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{{Infobox political party
| name             = Communist Party of Trinidad and Tobago
| colorcode        = Red
| foundation       = 1979
| ideology         = [[Communism]]<br />[[Marxism–Leninism]]<br />[[Anti-revisionism]]
| country          = Trinidad and Tobago
| founder          = [[Hardial Bains]] (alleged)
| newspaper        = Class Struggle
}}
{{Politics of Trinidad and Tobago}}

The '''Communist Party of Trinidad and Tobago''' was a pro-[[Albania]]n [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist–Leninist]] [[political party]] in [[Trinidad and Tobago]]. The party was founded in 1979.<ref name="Hobday1986">{{cite book|last=Hobday|first=Charles|title=Communist and Marxist Parties of the World|year=1986|publisher=Longman|location=Harlow|isbn=0-582-90264-9|page=344}}</ref> One source claims it was founded by [[Hardial Bains]], the leader of [[Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist)]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=On the 1st anniversary of the death of a charlatan |work=leninism.org |access-date=6 September 2019 |url= http://www.leninism.org/stream/98/hardial-1st-anniv.htm }}</ref> CPTT published a newspaper called ''Class Struggle''. Many of the members of the party renounced their hardline communist stances by the end of the 1980s, coinciding with the [[fall of the Soviet Union]]. Former members Michael Als and [[Wade Mark]] were involved in party politics in the late 1990s.

==See also==
* [[List of anti-revisionist groups]]

== References ==
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{{Trinidad and Tobago political parties}}
{{Pro-Albanian communist parties}}

[[Category:Political parties established in 1979]]
[[Category:Communist parties in Trinidad and Tobago|Communist Party of Trinidad and Tobago]]
[[Category:Political parties in Trinidad and Tobago]]
[[Category:1979 establishments in Trinidad and Tobago]]
[[Category:Hoxhaist parties]]


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