The party is the Lebanese equivalent of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
[1][2] The party held its first congress in 1972, during which it distanced itself from other communists by advocating violence as the best means by which to end class conflict.
[3] Although a secular group, most of the party's membership came from the Shia Muslim community.
[4] In 1976, the party confiscated the estates of the Shia za'im Kazem al-Khalil at a village near Tyre.
[3] The party's leader Hussein Hamdan took part in the founding of the Lebanese National Resistance Front, along with George Hawi of the Lebanese Communist Party and Mohsen Ibrahim of the Communist Action Organization.