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Syrian Communist Party (Bakdash)

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Syrian Communist Party
الحزب الشيوعي السوري
AbbreviationSCP(B)
General SecretaryAmmar Bakdash[1]
Founded1986; 38 years ago (1986)
Split fromSyrian Communist Party
HeadquartersDamascus, Syria
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism–Leninism
Political positionFar-left
National affiliationNational Progressive Front (until 2024)
International affiliationIMCWP[2]
Colours    Red and yellow
People's Assembly
2 / 250
Party flag

The Syrian Communist Party (Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي السوري, romanizedAl-Hizb Al-Shuyū'ī Al-Sūrī) is an anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist communist party in Syria.[3][4][5] The party emerged from a split in the Syrian Communist Party in 1986, as formed by the anti-Perestroika faction led by Khalid Bakdash. Khalid Bakdash died in 1995 and was succeeded as secretary of his party faction by his widow, Wisal Farha Bakdash. At the time of the 2000 Damascus Spring, the party was able to publish a newspaper called Sawt al-Shaab ("Voice of the People").

Currently, the party's secretary general is Ammar Bakdash, who succeeded his mother in the party's leadership.

Until 29 March 2023, Mohammad Fayez al-Barasha was the party's only cabinet minister.[6]

Election results

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Syrian People's Assembly elections

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Election Seats +/–
2007
5 / 250
New
2012
8 / 250
Increase 3
2016
3 / 250
Decrease 5
2020
3 / 250
Steady 0
2024
2 / 250
Decrease 1

References

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  1. ^ Orfali, Mohannad. "الحزب الشيوعي السوري". pnf.org.sy. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  2. ^ "20 IMCWP, Participants List". SolidNet. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  3. ^ Velasco Muñoz, Rosa (2019). "The Syrian Communist Party". Communist Parties in the Middle East. pp. 109–128. doi:10.4324/9780367134464-6. ISBN 978-0-367-13446-4. S2CID 181902938.
  4. ^ Musalam, A., & Abdin, M. M. E. (2020). T The Role of Partisan Divisions in Political Life in the Syrian Arab Republic "Documentary study from the Syrian Communist Party". Tishreen University Journal- Arts and Humanities Sciences Series, 41(6).
  5. ^ Yonker, Carl C. "Comparing Radical Rivals: The Communists, the Baʿth, and the Kataʾib." The Rise and Fall of Greater Syria. De Gruyter, 2021. 17-21.
  6. ^ "Prime Minister's Office". Syrian Arab News Agency. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
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