List of left and far left parties in Europe

This is a list of European political parties that have been classified as left-wing or far left in the political spectrum. The categorisation of some parties may vary in different sources.

Country Party Left Radical left Far left Extreme left Ideology
Cyprus Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL) March[1] Reform communism[1]
Czech Republic Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) March[1] Mareš[2] Reform communism[1]
Czech Republic Union of Youth Communist of Czechoslovakia (SMKČ) March[1] Mareš[2] Radical left[1]
Denmark Socialist People's Party (SF) Backes/Moreau[3]
Dunphy[4] 		March[1] Hloušek/Kopeček[5] Democratic socialism,[1] Red Green,[3]
leftist postmaterialism[5]
Denmark Red-Green Alliance (EL) March[1] Democratic socialism[1]
Finland Left Alliance (Finland) (VAS) Backes/Moreau[3]
Dunphy[6] 		March[1] Democratic socialism,[1]
Red Green[3]
France French Communist Party (PCF) Dunphy[7] March[1] Hloušek/Kopeček[8] Reform communism[1][8]
France New Anticapitalist Party (NPA) March[1] Populist socialism[1]
France Workers' Struggle (LO) Dunphy[9] Courtois/Andolfatto[10] Trotskyism
France Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), defunct Dunphy[9] Courtois/Andolfatto[10] Trotskyism
Germany The Left March[1] Hloušek/Kopeček[11] Populist socialism[1]
Greece Communist Party of Greece (KKE) Dunphy[12] March/Mudde[13] Hloušek/Kopeček[14] March[1] Traditionalist[14]/
conservative communism[1]
Greece Synaspismós Backes/Moreau[3]
Dunphy[12] 		March[1] Hloušek/Kopeček[5] Democratic socialism,[1] Red Green,[3]
leftist postmaterialism[5]
Iceland Left-Green Movement (VG) Backes/Moreau[3] March[1] Democratic socialism,[1]
Red Green[3]
Ireland Sinn Féin March[1] Populist socialism[1]
Italy Party of Communist Refoundation (PRC) Dunphy[15] March[1] Hloušek/Kopeček[8] Reform communism[1][8]
Italy Party of Italian Communists (PdCI) Dunphy[15] March[1] Reform communism[1]
Italy Italian Communist Party (PCI), defunct Dunphy[15]
Italy Proletarian Democracy (DP), defunct Dunphy[16]
Latvia Socialist Party of Latvia (LSP) March[1] Conservative communism[1]
Netherlands Socialist Party (Netherlands) (SP) March[1]
Voerman[17] 		Hloušek/Kopeček[8] Populist socialism[1]/
social populism[8]
Netherlands GreenLeft (GL) Backes/Moreau[3] Hloušek/Kopeček[5] Red Green,[3]
leftist postmaterialism[5]
Norway Socialist Left Party (SV) Backes/Moreau[3] March[1] Hloušek/Kopeček[5] Democratic socialism,[1] Red Green[3]
leftist postmaterialism[5]
Portugal Left Bloc (BE) March[1] Cunha[18] Democratic socialism[1]
Portugal Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) Dunphy[19] Hloušek/Kopeček[14] March[1] Orthodox[18]/traditionalist[14]/
conservative communism[1]
Scotland Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) March[1] Hloušek/Kopeček[8] Populist socialism[1]/
social populism[8]
Slovakia Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS) March[1] Conservative communism[1]
Slovakia Association of Slovak Workers (ZRS) March[1] Mareš[20]/
Hloušek/Kopeček[21] 		Social populism[1]
Spain Communist Party of Spain (PCE) Dunphy[22] March[1] Reform communism[1]
Sweden Left Party (Sweden) (V) Backes/Moreau[3]
Dunphy[23] 		March[1] Democratic socialism,[1]
Red Green[3]
Ukraine Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU) Polese[24] Communism, Marxism-Leninism, pro-Russia[25]

Literature

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 March, 2008, p. 4
  2. 1 2 Mareš, Miroslav (2008), "Communist and Post-Communist Parties in the Czech Republic and Slovakia", Communist and Post-Communist Parties in Europe, p. 305
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Backes/Moreau, 2008, p.571
  4. ↑ Dunphy, 2004, p. 131
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Hloušek/Kopeček, 2010, p. 46
  6. ↑ Dunphy, 2004, p. 139
  7. ↑ Dunphy, 2004, p. 91
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Hloušek/Kopeček, 2010, p. 47
  9. 1 2 Dunphy, 2004, p. 102
  10. 1 2 Courtois, Stéphane; Andolfatto, Dominique (2208), "France — The Collapse of the House of Communism", Communist and Post-Communist Parties in Europe, pp. 115, 130 Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. ↑ Hloušek/Kopeček, 2010, p. 72
  12. 1 2 Dunphy, 2004, p. 103
  13. ↑ March/Mudde, 2005, p. 42
  14. 1 2 3 4 Hloušek/Kopeček, 2010, pp. 46–47
  15. 1 2 3 Dunphy, 2004, p. 72
  16. ↑ Dunphy, 2004, p. 88
  17. ↑ Voerman, Gerrit (2008), "The Disappearance of Communism in the Netherlands", Communist and Post-Communist Parties in Europe, p. 16
  18. 1 2 Cunha, Carlos (2008), "Few but Pure and Good Members are Preferred to a Mass Party — The Portuguese Communist Party's Continued Orthodoxy", Communist and Post-Communist Parties in Europe, p. 197
  19. ↑ Dunphy, 2004, p. 113
  20. ↑ Mareš, Miroslav (2008), "Communist and Post-Communist Parties in the Czech Republic and Slovakia", Communist and Post-Communist Parties in Europe, p. 309
  21. ↑ Hloušek/Kopeček, 2010, p. 32
  22. ↑ Dunphy, 2004, p. 121
  23. ↑ Dunphy, 2004, p. 148
  24. ↑ Polese, Abel (2008), "Ukraine 1991–2006 — Where Have All the Communists Gone?", Communist and Post-Communist Parties in Europe, p. 16
  25. ↑ Nordsieck, Wolfram, "Ukraine", Parties and Elections in Europe, retrieved 13 January 2014
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