The Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism (french: Parti Algérien pour la Démocratie et le Socialisme, PADS) is a

Communist party A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of '' The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel ...

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. When in 1993, during the

Algerian Civil War The Algerian Civil War ( ar, rtl=yes, الْحَرْبُ الْأَهْلِيَّةُ الجَزَائِرِيَّةُ, al-Ḥarb al-ʾAhlīyah al-Jazāʾirīyah) was a civil war in Algeria fought between the Algerian government and various I ...

, Ettehadi was realigned as a democratic movement resisting

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, the

Marxist–Leninist Marxism is a left-wing to far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand class relations and social conflict and a dialect ...

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).

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* 1993 establishments in Algeria Communist parties in Algeria Political parties established in 1993 Political parties in Algeria International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties {{Algeria-party-stub