Libyan Communist Party

The Libyan Communist Party ( Partito Comunista Libiano Italian, Arabic حزب الشيوعي الليبي ) is a Marxist- Leninist party in Libya.

History

Marxism came to Libya by Italian settlers during the Italian colonial period in Libya and by bourgeois intellectuals and students who studied abroad and came into contact with the communist movement.

The party itself was founded shortly after the Second World War and had mostly Italians among its members. It was legally organized as a political association for the advancement of Libya. To facilitate the government of the new monarchical regime, expelled the British occupiers, many Italians, including many Communists. In November 1951 seven leaders of the party were expelled, and the organization was then monitored by the police. The headquarters of the Libyan Communist Party was in Benghazi. The influence of the party was limited to a small group in Cyrenaica, also the party had the main obstacle the dictates of the religious clergy and the US-British troops to Libya. Under such circumstances, the party could hardly exert influence on the national economy.

However, the communist fighters donated student demonstrations against the government. In 1952, the government banned all political parties. After the revolution of September 1 1969, the Government of the Republic began under the leadership of Muammar Gaddafi with a new campaign against the Libyan Communists and suppressed them. In 2011, the Libyan Communist Party supported the rebellion against the Gaddafi government, as well as the rest of the manifestations of the so -called "Arab Spring".

The party publishes the newspaper Corriere del Lunedì ( "Mail on Sunday ").