First Secretary Hanin Nimir Headquarters Damascus, Syria Ideology Communism | Founded 1986 (1986) Newspaper An-Nour | |
Split from Syrian Communist Party (unitary) | ||
The Syrian Communist Party (Unified) (Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي السوري (الموحد)), initially known simply as Syrian Communist Party (الحزب الشيوعي السوري 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, formed by the pro-Perestroika faction led by Yusuf Faisal.
At the time of the 2000 Damascus Spring the party was able to publish a newspaper called an-Nour ('the Light').
The 11th party congress, held in March 2011, re-elected Hanin Nimir as First Secretary of the party.
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Syrian Communist Party (Unified) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA