Communist Party of Greece - Statement on the sudden passing of comrade Ammar Bagdache, GS of the CC of the Syrian Communist Party

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Statement on the sudden passing of comrade Ammar Bagdache, GS of the CC of the Syrian Communist Party

In a statement regarding the sudden passing of Ammar Bagdache, GS of the CC of the Syrian Communist Party, the CC of the KKE emphasizes the following:

“The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece announces with sadness the sudden passing of comrade Ammar Bagdache, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Syrian Communist Party, who was in Athens, persecuted by the criminal regime of the jihadists in Syria.

Comrade Ammar Bagdache was born in Damascus on 16 August 1954, and was the son of communist leaders Khaled and Wissal Bagdache. He joined the Syrian Communist Party in 1969, studied in Moscow, and obtained a Master’s degree in Economic Planning from Plekhanov University. He completed his higher education at the School of Economics of the State University in Moscow (Lomonosov), where he received a doctorate in economic sciences in 1983.

Returning to Syria in 1984, he became actively involved in politics, taking on important party duties, including Secretary of the Syrian Democratic Youth Union from 1986 to 1992.

He was elected to the Central Committee of the Syrian Communist Party at its 7^th Congress in 1990, and to the Political Bureau in 1992. In 1993, he was elected to the Central Secretariat. In 2003, he was elected to the Syrian parliament, where he served until June 2024.

At the 11^th party congress in 2010, he was elected General Secretary of the Central Committee, a position he retained after being re-elected at both the 12^th congress and the 13^th congress, convened in autumn 2023.

On 8 December 2024, with Syria under jihadist control, a campaign of persecution and massacres of political opponents and ethnic and religious minorities began. Comrade Bagdache became a target of the jihadists and, together with his family, found refuge in Athens thanks to the high level of internationalist solidarity between the Syrian Communist Party and the KKE. On 29 January, 2025, the Damascus authorities announced the dissolution of the Syrian Communist Party and the confiscation of its assets, escalating the persecution.

Comrade Ammar Bagdache, a communist leader and internationalist, took part in dozens of meetings of Communist and Workers’ parties, making a decisive contribution to the development of the joint struggle of the peoples in the Arab countries and internationally. We will always remember him.

The CC of the KKE offers its sincere condolences to the CC of the Syrian Communist Party, our comrades, his family and all communists in Syria”.

13.07.2025