 During the 1940s and 1950s the party became popular amongst students, helping found the Students Congress in 1949.The SCP originally worked largely through different front organisations, such as Democratic Front, founded in 1954, and contested elections through the Anti-Imperialist Front.The party joined with other groups opposed to the government of Ibrahim Abboud, and played a key role in toppling the government in the 1964 October Revolution, joining the subsequent transitional government.