:Communist Labour Party (Syria)

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{{Infobox political party

| name = Communist Labour Party

| native_name = حزب العمل الشيوعي

| logo = Hizb Al-'Amal Al-Shuyu'iy.png

| colorcode = {{party color|Communist Labour Party (Syria)}}

| foundation = {{start date|1976}}

| founder =

| native_name_lang = ar

| leader = Fateh Jamous

| ideology = Communism
Marxism–Leninism

| position =

| national = National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change
National Democratic Rally
Marxist Left Gathering

| seats1_title = People's Assembly of Syria

| seats1 = {{Composition bar|0|250|hex={{party color|Communist Labour Party (Syria)}}}}

| country = Syria

}}

The Communist labor Party ({{langx|ar|حزب العمل الشيوعي}} Hizb Al-'Amal Al-Shuyu'iy) is a Syrian communist party active in the 1980s and early 1990s. The party, a Marxist–Leninist splinter group from the Syrian Communist Party, was first formed in August 1976 as the "League for Communist Action{{Cite journal |last=Baresh |first=Manhal |date=June 20, 2024 |title=Politics in Syria: Mapping Active Political Parties and Movements |url=https://impactres.org/reports/Political_landscape_in_Syria-En.pdf |journal=Impact Research}}," and was renamed to "Syrian communist Action Party" on 6 August 1981.{{dead link|date=November 2013}}The party, banned by the Ba'athist government since its establishment, was victim to a number of crackdowns, where 200 of its members were arrested in 1986 alone.{{cite book |title=Middle East Contemporary Survey 1986 |last1=Rabinovitch | first1= Itamar|last2=Shaked |first2= Haim|year= 1988 |publisher=The Moshe Dayan Center |isbn= 978-0-8133-0764-0 |pages=607–608 }} 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".{{cite web |url=https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/syria0209webwcover.pdf |title=Far From Justice: Syria's Supreme State Security Court |date=February 2009 |publisher=Human Rights Watch |access-date=24 January 2012}} Amnesty International protested on behalf of the prisoners.{{cite web |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde24/010/1993/en/ |title=Further information on UA 292/93 (MDE 24/07/93, 26 August 1993) Fear of torture/legal concern |date=2 December 1993 |publisher=Amnesty International |access-date=24 January 2012}} 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-An ("Now").{{cite web |url=http://www.syrianparties.info/?page_id=62l |title=حزب العمل الشيوعي : Syrian Parties |language=ar |work=syrianparties.info/ |access-date=25 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304003955/http://www.syrianparties.info/?page_id=62l |archive-date=4 March 2016 }}

The party is led by Fateh Jamous, who was imprisoned between 1982 and 2000. He was again arrested in 2006.{{cite web|url=http://www.arraee.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=22370 |script-title=ar:تأجيل محاكمة فاتح جاموس وتحديد جلسة استجواب سرية للمعارض السوري فائق المير أسعد أمام محكمة الجنايات الأولى في دمشق |date=21 July 2007 |language=ar |publisher=Arraee.com |access-date=24 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807003313/http://www.arraee.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=22370 |archive-date=August 7, 2007 }}

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.albayan.ae/servlet/Satellite?c=Article&cid=1164201518878&pagename=Albayan%2FArticle%2FFullDetail |script-title=ar:حركة فتح المجلس الثوري تتخذ الاغتيالات وسيلة لترجمة مواقفها السياسية |author=Ali Badwan |date=12 March 2006 |language=ar |publisher=www.albayan.ae |access-date=24 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071122232833/http://www.albayan.ae/servlet/Satellite?c=Article&cid=1164201518878&pagename=Albayan%2FArticle%2FFullDetail |archive-date=November 22, 2007 }}

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.{{cite web |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde24/009/2011/en/ |title=Urgent Action: Female Political Prisoner on Hunger Strike |date=4 March 2011 |publisher=Amnesty International |access-date=23 January 2012}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/humanrights/PGA_066616 |title=Case Information |year=2012 |publisher=Committee on Human Rights of the US National Academy of Sciences |access-date=24 January 2012}}

Since the beginning of the Syrian Civil War, the party has aligned itself with the Syrian Opposition, operating within its territory and political system.

In early 2018, the party condemned the Turkish military operation in Afrin.{{cite web |url=http://en.hawarnews.com/communist-labour-party-in-syria-condemn-turkish-occupation-invasion-on-afrin/ |title=Communist Labour Party in Syria condemn Turkish occupation invasion on Afrin |work=Hawar News Agency |date=28 January 2018 |access-date=30 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129222431/http://en.hawarnews.com/communist-labour-party-in-syria-condemn-turkish-occupation-invasion-on-afrin/ |archive-date=29 January 2018 |url-status=dead }}