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In a meeting held on January 29, the new jihadist government of Syria under Islamist Ahmed al-Sharaa (formerly Al-Jolani) decided to ban the activities of parties that participated in the so-called National Progressive Front, including the Communist Party of Syria.
The activity of Syrian communists goes back to the 1920s with the foundation of the Syrian-Lebanese Communist Party in 1924. Despite its internal splits and divisions, the Communist Party had always been a progressive and democratic force, struggling for the rights of the Syrian people.
In a statement, the Iraqi Communist Party condemned the Syrian government's decision, calling it “unjust and politically repressive". Similarly, the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Communist Party stresses that the ban of the Syrian CP consists "a gross violation of basic human rights".