Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism

The Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism (French: Parti Algérien pour la Démocratie et le Socialisme, PADS) is a communist political party in Algeria. When in 1993,[1] during the Algerian Civil War, Ettehadi was realigned as a democratic movement resisting Islamism,[2] the orthodox communist wing split apart under the leadership of Abdelhamid Benzine to retain its communist legacy.[2]

Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism Parti Algérien pour la Démocratie et le Socialisme
Abbreviation	PADS
Founder	Abdelhamid Benzine
Founded	1993 (1993)
Newspaper	Le Lien des Ouvriers et Paysans
Ideology	Communism
Political position	Left-wing
International affiliation	International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties International Communist Seminar
Council of the Nation	0 / 144
People's National Assembly	0 / 480
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PADS publishes the newspaper Le Lien des Ouvriers et Paysans (The Link of the Workers and Peasants).