Syrian Communist Party (Bakdash)

Syrian Communist Party الحزب الشيوعي السوري
Founded	1986 (original Syrian–Lebanese Communist Party founded in 1924)
Split from	Syrian Communist Party (unitary)
Headquarters	Damascus, Syria
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism
Political position	Left-wing
National affiliation	National Progressive Front
Colours	Red and yellow
People's Council	8 / 250
Cabinet of Syria	1 / 35
Website
http://www.syriancp.org/
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The Syrian Communist Party (Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي السوري, transliterated as Al-Hizb Al-Shuyū'ī Al-Sūrī) is a communist party in Syria. 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').

SCP (Bakdash) 75th anniversary poster.

Parliamentary elections

People's Council of Syria
Election year	# of overall seats won	±
2007	5 / 250
2012	8 / 250	3

References

External links

• Syrian Communist Party (Bakdash)
• Facebook

Political parties in Syria
National Progressive Front	Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party 134 pan-Arab organization Socialist Unionists (18) Syrian Communist Party (Bakdash) (8) Syrian Communist Party (Unified) (3) National Vow Movement (3) Arab Socialist Union (2)
Popular Front for Change and Liberation	Syrian Social Nationalist Party (4) People's Will Party (1)
Unrepresented	Democratic Socialist Unionist Party Social Democratic Unionists Arabic Democratic Unionist Party Arab Socialist Movement Democratic People's Party Syrian Turkmen Assembly Syrian Turkmen National Bloc Syrian Democratic Turkmen Movement Democratic Socialist Arab Ba'ath Party Arab Revolutionary Workers Party Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria Syriac Union Party Democratic Arab Socialist Union Movement for Justice and Development in Syria Democratic Union Party National Youth Party Kurdish Future Movement
Defunct parties	National Bloc National Party People's Party League of Nationalist Action Arab National Party Arab Ba'ath Movement Syrian–Lebanese Communist Party Syrian Communist Party Arab Liberation Movement Socialist Cooperation Party Arab Communist Party Communist Labour Party Ba'ath Party (Iraqi-dominated faction)
Banned parties	Hizb ut-Tahrir Muslim Brotherhood of Syria Assyrian Democratic Organization Reform Party of Syria
Kurdish parties	Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria Democratic Union Party Kurdish National Council Kurdish Supreme Committee Kurdish Future Movement
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