The Lebanese Communist Party (LCP; Arabic: الـحـزب الشـيـوعـي اللبـنـانـي Hizbu-sh-shuy‘uī-l-lubnānī) is a communist political party in Lebanon, founded in 1924 by the Lebanese intellectual, writer and reporter Youssef Ibrahim Yazbek, and Fou'ad al-shmeli a tobacco worker from Bikfaya.
The Lebanese Communist Party was officially founded on October 24, 1924, in the Lebanese town of Hadath south of Beirut. The first meeting held a boast of union wo...
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The Lebanese Communist Party (LCP; Arabic: الـحـزب الشـيـوعـي اللبـنـانـي Hizbu-sh-shuy‘uī-l-lubnānī) is a communist political party in Lebanon, founded in 1924 by the Lebanese intellectual, writer and reporter Youssef Ibrahim Yazbek, and Fou'ad al-shmeli a tobacco worker from Bikfaya.
The Lebanese Communist Party was officially founded on October 24, 1924, in the Lebanese town of Hadath south of Beirut. The first meeting held a boast of union workers who formed real unions for the first time in Lebanon, unlike the ones dictated by the French mandate. The meeting was also attended by scholars, academics, writers and journalists, who were active in promoting the ideas of the French Revolution, and were familiar with the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The party was then founded to cover the area held under the French mandate, what is now Syria and Lebanon. Initially, the party's name was "Lebanese People Party", in an attempt to evade the French ban on "Bolshevik"...
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