a political party that actively advocates a communist form of government; in Communist countries it is the sole political party of the state
a party which advocates Communism
In modern usage, the term communist party is generally used to identify any political party which has adopted communist ideology. However, the Leninist concept of a communist party includes not only ideological orientation, but also a wide set of organizational policies. The communist party is, at least according to Leninist theory, the vanguard party of the working class.
The Communist Party (Kommunistiska Partiet) is a Marxist-Leninist political party in Sweden.
The Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) was a Maoist political party in the United States. Its predecessor organization, the October League, was founded in 1971 by several local groups, many of which had grown out of the radical student organization Students for a Democratic Society when SDS split apart in 1969. Michael Klonsky, who had been a national leader in SDS in the late 1960s, was the main leader of the CP(M-L).
Communist Party of Alberta is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada.
Communist Party (Reconstructed) (in Portuguese: Partido Comunista Português (reconstruÃdo)), initially known as Portuguese Communist Party (Reconstructed) (Partido Comunista Português (ReconstruÃdo)), was a political party in Portugal. PCP(R) was founded at a unitary congress in December 1975, through the fusion of the Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Communist Organization, the Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Committee and the Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist).
The Communist Party (in Flemish: Kommunistische Partij, often abbreviated KP) is a political party in Flanders, Belgium. It was founded in 1989 in the aftermath of the split of the Communist Party of Belgium along linguistic lines. The political secretary of the KP is Jaak Perquy.
Communist Party (in French: Parti Communiste) is a political party in Wallonia, Belgium. PC was founded in 1989 as the Communist Party of Belgium was bifurcated along linguistic lines. The president of PC is Pierre Beauvois.
Communist Party (NepeceriÅŸti) (, PCN) is a Romanian communist political party, officially registered 31 July 2006.http://www.tmb.ro/getmc.php?param=registrul_partidelor_politice_12052005 Registrul partidelor politice, Legea Nr. 14/2003. Tribunalul BucureÅŸti. Accessed 7 October 2006.
