Country |
Party |
Political orientation |
Reason defunct |
Barbados |
Workers Party of Barbados |
Marxist |
Defunct due to unpopularity |
Croatia |
Croatian Workers Party (1906-1918) |
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Czech Republic |
Workers' Party |
Nationalist |
Banned in 2010 by the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic |
Estonia |
Estonian Workers' Party |
Communist |
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Ethiopia |
Workers' Party of Ethiopia |
Marxist-Leninist |
Overthrown in 1991 |
Finland |
Workers' Party of Finland |
Marxist |
Banned in 1923 |
France |
Workers' Party |
Trotskyist |
Germany |
German Workers' Party |
Nationalist |
Renamed the National Socialist German Workers' Party in 1920 |
Germany |
National Socialist German Workers' Party |
National Socialist |
Dissolved and banned in 1945 |
Hungary |
Hungarian Workers' Party |
National Socialist |
Dissolved and regrouped |
Ireland |
Irish Workers Party |
Communist |
Merged with the Communist Party of Northern Ireland to reconstitute the all-Ireland Communist Party of Ireland in 1962 |
Israel |
Workers Party of Eretz Israel | | Merged into the Israeli Labor Party |
Israel |
United Workers Party | | Merged into Meretz |
Israel |
Workers Party of Israel |
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Latvia | Workers' Party | | |
Macedonia | Workers Party | | |
Mexico |
Mexican Workers' Party |
Social democratic |
Merged with the Unified Socialist Party of Mexico to form the Mexican Socialist Party in 1987 |
Korea |
Workers' Party of North Korea Workers' Party of South Korea |
Communist Communist |
Merged to form the Workers' Party of Korea in 1949 |
Poland |
Polish Workers' Party |
Communist |
Merged to form the Polish United Workers' Party in 1948 |
Poland |
Polish United Workers' Party |
Marxist-Leninist |
Self-dissolved in 1990 |
Poland |
Zionist Workers Party |
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Romania |
Romanian Workers' Party |
Communist |
Renamed the Romanian Communist Party in 1948 |
South Africa |
Workers Party of South Africa |
Trotskyist |
Banned in 1953 |
Spain |
Workers' Party of Marxist Unification |
Marxist |
Dissolved in 1980 |
Turkey |
Workers' Party |
Scientific socialist |
Renamed the Patriotic Party in 2015 |
United Kingdom |
International Leninist Workers Party |
Marxist-Leninist |
Dissolved into the Socialist Labour Party in 1996 |
United Kingdom |
Workers Party of Scotland |
Marxist-Leninist |
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United States |
Democratic Workers Party |
Marxist-Leninist |
Dissolved in 1986 |
United States |
Workers Party |
Trotskyist |
Renamed the Independent Socialist League in 1949 |
United States |
American Workers Party |
Musteite |
Merged into Workers' Party of the United States |
United States |
Workers Party of America |
Communist |
Became Communist Party USA in 1929. |
United States |
Workers' Party of the United States |
Trotskyist |
Absorbed into the Socialist Party of America in 1936 |