Libyan Communist Party

The Libyan Communist Party ( Italian Partito Comunista Libiano , Arabic الحزب الشيوعي الليبي, DMG al-Ḥizb aš-Šuyūʿī al-lībī ) is a Marxist-Leninist party in Libya .

history

The Marxism came to Libya by Italian settlers during the Italian colonial era in Libya and by bourgeois intellectuals and students who studied abroad and came with the communist movement in contact.

The party itself was founded shortly after the Second World War and had mostly Italians among its members. It was legally organized as a Political Association for the Progress of Libya . In order to facilitate the government of the new monarchical regime , the British occupiers expelled many Italians, including many communists. In November 1951, seven party leaders were expelled from the country and the organization was subsequently monitored by police. The headquarters of the Libyan Communist Party was in Benghazi . The party's influence was limited to a small group in Cyrenaica , and the party's main obstacle was the dictates of the religious clergy and American- British troops on Libya . In such circumstances the party could hardly influence the national economy.

However, the communist fighters organized student demonstrations against the government. In 1952 the government banned all political parties. After the revolution of September 1, 1969 , the government of the republic, led by Muammar al-Gaddafi, began a new campaign against and suppressed the Libyan communists. In 2011, the Libyan Communist Party supported the rebellion against the Gaddafi government , as did the rest of the so-called “ Arab Spring ” manifestations .

The party publishes the Corriere del Lunedì newspaper (“Mail on Monday”).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Omeish Ibrahim: Surgimiento de los partidos y corrientes políticas después de la independencia de Libia . In: Historia política y futuro de la sociedad civil en Libia ( árabe ) (= Libya Almostakbal) 2009 (accessed on February 18, 2012).
2. ^ Geoff Simons: Libya: the struggle for survival ( inglés ). Macmillan, Londres 1993, ISBN 0-312-08997-X , p. 161 (accessed on 18 de febrero de 2012).
3. ↑ Waniss Otman, Erling Karlberg: The Libyan economy: economic diversification and international repositioning ( inglés ). Springer, Nueva York 2010, ISBN 978-3-540-46460-0 , p. 16 (accessed on 19 de febrero de 2012).
4. ^ Communist Party condemns attack on Libya ( en ) Partido Comunista Británico. 20 de marzo de 2011. Archived from the original on October 28, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved on 18 de febrero de 2012. 
5. ↑ Valentino Parlato: Così, a 16 anni in Libia, sono diventato comunista ( italiano ) 31 de agosto de 2010. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved on 19 de febrero de 2012.