Leftist Parties of Kazakhstan

PARTY			PERIODICALS	CONTACT	IDEOL.	INTERNAT.	ELECTION Parl. '04	OTHER
All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)	Vsesoyuznaya Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Bol'shevikov	VKPB			stal.	part of VKPB	-
Autonomous Action	Avtonomnoe Deistvie			e-mail	anar.	linked to Russian AD	-
Communist Party of Kazakhstan	Kommuniststicheskaya Partiya Kazakhstana / Qazaqstan Kommunistyk Partiyasy	KPK/KKP	Pravda Kazakhstana, Rabochaya Shisn	e-mail	com.	SKP-KPSS	3.44% with NPDVK	f. 1991 as successor of the KPK that was dissolved in 1991, led by Abdildin Serikbolsyn
Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan	Kommuniststicheskaya Narodnaya Partiya Kazakhstana / Qazaqstan Kommunistyk Khalyk Partiyasy				com.		1.98%	f. 2004 as split from KPK, led by Vladislav B. Kosarev
Forum of Democratic Forces of Kazakhstan	Forum Demokraticheskikh Sil Kazakhstana	FDSK		e-mail			-	f. 1999 as alliance of KPK, RNPK, RDKS, Tabigat, RPPT and centrist parties
Labour Movement of Kazakhstan "Solidarity"	Rabochee Dvizhenie Kazakhstana "Solidarnost"	RDKS		e-mail	rad. left.		-	f. 1990 as Labour Movement
Party of Patriots of Kazakhstan	Partiya Patriotov Kazakhstana	PPK					0.55%	f. 2000, led by Gani Kasymov
People's Party "Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan"	Narodnaya Partiya "Demokraticheskii Vybor Kazakhstana"	NPDVK		e-mail	centre left.		see KPK	f. 2001, led by Galymzhan Zhakiyanov
Republican People's Party of Kazakhstan	Respublikanskaya Narodnaya Partiya Kazakhstana / Qazaqstan Respublikalyk Khalyk Partiyasy	RNPK		e-mail	centre left.		-	f. 1998, led by Akezhan Kazhegeldin
Republican Political Labour Party	Respublikanskaya Politicheskaya Partiya Truda	RPPT			centre left.		-	f. 1995
Section of CWI				e-mail	tro.	CWI	-	f. 2002
Section of SIQI					tro.	SIQI	-	f. 2004 as split from CWI group
Social Democratic Party of Kazakhstan "Village"	Kazakhstana Sotsial-Demokraticheskaya Partiya "Auyl"	SDPK			soc. dem.		1.73%	f. 2000, led by Gani Kaliev