Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism

{{short description|Political party in Algeria}}

{{Infobox Political Party

| country = Algeria

| name = Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism

| native_name = Parti Algérien pour la Démocratie et le Socialisme

| native_name_lang = fr

| abbreviation = PADS

| logo = Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism logo.png

| colorcode = Red

| foundation = {{start date|1993}}

| founder = Abdelhamid Benzine

| ideology = {{ubl|class=nowrap|Communism|Marxism–Leninism}}

| position = Far-left

| youth_wing =

| international = IMCWP

| european =

| europarl =

| colours =

| headquarters =

| newspaper = {{lang|fr|Le Lien des Ouvriers et Paysans}}

| website =

| seats1_title = Council of the Nation

| seats1 = {{Composition bar|0|144|hex=red}}

| seats2_title = People's National Assembly

| seats2 = {{Composition bar|0|480|hex=red}}

}}

{{Politics of Algeria}}

The Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism ({{langx|fr|Parti Algérien pour la Démocratie et le Socialisme}}, PADS) is a Communist party in Algeria. When in 1993,{{cite web|title=Leftist Parties of Algeria|url=http://www.broadleft.org/dz.htm|publisher=Broad Left|access-date=7 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010003912/http://www.broadleft.org/dz.htm|archive-date=10 October 2016|url-status=dead}} during the Algerian Civil War, Ettehadi was realigned as a democratic movement resisting Islamism,{{cite book|author=Augustus Richard Norton|title=Civil society in the Middle East. 2 (2001)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k61qG1OlLl4C&pg=PA83|access-date=13 September 2014|year=2001|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-10469-0|page=83}} the Marxist–Leninist wing split apart under the leadership of Abdelhamid Benzine to retain its Marxist–Leninist legacy.

PADS publishes the newspaper Le Lien des Ouvriers et Paysans (The Link of the Workers and Peasants).