However, Bakdash himself provoked a harsh reaction from the Egyptian leader with his attack on the latter's policies published in December 1958, in which he called for legalization of political parties and transformation of the UAR into a loose federation.

Many of the intellectuals in the party left with Faisal, while Bakdash retained the support of the party's considerable Kurdish base.

He put Syria under Sarraj, who effectively reduced the province into a police state by imprisoning and exiling Communists — including party leader Khalid Bakdash — and landholders who objected to the introduction of Egyptian agricultural reform in Syria.

In 1954, after a series of military dictatorships that had lasted since 1949, Syria became a democracy, and in the elections held that year, Khalid Bakdash won a seat in parliament for the Damascus area, becoming the first communist elected to an Arab parliament.

Returning in 1936, Bakdash took control of the Communist Party of Syria and Lebanon as secretary, a post he would retain without interruption for the rest of his life.

Perhaps inspired by this example – although his relationship with Khalid Bakdash, first secretary of the Syrian party and doyen of the communist movement in the Arab east, was never an easy one-Fahd relented on the question of holding a congress for the Iraqi party.

Nasser was provoked to action by a harshly critical statement made by Bakdash, who called for transformation of the UAR into a loose federation.

However, popular support for unity with Egypt forced Bakdash to accommodate to circumstances.

Radicals around Riyad al-Turk criticized Bakdash and asked for internal party democracy, as well as a more favorable view towards Arab nationalism and pan-Arabism.

In 1936, Khalid Bakdash, a Damascene who had been recruited to the party in 1930 and later studied at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East in Moscow, took control as secretary of the party, and set about building up its organisation.

Bakdash was allowed to return from Moscow, but forbidden from engaging in public political activity.

Faced with the choice between joining the front and illegal operation, Bakdash opted to join ; Riyad al-Turk would later lead a small radical faction of the party into opposition.

Khalid Bakdash ( 1912 – 1995 ; occasionally spelled Khalid Bagdash, ) was the leader of the Syrian Communist Party ( SCP ) from 1936 until his death.

* Khalid Bakdash, secretary of the Syrian Communist Party from 1936 until 1995

The increasing strength of the Syrian Communist Party, under the leadership of Khalid Bakdash, worried the ruling Ba ' ath Party, which was also suffering from an internal crisis from which prominent members were anxious to find an escape.

They were charged with " reliance on foreign sources of income ", " contact with a foreign state " and with " the party of Khalid Bakdash ", designs subversive of the constitutional order and incitement to insurrection, and the propagation of communism along members of the armed forces.

Bakdash sought to present the Syrian Communist Party as an essential part of the national movement, in the context of Syria's struggle against the French mandate.

Faced with the choice between accepting these restrictions and the prospect of illegal operation, Bakdash and the majority of the party chose to join the Front.

In 1986, Bakdash and deputy secretary Yusuf Faisal differed over the policies of perestroika and glasnost adopted by Soviet Communist Party general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.

Faisal was supportive of Gorbachev's reforms, while Bakdash was opposed.

This led to another split in the party, with many of the party's intellectuals leaving with Faisal while much of its Kurdish base remained supportive of Bakdash.

* 1954Khalid Bakdash is the first communist to be elected to an Arab parliament.

Its general secretary was Khalid Bakdash.

SCP ( Bakdash ) 75th anniversary poster.

The party emerged out of a split in the Syrian Communist Party in 1986, as formed by the anti-Perestroika faction led by Khalid Bakdash.

Khalid Bakdash died in 1995 and was succeeded as secretary of his party faction by his widow, Wisal Farha Bakdash.

In 1954 Bakdash became the first member of a communist party to be elected to an Arab parliament.

Bakdash was a Damascus native of Kurdish origin.

Bakdash took a moderate approach as secretary of the Syrian Communist Party.

Although Bakdash is often referred to as the doyen or elder statesman of Arab communism, his actual influence on other Arab communist parties was not as great as this phrase might suggest.

In the early to mid-1940s Bakdash supported the Iraqi People's Party led by Aziz Sharif, which followed the example of the Syrian Communist Party in seeking to build a broad party emphasizing the national question, contrary to the more orthodox Leninist approach adopted by Fahd's party.

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