Japanese Communist Party (Left Faction)

The Japanese Communist Party (Left Faction) (日本共産党 (左派), Nihon Kyōsantō Saha) is a communist party in Japan oriented around Marxism–Leninism–Maoism. It was founded in 1969 centered on the Yamaguchi Prefecture Committee of the Japanese Communist Party, under the leadership of those who supported Fukuda Masayoshi (福田 正義).[1]

Japanese Communist Party (Left Faction)
Founded1969
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Anti-revisionism
Political positionFar-left
Website
人民の星

Currently Maoist, it suffered a schism in 1975 when the Kantō faction of the party embraced the Hoxhaism of the New Zealand Communist Party while the Yamaguchi faction remained supportive of Maoism. The party reunified around Maoism in 1980.[2]

References

  1. Robert J. Alexander, Maoism in the Developed World, Praeger Publishers, 2001, p. 173.
  2. Robert J. Alexander, Maoism in the Developed World, Praeger Publishers, 2001, p. 174.


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