Syrian–Lebanese Communist Party

The Syrian- Lebanese Communist Party ( Parti Communiste de la Syrie French et du Liban, Arabic الحزب الشيوعي السوري اللبناني ), a communist political party in the French League of Nations Mandate for Syria and Lebanon, was established in 1924 by the Lebanese Egyptian Fu'ad al - Shimali, the Lebanese Yusuf Yazbek and the Lebanese Armenian Artin Madoyan founded.

The General Secretary of the Communist Party was Khalid Bakdasch, the party color was red.

History

The party was represented at the 6th Congress of the Communist International in 1928 by Fu'ad al - Shimali. Under the French mandate over Syria, she was initially an underground organization, 1936-1939 it was legal under the French Popular Front government, after a short period of illegality again in 1941., The party decided in 1936 to cooperate with the nationalist movement and the return of their own socialist themes. This was in accordance with the 7th Congress of the Communist International in 1935.

Later, the party was divided into the Syrian Communist Party and the Lebanese Communist Party, but this decision was made ​​in late 1943 implemented until 1964. Until then, there was a common Central Committee and Politburo. The successor of the party in Syria seceded in 1986 turn into the Bakdasch faction and in the Syrian Communist Party - United under Yusuf Faisal on. Also in 2012, split off from the Bakdasch Group party of the popular will is an indirect successor.