The Libyan Communist Party (Italian: Partito Comunista Libico, PCL; Arabic: حزب الشيوعي الليبي) was a Marxist–Leninist communist party in Libya.
Historically, Marxism came to Libya through bourgeois intellectuals who studied abroad and through Marxists that settled from Italy.
In November 1951, seven of its leaders were forced into exile including Nino Caruso [it] and Valentino Parlato [it], and the Communist Party was under police surveillance.
The influence of the party was limited to a small group in Cyrenaica.
[5][6] In 1973, during the Libyan cultural revolution, Gaddafi stated: We must purge all the sick people who talk of Communism, atheism, who make propaganda for the Western countries and advocate capitalism.