Party of Socialist Revolution (Lebanon)

The Party of Socialist Revolution (Arabic: حزب الثورة الإشتراكية | Hizb al-Thawra al-Ishtirakiyya) was a communist party

Communist party

A political party described as a Communist party includes those that advocate the application of the social principles of communism through a communist form of government...

 in Lebanon

Lebanon

Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...

, emerging as a seemingly pro-Chinese

China

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 split from the Lebanese Communist Party

Lebanese Communist Party

The Lebanese Communist Party – LCP or Parti communiste libanais in French, is a communist political party in Lebanon...

. The party was founded in 1964. The formation of the party was announced in early September 1964, with Youssef Moubarek as party chairman and Moustafa Chaker as general secretary. The group published Ila amam ('Forward'). The group did not fully support the line of Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung , and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao , was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution...

, but notably did not support the Soviet Union in their dispute with China. The group argued that the mainstream of the Lebanese Communist Party had become too supportive of Nasser, and accused Khalid Bakdash

Khalid Bakdash

Khalid Bakdash was the leader of the Syrian Communist Party from 1936 until his death. In 1954 Bakdash became the first member of a communist party to be elected to an Arab parliament. He has since been called the "dean of Arab communism."-Early life:Bakdash was a Damascus native of Kurdish origin...

 of 'revisionism'. The group argued that solely through people's war could Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

be defeated.

Their best-known recruit was the Syrian General Afif al-Bizri.