Ideology
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Africa Algeria Egypt Lesotho Libya Madagascar Namibia Réunion Senegal South Africa South Sudan Sudan Swaziland Tunisia |
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Americas Argentina - PCA • PCCE • PCRA Bolivia Brazil - PCdoB • PCB Canada - CPoC • MLPoC Chile - PCCh • PC(AP) Colombia Cuba Ecuador Mexico - PC • PPS • PPSM Panama - PPP • PC(ml)P Paraguay Peru - PCP • PCdelP-PR Uruguay United States - CPUSA • PSL • WWP Venezuela |
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Asia Bahrain Bangladesh - CPB • WPB Burma China India - CPI • CPI (M) • CPI (Maoist) • SUCI(C) Iran - CPI • Tudeh Party Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan - CPK • CPPK Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Nepal - CPN (UML) • UCPN (M) Pakistan Palestine Philippines Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Taiwan - TCP • CPRC Vietnam Historical parties CambodiaIndonesia Korea Malaya and Singapore Philippines Saudi Arabia Taiwan Thailand |
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Europe Albania Armenia Austria - KPÖ • KI Azerbaijan Belarus (KPB) Belgium - PvdA/PTB • KP • PC Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark - DKP • KPiD Estonia Finland France - PCF • PCOF Georgia Germany Greece - ΚΚΕ • ΚΟΕ • ΑΚΟΑ Hungary Ireland - CPI • WPI Italy - PdCI • PRC Luxembourg Malta Moldova Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia - CPRF • RCWP-RPC San Marino Serbia Slovakia Spain - PCE • PCC • PCPE Sweden - KP • SKP Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom - CPB • NCPB • CPS Historical parties CzechoslovakiaEast Germany Italy Netherlands Romania Soviet Union United Kingdom West Germany Yugoslavia |
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Oceania Australia - CPA • CPA(ML) New Zealand - CPA • WPNZ |
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Related topics Communism (history) Marxism-Leninism Democratic centralism |
Compared with other ruling Communist Parties, such as the Communist Party of Vietnam, the Communist Party of China and the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, the Communist Party of Cuba retains a stricter adherence to the tradition of Marxism-Leninism and the traditional Soviet model.
The Cuban party is more deeply committed to the concept of socialism than other ruling parties and has been more reluctant in engaging in market reforms though it has been forced to accept some market measures in its economy due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the resultant loss of economic subsidies. The Communist Party of Cuba has favored supporting revolutions abroad and was active in assisting the ELN in Colombia, the FMLN in El Salvador, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and Maurice Bishop's New Jewel Movement in Grenada. Their most significant international role was in Angola where the Cuban direction of a joint Angolan/Soviet/Cuban force that was involved in the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale. This led to the withdrawal of intervening forces and, in the following peace agreement, the independence of Namibia from South African rule.
It has largely been forced to retreat from this policy due to a lack of funds resulting from the halt of material aid from the Soviet Union. However, the party maintains a policy of sending thousands of Cuban doctors, agricultural technicians, and other professionals to other countries throughout the developing world. More recently the party has sought to support left wing leaders such as Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and Evo Morales in Bolivia.
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