime, feudalism and imperialism. The founding general secretary was Pushpa Lal...
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Communist Party of Canada
The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) (CPC-ML) is a Canadian federal Marxist-Leninist political party. It is not to be confused with the Communist Party of Canada.
The party is registered with Elections Canada as the Marxist-Leninist...
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Communist Party of the Russian Federation
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (Russian: Коммунистическая партия Российской Федерации; КПРФ; Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Rossiskoy Federatsii; KPRF) is a Russian political party. It is the second major political party in the Russian...
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Workers' Party of Korea
The Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) is the ruling party of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), commonly known as North Korea. It is also called the Korean Workers' Party (KWP). The WPK has been the ruling party in the DPRK since its...
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Communist Party of Vietnam
The Communist Party of Vietnam (Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam) is the currently ruling, as well as the only legal political party in Vietnam. It is a Marxist-Leninist Communist Party supported by (and a part of) the Vietnamese Fatherland Front. In most of...
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Communist Party of Cuba
The Communist Party of Cuba (Spanish: Partido Comunista de Cuba, PCC) is currently the governing political party in Cuba. It is a Marxist-Leninist organization. The present Cuban constitution ascribes the role of the Party to be the "leading force...
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Tunisian Workers' Communist Party
The Tunisian Workers' Communist Party (French: Parti communiste des ouvriers tunisiens, Arabic: Hizb al-'Ummal al-Shuyu'i) (PCOT) is an illegal Marxist-Leninist political party in Tunisia.
It was founded on January 3, 1986 and has a youth wing the...
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Communist Party of Nepal
The Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (Nepali: एकीकृत नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (माओवादी)) is a political party in Nepal, founded in 1994 and currently led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal, commonly known as Prachanda. Following massive popular...
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Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
The Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt (MSZMP) in Hungarian) was the ruling communist party of Hungary during the Cold War between 1956 and 1989. It was organised from parts of the Hungarian Working People's Party,...
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Hungarian Workers' Party
The Hungarian Working People's Party (Hungarian: Magyar Dolgozók Pártja - MDP) was the ruling communist party of Hungary from 1948 to 1956. It was formed by a merger of the Communist Party of Hungary and the Social Democratic Party. Its leader was...
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Communist Party of India (Marxist)
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated CPI(M) or CPM) is a political party in India. It has a strong presence in the states of Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura. As of 2008, CPI(M) is leading the state governments in these three states....
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Communist Party of India
The Communist Party of India (CPI) is a political party in India. In the Indian communist movement, there are different views on exactly when the Indian communist party was founded. The date maintained as the foundation day by CPI is 26 December...
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Polish Workers' Party
The Polish Workers' Party (Polish: Polska Partia Robotnicza, PPR) was a communist party in Poland from 1942 to 1948. It was founded as a reconstitution of the Communist Party of Poland, and merged with the Polish Socialist Party in 1948 to form the...
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Communist Party of Belarus
The Communist Party of Belarus (Belarusian: Камуністы́чная па́ртыя Белару́сі, Kamunistychnaya Partyia Belarusi; Russian: Коммунистическая партия Белоруссии, Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Belorussii) is a political party in Belarus, that supports the...
