United Communist Party (Netherlands)

United Communist Party
Verenigde Communistische Partij
Leader Engel Modderman
Founded 1999 (1999)
Split from NPCN
Headquarters Oldambt
Newspaper De Waarheid
Ideology Communism
Marxism-Leninism
Political position Far-left
Colours Red Yellow
Website
www.vcp.nu

United Communist Party (Dutch: Verenigde Communistische Partij or VCP) is a small communist party in the Netherlands, formed in 1999, and mainly based in Oldambt and Pekela. It is a break-away party from the New Communist Party of the Netherlands.

History

The VCP broke from the NCPN because of dissatisfaction with the centralistic command structure of the party, as well as disagreement about whether or not the party should follow a policy of compromise within the city council of Reiderland, in which the NCPN was then represented.

Election results

Municipal elections[1] 2002 2006 2009 2014
perc. seats votes perc. seats votes perc. seats votes perc. seats votes
Scheemda 14,8% 2 1.067 10,0% 1 707 Municipality did not exist
Oldambt Municipality did not exist 8,5% 2 1.138 16,0% 4 2.757
Pekela 8,2% 1 413


Provincial elections[2] 2015
perc. seats votes
Groningen 0,5% 0 1.238

Ideology

Politically, the VCP is a straightforward communist party and sees a communist society as its ultimate goal and socialism only as a stage towards it, with the class struggle as the method to reach this goal. The party is organised along democratic centralist lines.

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