What happened to the most traditional communist parties in Europe? Which of them have allied themselves with other leftists, and who is still resisting alone? Here are their main theses, alliances and election results.

Before talking about communist parties in other countries, it is important to note the following information about the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP): in the entire euro area, it is the party led by Jeronimo Sousa who has the most votes compared to their counterparts in other countries. This state of affairs has persisted for several years, but the parliamentary elections on October 4 confirmed it again: the PCP managed to score 8.25% and take 17 seats, the highest since 1999.

In Europe, after the PCP, the second party of communists with the largest number votes is the Greek KKE with 5.6%. The Communist Party of Britain is the least popular: in the May elections, just over a thousand voters throughout the UK voted for it. Next door to Portugal, in Spain, since 1986 communist party runs in elections in coalition with the United Left - as in the case of the PCP, which since 1987 has been participating in elections with the Greens - in the Coalition for Democratic Unity (CDU). Let's get acquainted in order with some of the PCP comrades in Europe.

Greece. Losing votes but not giving up

Apart from the PCP, among those European communist parties that still retain the ideological matrix of Marxism-Leninism, it is the Greek KKE that has shown the greatest electoral success. In the last parliamentary elections on September 20, which confirmed the victory of SYRIZA, won by it back in January of this year, the KKE was the fifth party in terms of the number of votes received - 5.6%.

The Greek Communist Party operated underground until 1974, when the Greek far-right dictatorship came to an end. Since then, this party has existed legally and has never lost its representation in the Greek Parliament. Her best result was recorded in June 1989 - 13.1%, when she entered the elections in a coalition with the left Synapismos - which later became one of the political forces that formed SYRIZA.

The times of coalitions for the KKE seem to be over after the collapse Soviet Union- it was then, after this turning point in history, that the Greek communists lost their votes. Since then, the voting results have stabilized at 5-6% - although in May 2012 under the leadership of Aleka Papariga, the first woman to head the party, it peaked at 8.5%. The current general secretary of the KKE is Dimitris Koutsoumpas. KKE stands for Greece's exit from the euro and the European Union, as well as from NATO.

On the party website, which is available in several languages, you can read a passage that illustrates the KKE's enthusiastic rhetoric well:

“Without downplaying the consequences of the shift in the balance of power, we must be more demanding, above all on ourselves. We need to be more rigorous in order not only to consolidate and consolidate what we have already achieved, but also to move into a more dynamic counter-attack and reinforcement phase. We do not bend under the burden of difficulties and do not ignore them. We accept our responsibilities objectively, without any embellishment or nihilism."

The KKE has one representative in Brussels, in the United European Left group, where the PCP and the Portuguese Left Bloc are also located.

France. Together on the Left Front

The French Communist Party (PCF), although it continues its autonomous activity, in Lately participates in elections under the brand name of the Left Front (Front de Gauche). The PCF coalition is by far the largest party (in 2011, according to L'Express, it had 138,000 activists), but none other than the leader of the second largest political force, the Left Party (9,000 members), appears at the forefront of the coalition. We are talking about Jean-Luc Mélénchon, a former Trotskyite teacher and minister vocational education in the government of Lionel Jospin, who in 2008 decided to leave the French Socialist Party to found the Left Party. On presidential elections 2012, Mélenchon came fourth with 11.1% of the vote. One of his promises was to impose a 75 percent tax on those whose annual earnings exceed 1 million euros.

Until 1994, the PCF was the owner of the daily newspaper L'Humanité, which since then has been formally an independent publication, meanwhile providing access to its pages to all directions ideologically close to the party. As in Portugal, in France, the communists traditionally hold a holiday with concerts, discussions and rallies, the name of which refers to the newspaper. Feast of the Humanite (Fête de L'Humanité).

The left front is represented in the European Parliament by four deputies in the United European Left group.

Spain. Away from Podemos

As in the case of France, the Spanish Communist Party (PCE) has been participating in elections since 1986 as part of the United Left (Izquierda Unida) coalition. While the latter includes other political forces – such as the Republican Left or the Open Left – the leaders of the United Left have always been the general secretaries of the PCE, which, as of 2009, has 12,558 members and is the largest party in the coalition. It is currently chaired by Alberto Garzón.

(The case of the PCE is identical in every way to the PCP, which since 1987 has been running in elections in coalition with the Greens, forming the CDU. Like the Spanish United Left, in the CDU it is also the communists who have the lion's share of parliamentary seats: 15 deputies against two from the party " greens").

A coalition, yes, but not to the point of teaming up with Podemos from a European political family, to which the Portuguese Left Bloc belongs. After months of both parties appearing to be moving closer ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled for December 20, 2015, Podemos' weak results have been cooling off. The division was confirmed after the meeting of the two parties, each of which eventually spoke of "popular unity", despite the lack of unity between themselves. “We regret that Podemos closed the door to popular unity,” Garzon said.

“We continue our work for change and regret that there are those who choose not to join (...). Our goal is clear: to build popular unity,” Podemos said in a statement.

The United Left has 4 deputies in Brussels, also in the United European Left group.

Great Britain. Help Corbin?

When two parties confuse one for the other, chances are neither is particularly strong. This is the situation in Great Britain with respect to two parties called communist: the Communist Party of Britain and the Communist Party of Great Britain.

In July, the general secretary of the Communist Party of Britain, the larger of the two whose newspaper (albeit unofficially) is the Morning Star, Robert Griffiths, announced his support for Jeremy Corbyn even before he was elected leader of the Labor Party. “Only Jeremy Corbyn advocates taxing the rich and capitalist monopolies, investing in public services rather than privatizing them, building more social housing, bringing back energy and railways state, for denying anti-union laws and weapons of mass destruction - expensive, immoral and useless, ”writes Griffiths.

The confusion began when another communist party (PCGB) was charged with infiltrating its activists into the Labor ranks in order to vote for Corbyn in the delegate elections. Only now these accusations also spread to PCB. Griffiths was quick to point out that that Communist Party was not his Communist Party at all. "It's a bit silly, a bit like Life of Brian," he said, comparing the situation to a Monty Python film.

In the May 2015 parliamentary elections, the PCB received only 1,229 votes. PCGB did not participate.

However, British communists do not exist only in these parties. Within the Labor Party itself there is a Marxist faction, the so-called Labor Party Marxists.

“Our main task is to turn the Labor Party into an instrument of the working class and international socialism. To this end, we are ready to reunite with others in the search for the unity of the left, both inside and outside the party, ”read in the list of the main provisions of this group.

Germany. The revival of the Stasi?

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were Germans, but even this does not seem to be enough for the German Communist Party to acquire real significance for the politics of the country. The last time the party was represented in the Bundestag was in 2008, when Christel Wegner, a member of the German Communist Party but elected on the "Left" (Die Linke) list, was expelled from the party faction after her calls in an interview for the return of the political police times of the GDR:

“I think that if a new society were to be created, we would again need an organization [like the Stasi] to protect the country from reactionary forces trying to destroy the state from within.”

It is in Die Linke that the main German left forces are concentrated (in general, the name of the party speaks for itself). The party was formed in 2007 and absorbed various forces to the left of the second largest party in Germany, the Social Democratic, including dissidents of the latter. In addition, it included old members of the Party of Democratic Socialism (successor of the Socialist united party Germany, the political force on which the dictatorship of the GDR relied).

In the last parliamentary elections in Germany in 2013, Die Linke received 8.2% of the vote. The party has seven MEPs in the Brussels European Parliament and became an inspiration for the Portuguese Left Bloc when it decided in 2012 to opt for two co-chairs, a two-headed leadership model.

The Kiev court ruled to ban the activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU) in the country. The petition to the court was filed by the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine. The court also rejected the complaint of the Communist Party of Ukraine on the recognition of its charter and symbols as inconsistent with the legislation of the country. Previously, the Communist Party of Ukraine had already been deprived of a faction in the Verkhovna Rada and, in fact, completely removed from participation in political life countries. “What did you expect from the fascist regime? We will act legally and illegally, the truth is behind us, ”KPU head Petr Simonenko told Kommersant.

"The court has completed consideration of the case on the claim of the Ministry of Justice to the Communist Party of Ukraine on the ban on its activities," the press service of the Kiev District Administrative Court reported today. "The court satisfied the claim of the ministry in full, banning the activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine." The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine filed a petition to ban the Communist Party back in July 2014. Then, as TASS reports, this was motivated by the fact that the KPU “performs actions aimed at changing the constitutional order by force, violating sovereignty and territorial integrity country, promotes violence, incites interethnic hatred. The trial in this case took place on December 10.

The head of the Communist Party of Ukraine, Petro Symonenko, believes that the battle is not yet lost. “So far it was only a court of first instance. Further - appeal, cassation and the European Court of Human Rights. We have good chances there,” the Communist Party leader said in an interview with Kommersant. “I think this was done because on Friday the Venice Commission is considering our claim to invalidate the decision to ban our symbols.” He also added that the Communist Party is determined. “We will act legally, illegally, whatever. The truth is behind us,” said Petro Symonenko.

Today, the Kiev Administrative Court of Appeal refused to satisfy the complaint of the Communist Party of Ukraine against the earlier adopted order of the Ministry of Justice dated July 23 No. 1312/5. This order contained the legal opinion of the Commission on Compliance with the Law of Ukraine “On the Condemnation of the Communist and National Socialist (Nazi) totalitarian regimes in Ukraine and the prohibition of propaganda of their symbols. According to it, the symbols and charter of the KPU were declared inconsistent with the requirements of the law.

The head of the Ministry of Justice has already expressed his satisfaction with both decisions. "We are convinced that these judgments will have extremely positive consequences for the entire Ukrainian society,” Minister of Justice of Ukraine Pavlo Petrenko wrote on his Facebook page. “Ukrainian society should be based on the true cultural values ​​of our people, live in the European legal field and not repeat the mistakes of the past.”

The ban of the CPU was the last on this moment an epic act about getting rid of the Soviet ideological legacy in Ukraine. On May 15, Petro Poroshenko signed the so-called decommunization package of four laws adopted by deputies of the Verkhovna Rada on April 9. They banned Soviet symbols, condemned the communist regime, opened access to the archives of the Soviet special services, and soldiers of the Ukrainian insurgent army were recognized as fighters for the country's independence. It was on the basis of one of these laws that the Ministry of Justice filed a lawsuit against the Communist Party of Ukraine.

In April, the Russian Foreign Ministry expressed extreme indignation at the adopted documents. “The blasphemy with which this whole epic was organized in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine with the adoption of a package of“ anti-communist ”, and in fact anti-Russian and anti-Ukrainian laws, just on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, is striking,” the press service said at the time.

Problems with the Communist Party of Ukraine began after the removal of President Viktor Yanukovych from power in the country in February 2014. The CPU has repeatedly expressed disagreement with the policy of the new Ukrainian authorities. In May 2014, Acting Head of State Oleksandr Turchynov initiated an investigation into the Communist Party of Ukraine regarding its connection with the protests in eastern Ukraine. On July 22, 2014, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine voted to dissolve the communist faction. The decision came into force on the same day after it was signed by President Petro Poroshenko. On September 15, the Central Election Commission of Ukraine registered the CPU for early elections to the Verkhovna Rada. According to official figures, the Communists scored 3.88% on them and did not get into the Verkhovna Rada. Most of all (10.25% and 11.88%) they received in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine.

Mikhail Korostikov

With the condemnation of communism and the accusation of the Communist Party of all mortal sins, the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party Vladimir Zhirinovsky spoke the day before. A new detail appeared in his traditional anti-communist appeal - they say that all members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation should be convicted under article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation for extremism.

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“They disfigured the country, deceived all of humanity, millions of people died, stupid ideas. It is necessary to curse the word "communism" and all those who are today in this kind of left-wing organizations", - Zhirinovsky said on September 6 at a press conference at the central office of the Interfax agency.

“Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation should apply to the entire Communist Party of the Russian Federation”he said and added that"The Communist Party must be banned."

Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov at first wisely refused to comment on "Storm" "all sorts of nonsense Zhirinovsky". However, he later recalled that "they tried to ban the idea of ​​justice and friendship of peoples as soon as it was born."

“The most fierce hater of communism was Hitler and his pack of fascists, Goebbels and Goering, but nothing came of it. Zhirinovsky will not work either. Therefore, send them away and say that all nonsense is unworthy of an elementary comment, ”- the leader of the communists spoke sharply.

Zhirinovsky proposed to ban communism

At the same time, he stated that the LDPR would unite with the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and would not recognize the results of the September 9 elections. September 6, 2018

An attempt to ban the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and communist ideology has already been made in modern history Russian Federation. Its main initiator is a former member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the first president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin.

A quarter of a century ago, on February 13-14, 1993, at the II Extraordinary Congress of the Communists of Russia, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation was formed as the restored Communist Party of the RSFSR. Previously, its activities were first suspended (August 23, 1991), and then completely banned in the country (November 6, 1991) by decree of the President of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin, who had his own scores with the Communists - he was afraid that the Communist Party would be able to take revenge and to return power to their own hands, which Yeltsin took away with such difficulty. The central organs of the party were dissolved, and the property was transferred to the state.

In October 1992, the party was restored on the basis of local party branches. At that time, Gennady Zyuganov, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR for ideology, Gennady Zyuganov, head of the Communist Party of the RSFSR, Valentin Kuptsov, and Viktor Zorkaltsev, the representative of the CPSU in the Constitutional Court, beat out their right to exist at the cost of incredible efforts.

In general, the entire period of the 90s was marked by a fierce struggle between one of the former heads of the CPSU and the new president new Russia Boris Yeltsin with the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and its leader Gennady Zyuganov. Yeltsin's hatred for the communists was at the gene level - in every conceivable and inconceivable way, the head of state tried to get rid of the attributes of the great Soviet power recognized even by the West.

Yeltsin's anti-communist agenda was quite successfully intercepted by Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who never tired of kicking the communists for one reason or another.

Considering a certain wariness of the presidential administration regarding the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which, albeit remaining within the framework of the system, nevertheless begins to behave somewhat more radically than it was before the announcement of the pension reform, it is not surprising that the main and almost Russia's only anti-communist Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

If we try to hypothetically imagine that the Kremlin decides to ban the Communist Party, dissolve the party and repress its members, then only one conclusion can be drawn: the system has gone rogue and finally lost touch with reality.

Incompetent communists. The presidential administration is dissatisfied with the growth of the influence of the Communist Party

According to "Storm", the authorities may not allow the rally of the Communists on September 2 against the pension reform August 20, 2018

To ban a party that has multi-million dollar support throughout the country, and is essentially and in fact the second political force in Russia, is literally destabilizing the political situation.

It is difficult to say what must happen in order for the top management to decide to abandon the Communist Party and artificially terminate its existence. The party will disappear, but the idea will remain, along with its followers, who are even more radicalized than before. The liquidation of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation will definitely cause a very sharp rejection of at least every fifth Russian, if we take the support of the structure in society in the region of 20%.

Moreover, a whole political field will be released, which will not be empty for a long time, since the law of conservation of energy will come into play: somewhere it has gone, somewhere it has arrived. There will be no systemic opposition Communist Party - another, non-systemic radical left organization will appear, which will create even more problems for the authorities.

“The ban on the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is a rather unpleasant thing for the presidential administration. The toggle switch can be flipped at any moment and for any reason, but politics abhors a vacuum. If a niche is vacated that was previously occupied by a legal political force, then an illegal one will appear there. I understand that we like to experiment and believe that nothing is impossible, but it will still be too much ", according to the Vice President Russian Association political consultants Andrey Maksimov.

According to the current legislation, in order to suspend the state registration of a political party, it is necessary that its activities directly contradict the Constitution of Russia - be recognized as extremist, incite national and other discord in society, and so on.

That is, the authorities will have to recognize the very ideology of communism as extremist, which will be extremely difficult to do in conditions when Russia has declared itself the legal successor of the Soviet Union, where communism was the state ideology.

Either the Communist Party of the Russian Federation should become extremely radicalized and call for the overthrow of the institutions of state power in the country, which is extremely difficult to imagine, at least in the still existing Russian realities.

The head of the Institute for Political Studies, Sergei Markov, believes that Zhirinovsky's statements about the need to ban communism and condemn party members under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation are nothing more than pre-election PR.

However, even if you try to imagine that the government will attempt a real ban on the Communist Party, then in this case the presidential administration will make a gross administrative and political mistake.

Zyuganov put Zhirinovsky on a par with Hitler for trying to ban communism

No one succeeded in destroying the idea of ​​justice and friendship of peoples, the head of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation said September 7, 2018

“The feeling that they are closed in on themselves. The channels of communication with society have dried up. The quality of political and personnel decisions has fallen, the number of unprofessional personal mistakes is constantly increasing. If you like a girl, then you should look after her, and not rape her. The authorities scalded the people with the pension reform, as if they poured boiling water on them from a teapot,” condemns the actions of the Markov authorities.

“The probability of a ban is extremely small - 2-3%, - continues the political scientist. - But if three or four more innovations are introduced, such as pension reform in its current form or the monetization of benefits, then public discontent will grow and, perhaps, the communists will become one of the leaders of this discontent. That's when the ban of the Communist Party can happen."

The leader of the Liberal Democratic Party Vladimir Zhirinovsky is a good actor who in life behaves a little differently than in front of the cameras - subtly, elegantly, politely. Andrei Kolyadin, a former high-ranking employee of the presidential administration, shared these observations with Storm.

According to the political strategist, Zhirinovsky's calls for a ban on the Communist Party and accusations of its members of extremism are a mere spectacle.

“There is nothing surprising in what he finds in communist movement only extremist notes. There is such old story: wherever a bee flies - she has honey everywhere, and wherever a fly flies - she has shit everywhere ", - concludes Kolyadin.

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Rising sun communism

Japan only at first glance may not seem the most suitable place for the followers of Lenin's cause. In fact, the Communist Party, founded in the Land of the Rising Sun in 1922, is alive and well, despite the fact that most of its ideological sisters have long since left the scene. The party advocates socialism and democracy, as well as against "militarism" - the desire of the conservatives to change the nature of the peaceful post-war constitution and return the army to Japan. Now, de jure, the island state does not have its own armed forces, and its self-defense forces can only participate in hostilities to protect the country's territory.

Last year, the Communists were able to significantly strengthen their representation in the Japanese Parliament, as well as in the capital city of Tokyo. The KPJ has won 11 seats in the upper house of parliament, in addition, it has 8 mandates in the lower one. The party became the third political force in the Tokyo Prefectural Legislature. The Communists' success is linked to voter fatigue from traditional parties, experts say.

Thus, the energetic communist Yoshiko Kira, an active fighter against nuclear energy, for the peaceful nature of the country's constitution and against the presence of American military bases in Japan, was elected to the capital's legislature - all these slogans arouse the sympathy of left-wing students and young trade union activists. The party newspaper Akahata (Red Banner) is popular for its exposé reports on environmental issues and abuses in the ruling circles. The circulation of the publication is 1.2 million copies. More than 300,000 people are members of the CPJ today.

Mascots of the Japanese Communist Party

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To attract the voters, the Japanese communists created "cute" comic book characters who fight American bases and also advocate for tax cuts.

Communism with a rich history

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Left ideas in France have a rich history - it is no coincidence that the first Bolsheviks declared themselves the heirs of the French Revolution and the Paris Commune. The modern French Communist Party was founded in 1920. During the years of the Nazi occupation, the French communists were active participants in the Resistance, after the war they became one of the leading political forces in the country, headed by, after whom the Linguistic University was named in Moscow. In the 1969 elections, the PCF candidate almost made it to the second round with 21% of the vote.

An active supporter of the communists was the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, the party consisted of many celebrities, including the wife of Vladimir Vysotsky and a famous composer.

The official newspaper of the PCF, L'Humanite, was even distributed by the future right-wing President of France. The Communists also published a comic book for children and teenagers, Pif, about the adventures of a puppy and his friends, which was very popular with French children.

Back in the early 2000s, it was the largest Communist Party Western world, whose representatives were even part of the government coalition.

However, in the first decade of the new century, the popularity of the PCF steadily decreased, as a result of which they decided to reformat and create a united “Left Front”, whose representative in the presidential elections of 2012 took fourth place, gaining 11% - a result better than that of the communists in the previous four campaigns.

Left communism

The heirs of the GDR from the Party of Democratic Socialism, the legal successor of the Socialist Unity Party that ruled East Germany, also followed the path of a broader coalition of leftist forces. After the reunification of the country, its former bosses received a good percentage of votes for some time, but their popularity was constantly declining. Help came from former party members of the Chancellor who left the ranks of the Social Democrats in protest against the erosion of the party's left-wing ideology.

In 2007, they created a joint bloc called the Left, which declared its goal to "overcome capitalism" and to build "democratic socialism." In the last elections to the Bundestag, the bloc took third place, displacing the liberals from the Free Democratic Party, but, nevertheless, lost 3% of the vote.

In Russian state media, the speech of the chairman of the Left faction Gregor Gysi this spring, in which he harshly criticized the Ukrainian policy of Angela Merkel, was very popular.

Communism with a cherry

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The Communist Party of the Czech Republic and Moravia (CPCM) is the only Marxist-Leninist force in Eastern Europe, which, even after the collapse of the socialist bloc, continues to play a significant role in the country's politics. Its recent history began in extremely unfavorable conditions, as a tough and consistent lustration was carried out in the new Czech Republic. former members ruling HRC. There were several splits within the party, in 2006 its youth organization was even banned.

Nevertheless, the KSCM held out, bringing its program significantly closer to classical Eurocommunism, and even took a new symbol instead of the traditional hammer and sickle - the “cherry”.

The new program, with a rather noticeable shift in anti-globalization rhetoric, allowed it to gradually gain popularity. As the Polish Gazeta Wyborcza notes, "even young people vote for the party, those who were born after 1989." In the last parliamentary elections last year, the KSCM received almost 15% of the vote. “The backbone of voters consists mainly of the older generation, but the ranks of the party are constantly replenished with young people. Moreover, about 3% of the youngest voters vote for this party,” emphasizes Gazeta Wyborcza. Currently, the KSCM has 34 out of 200 deputy mandates in parliament and 182 seats in regional legislatures (a total of 675 deputies).

Communism in the Himalayas

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The United Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) is the third most influential political force in the country, which was founded in 1994. For many years, she waged a guerrilla war with the country's monarchical government, but in 2005 she switched to a peaceful political process and organized an alliance with other parties. The communists' commitment to the peace process was even noted, which removed it from the list of "terrorist organizations" and also acknowledged the role of the UCPN in achieving peace.

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The Communist Party of India (Marxist) arose after the split of the "big" Communist Party into two parts - oriented towards the USSR and supported by Maoist China.

The KPI(m) still stands on fairly orthodox positions - its program still speaks of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and its symbol is a white hammer and sickle on a red background.

Marxist communists have strong representation in poorer states like Kerala and West Bengal. In total, the party has over 1 million members. Since 2013, the communist government has ruled the state of Tripura in northeastern India.

The Maoists to this day call for armed struggle against the authorities in New Delhi and the hostile classes. The Indian government considers the Maoists terrorists. The same replenish their party coffers in the literal sense with opium for the people, trading in opium poppy.

In what countries of the world is the communist party banned? and got the best answer

Answer from Ping Pong[guru]
It was banned in Germany in 1956. They did it right.

Answer from Pedal horse[guru]
In civilized countries, the party of murderers is prohibited.

Answer from ArArAt*****[guru]
South Africa during the apartheid regime.

Answer from Nikolai Khomyakov[guru]
As far as I know, in Latvia.

Answer from Yergey Ivanov[guru]
Communist parties for 2011 are ruling in China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, North Korea (under the name of the Workers' Party of Korea).
They are part of the ruling coalitions in Cyprus, Italy, Nepal, Uruguay.
Cuba Cuba (Communist Party of Cuba) (1959), the only legal party in this country
Democratic People's Republic of Korea DPRK (Workers' Party of Korea leads the United Democratic Patriotic Front) (1948)
People's Republic of China (Communist Party of China, leads the Patriotic United Front of the Chinese People); Hong Kong and Macau are excluded from this system (1949)
Vietnam Vietnam (Communist Party of Vietnam leads the Vietnam Fatherland Front, en: Vietnamese Fatherland Front) (1976)
Laos Laos (People's Revolutionary Party of Laos leads the Lao Front for National Construction, en: Lao Front for National Construction) (1975)
Syria Syria (Communist Party of Syria is part of the National Progressive Front) (1963)
Moldova Moldova (Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova has a formal majority in parliament, but is not the ruling party)
Nepal Nepal (From August 2008 to March 2013, representatives of the communist parties (Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist) became Prime Ministers of Nepal (2008)
Uruguay Uruguay (The Communist Party of Uruguay is part of the Broad Front - a coalition of communists, socialists, Trotskyists, Christian Democrats, which has been in power in Uruguay since 2004. In the 2004 elections, the Broad Front won 51.7% of the vote and held 52 deputy out of 99. Since March 1, 2010, Jose Mujica, a former member of the Tupamaros partisan movement (National Liberation Movement), a Marxist radical organization that used urban guerrilla methods in the armed struggle against the government) became the President of Uruguay) (2004)
Republic of South Africa South Africa - South African Communist Party
Ukraine Ukraine - Communist Party of Ukraine
Sri Lanka Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka - Communist Party of Sri Lanka
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Answer from Vsevolod ship[guru]
in many Muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, in Myanmar, there are countries where it never existed, all sorts of Fiji, Belize, etc. if it were banned in Russia, it would be just wonderful!

Answer from Walter[guru]
If it's banned, then there's a reason for it. after the Communists sucked blood from half the world, it is not surprising that they banned it.

Answer from Chernov Nikita[newbie]
Communist parties are banned in countries where ruling regime is a dictatorship because the communist parties are opposed to some people exploiting others