By empty (7/7/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Seven Armenian pro-Communist parties announced their merger into the United Communist Party of Armenia on 7 July. The seven are the Communist Party of the Working People, the United Progressive Communist Party, the Workers\' Union, the Union of Communists, the Party of Intellectuals, the Marxist Party, and the Renewed Communist Party of Armenia. The original Communist Party of Armenia founded in 1920 continues to exist as a separate entity.