There are a number of communist parties around the world.

In world history, the Russian and Chinese communists are very important.

In Western Europe, the French, Spanish and Italian communist parties are the biggest.  They have taken part in either local, regional or central government in those countries.

Some communist parties have different names, such as Socialist Party, Socialist Workers Party, or Workers Party.  But most socialist parties are social democratic and not communist.

List

Other Communist parties in today's world 
 Algeria - Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism
 Argentina - Communist Party of Argentina
 Australia - Communist Party of Australia
 Austria - Communist Party of Austria
 Bangladesh - Communist Party of Bangladesh
 Belarus - Communist Party of Belarus
 Belgium - Communist Party of Belgium
 Bosnia and Herzegovina - Workers’ Communist Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Brazil - Brazilian Communist Party, Communist Party of Brazil
 Canada - Communist Party of Canada, Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada
 Chile - Communist Party of Chile
 Colombia - Communist Party of Colombia
 Cyprus - Progressive Party of the Working People of Cyprus
 Czech Republic - Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
 Denmark -  Communist Party (Denmark), Communist Party Of Denmark,  Workers' Communist Party (Denmark)
 Egypt - Egyptian Communist Party
 Finland - Communist Party of Finland
 France - French Communist Party
 Germany -  Communist Party Of Germany
 Greece - Communist Party of Greece (KKE)
 Honduras - Communist Party of Honduras
 Hungary - Hungarian Worker's party
 India - Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Iraq - Iraqi Communist Party
 Israel -  Israeli Communist Party
 Italy - Italian Communist Party, Communist Refoundation Party
 Ireland - Communist Party of Ireland, Workers Party of Ireland
 Japan - Japanese Communist Party
Kazakhstan - Communist Party of Kazakhstan, People's Party of Kazakhstan
 Mexico - Popular Socialist Party Of Mexico 
 Moldova - Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova
 Netherlands - New Communist Party of the Netherlands
 New Zealand - Socialist Party of Aotearoa
 Norway - Communist Party of Norway
 Pakistan -  Communist Party of Pakistan
 Palestinian Authority - Palestine People's Party
 Peru -  Peruvian Communist Party, Shining Path
 Poland - Communist Party of Poland
 Portugal - Portuguese Communist Party, Portuguese Workers' Communist Party
Philippines-Communist Party of the Philippines
 Russia - Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Communist Workers Party of Russia, All-Union Party «Union of Communists»
 Serbia and Montenegro - New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
 Slovakia - Communist Party of Slovakia
 South Africa - South African Communist Party
 Spain - Communist Party of Spain
 Sudan -  Sudanese Communist Party
 Sweden - Communist Party (Sweden), Communist Party Of Sweden
 Switzerland - Swiss Party of Labor
 Syria - Syrian Communist Party, Syrian Communist Party (Unified)
 Tajikistan - Communist Party of Tajikistan
 Turkey - Workers' Party of Turkey , Labour Party (Turkey)
 Ukraine - Communist Party of Ukraine,Union of Communists of Ukraine
 United Kingdom - Communist Party of Britain, Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist), Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), New Communist Party of Britain, Revolutionary Communist Group
 United States - Communist Party USA, Revolutionary Communist Party
 Venezuela - Communist Party of Venezuela, Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Venezuela

Old Communist parties which do not exist today 
 Nepal - Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)
 Cambodia - Communist Party of Cambodia (Khmer Rouge)
 Czechoslovakia - Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
 Germany - Communist Party of Germany
 Germany (East) - Socialist Unity Party of Germany
 Hungary - Hungarian Communist Party, Hungarian Workers Party
Indonesia - Indonesian Communist Party (PKI)
 Mexico - Mexican Communist Party (PCM)
 Netherlands - Communist Party of the Netherlands became part of GroenLinks in 1989
 New Zealand - Communist Party of New Zealand
 Poland - Polish United Workers Party
 Poland - Communist Party of Poland massacred by Stalin in 1938, see Polish minority in Soviet Union
 Romania - Romanian Workers' Party
 Soviet Union - Communist Party of the Soviet Union
 United Kingdom - Communist Party of Great Britain
 Yugoslavia - Communist Party of Yugoslavia
 Switzerland - Communist Party of Switzerland
 Turkey - Turkish Workers Party (TIP)

Related pages
 Communism
 List of members of the Comintern
 List of left communist internationals
 List of political parties

References