Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party

Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party
Somali nameXisbiga Hantiwadaagga Kacaanka Soomaaliyeed
Arabic nameالحزب الاشتراكي الثوري الصومالي
AbbreviationSRSP (English)
XHKS (Somali)
General SecretarySiad Barre
FounderAbdulrahman Dhabdhable
Founded26 June 1976
(49 years, 262 days)
(founding congress)
1 July 1976
(49 years, 257 days)
(election of first Central Committee)
Dissolved26 January 1991
(35 years, 48 days)
HeadquartersMogadishu
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism–Leninism
Scientific socialism
Islamic socialism
Somali nationalism
Political positionFar-left
Colours    Blue and Red
People's Assembly
(1987)
171 / 177
Party flag

The Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party (SRSP, Somali: Xisbiga Hantiwadaagga Kacaanka Soomaaliyeed, XHKS, Arabic: الحزب الاشتراكي الثوري الصومالي, al-Ḥizb al-ishtirākī at-thawrī as-ṣūmālī) was the ruling party of the Somali Democratic Republic from 1976 to 1991.