List of left and far-left parties in Europe

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

Country Party Ideology
Croatia Workers' Front (RF)
Cyprus Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL)
Czech Republic Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM)
Czech Republic Social Democracy (SOCDEM)
Denmark Socialist People's Party (SF)
Denmark Red-Green Alliance (Enhl., Ø)
Estonia Estonian United Left Party (EÜVP)
Finland Left Alliance (VAS)
France French Communist Party (PCF)

Formerly:

France La France insoumise (FI)
France New Anticapitalist Party (NPA)
France Workers' Struggle (LO)
Germany The Left

Factions

Greece Communist Party of Greece (KKE)
Hungary Hungarian Workers' Party[citation needed]
Iceland Left-Green Movement (VG) [citation needed]
Ireland Sinn Féin (SF)
Ireland People Before Profit Alliance (PBP)
Ireland Solidarity
Italy Communist Refoundation Party (PRC)
Latvia Socialist Party of Latvia (LSP) [citation needed]
Netherlands Socialist Party (SP)
Netherlands GreenLeft (GL)
Norway Socialist Left Party (SV) [citation needed]
Portugal Left Bloc (BE)
Portugal Portuguese Communist Party (PCP)
Portugal Portuguese Workers' Communist Party (PCTP/MRPP)
Portugal Socialist Alternative Movement (MAS)
Scotland Scottish Socialist Party (SSP)
Slovakia Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS)
Slovakia Direction – Slovak Social Democracy
Slovenia The Left
Spain Communist Party of Spain (PCE)
Sweden Left Party (V)
Turkey Workers' Party of Turkey (TİP)
Ukraine Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU)
United Kingdom Labour Party (LAB)
United Kingdom Green Party of England and Wales (GRN)
United Kingdom Communist Party of Britain (CPB)

See also

Literature

  • Backes, Uwe; Moreau, Patrick (2008). Communist and Post-Communist Parties in Europe. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. ISBN 9783525369128.
  • Daiber, Birgit; Hildebrandt, Cornelia; Striethorst, Anna (Eds.) (2012). From Revolution to Coalition – Radical Left Parties in Europe (PDF). Berlin: Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation.
  • Dunphy, Richard (2004). Contesting capitalism? Left parties and European integration. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719068041.
  • Hloušek, Vít; Kopeček, Lubomír (2010). Origin, Ideology and Transformation of Political Parties: East-Central and Western Europe Compared. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. ISBN 9780754678403.
  • March, Luke (2008). Contemporary Far Left Parties in Europe (PDF). Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. ISBN 978-3-86872-000-6.
  • March, Luke; Mudde, Cas (2005). "What's Left of the Radical Left? The European Radical Left After 1989: Decline and Mutation". Comparative European Politics. 3 (3). Palgrave Macmillan: 23–49. doi:10.1057/palgrave.cep.6110052. S2CID 55197396.

Notes

  1. ^ The social-democratic nature of SMER is disputed.[61]

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