The Communist and Allies Group was a communist political group with seats in the European Parliament between 1973 and 1989.
The "Communist and Allies Group" was the first communist group in the European Parliament,[2] founded on 16 October 1973.
[4] The Communist and Allies Group included MEPs from the Communist parties of France and Italy.
It stayed together until 25 July 1989[4] when it split into two groups, "Left Unity"[2] (LU) with 14[2] members and the "Group for the European United Left"[7] (EUL) with 28[2] members.