Central committee

Central committee is the common designation of a standing administrative body of communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, of both ruling and nonruling parties of former and existing socialist states. In such party organizations, the committee would typically be made up of delegates elected at a party congress. In those states where it constituted the state power, the central committee made decisions for the party between congresses and usually was (at least nominally) responsible for electing the politburo. In non-ruling communist parties, the central committee is usually understood by the party membership to be the ultimate decision-making authority between congresses once the process of democratic centralism has led to an agreed-upon position.
Non-communist organizations are also governed by central committees, such as the right-wing Likud party in Israel, the North American Mennonite Church and Alcoholics Anonymous, the Taiwanese Kuomintang and Democratic Progressive Party as well as the former American Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors. In the United States, the two major parties are administered by the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee; these act as the leading bodies of those organizations at the national/administrative level as well as local committees in a similar capacity within the local Democratic or Republican governments of individual counties and states.
List of central committees
Communist
Central Committee of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
Central Committee of the Party of Labor of Albania
Central Committee of the Azerbaijani Democratic Party
Central Committee of the People's Revolutionary Party of Benin
Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Canada
Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Ethiopia
Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece
Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Central Committee of the Communist Party of India
Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist)
Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Central Committee of the Italian Communist Party
Central Committee of the Japan Communist Party
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea
Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist)
Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Committee of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines
Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party
Central Committee of the Portuguese Communist Party
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party
Central Committee of the Sammarinese Communist Party
Central Committee of the South African Communist Party
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia
Central Committee of the Azerbaijan Communist Party
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Byelorussia
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Estonia
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kirghizia
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Latvia
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Lithuania
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Moldavia
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan
Central Committee of the Tuvan People's Revolutionary Party
Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam
Central Committee of the United Wa State Party
Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
Central Committee of the League of Communists of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Central Committee of the League of Communists of Croatia
Central Committee of the League of Communists of Macedonia
Central Committee of the League of Communists of Montenegro
Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia
Central Committee of the League of Communists of Vojvodina
Central Committee of the League of Communists of Kosovo
Central Committee of the League of Communists of Slovenia
Non-communist
Central Committee of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath party - Syria Region (neo-Baathism and pan-Arabism)
Central Committee of the Burma Socialist Programme Party (Burmese Way to Socialism)
Central Committee of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (African socialism and African nationalism)
Central Committee of the Convention People's Party (pan-Africanism, African socialism and Nkrumaism)
Central Committee of Fatah (social democracy and democratic socialism)
Central Executive Committee of Democratic Progressive Party (Taiwan independence movement, Taiwanese nationalism and center-left liberalism)
Central Committee of the Kuomintang (Three Principles of the People, conservatism and Chinese nationalism)
Central Committee of the Left (democratic socialism)
Central Committee of the Likud (national liberalism and liberal conservatism)
Central Committee of the National Revolutionary Movement for Development (Hutu Power, social conservatism and anti-communism)
Central Committee of PAIGC (social democracy and democratic socialism)
Central Committee of the Pakistan Peoples Party (social democracy and democratic socialism)
Central Committee of the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (secularism and Eritrean nationalism)
Central Committee of the People's Progressive Party/Civic (social democracy, democratic socialism and left-wing nationalism)
Central Committee of UNIP (African socialism and African nationalism)
Formerly communist
Central Committee of the Cambodian People's Party (conservatism and economic liberalism since 1991)
Central Committee of the Congolese Party of Labour (social democracy and democratic socialism since 2006)
Central Committee of FRELIMO (social democracy and democratic socialism since 1989)
Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Party (social democracy and democratic socialism since 1990)
Central Committee of the MPLA (social democracy and democratic socialism since 1990)
Central Committee of SWAPO (social democracy and democratic socialism since 1990, Socialism with Namibian characteristics since 2017)
Central Committee of the Yemeni Socialist Party (social democracy and Arab nationalism since 1990)
See also
Eastern Bloc politics
Politburo
References
Communist parties
Communist terminology
Executive committees of political parties