A Communiqu? on the Convening of the 10th Syrian Communist Party Congress

The 10th Congress of SCP was held in Damascus from 9 until 12 November 2005 under three basic slogans:

“For a Free Country and Triumphant People” 
“For Defending the Country and Defending Interests of the People”
“For a world Anti-Imperialist Front”

The Congress was decorated with SCP patriotic, class and International slogans.

The 10th Congress of SCP was held in Damascus from 9 until 12 November 2005 under three basic slogans:

The Congress afterward continued by electing the Congress Leadership body and adopting the session management system and Congress agenda, then the following committees were formed:

a. The Decisions and recommendations Committee 
b. Bylaw Committee 
c. Youth Affairs Committee
d. Woman’s Affairs Committee 
e. Workers and Trade Unions Committee
f. Agricultural Affairs Committee

During the Congress, the delegates discussed the submitted reports with a high sense of responsibility aimed at activating SCP work at all levels.

The conferees confirmed their commitment to maintain SCP policies founded on the following three fundamentals laid down by Comrade Khaled Bagdash:

• Cooperation with the Baath Arab Socialist Party and all national progressive forces.
• Manifest SCP independent character concerning matters of principle and major political issues.
• Support the demands of workers, peasants and all toiling people.

The Congress also confirmed that the answer to the increasing pressures from American Imperialism and Zionist Israel lies fundamentally in the national steadfastness at all levels, and in shoring up especially the socioeconomic ingredients of this especially by paying attention to the issues vital to the masses and working class including standard of living, tackle those issues, expand freedoms and consolidate national unity.

The 10th SCP Congress endorsed the political and economic reports submitted to it and carefully discussed the reports prepared by the created committees, and after introducing some changes to those reports, the following decisions were issued:

1. A decision on the economic and social tasks to be undertaken by the party in the current phase.
2. A decision on the tasks of the National Liberation Movement and current duties.
3. A decision on labor and trade unions issues.
4. A decision on major concerns of the youth.
5. A decision on woman’s affairs.
6. A decision on party expansion.
7. A decision on preserving national heritage and protecting the environment.

Afterwards, speeches were delivered by the Congress’s communist and workers’ participating parties and greeting letters sent to the Congress were read. Implementation of the Congress agenda afterwards continued by electing the SCP higher bodies: the SCP Central Committee and the Central Control Committee by a secret vote. The Congress then decided to send the following greeting letters and telegrams:

1. A telegram to President Bashar Al Assad, President of the Syrian Arab Republic and Chairman of the National Progressive Front.
2. A letter to the families of the party and Homeland’s martyrs.
3. A letters to our people in the occupied Golan.
4. A greeting letter to the heroic Iraqi resistance.
5. A greeting letter the heroic Palestinian Intifada.
6. A letter of solidarity to the steadfast Palestinians freedom fighters in Israeli prisons: Ahmad Saadaat, Marwan al-Barghouti and their comrades.
7. A letter of solidarity to the heroic Cuba.
8. A letter of solidarity to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
9. A letter of solidarity to Venezuela.

The Congress also sent a proclamation to the communist and workers parties all over the world calling for increased global solidarity with Syrian national steadfastness in the face of the aggressive imperialist campaign.

Damascus, November 12, 2005
The 10th Congress of Syrian Communist Party