Yusuf Yazbek

Yusuf Yazbek (1901–1982) was a Lebanese journalist and politician who cofounded the Lebanese People's Party which was the forerunner of the Syrian–Lebanese Communist Party. He also involved in the establishment of the Syrian–Lebanese Communist Party.

Early life Yazbek was born in 1901.

Career and activities Yazbek worked as a secretary-interpreter in the Department of Emigration at the Beirut port. In the period between 1922 and 1924, he was one of the editors of a semi-weekly labor newspaper entitled Al-Ṣaḥafi al-Taʼih (Arabic: The Wandering Journalist) based in Zahlé, Lebanon. He also wrote for a journal entitled Al Marad. in the 1940s. which was established by the split groups from the Lebanese People’s Party and the Spartacus Group, an Armenian Bolshevik party. He and Artin Madoyan were both arrested by the French mandatory forces in the late 1926 and imprisoned on the island of Arwad until 1928. He was also instrumental in the establishment of the organization's magazine entitled Al Tariq in 1941. He was one of the leftist figures who gave lectures in Beirut's Cénacle Hall in the late 1940s. He died in 1982.