Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism

Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism
Parti Algérien pour la Démocratie et le Socialisme
AbbreviationPADS
Governing bodyCentral Committee
FounderAbdelhamid Benzine
Founded1993 (1993)
NewspaperLe Lien des Ouvriers et Paysans
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism–Leninism
Political positionFar-left
International affiliationIMCWP
Website
http://lien-pads.over-blog.com/

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

PADS publishes the newspaper Le Lien des Ouvriers et Paysans (The Link of the Workers and Peasants).