The Lebanese People's Party was the first formally organized 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 the Arab world

Arab world

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. It was established October 24, 1924 by nine people, prominent among them Yusuf Ibrahim Yazbak and Fuad Shamali. The LPP published the leftist weekly newspaper al-Insaniyyah ('The Humanity'), also the first of its kind in the Arab world. The first edition was published May 15, 1925, but it lasted only five issues as the French colonial authorities

French Mandate of Syria

Officially the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon was a League of Nations mandate founded after the First World War and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire...

 shut it down on June 16, 1925.

The LPP later merged with the Armenian group "Spartacus" to create the Syrian-Lebanese Communist Party

Syrian-Lebanese Communist Party

Syrian-Lebanese Communist Party , a communist political party operating in Syria and Lebanon founded in 1924 by the Lebanese Egyptian Fu'ad al-Shimali, the Lebanese Yusuf Yazbek and the Armenian Artin Madoyan. Its general secretary was Khalid Bakdash....

. The first (secret) meeting of the new party, which was attended by 15 representatives, was held on December 9, 1925.