Syrian Communist Party (Bakdash)
Syrian Communist Party الحزب الشيوعي السوري | |
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| Abbreviation | SCP(B) |
| General Secretary | Ammar Bakdash |
| Founded | 1986 |
| Banned | 29 January 2025[1] |
| Split from | Syrian Communist Party |
| Headquarters | Damascus, Syria |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation | National Progressive Front (until 2025) |
| International affiliation | IMCWP[2] |
| Colours | Red and yellow |
| People's Assembly | 0 / 250 |
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The Syrian Communist Party (Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي السوري, romanized: Al-Hizb Al-Shuyū'ī Al-Sūrī) is a banned anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist communist party in Syria.[3][4][5]
Following the fall of Ba'athist Syria, the party along with the pro-Ba'ath National Progressive Front (NPF), of which it was a member, was dissolved by the Syrian transitional government and prohibited from reforming on 29 January 2025.[6]
History
[edit]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").
The party's last secretary general was Ammar Bakdash, who succeeded his mother in the party's leadership.[7]
Until 29 March 2023, Mohammad Fayez al-Barasha was the party's only cabinet minister.[8]
Election results
[edit]Syrian People's Assembly elections
[edit]| Election | Seats | +/– |
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| 2007 | 5 / 250
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New |
| 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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 0
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| 2024 | 2 / 250
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1
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References
[edit]- ^ Al-Ammar, Najjar (29 January 2025). "الإدارة السورية الجديدة تعلن وقف العمل بالدستور وتعيين الشرع رئيسا للبلاد في المرحلة الانتقالية" [The new Syrian administration announces the suspension of the constitution and the appointment of Sharia as president of the country in the transitional period] (in Arab). France 24. Retrieved 31 January 2025.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ "20 IMCWP, Participants List". SolidNet. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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).
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Ahmad Al-Sharaa officially named Syria's transitional president". www.aa.com.tr. Retrieved 30 January 2025.
- ^ Orfali, Mohannad. "الحزب الشيوعي السوري". pnf.org.sy. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
- ^ "Prime Minister's Office". Syrian Arab News Agency. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
External links
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- Official website (archive)
- Syrian Communist Party on Facebook
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