Left Communism represents the groups who historically split with the Communist International on the issues of entering parliament, unions and the united front. They include, but are not limited too, the Communists around the Communist Workers' Party in Germany and the Communists around the Left Wing of the Socialist Party in Italy. They also include such people as Sylvia Pankhurst who participated in the Communist International on the side of the Left Coms and Herman Gorter who maintained a small Communist Party in Holland. They historically support the Proletarian character of the Russian Revolution and the subsequent Soviet Union.