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Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia Komunistická strana Čech a Moravy | |
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| Abbreviation | KSČM |
| Chairwoman | Kateřina Konečná |
| First Vice-Chairman | Petr Šimůnek |
| Deputy Leaders | Marie Pěnčíková Leo Luzar Milan Krajča |
| Founded | 31 March 1990 |
| Preceded by | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia |
| Headquarters | Politických vězňů 9, Prague |
| Newspaper | Haló noviny |
| Think tank | Institute of the Czech Left |
| Youth wing | Young Communists |
| Membership (2023) | 18,307 |
| Ideology | Communism[1] Marxism Socialism Left-wing nationalism Euroscepticism |
| Political position | Left-wing to far-left |
| National affiliation | Stačilo! (Since 2023) Left Bloc (1992–1994) Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (1990-1992) |
| European affiliation | Party of the European Left (observer) |
| European Parliament group | The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL (2004–2024) Non-Inscrits (2024–)[2] |
| International affiliation | IMCWP WAP[3](disputed) |
| Colours | Red |
| Slogan | "S lidmi pro lidi!" "With the people for the people!" |
| Chamber of Deputies | 0 / 200 |
| Senate | 0 / 81 |
| European Parliament | 1 / 21 |
| Regional councils | 32 / 675 |
| Local councils | 466 / 62,300 |
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The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (Czech: Komunistická strana Čech a Moravy, KSČM) is a communist party[4] in the Czech Republic.[5] As of 2022, KSČM has a membership of 20,450.[6] Sources variously describe the party as either left-wing[7][8] or far-left[9][10] on the political spectrum. It is one of the few former ruling parties in post-Communist Central Eastern Europe to have not dropped the Communist title from its name, although it has changed its party program to adhere to laws adopted after 1989.[11][12] It was previously a member party of The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL in the European Parliament,[13] and an observer member of the European Left Party,[14] but is now unaffiliated.
For most of the first two decades after the Velvet Revolution, the party was politically isolated and accused of extremism, but later moved closer to the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD).[12] After the 2012 Czech regional elections, KSČM began governing in coalition with the ČSSD in 10 regions.[15] It has never been part of a governing coalition in the executive branch but provided parliamentary support to Andrej Babiš' Second Cabinet until April 2021. The party's youth organization was banned from 2006 to 2010,[12][16] and there have been calls from other parties to outlaw the main party.[17] Until 2013, it was the only political party in the Czech Republic printing its own newspaper, called Haló noviny.[18] The party's two cherry logo comes from the song Le Temps des cerises, a revolutionary song associated with the Paris Commune.[19]
- ^ Bozóki, A & Ishiyama, J (2002) The Communist Successor Parties of Central and Eastern Europe, pp150-153
- ^ "STAČILO! a frakce aneb program za koryta nevyměníme!". KSČM. 9 July 2024. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Milan Krajča, Vice-President of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia(Czech Republic)". World Anti-Imperialist Platform. 17 May 2023. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
- ^ Bozóki & Ishiyama 2002, pp. 150–153.
- ^ Nordsieck, Wolfram (October 2021). "Czechia". Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
- ^ "Stranám ubývají členové. Rozrůstají se jen SPD a STAN". ČT24. 18 March 2023. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
- ^ Seelinger, Lani (11 July 2014). "Why the Czech Communists are here to stay". visegradrevue.eu. Archived from the original on 12 August 2019. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
- ^ Pink, Michal (August 2012). "The Electoral Base of Left-Wing Post-Communist Political Parties in the Former Czechoslovakia". Central European Political Studies Review. 14 (2–3): 170–192. Retrieved 12 August 2019..
- ^ Kapsas, André (6 April 2018). "Andrej Babiš et les sociaux-démocrates tchèques négocient leur alliance". Courrier d'Europe centrale (in French). Retrieved 12 August 2019.
- ^ Lopatka, Jan (30 April 2018). "New dawn or swan song? Czech communists eye slice of power after decades". Reuters. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
- ^ Bozóki & Ishiyama 2002, p. 146.
- ^ a b c "Elections: What's on the menu". Prague Daily Monitor. 25 October 2013. Archived from the original on 8 August 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
- ^ "European United Left & Nordic Green Left European Parliamentary Group delegations". Guengl.eu. Archived from the original on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
- ^ "Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia". european-left.org. Archived from the original on 20 August 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
- ^ "ČSSD to rule along with Communists in 10 of 13 Czech regions". Prague Monitor. Archived from the original on 15 April 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
- ^ "Communists denounce ban on far-left youth movement". Radio Praha. 19 October 2006. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
- ^ "Czech Activists Seek to Outlaw Communist Party". The New York Times. 23 December 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
- ^ "Halonoviny.cz - české levicové zprávy". Archived from the original on 16 November 2012. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
- ^ "Kdo jsme". Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia. Archived from the original on 14 November 2019. Retrieved 27 October 2019.