The New Communist Party of the Netherlands (NCPN) (Nieuwe Communistische Partij Nederland) is a communist party in the Netherlands. The NCPN was founded in 1992 by communist hardliners (so-called "horizontals") who disagreed with the decision of the CPN to merge into GreenLeft. The NCPN give through the Stichting HOC (Foundation HOC) the monthly newspaper Manifest. The party has about 2,500 members.
The NCPN supports the socialist government of Cuba and the socialist developments in the Venezuela of Hugo Chavez and Bolivia of Evo Morales. The party was against the invasion of the U.S. in Iraq and is against neoliberalism. The party criticized in the past, the trial of Slobodan Milošević.
The NCPN has since 2003 also a political youth organization, the Communist Youth Movement (CJB).
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