Taiwan Communist Party
The Taiwan Communist Party was a social-democratic political party in Taiwan. It was established on 20 June 2008 in Sinhua, Tainan the same day that the Justices of the Constitutional Court ruled the prohibition of communism unconstitutional, making it the first party to legally include "communist" in its name after the ruling. Prior to the ruling, the Taiwan Communist Party's founder and chairman Wang Laoyang had been trying to establish the party since 1994, but his applications were repeatedly rejected by the government.
Although the party includes "communist" in its name, Wang stated that he does not fully understand Marxism–Leninism and only chose the name because he thought it would attract more interest. The party is nominally social-democratic, and does not have subordinate relations with the Communist Party of China.
