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Communist Party in Saudi Arabia

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Shiites were attracted to Saudi opposition groups, including the Communist Party, due to resentment at discrimination against them on religious grounds by the Saudi Government. As a result, the bulk of the members of the Communist Party were members of Saudi Arabia's Shiite community.
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Saudi Communist Party literature was filled with critiques of the Saudi economy, discrimination against women, and of the pro-Western foreign policy of the Saudi ruling family. The Communist Party also criticized the Saudi ruling family as being corrupt.
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The CPSA had close relations with other Arab communist parties and was a pro-Soviet party. In its previous inception as the National Liberation Front, the group had pursued closer ties with the
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The Communist Party in Saudi Arabia (CPSA) was formed on August 31, 1975. It had its origins in the National Renewal Front which was founded on September 23, 1954 and transformed in the
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As part of the restructuring of the party in the early 1990s, the new Democratic Assembly took up the cause of democratic reform.
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The CPSA had a youth organization, the Union of Democratic Youth - Saudi Arabia (
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since 1963. The communists inside the NLF had a separate organization called the
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The Battle for Saudi Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power
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Organization for the Islamic Revolution in the Arabian Peninsula
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The party was always illegal and persecuted by the regime.
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Index

Youth wing
Ideology
Communism
Marxism-Leninism
Political position
Far-left
Politics of Saudi Arabia
Political parties
Elections
Arabic
political party
Saudi Arabia
National Liberation Front
Arab National Liberation Front
Organization of Saudi Communists
Mustafa Wahba
Hafiz Wahba
King Abdulaziz
Soviet Union
Islamism

Damascus
Syria
National Union of Students of Saudi Arabia
National Liberation Front – Bahrain
List of political parties in Saudi Arabia
"The Cold War and the Communist Party of Saudi Arabia, 1975–1991"
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10.1162/jcws_a_00950
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