The Communist Party (, , often abbreviated KP) was a

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. It was founded in 1989 in the aftermath of the split of the

Communist Party of Belgium The Communist Party of Belgium (, , KPB; , , PCB) was a political party in Belgium from 1921 to 1989. The youth wing of KPB/PCB was known as the Communist Youth of Belgium. The party published a newspaper known as ''Le Drapeau Rouge'' in French ...

along linguistic lines. The political secretary of the KP was Jaak Perquy. KP was dissolved in 2009. The KP published a newspaper, ''Agora''. The youth wing evolved into Graffiti Jeugddienst, an apolitical youth association, in the early 1990s. Later another youth wing, Jong-KP, was established.

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