The Syrian Communist Party (Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي السوري, transliterated as Al-Hizb Al-Shuyū'ī Al-Sūrīy) was a political party in Syria, founded in 1944. It became a member of the National Progressive Front in 1972. The party split in two in 1986 with two separate parties claiming to represent the original Syrian Communist Party; the Syrian Communist Party (Unified) and the Syrian Communist Party (Bakdash).
Read more about Syrian Communist Party: Beginnings, Bakdash's Leadership and Organisational Growth, Suppression Under Nasser and The Ba'th, 1958-1970, Legal Operation in The National Progressive Front From 1972, The 1980s: Repression and Split, Timeline
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