The
National Coordination Committee for the Forces of Democratic Change (
NCC), or
National Coordination Body for Democratic Change (
NCB) , is a Syrian bloc chaired by Hassan Abdel Azim consisting of 13 left-wing political parties and "independent political and youth activists". It has been defined by
Reuters as the internal opposition's main umbrella group. The NCC initially had several
Kurdish political parties as members, but all except for the
Democratic Union Party left in October 2011 to join the
Kurdish National Council. Some opposition activists have accused the NCC of being a "
front organization" for
Bashar al-Assad's government and some of its members of being ex-government insiders.