United Communist Party (Netherlands)

United Communist Party Verenigde Communistische Partij
File:SterVCP.gif
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
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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.

Local Elections

Town council	2002	2006	2009	2014
Scheemda	2 seats	1 seat	n/a	n/a
Oldambt	n/a	n/a	2 seats	4 seats
Pekela	n/a	n/a	n/a	1 seat

In the 2006 elections VCP got 707 votes in Scheemda (10%), but lost one of their two seats.

In 2009 the VCP won 1,138 votes (8.5%) and two seats in the new municipality of Oldambt. This increased to 15.8% and 4 seats in 2014.

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.

External links

• (Dutch)
• Newspaper De Waarheid