Syrian Communist Party (Bakdash)

The Syrian Communist Party ( Parti Communiste syria French, Arabic الحزب الشيوعي السوري al - Hizb al - Schujū'ī al -suri ) is a political party in Syria.

The party grew from the split of 1986 within the Syrian Communist Party and was founded by the anti - perestroika faction under Khalid Bakdasch ( the pro- perestroika faction was the United Syrian Communist Party of Yusuf Faisal ). Khalid Bakdasch died in 1995, his successor as general secretary of his party was his widow, Wisal Farha Bakdasch.

At the time of the Damascus Spring of 2000, there was the party allowed to publish a newspaper called Sawt al - Shaab ( ' voice of the people '). In the parliamentary elections in Syria in 2007, the party won 5 seats. In the 2012 elections, the party was able to win three seats and got 8 seats in the People's Council. The party is a coalition partner of the ruling Baath Party in the National Progressive Front. It members were expelled on charges of Trotskyism, they founded the Party of the popular will.