Communist Party of Bohemia and MoraviaPolitical party

The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (Czech: Komunistická strana Čech a Moravy, KSČM) is a communist party in the Czech Republic. Sources variously describe the party as either left-wing or far-left on the political spectrum. It is one of the few former ruling parties in post-Communist Central Eastern Europe which has not dropped the word Communist from its name, although it has changed its party program to adhere to laws adopted after 1989. It is an observer of the Party of the European Left was previously a member party of The Left group in the European Parliament, 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).