Communists and Allies
European Parliament group
Name	Communists and Allies
English abbr.	COM^[1]
French abbr.	n/a
Formal name	Communist and Allies Group^[2]^[3]
Ideology	Communism
From	16 October 1973^[4]
To	25 July 1989^[4]
Succeeded by	Left Unity, Group for the European United Left
Chaired by	Giorgio Amendola,^[3] Guido Fanti,^[5] Gianni Cervetti^[6]
MEP(s)	44 (17July 1979) 41 (23 July 1984)

The Communist and Allies Group was a communist political group with seats in the European Parliament between 1973 and 1989.

History

The "Communist and Allies Group" was the first communist group in the European Parliament,^[2] founded on 16 October 1973.^[4]

The Communist and Allies Group included MEPs from the Communist parties of France and Italy. It stayed together until 25 July 1989^[4] when it split into two groups, "Left Unity"^[2] (LU) with 14^[2] members and the "Group for the European United Left"^[7] (EUL) with 28^[2] members.

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Political groups of the European Parliament

European People's Party (178)
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (141)
Renew Europe (101)
Greens–European Free Alliance (71)
European Conservatives and Reformists (67)
Identity and Democracy (59)
The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL (38)
Non-Inscrits (50)

Previous groups

Nationalists / far-right	Eurodroite European Right (1984–1989) European Right (1989–1994) Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty (2007) Europe of Nations and Freedom (2015–2019)
National conservatives	European Democratic Union (1965–1973) European Progressive Democrats (1973–1984) European Democratic Alliance (1984–1995) Union for Europe (1995–1999) Union for Europe of the Nations (1999–2009)
Christian democrats / conservatives	Christian Democrats (1953–1979) European People's Party (1979–1999) European Conservatives (1973–1979) European Democrats (1979–1992) Forza Europa (1994–1995) European People's Party–European Democrats (1999–2009)
Liberals / centrists	Liberals and Allies (1953–1976) Liberals and Democrats (1976–1985) Liberal and Democratic Reformist Group (1985–1994) European Radical Alliance (1994–1999) European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (1994–2004) Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (2004–2019)
Social democrats	Socialists (1953–1993) Party of European Socialists (1993–2009)
Communists / far-left	Communists and Allies (1973–1989) European United Left (1989–1993) Left Unity (1989–1994) European United Left (1994–1995)
Greens / regionalists	Rainbow Group (1984–1989) Rainbow Group (1989–1994) Greens (1989–1999)
Eurosceptics	Europe of Nations (1994–1996) Independents for a Europe of Nations (1996–1999) Europe of Democracies and Diversities (1999–2004) Independence/Democracy (2004–2009) Europe of Freedom and Democracy (2009–2014) Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (2014–2019)
Heterogeneous	Technical Group of Independents (1979–1984) Technical Group of Independents (1999–2001)