The Communist Party in Saudi Arabia (, al-Hizb ash-Shuyu'i fi as-Sa'udiyah) was a political party in Saudi Arabia.
History
The Communist Party in Saudi Arabia (CPSA) was formed on August 31, 1975. It had its origins in the National Renewal Front which was founded on September 23, 1954 and transformed in the National Liberation Front on October 17, 1958. The NLF was part of the Arab National Liberation Front since 1963. The communists inside the NLF had a separate organization called the Organization of Saudi Communists (OSC). The groups were targeted by a wave of arrests between 1968 and 1969. Mustafa Wahba used the alias Mahdi Habib in the post. Soon thereafter, the government released the political prisoners of the party in exchange that the party promised to disband.
Structure
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The CPSA had a youth organization, the Union of Democratic Youth – Saudi Arabia (Ittihad ash-Shabab ad-Dimuqrati fi as-Sa'udiyah), with its office in Damascus, Syria. Other organizations close to the CPSA were the Workers' Federation of Saudi Arabia, the National Union of Students of Saudi Arabia (NUSSA) and the Democratic Women's League of Saudi Arabia.
Its central organ was Tareeq al-Kadiḥeen ("Way of the Toilers").
The party was always illegal and persecuted by the regime.
Shiites were attracted to Saudi opposition groups, including the Communist Party, due to resentment at discrimination against them on religious grounds by the Saudi Government. As a result, the bulk of the members of the Communist Party were members of Saudi Arabia's Shiite community.
The CPSA had close relations with other Arab communist parties and was a pro-Soviet party.