On the 1st of October 2013 in a meeting room of the EU Parliament in Brussels, at the initiative of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), the founding meeting was held of the “INITIATIVE of communist and workers’ parties in order to study and elaborate European issues and to coordinate their activity”.

The decision to reinforce of their cooperation, on the basis of a specific founding declaration, which describes the principles of the INITIATIVE, was expressed by the following 29 communist and workers’ parties from EU countries and other European countries as well:

• Party of Labour of Austria

• Communist Party of the Workers of Belarus

• New Communist Party of Britain

• Union of Communists in Bulgaria

• Party of Bulgarian Communists

• Socialist Workers’ Party of Croatia

• Communist Party in Denmark

• Pole of Communist Revival in France

• Union of Revolutionary Communists of France

• Communist Party of Macedonia

• Unified Communist Party of Georgia

• Communist Party of Greece

• Hungarian Workers' Party

• The Workers' Party of Ireland

• Communists People’s Left-Communist Party of Italy

• Socialist Party of Latvia

• Socialist People’s Front of Lithuania

• Communist Party of Malta

• People’s Resistance Moldova

• Communist Party of Norway

• Communist Party of Poland

• Communist Workers' Party of Russia

• Communist Party of Soviet Union

• New Communist Party of Yugoslavia

• Communist Party of Slovakia

• Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain

• Communist Party of Sweden

• Communist Party of Turkey

• Union of Communists of Ukraine