The People's Will Party () is a communist party in

Syria Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to Syria–Turkey border, the north, Iraq to Iraq–Syria border, t ...

History

In 2000, shortly after the convention of the 9th Congress of the

Syrian Communist Party The Syrian Communist Party () was a political party in Syria founded in 1944 as a division of the Syrian–Lebanese Communist Party, which later split into the Syrian Communist Party and the Lebanese Communist Party. In 1972, it became a memb ...

, 80% of the membership of Damascus organization of the party were expelled. As this illegitimate procedure was widened to cover more party organizations all over Syria, the affected comrades and party organizations formed the National Committee for the Unity of the Syrian Communists, which re-published the Qassioun newspaper. The new party is not affiliated with the National Progressive Front, which brought together the ruling

Ba'ath Party The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party ( ' ), also known simply as Bath Party (), was a political party founded in Syria by Michel Aflaq, Salah al-Din al-Bitar, and associates of Zaki al-Arsuzi. The party espoused Ba'athism, which is an ideology ...

and other legal parties. In 2012, the communist group formed an officially registered party known as the People's Will Party that convened its 10th Periodical, 1st after registration, Congress in June 2013. The party ran independent candidates in the parliamentary elections in

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and

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but failed to win any seats. Nonetheless, in the parliamentary elections of 2012, the

Popular Front for Change and Liberation The Popular Front for Change and Liberation (, ''al-Jabha aš-š‘abiyya li'l-taghayyir wa'l-taḥrīr'') is a coalition of Syrian political parties. It briefly participated as the leader of the official political opposition within the People's ...

, a coalition formed by the PWP, took 5 seats. The Party joined the demonstrations at the start of the 2011 Syrian Crisis, and a number of its activists in

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and

Deir ez-Zor Deir ez-Zor () is the largest city in eastern Syria and the seventh largest in the country. Located on the banks of the Euphrates to the northeast of the capital Damascus, Deir ez-Zor is the capital of the Deir ez-Zor Governorate. In the 2018 ...

were killed by the governmental police and other services, while others were detained or arrested in other Syrian governorates. As the Syrian popular movement turned armed and violent, the PWP continued with its humanitarian aid and mediation efforts in some conflict zones. The PWP seeks a comprehensive, radical and democratic change of the regime as a whole, not only the removal of the president. Economically, the party supports a reversal of liberalization reforms that started in 2005 and laid the foundation for the social and political unrest in Syria. It supports the creation of a strong national economy. Dr. Kadri Jamil, one of PWP Council Secretaries, was a member of the committee that drafted amendments to the

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in response to the

2011 Syrian protests The Syrian revolution, also known as the Syrian Revolution of Dignity, was a series of mass protests and civilian uprisings throughout Syria – with a subsequent violent reaction by the Ba'athist regime – lasting from 15 March 2011 to 8 De ...

. The amendments were approved in the Syrian constitutional referendum in 2012 and allowed multiparty elections in Syria. In 2025, following the fall of the Ba'athist government and the creation of the Syrian Interim Government the party joined a new organisation known as the “Syrian Equal Citizenship Alliance,” or “Tamasuk”. Upon joining Tamasuk, the People's Will Party called for a "unified Syria” under a single state and single army and called for a “just, democratic solution to the Kurdish issue.” It is the first organised political alliance in Syria outside of the government since the fall of the Ba'athist regime.

Leadership

In organization, the People's Will Party follows

democratic centralism Democratic centralism is the organisational principle of most communist parties, in which decisions are made by a process of vigorous and open debate amongst party membership, and are subsequently binding upon all members of the party. The co ...

. Nonetheless, it has no assignment for a secretary-general; instead, the collective leadership of the members of the Central Council that are elected in the General Conference rules the party. The Central Council elects its members of the Syrian

Presidium A presidium or praesidium is a council of executive officers in some countries' political assemblies that collectively administers its business, either alongside an individual president or in place of one. The term is also sometimes used for the ...

and members of the Secretariat to undertake daily tasks.

Parliamentary elections

References

External links

Website of the People's Will Party's newspaper Qassioun
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