Member State of the African Union Member State of the Arab League The Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism (French: Parti Algérien pour la Démocratie et le Socialisme, PADS) is a Communist party in Algeria.

When in 1993,[1] during the Algerian Civil War, Ettehadi was realigned as a democratic movement resisting Islamism,[2] the Marxist–Leninist wing split apart under the leadership of Abdelhamid Benzine to retain its Marxist–Leninist legacy.

[2] PADS publishes the newspaper Le Lien des Ouvriers et Paysans (The Link of the Workers and Peasants).

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