The Taiwanese Communist Party (Kyūjitai: 臺灣共產黨; Shinjitai: 台湾共產党) was a revolutionary organization active in Japanese-ruled Taiwan.
Like the contemporary Taiwanese People's Party, its existence was short, only three years, but its politics and activities were influential in shaping Taiwan's anti-colonial enterprise.
Following the draft, Lin Mu-shun [zh] and Hsieh Hsueh-hung secretly met in Shanghai with seven others, three of whom represented the Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Communist Parties, respectively, to form the nascent organization.
Both Koxinga and other Manchu rulers established a feudal system, which, in its view, began to disintegrate with the introduction of 19th-century Western capital into the island.
The Republic of Formosa represented a revolutionary movement of feudal landowners, merchants and radical patriots, but it was doomed to failure given the immaturity of the native capitalist class.
The party sought to organize workers in still-unorganized key industries, including the transportation and mining sectors in northern Taiwan.
By 1931 the TCP-led Peasants' Union was secretly training farmers (many of Hakka ethnicity) in preparation for armed struggle to form a soviet, one that some believed would soon elicit support from the Chinese Communist Party.
The Comintern also initially favored communists uniting with "bourgeois forces"[citation needed] to wage an anti-imperialist war of national liberation.
However, during the two years between 1945 and the aftermath of the February 28 Incident, some individual past members (most notably Hsieh Hsueh-hung) participated the anti-government action.
The Kuomintang's repression led a part of them to flee to Mainland China, where they merged into the ranks of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).