General Secretary of the Communist Party

General Secretary or First Secretary is the official title of leaders of most Communist political parties. When a Communist party is the ruling party in a Communist-led one-party state, the General Secretary is typically the country's de facto leader—though sometimes this leader also holds state-level positions (such as a presidency or premiership) in order to hold de jure leadership of the state as well. One exception to this rule is the People's Republic of China from 1978 to 1990 where the Chairman and then General Secretary of the Communist Party were subordinate to Deng Xiaoping who was the de facto paramount leader of China.

Leaders of current communist parties
Official titleIncumbentTerm startOther names
 General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping

15 November 2012 Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (1922–25 & 1943–82)
 Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea Kim Jong-un

17 December 2011 Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (1946–1966)
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (1966–1997)
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (1997–2012)
First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (2012–2016)
 First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba Raúl Castro

19 April 2011
 General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyễn Phú Trọng

8 January 2011 Chairman of the Workers' Party of Vietnam (1951–69)
First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Vietnam (1951–76)
 General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Bounnhang Vorachit

22 January 2016 Chairman of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (1991–2006)
General Secretary of the Progressive Party of Working People Andros Kyprianou

21 February 2009
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Britain Robert Griffiths

1 January 1998
 First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov

14 February 1993
General Secretary of the Communist Party of India D. Raja

21 July 2019
General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Sitaram Yechury

19 April 2015
 General Secretary of the Communist Party USA Rossana Cambron and Joe Sims (as co-chairs) 23 June 2019
 General Secretary of the Portuguese Communist Party Jerónimo de Sousa

27 November 2004
 General Secretary of the Japanese Communist Party Kazuo Shii

24 November 2000
 General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain Enrique Santiago

8 April 2018
 National Secretary of the French Communist Party Fabien Roussel

25 November 2018 General Secretary of the French Communist Party (1921–1994)
 General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party Mauro Alboresi 26 June 2016

Leaders of former communist parties
Official titleLastTerm endOther names
 First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania Ramiz Alia 4 May 1991
 General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party Petar Mladenov

15 January 1990
 General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea Pol Pot 8 December 1981
 General Secretary of the People's Revolutionary Party of Benin Mathieu Kérékou

1 March 1990
 General Secretary of the New Jewel Movement Maurice Bishop

19 October 1983
 General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Ethiopia Mengistu Haile Mariam

21 May 1991
General Secretary of the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party Siad Barre

26 January 1991
 General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan Mohammad Najibullah 16 April 1992
 General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev

24 August 1991 Technical Secretary of the Bolshevik Party (1917–18)
Chairman of the Secretariat of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1918–19)
Responsible Secretary of the RCP(b) (1919–22)
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1953–66)
 General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party Károly Grósz

7 October 1989
 First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Karel Urbánek 20 December 1989
 First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party Mieczysław Rakowski

29 January 1990
 General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party Nicolae Ceaușescu

22 December 1989
 General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany Egon Krenz

3 December 1989
 President of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia Milan Pančevski 30 June 1990
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