Amami Communist Party

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{{Infobox political party

| name = Amami Communist Party

| native_name = 奄美共産党

| native_name_lang = ja

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| colorcode = Red

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| foundation = {{Start date|1947|04|10|df=y}}

| dissolution = {{End date|1953|12|25|df=y}}

| ideology = Communism

| successor = Amami Social Democratic Party

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| newspaper = Popular Front

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| country = Japan

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The Amami Communist Party ({{langx|ja|奄美共産党}}) was an underground political party on the Amami Islands. Founded during the American military occupation of the islands, it had a leading role in the movement for the reversion of Amami to Japan although at the final stage, it was purged from the movement. It was not entirely in sync with the Japanese Communist Party on this issue.{{cite book|author=Robert D. Eldridge|title=The Return of the Amami Islands: The Reversion Movement and U.S.-Japan Relations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3sy-JNJEfjYC&pg=PA69|accessdate=8 May 2016|year=2004|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=978-0-7391-0710-2|page=69}} The American military government (later the United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands) banned the party and raided their headquarters and several of their members' houses on 27 March 1950. The next day, 17 members of the party's leadership were arrested for "planning a riot" and subversion of the military government.{{cite web |title=本日の赤旗「潮流」に奄美の復帰６０週年を記念する記事が掲載されている。 |url=http://www10.plala.or.jp/shosuzki/edit/japan/amami.htm |accessdate=30 January 2019 |language=ja }}