Communist Labour Party (Syria)

The Communist Action Party (Arabic حزب العمل الشيوعي Hizb al-' Amal al - Schuyu'i ) is a left political party in Syria, which was founded in 1976 under the name League of Communist Action as a split from the Syrian Communist Party. The illegal from the outset Party renamed itself on August 6, 1981 in Communist Labor Party has to offer. They organized mainly students and intellectuals, many of its members are Alawites.

According to human rights organizations operated exclusively nonviolent; according to the blog " AngryArab News Service " they first fought with weapons against the government. Its members were intimidated from the beginning, many were imprisoned. The persecution was especially severe, because many Alawites were among them. In 1992, she was crushed by a large-scale arrests, many of its members were convicted by the Supreme State Security Court Syria to long prison terms. Its general secretary Fateh Jamous was imprisoned for almost 20 years, Abdul Aziz al -chair 14 years and Monder Khaddam 13 years.

In 2003 she was re-established. She joined in 2006 the " National Democratic merger " and 2007 the Alliance " Marxist Left rally '. Several of her members, Monder Khaddam and Abdelaziz al - Chair, were involved in the founding of the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change (NCB ).

The Syrian Civil War is against arming the opposition and foreign military interventions, it calls for a dialogue with the government of Assad and supported the peace plan UN mediator Kofi Annan. Their political goals for Syria are free elections, separation of powers, a secular, democratic government, speech and assembly, freedom and equal rights for all citizens.

Abdul Aziz al - Chair, was arrested on September 21, 2012 at a road block in Damascus after he returned from negotiations with the Chinese leadership to Syria. The Coordinating Committee makes the government responsible for this.