Communist League or League of Communists may refer to: *

Communist League The Communist League (German: ''Bund der Kommunisten)'' was an international political party established on 1 June 1847 in London, England. The organisation was formed through the merger of the League of the Just, headed by Karl Schapper, and t ...

, led by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels *

Communist League of America The Communist League of America (Opposition) was founded by James P. Cannon, Max Shachtman and Martin Abern late in 1928 after their expulsion from the Communist Party USA for Trotskyism. The CLA(O) was the United States section of Leon Trotsky's I ...

Communist League (Australia) The Democratic Socialist Perspective (DSP) was an Australian Marxist political group, which operated as the largest component of a broad-left socialist formation, the Socialist Alliance. In 2010, the DSP voted to merge into the Socialist All ...

(1972–1976) * Communist League (Austria) * Communist League (Brazil) *

Communist League (Canada) The Communist League in Canada was founded as the "Revolutionary Workers League/Ligue Ouvrière Révolutionnaire" (RWL) in 1977 as the result of a merger of the League for Socialist Action (LSA), the Revolutionary Marxist Group (RMG) and the ...

* Communist League (Denmark) *

League of Communists (Finland) The League of Communists or Communist League ( fi, Kommunistien Liitto) is a Finnish Marxist-Leninist political organization. The League of Communists was founded in 14.9.2002 by the Communists who were expelled from the For Peace and Socialism ...

* Communist League (France) *

Communist League (Iceland) The Icelandic Communist League was a grouping affiliated with the Socialist Workers Party (USA), a part of its international network of affiliates, the so-called Pathfinder Tendency. The Icelandic Communist League was unique in this tendency in that ...

* Communist League of India (Marxist–Leninist) *

Communist League (India, 1931) The Communist League was a political organisation, formed in Trivandrum, India, in 1931. The group conducted propaganda for communism in the city and organised a trade union amongst press workers. It was however, without contact with other commu ...

* Communist League (India, 1934) * Communist League (India, 1971) *

Communist League (Japan) The , sometimes abbreviated ''Kyōsandō'' and better known by its nickname , was a Marxist Japanese proto-New Left student organization established in December 1958 as a radical splinter group within the nationwide Zengakuren student federation ...

* Communist League of Luxemburg * Communist League (Nepal) *

Communist League (New Zealand) The Communist League is a New Zealand communist party. History The party was founded in 1969 by students from Victoria University of Wellington, and was originally named the Socialist Action League. The new party rejected the more establish ...

Communist League (Sweden) Communist League ( sv, Kommunistiska Förbundet) was a small (now defunct) political communist party in Sweden, connected to the Socialist Workers Party of the United States, and distributor of '' the Militant '' and part of the Pathfinder organi ...

Communist League (West Germany) The Communist League (german: Kommunistischer Bund, KB) was a radical left-wing organisation active in West Germany from 1971 until 1991. The KB emerged from the protests of 1968 and initially had a Maoist orientation. Later in the 1980s it became ...

Communist League of West Germany The Communist League of West Germany (''Kommunistischer Bund Westdeutschland''; KBW) was a Maoist organization in West Germany which existed from 1973 until 1985. The KBW contested the general elections in 1976 and 1980 in West Germany and was ra ...

League of Communists of Yugoslavia The League of Communists of Yugoslavia, mk, Сојуз на комунистите на Југославија, Sojuz na komunistite na Jugoslavija known until 1952 as the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, sl, Komunistična partija Jugoslavije mk ...

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* Communist League (UK, 1919), an anarchist communist group *

Communist League (UK, 1932) The Communist League was one of the first Trotskyist groups in Britain, formed in 1932 by members of the Communist Party of Great Britain in South London, including Harry Wicks, who had been expelled after forming a loose grouping inside the CPGB ...

, the first Trotskyist group in Britain *

Communist League (UK, 1988) The Communist League is a British political party that was formed by a group of members expelled in 1988 from Socialist Action. Those members had joined the American Socialist Workers Party's Pathfinder tendency. It maintained a bookshop in Lond ...

, part of the Pathfinder tendency *

Communist League (UK, 1990) The Communist League was a small Trotskyist organisation in Britain. Better known as Movement for a Socialist Future, it split from the Marxist Party in 1990, claiming to hold more closely to the ideas of Gerry Healy, who had died the previous ...

, a split from the Marxist Party * Communist League of Great Britain, an anti-revisionist group formed in 1975

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