People's Will Party
The People's Will Party is a communist party in Syria.
History
In 2000, shortly after the convention of the 9th Congress of the Syrian Communist Party, 80% of the membership of Damascus organization of the party were expelled. As the procedure was widened to cover more party organizations all over Syria, the affected organizations formed the National Committee for the Unity of the Syrian Communists, which re-published the Qassioun newspaper. The new party is not affiliated with the National Progressive Front, which brought together the ruling Ba'ath Party and other legal parties.In 2012, the communist group formed an officially registered party known as the People's Will Party that convened its 10th Periodical, 1st after registration, Congress in June 2013. The party ran independent candidates in the parliamentary elections in 2003 and 2007 but failed to win any seats. Nonetheless, in the parliamentary elections of 2012, the Popular Front for Change and Liberation, a coalition formed by the PWP, took 5 seats. The Party joined the demonstrations at the start of the 2011 Syrian Crisis, and a number of its activists in Damascus, Homs and Deir ez-Zor were killed by the governmental police and other services, while others were detained or arrested in other Syrian governorates. As the Syrian popular movement turned armed and violent, the PWP continued with its humanitarian aid and mediation efforts in some conflict zones.
Dr. Kadri Jamil, one of the PWP Council Secretaries, was a member of the committee that drafted amendments to the Constitution of Syria in response to the 2011 Syrian protests. The amendments were approved in the Syrian constitutional referendum in 2012 and allowed multiparty elections in Syria.
In 2025, following the fall of the Ba'athist government and the creation of the Syrian caretaker government, the party joined a new organization known as the “Syrian Equal Citizenship Alliance,” or “Tamasuk”. Upon joining Tamasuk, the People's Will Party called for a "unified Syria” under a single state and army, and called for a “just, democratic solution to the Kurdish issue.” It is the first organized political alliance in Syria outside of the government since the fall of the Ba'athist regime.