Syrian Communist Party (Bakdash)
Syrian Communist Party الحزب الشيوعي السوري | |
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| Secretary General | Ammar Bakdash[1] |
| Founded | 1986 |
| Split from | Syrian Communist Party |
| Headquarters | Damascus, Syria |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation | National Progressive Front |
| International affiliation | IMCWP[2] |
| Colours | Red and yellow |
| People's Council | 2 / 250 |
| Cabinet of Syria | 1 / 35 |
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The Syrian Communist Party (Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي السوري, romanized: Al-Hizb Al-Shuyū'ī Al-Sūrī) is a 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, Ammar Bakdash, who succeeded his mother in the party’s leadership
Parliamentary elections[edit]
| Election year | # of overall seats won |
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| 2007 | 5 / 250
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| 2012 | 8 / 250
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 3
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| 2016 | 3 / 250
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 5
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| 2020 | 3 / 250
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References[edit]
- ^ Orfali, Mohannad. "الحزب الشيوعي السوري". pnf.org.sy. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
- ^ IMCWP. "Participants List". IMCWP. Retrieved 16 February 2019.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
- ^ Muñoz, Rosa Velasco. 2019. "The Syrian Communist Party: Patrimonialism and fractures." Communist Parties in the Middle East. Routledge, 2019. 109-128.
- ^ Musalam, A., & Abdin, M. M. E. (2020). 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).
- ^ 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.
External links[edit]
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- Official website (archive)
- Syrian Communist Party on Facebook
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