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The '''Communist Labour Party''' ({{lang-ar|حزب العمل الشيوعي}}; also translated as the "'''Party for Communist Action'''") is a [[Syria]]n [[communist]] party active in the 1980s and early 1990s. The party, a [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist–Leninist]] splinter group from the [[Syrian Communist Party]],<ref name="Rab"/> was first formed in August 1986 as the "League for Communist Action," and was renamed to "Communist Labor Party" on 6 August 1981.<ref name="SyP"/> The party, banned by the [[government of Syria]] since its establishment, was victim to a number of crackdowns, where 200 of its members were arrested in 1986 alone.<ref name="Rab">{{cite book |title=Middle East Contemporary Survey 1986 |last1=Rabinovitch | first1= Itamar|last2=Shaked |first2= Haim|authorlink= |coauthors= |year= 1988 |publisher=The Moshe Dayan Center |location= |isbn= 978-0-8133-0764-0 |page= |pages=607–608 |url= |accessdate=}}</ref> 21 members were sentenced by the [[Supreme State Security Court]] for "membership in a secret organization created to change the economic or social structure of the state".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/syria0209webwcover.pdf |title=Far From Justice: Syria's Supreme State Security Court |author= |date=February 2009 |work= |publisher=[[Human Rights Watch]] |accessdate=24 January 2012}}</ref> [[Amnesty International]] protested on behalf of the prisoners.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE24/010/1993/en/71b21918-ec32-11dd-8d9d-a7825928c0bf/mde240101993en.html |title=Further information on UA 292/93 (MDE 24/07/93, 26 August 1993) Fear of torture/legal concern |author= |date=2 December 1993 |work= |publisher=[[Amnesty International]] |accessdate=24 January 2012}}</ref> The party continued to secretly distribute its publications–''ar-Raya al-Hamra'a'' ("''The Red Banner''"), ''ash-Shyu'i'' ("''The Communist''"), ''al-Brulitari'' ("''The Proletarian''")–until 1991. On 6 August 2003, the party announced its return to the political scene in a statement, followed by a new publication called ''al-A'an'' ("''Now''").<ref name="SyP">{{cite web |url=http://www.syrianparties.info/?page_id=62l |title=حزب العمل الشيوعي : Syrian Parties |author= |date=|work= |language=Arabic |publisher=http://www.syrianparties.info/ |accessdate=25 January 2012}}</ref>
The '''Communist Labour Party''' ({{lang-ar|حزب العمل الشيوعي}}; also translated as the "'''Party for Communist Action'''") is a [[Syria]]n [[communist]] party active in the 1980s and early 1990s. The party, a [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist–Leninist]] splinter group from the [[Syrian Communist Party]],<ref name="Rab"/> was first formed in August 1986 as the "League for Communist Action," and was renamed to "Communist Labor Party" on 6 August 1981.<ref name="SyP"/> The party, banned by the [[government of Syria]] since its establishment, was victim to a number of crackdowns, where 200 of its members were arrested in 1986 alone.<ref name="Rab">{{cite book |title=Middle East Contemporary Survey 1986 |last1=Rabinovitch | first1= Itamar|last2=Shaked |first2= Haim|authorlink= |coauthors= |year= 1988 |publisher=The Moshe Dayan Center |location= |isbn= 978-0-8133-0764-0 |page= |pages=607–608 |url= |accessdate=}}</ref> 21 members were sentenced by the [[Supreme State Security Court]] for "membership in a secret organization created to change the economic or social structure of the state".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/syria0209webwcover.pdf |title=Far From Justice: Syria's Supreme State Security Court |author= |date=February 2009 |work= |publisher=[[Human Rights Watch]] |accessdate=24 January 2012}}</ref> [[Amnesty International]] protested on behalf of the prisoners.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE24/010/1993/en/71b21918-ec32-11dd-8d9d-a7825928c0bf/mde240101993en.html |title=Further information on UA 292/93 (MDE 24/07/93, 26 August 1993) Fear of torture/legal concern |author= |date=2 December 1993 |work= |publisher=[[Amnesty International]] |accessdate=24 January 2012}}</ref> The party continued to secretly distribute its publications–''ar-Raya al-Hamra'a'' ("''The Red Banner''"), ''ash-Shyu'i'' ("''The Communist''"), ''al-Brulitari'' ("''The Proletarian''")–until 1991. On 6 August 2003, the party announced its return to the political scene in a statement, followed by a new publication called ''al-A'an'' ("''Now''").<ref name="SyP">{{cite web |url=http://www.syrianparties.info/?page_id=62l |title=حزب العمل الشيوعي : Syrian Parties |author= |date=|work= |language=Arabic |publisher=http://www.syrianparties.info/ |accessdate=25 January 2012}}</ref>


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Communist Labour Party
حزب العمل الشيوعي
LeaderFateh Jamous
Gegründet1976 (1976)
IdeologyMarxism–Leninism
Political positionLeft-wing
Parliament of Syria
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The Communist Labour Party (Arabic: حزب العمل الشيوعي; also translated as the "Party for Communist Action") is a Syrian communist party active in the 1980s and early 1990s. The party, a Marxist–Leninist splinter group from the Syrian Communist Party,[1] was first formed in August 1986 as the "League for Communist Action," and was renamed to "Communist Labor Party" on 6 August 1981.[2] The party, banned by the government of Syria since its establishment, was victim to a number of crackdowns, where 200 of its members were arrested in 1986 alone.[1] 21 members were sentenced by the Supreme State Security Court for "membership in a secret organization created to change the economic or social structure of the state".[3] Amnesty International protested on behalf of the prisoners.[4] The party continued to secretly distribute its publications–ar-Raya al-Hamra'a ("The Red Banner"), ash-Shyu'i ("The Communist"), al-Brulitari ("The Proletarian")–until 1991. On 6 August 2003, the party announced its return to the political scene in a statement, followed by a new publication called al-A'an ("Now").[2]

The party is led by Fateh Jamous, who was imprisoned between 1982 and 2000. He was again arrested in 2006.[5]

The party worked with a Palestinian dissident group, called the Palestinian Popular Committees, in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus. The group was founded in 1983. The Palestinian Popular Committees were disbanded in 1985, as a campaign of arrests was launched against the Syrian party.[6]

One of the sentenced activists of the party, Tuhama Mahmoud Ma'rouf, received a suspended sentence in 1995, only to be rearrested and ordered to begin serving her sentence in 2010 for unknown reasons.[7] In February 2011, she began a hunger strike protesting the conditions of her detainment at Adra prison. She was released on 20 June of that year in a mass presidential amnesty for political dissidents.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b Rabinovitch, Itamar; Shaked, Haim (1988). Middle East Contemporary Survey 1986. The Moshe Dayan Center. pp. 607–608. ISBN 978-0-8133-0764-0. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  2. ^ a b "حزب العمل الشيوعي : Syrian Parties" (in Arabic). http://www.syrianparties.info/. Retrieved 25 January 2012. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  3. ^ "Far From Justice: Syria's Supreme State Security Court" (PDF). Human Rights Watch. February 2009. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  4. ^ "Further information on UA 292/93 (MDE 24/07/93, 26 August 1993) Fear of torture/legal concern". Amnesty International. 2 December 1993. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  5. ^ "تأجيل محاكمة فاتح جاموس وتحديد جلسة استجواب سرية للمعارض السوري فائق المير أسعد أمام محكمة الجنايات الأولى في دمشق" (in Arabic). Arraee.com. 21 July 2007. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  6. ^ Ali Badwan (12 March 2006). "حركة فتح المجلس الثوري تتخذ الاغتيالات وسيلة لترجمة مواقفها السياسية" (in Arabic). www.albayan.ae. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  7. ^ "Urgent Action: Female Political Prisoner on Hunger Strike". Amnesty International. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
  8. ^ "Case Information". Committee on Human Rights of the US National Academy of Sciences. 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
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