Former Parties
Since the coup in 1973, Afghanistan has had many different political parties. These include Mohammed Daoud Khan's National Revolutionary Party of Afghanistan, the People's Democratic Party and the Democratic Watan Party of Afghanistan from the communist era, and the Northern Alliance that took power after the Fall of Kabul in April 1992, and ran the country until the Taliban's coup in 1996.
| English name | Ideology | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Watan Party of Afghanistan | Communism, marxism-leninism | |
| National Revolutionary Party of Afghanistan | Right-Centralism | |
| People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan | Communism, marxism-leninism | |
| Shalleh-ye Javiyd | Communism, Maoism | Banned in 1969 for opposing the Shah regime. |
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