Dokument #1108970
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
The Communist Party Political Bureau (CPPB)
was founded in 1973. It broke away from the Syrian Communist Party,
whose pro-Soviet position it opposed (IRBDC Jan. 1990, 49). Led by
Riad al-Turk, the CPPB opposes various government policies
including intervention in Lebanon (Ibid.).
According to the 1989 Yearbook on
International Communist Affairs, dozens of members of the
proscribed CPPB have been imprisoned without trial since the early
1980s, although many others were released in the mid-1980s (1989,
500).
According to a researcher on the Middle
East in Ottawa, the CPPB is a dissident, illegal communist group,
and, therefore, operates underground. The organization recruits its
members underground by distributing pamphlets and writing on walls
and through word of mouth (15 Jan. 1992). According to the same
oral source, as the group operates illegally, it does not have much
power to mistreat members leaving it or those who refuse to join
it. Leaving the party would be a personal choice (Ibid.).
According to a professor at McGill University, although the members
of the CPPB are true believers in Communism and do not tolerate
much dissent, if one of its members decides to leave the party
there would be no serious consequences for that person (18 Jan.
1993).
Corroborative or additional information on
the requested subject is not currently available to the DIRB in
Ottawa.
Immigration and Refugee Board
Documentation Centre (IRBDC), Ottawa. January 1990. Syria:
Country Profile, p. 48.
Professor specializing on the Middle
East, McGill University, Montréal. 18 January 1993.
Telephone interview.
Researcher on the Middle East, Ottawa.
15 January 1993. Telephone interview.
Staar, Richard F., ed. 1989. Yearbook
on International Communist Affairs. Stanford: Hoover
Institution Press.
Staar, Richard F., ed. 1989. Yearbook
on International Communist Affairs. Stanford: Hoover
Institution Press.