League of Communists in the Netherlands

Former member of parliament Fré Meis and the only communist mayor of the Netherlands, Hanneke Jagersma, were the more prominent supporters of the platform.

[2] The VCN consisted mostly of former CPN members from Amsterdam, Limburg, North Brabant and the city of Groningen.

It was the first time since 1918 that the communist party wasn't represented in the Tweede Kamer.

In 1989, after the CPN formed an electoral coalition with the Political Party of Radicals (PPR), the Pacifist Socialist Party (PSP) and the Evangelical People's Party (EVP) called GroenLinks it again contested the Tweede Kamer elections, and although gaining more votes, it still did not get close to winning a seat (7,361 votes, 0.1%).

[3] In 1990, the VCN was invited by the CPN to participate in the merger talks that would lead to the definitive formation of GroenLinks.