Middle East Focus: Communists of Saudi Arabia?…………

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Communists of Saudi Arabia?…………

"The Communist Party in Saudi Arabia (Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي في السعودية‎, Hizb al-Shuyu'i fi al-Sa'udiyah) was a political party in Saudi Arabia. The 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 National Liberation Front on October 17, 1958. The NLF was part of the Arab National Liberation Front since 1963. The communists inside the NLF had a separate organization called the Organization of Saudi Communists (OSC). The remainder of the NLF founded the CPSA in 1975. The party was always illegal and persecuted by the regime. The CPSA had a youth organization, the Union of Democratic Youth - Saudi Arabia (Ittihad ash-Shabab ad-Dimuqrati fi al-Sa'udiyah), with office in Damascus, Syria. Other organizations close to the CPSA were the Workers' Federation of Saudi Arabia, the National Union of Students of Saudi Arabia (NUSSA) and the Democratic Women's League of Saudi Arabia. Its central organ was Tariq al-Qadyhin ("Way of the Toilers")………”

Hot and cold. They sure have come a long way from the days of those clandestine organizations to these days of an opposite "1984" royal-fundamentalist conformity and absolute obedience.
From the verge of a leftist takeover (and it came closer than people now realize) to a complete absolute polygamous avaricious consolidated rule of the oligarchy. From possible one-party iron rule to a strong consolidation of one-family iron rule.
Interesting bit of history, huh? I wonder how many of the old comrades have become shaggy shaikhs of the religious police these days?
Cheers
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