A communist party is a party that advocates the application of the social principles of communism.

Communist Party may also refer to:

Africa Benin Communist Party of Benin Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Benin

Côte d'Ivoire Revolutionary Communist Party of Côte d'Ivoire

Madagascar Communist Party (French Section of the Communist International) of the Region of Madagascar Malagasy Communist Party

Nigeria Communist Party of Nigeria Nigerian Communist Party

Sudan Sudanese Communist Party Sudanese Communist Party – Revolutionary Leadership

Tunisia Tunisian Communist Party Tunisian Workers' Communist Party

Others in Africa Algerian Communist Party Angolan Communist Party Communist Party of Kenya Communist Party of Namibia (disambiguation) Communist Party of Lesotho Communist Party of Mozambique Communist Party of Réunion Communist Party of Togo Moroccan Communist Party Senegalese Communist Party South African Communist Party Southern Rhodesia Communist Party Swaziland Communist Party Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party, in Burkina Faso

Asia Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Communist Party Azerbaijan Communist Party (1993) Azerbaijan Communist Party (on Platform of Marxism-Leninism) Communist Party of Azerbaijan (1996) United Communist Party of Azerbaijan

Burma Communist Party of Burma Shan States Communist Party

China Chinese Communist Party Revolutionary Communist Party of China

Georgia Communist Party of Abkhazia Communist Party of Georgia Communist Party of South Ossetia Georgian Communist party Georgian Workers Communist Party New Communist Party of Georgia Revived Communist Party of Georgia United Communist Party of Georgia

Indonesia Acoma Party Communist Party of Indonesia

Iran Communist Party of Iran Communist Party of Iran (1920) Communist Party of Iran (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist)

Iraq Iraqi Communist Party Kurdistan Communist Party-Iraq Leftist Worker-Communist Party of Iraq

Japan Amami Communist Party Communist Workers Party (Japan) Japan Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist) Japanese Communist Party Japanese Communist Party (Action Faction)

Jordan Jordanian Communist Party Jordanian Communist Toilers Party

Kazakhstan Communist Party of Kazakhstan People's Communist Party of Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan

Malaysia Communist Party of Malaya/Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Malaya/Revolutionary Faction Malayan Communist Party, now called Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) Malaysian Communist Party North Kalimantan Communist Party, in Borneo

Pakistan Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party Communist Party of Pakistan Communist Party of Pakistan (Thaheem) East Pakistan Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist)

Sri Lanka Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist) Communist Party of Sri Lanka

Syria Arab Communist Party Communist Labour Party (Syria) Syrian Communist Party Syrian–Lebanese Communist Party

Taiwan Taiwan Communist Party Taiwanese Communist Party

Turkey Communist Party of Turkey (disambiguation) List of illegal political parties in Turkey

Uzbekistan Communist Party of Bukhara Communist Party of Khorezm Communist Party of Uzbekistan

Vietnam Communist Party of Annam Communist Party of Indochina Communist Party of Vietnam

Others in Asia (by country) Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan Communist Party of Armenia (disambiguation) Communist Party of Artsakh Communist Party of Bangladesh (disambiguation) Bhutan Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) South Seas Communist Party, with a branch, the South Seas Communist Party in Burma List of communist parties in India Communist Party of Kampuchea, in Cambodia Communist Party of Korea Communist Party of Kurdistan Lebanese Communist Party List of communist parties in Nepal Palestinian Communist Party (disambiguation) Communist Party of the Philippines Communist Party in Saudi Arabia Communist Party of the Soviet Union (disambiguation) Communist Party of Tajikistan Communist Party of Thailand, initially the Communist Party of Siam Communist Party of Turkestan Tibetan Communist Party Communist Party of Turkmenistan

Australasia/Oceania Australia Communist Party of Australia (Marxist–Leninist) Communist Party of Australia Communist Party of Australia (1971)

New Zealand Communist Party of New Zealand

Europe Austria Communist Party of Austria Communist Workers Party (Austria) Jewish Communist Party of Austria

Belarus Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Lithuania and Belorussia Communist Party of Belarus Communist Party of Belorussia Communist Party of West Belarus Party of Belarusian Communists

Belgium Communist Party (Flanders) Communist Party (Wallonia) Communist Party of Belgium Revolutionary Communist Party (Belgium)

Bosnia & Herzegovina Communist Party (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Workers' Communist Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria Bulgarian Communist Party Bulgarian Communist Party – Marxists Bulgarian United Communist Party Communist Party of Bulgaria Communist Workers' Party of Bulgaria

Denmark Communist Party (Denmark) Communist Party in Denmark Communist Party of Denmark Communist Workers Party (Denmark) Workers' Communist Party (Denmark)

Estonia Communist Party of Estonia Communist Party of Estonia (1990)

Finland Communist Party of Finland Communist Party of Finland (1994) For Peace and Socialism – Communist Workers' Party

France Breton Communist Party French Communist Party Internationalist Communist Party (France) Workers' Communist Party of France

Greece Communist Party of Greece Communist Party of Greece (Interior) Communist Party of Greece (Marxist–Leninist) Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Greece Movement for a United Communist Party of Greece

Hungary Hungarian Communist Party Hungarian Communist Workers' Party

Iceland Communist Party of Iceland Communist Party of Iceland (Marxist–Leninist)

Ireland Communist Party of Ireland Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist–Leninist)

Italy Communist Alternative Party Communist Party (Italy) Communist Party of the Free Territory of Trieste Communist Party of Italy Communist Refoundation Party International Communist Party Internationalist Communist Party (Italy) Italian Communist Party Italian Communist Party (2016) Marxist–Leninist Italian Communist Party Party of Italian Communists Workers' Communist Party (Italy)

Lithuania Communist Party of Lithuania Communist Party of the Memel Territory

Moldova Communist Party of Moldova Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova

Netherlands Communist Party of Holland – Central Committee Communist Party of the Netherlands Communist Workers' Party of the Netherlands New Communist Party of the Netherlands United Communist Party (Netherlands)

Norway Communist Party of Norway Workers' Communist Party (Norway)

Portugal Communist Party (Reconstructed) Communist Party of Portugal (in Construction) Communist Party of Portugal (Marxist–Leninist) Communist Party of Portugal (Marxist–Leninist) (1974) Communist Party of the Portuguese Workers / Reorganizative Movement of the Party of the Proletariat Communist Revolution Committee for the Formation of the Marxist–Leninist Party Communist Union for the Reconstruction of the Party (Marxist–Leninist) Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist) Portuguese Communist Party

Romania Communist Party (Nepeceriști) Romanian Communist Party

Russia Communist Party of Russia (disambiguation) Communist Party of the Republic of Tatarstan

San Marino Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist) of San Marino Sammarinese Communist Party

Slovakia Communist Party of Slovakia Communist Party of Slovakia – 91 Communist Party of Slovakia (1939)

Spain

Autonomous Communities of Spain Aragon Communist Party of Aragon

Basque Country Communist Party of the Basque Homelands Communist Party of Euskadi

Canary Islands Communist Party of the Canaries Party of Communist Unification in the Canaries

Catalonia Catalan Communist Party Communist Party of Catalonia Communist Workers Party of Catalonia Party of the Communists of Catalonia

Galicia Communist Party of Galicia Communist Party of National Liberation

Valencia Communist Party of the Menadores Communist Party of the Valencian Country Communist Party of the Valencians Communist Party of the Valencian Country – Revolutionary Marxist

Others in Autonomous Communities of Spain Communist Party of Andalusia Communist Party of Asturias Communist Party of Cantabria Communist Party of Castile-La Mancha Communist Party of Castile-Leon Communist Party of Extremadura Communist Party of La Rioja Communist Party of the Region of Murcia

Others in Spain Communist Party of Spain (disambiguation)

Switzerland Communist Party (Switzerland) Communist Party Opposition (Switzerland) Communist Party of Switzerland Communist Party of Switzerland/Marxist–Leninists

Ukraine Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine Communist Party of Ukraine Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed) Communist Party of Western Ukraine Communist Party of Workers and Peasants Ukrainian Communist Party

United Kingdom Communist Party of Great Britain (disambiguation) Communist Labour Party (Scotland) Communist Party of Northern Ireland British and Irish Communist Organisation Revolutionary Communist Party (disambiguation)

Others in Europe (by country) Communist Party of Albania (disambiguation) Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia, in the Czech Republic Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Communist Party (Free City of Danzig) Faroese Communist Party, Faroe Islands Communist Party of Germany (disambiguation) Communist Party of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic Communist Party of Jersey Communist Party of Latvia Communist Party of Luxembourg Communist Party of Malta Communist Party of Transnistria Polish Communist Party (disambiguation) Communist Party of the Silesian Land, in Poland Transnistrian Communist Party Communist Party of Sweden (disambiguation) New Communist Party of Yugoslavia, in Serbia

North America Canada Communist Party of Canada (disambiguation) Workers' Communist Party of Canada

Dominican Republic International Communist Party (Dominican Republic) Communist Labour Party (Dominican Republic) Communist Party of Labour

Guatemala Communist Party of Guatemala (disambiguation) Guatemalan Party of Labour – Communist Party

Haiti Haitian Communist Party Unified Party of Haitian Communists

Mexico Bolshevik Communist Party, a Mexican party of the 1960s Communist Party of Mexico (Marxist–Leninist) Party of Mexican Communists Mexican Communist Party

United States Communist Party USA (disambiguation) Revolutionary Communist Party USA Communist Labor Party of America, organized in 1919 Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist) (United States) Communist Workers' Party (United States) Provisional Communist Party The Communist Party USA and African Americans

Others in North America (by country) Communist Party of Cuba Dominican Communist Party Communist Party of El Salvador Guadeloupe Communist Party Communist Party of Honduras Martinican Communist Party Communist Party of Nicaragua Puerto Rican Communist Party Communist Party of Trinidad and Tobago

South America Argentina Communist Party of Argentina Communist Party of Argentina (Extraordinary Congress) Revolutionary Communist Party of Argentina

Bolivia Communist Party of Bolivia Communist Party of Bolivia (Marxist–Leninist) Communist Party of Bolivia (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist)

Brazil Brazilian Communist Party Communist Party of Brazil Revolutionary Communist Party (Brazil)

Chile Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) Communist Party of Chile Revolutionary Communist Party (Chile)

Colombia Clandestine Colombian Communist Party