Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism on legislative elections

• To continue the struggles for democratic freedoms, for the defense of the interests of workers and the working classes, against the anti-popular economic and social policy of the bourgeoisie;
• To unmask the illusions maintained around electoral consultations which do not challenge the class domination of the bourgeoisie and the reproduction of capitalist relations;
• Strengthen the independent organization of the working class, develop popular struggles and work towards a broad democratic, anti-imperialist, progressive popular mobilization.

The legislative elections of July 2, 2026 took place in a context marked by the worsening crisis of the capitalist system in Algeria, by the continuous deterioration of the living conditions of workers, peasants, retirees, young people and all social strata who live from their work.

The high abstention rate recorded in this election expresses the growing discrediting of political institutions and the widely shared conviction that the existing system is incapable of providing solutions to the essential demands of workers and the popular classes: employment, wages, purchasing power, housing, health, education and dignity.

However, this abstention cannot be automatically equated with a conscious political boycott. In the Marxist-Leninist conception, boycotting elections is a revolutionary tactic linked to the existence of an organized popular movement, aware of its objectives and capable of directly challenging the power of the bourgeoisie. Under current conditions, abstention primarily reflects a profound crisis of confidence in the institutions of bourgeois power.

The elections were part of a competition between different factions of the ruling class who, despite their differences, defend the preservation of the capitalist system, private ownership of the main means of production, and social relations based on the exploitation of wage labor.

Workers, peasants, retirees, young people and the working classes are thus called upon to arbitrate between different variants of capitalist management, while the fundamental question remains absent from the institutional debate: that of the real power of producers, of collective control of the wealth created by their work and of the social ownership of the major means of production.

The PADS believes that the essential question is not which fraction of the bourgeoisie will strengthen its positions in the state apparatus, but how the working class can progress in its organization, unity and political consciousness in order to become an independent force capable of transforming society.

The current institutional system contributes to maintaining this situation. The law on parties, the restrictions imposed on independent political activity, as well as certain provisions of the organic law relating to the electoral system, in particular its article 200, hinder the democratic activity of popular forces and prevent the emergence of candidacies that truly express the aspirations of workers and the working classes.

The administrative strategies deployed in the electoral process aim to preserve the hegemony of established forces and to prevent the emergence of political expressions that escape the control of dominant apparatuses.

The limitation of workers' democratic activity is aggravated by the new law on trade unions and strikes, which weakens the organizational and struggle capacities of the labor movement and seeks to restrict independent collective action by workers.

The restructuring within the state apparatus reflects adjustments between different factions of the bourgeoisie. It does not alter the class nature of the state, which remains dedicated to preserving the interests of capital and ensuring the reproduction of existing social relations.

No faction of the bourgeoisie, regardless of its patriotic, sovereigntist, or anti-imperialist rhetoric, can lead the workers toward emancipation. True national sovereignty cannot be reduced to the formal existence of an independent state. It requires economic independence, control of wealth by those who produce it, and democratic control over the country's fundamental choices.

The struggle against policies of imperialist interference and domination is inseparable from the struggle for social emancipation. Workers cannot sustainably defend national independence without challenging the relations of economic dependence and the interests of capital that limit the country's development.

The communists call on workers, peasants, young people, working women, and all exploited popular classes to continue their daily social and political struggles for their material and moral demands, focusing on:

• of the construction of a revolutionary class party rooted in the working class and workers, capable of combining democratic, social and anti-imperialist struggles with the struggles to create the conditions for a socialist transformation, by strengthening a communist party based on Marxist-Leninist theory and the experience of the international communist and workers' movement;
• building, from the ground up, class-based and mass unions that are unified, democratic and internationalist, independent of the State and employers.

The emancipation of workers cannot be achieved through mere electoral change or a modification of the composition of Parliament. It requires the conscious and organized intervention of the working class allied with other exploited groups, the conquest of political power, and the socialization of the principal means of production.

The Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism calls on workers, peasants, youth, women and all the exploited to strengthen their struggle organizations, develop their class consciousness and build a proletarian force independent of all fractions of the bourgeoisie.

The future of Algerian workers does not lie in choosing between different forms of capitalist management. It lies in their conscious organization, their unity, and their struggles for a socialist transformation of society that puts an end to all exploitation.