The Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism (, PADS) is a communist party in Algeria. In 1993, during the Algerian Civil War, Ettehadi was realigned as a democratic movement resisting Islamism, the MarxistâÂÂLeninist wing split apart under the leadership of Abdelhamid Benzine to retain its MarxistâÂÂLeninist legacy.
PADS publishes the newspaper Le Lien des Ouvriers et Paysans (The Link of the Workers and Peasants).