Political Parties and Organizations
- National Progressive Front:
- Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party (governing party)
- Arab Socialist Movement
- Arab Socialist Union Party of Syria
- Syrian Communist Party (Khalid Bakdash faction)
- Syrian Communist Party (Yusuf Faisal faction)
- Social Democratic Unionists
- Socialist Unionists
- Democratic Socialist Unionist Party
- Arabic Democratic Unionist Party
- National Vow Movement
- Popular Front for Change and Liberation
- Syrian Social Nationalist Party
- People’s Will Party
- Other Licenced parties (As 19 June 2012 ):
- National Democratic Solidarity Party (Al Tadamon National Democratic Party)
- Syrian Democratic Party (Al Tadamon Arab Democratic Party)
- National Development Party
- Al-Ansar Party
- Democratic Al-Taliyeh Party (Al Talia'a Democratic Party)
- Al-Shabab Reform Party (National Youth for Justice and Development)
- Syrian Al-Shabab Reform Party (Syrian National Youth Party)
- Syrian Reform and Justice Party
- Syria Home (Souriya Al-Watan)
Under the Constitution of Syria approved in 2012, a licensed party must have at least 50 founding members, aged 25 or over, who have been Syrian nationals for more than 10 years, and are not members of any other party, Syrian or non-Syrian.
- Unlicensed parties or campaigning organisations operating in Syria or from exile include:
- Syrian Democratic People's Party
- Communist Labour Party
- Democratic Socialist Arab Ba'ath Party
- Arab Revolutionary Workers Party
- Reform Party of Syria
- Muslim Brotherhood of Syria
- Antiglobalization Activists in Syria
- Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria
- Assyrian Democratic Organization
- Syriac Union
- Democratic Arab Socialist Union
- Hizb ut-Tahrir
- National Salvation Front in Syria
- Movement for Justice and Development in Syria
- Democratic Islah Party
- Historical parties in Syria (now defunct):
- Arab Communist Party
- 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
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