Defunct (non-ruling)
- Armenia - Armenian Workers Communist Party, Armenian Workers Union, Marxist Party of Armenia, Union of Communists of Armenia, Renewed Communist Party of Armenia
- Australia - Communist Party of Australia
- Britain - Communist Party of Great Britain
- Brazil - Revolutionary Brazilian Communist Party
- Canada - Labour-Progressive Party founded in 1943 when Communist Party of Canada was banned (resumed former name in 1959), Workers' Communist Party of Canada
- Channel Islands - Communist Party of Jersey
- Republic of China (Taiwan) - Taiwanese Communist Party
- Cuba - Popular Socialist Party, joined Cuban Communist Party
- El Salvador - Communist Party of El Salvador, merged into the FMLN
- Free Territory of Trieste - Communist Party of the Free Territory of Trieste, merged into the Italian Communist Party
- Georgia - Revived Communist Party of Georgia, Georgian Workers Communist Party
- Germany - Spartacist League formed in 1918 and became the Communist Party of Germany
- Germany (West) - Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin, Communist Party of Germany (banned 1956 in West Germany)
- Guatemala - Guatemalan Party of Labour, merged into the URNG
- Haiti - Unified Party of Haitian Communists, merged into the National Reconstruction Movement in 1990
- Honduras - Communist Party of Honduras, merged into the Partido Renovación Patriótica
- Iceland - Communist Party of Iceland
- Indonesia - Communist Party of Indonesia
- Ireland - Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist)
- Israel - Maki (1948–1973) split in 1965 with formation of largely Arab Rakah which changed its name to Maki in 1989.
- Italy - Communist Party of Italy
- Lebanon - Lebanese People's Party
- Malaysia - Malayan Communist Party, North Kalimantan Communist Party
- Mexico - Mexican Communist Party, Marxist-Leninist Centre in Mexico
- Namibia - Communist Party of Namibia
- Netherlands - Communist Party of the Netherlands merged into GroenLinks in 1989
- New Zealand - Communist Party of New Zealand, Socialist Unity Party
- Nigeria - Socialist Workers and Farmers Party of Nigeria
- Norway - Workers' Communist Party merged into Rødt
- Palestine - Communist Party of Palestine (1921–1948)
- Poland - Communist Party of Poland
- Saudi Arabia - Communist Party in Saudi Arabia
- Tatarstan - Communist Party of the Republic of Tatarstan
- Thailand - Communist Party of Thailand
- United States - Communist Party Marxist-Leninist, May 19th Communist Movement, Communist Workers Party, Black Panther Party, Communist Labor Party
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