was opposed to the new turn. She and her supporters were forced out of the party. Post-World War II There is no evidence that surviving members of the party managed to re-constitute the TCP after Japan's surrender to the Allied Forces. 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). Some of the survivors fled to British-occupied Hong Kong and formed the Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League in November 1947. Communist activities after the 1949 Nationalist "retrocession" to Taiwan were thus directed under the auspices of the Chinese Communist Party. The Labor Party was formed in 1989 and proclaims to have historical links to the Taiwanese Communist Party. Recent revival attempts After the lifting of martial law in 1987, attempts have been made to re-establish a legal party of the same name. However, applications to the Republic of China Ministry of the Interior were rejected on the grounds that Article 2 of the Civic Organization Law forbids civic organizations and activities from promoting communism. Later, the Labor Party was founded in 1989, which views itself as the ideological successor to the Taiwanese Communist Party. On 20 July 2008, the Taiwan Communist Party was founded, the same day that the Taiwanese Constitutional Court ruled the prohibition of communism to be unconstitutional. The following year, two other parties were founded. On 31 March 2009, the Communist Party of the Republic of China was founded, and later that year, the Taiwan Democratic Communist Party was founded. The CCP has shown no recent interest in promoting communism in Taiwan, and as of 2005, most of its efforts are directed at promoting Chinese nationalism on Taiwan, which has led to increasingly-warm relations with the Pan-Blue Coalition. Still, in 2000, Dai Chung, a Taiwanese resident, self-proclaimed a "Taiwan Province branch" of the CCP without applying for official status as a political party and without any support or interest from the CCP. References Citations Sources Yang, Bichuan. 1987. Jianming Taiwanshi (A concise history of Taiwan), Diyi Chubanshe, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Communist parties in Taiwan Communist parties in China Banned communist parties Political parties established in 1928 Political parties disestablished in 1931 1928 establishments in Taiwan Defunct