The Libyan Communist Party (Italian: Partito Comunista Libico, PCL; Arabic: حزب الشيوعي الليبي) was a Marxist–Leninist communist party in Libya.
Libyan Communist Party | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1945 |
| Dissolved | 1952 |
| Newspaper | Corriere del Lunedì |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism |
| Political position | Far-left |
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 the Libyan 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 including Nino Caruso and Valentino Parlato, and the Communist Party was under police surveillance.[2][3] The party's headquarters was in Benghazi. The influence of the party was limited to a small group in Cyrenaica.
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 with Gaddafi coming to power in 1969 and a subsequent wave of repression against communists.[5][6] In 1973, during the Libyan cultural 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]
References
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- ^ Simons, Geoff (1993). "Libya: the struggle for survival". Londres: Macmillan. p. 161. ISBN 0-312-08997-X.
- ^ One way ticket to Italy - Six Italians deported, in Sunday Ghibli - Settimanale di informazione inglese in Libia, Nov. 1951
- ^ "The Libyan economy: economic diversification and international repositioning", p. 16.
- ^ "Northern Communists". 2014-10-28. Archived from the original on 2014-10-28. Retrieved 2023-01-23.
- ^ "Factbox: Gaddafi rule marked by abuses, rights groups say". Reuters. 2011-02-22. Retrieved 2023-01-23.
- ^ Times, Henry Tanner Special to The New York (1973-05-22). "Tough Libyan 'Cultural Revolution' Stresses Merger With Egypt". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-01-23.
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