Libyan Communist Party | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1945 |
| Dissolved | 1952 |
| Newspaper | Corriere del Lunedì |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism |
| Political position | Far-left |
TheLibyan Communist Party (Italian:Partito Comunista Libico, PCL;Arabic:حزب الشيوعي الليبي) was aMarxist–Leninistcommunist party inLibya.
Historically,Marxism came to Libya through bourgeois intellectuals who studied abroad and through Marxists that settled from Italy.[1]
The party was established shortly after World War II, but theLibyan authorities began a crackdown on the party soon after the founding of the Communist Party in 1945. In November 1951, seven of its leaders were forced into exile includingNino Caruso [it] andValentino Parlato [it], and the Communist Party was under police surveillance.[2][3] The party's headquarters was inBenghazi. The influence of the party was limited to a small group inCyrenaica.
Communist militants took part in student demonstrations.[1] In 1952 the government banned all political parties, forcing the party underground.[4] A second wave of repression came withGaddaficoming to power in 1969 and a subsequent wave of repression against communists.[5][6] In 1973, during the Libyancultural revolution, Gaddafi stated:
We must purge all the sick people who talk of Communism, atheism, who make propaganda for the Western countries and advocate capitalism. We shall put them in prison.[7]
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