Arab Socialist Movement (Damascus branch)
Arab Socialist Movement حركة الاشتراكيين العرب | |
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| Leader | Omar Adnan al-Alawi |
| Founder | Akram al-Hawrani |
| Dissolved | 29 January 2025[1] |
| Split from | Arab Socialist Movement |
| Headquarters | Damascus, Syria |
| Ideology | Arab socialism Arab nationalism Pan-Arabism Neo-Ba'athism[2] |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| National affiliation | National Progressive Front (until 2025) |
| People's Assembly | 0 / 250 |
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The Arab Socialist Movement's Damascus branch was a Syrian political party that operates from Damascus.
Following the fall of Ba'athist Syria, the party along with the National Progressive Front (NPF), of which it was a member, was dissolved by the Syrian transitional government on 29 January 2025.[3]
History
[edit]The party originated as faction of the Arab Socialist Movement, a party which broke apart in the 1960s, and continues to claim the original party's name and legacy. The Damascus branch is headed by Abdul-Ghani Qannout, and joined the Ba'ath Party-led National Progressive Front government in 1972[4][5] and continued to support the al-Assad family's rule in Syria until the fall of the Assad regime.[2]
After Abdul-Ghani Qannout died in 2001, Ahmad al-Ahmad became the new secretary general; under him, the party continued its pro-government course, even during the Syrian Civil War.[2] Amid the conflict's civil uprising phase, the Arab Socialist Movement's Damascus branch organised pro-government rallies.[6] When the uprising escalated into a full insurgency, members of the party organised pro-government militias. Assistant secretary general Omar Adnan al-Alawi headed the National Defence Forces' Deir ez-Zor branch during part of the siege of Deir ez-Zor (2014–2017), and was wounded in combat.[2] A member of the party's political office, Turki Albu Hamad, played a leading role in founding the "Forces of the Fighters of the Tribes" militia.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Al-Ammar, Najjar (29 January 2025). "الإدارة السورية الجديدة تعلن وقف العمل بالدستور وتعيين الشرع رئيسا للبلاد في المرحلة الانتقالية" [The new Syrian administration announces the suspension of the constitution and the appointment of Sharia as president of the country in the transitional period] (in Arab). France 24. Retrieved 31 January 2025.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ a b c d e Al-Tamimi, Aymenn Jawad (4 February 2019). "The Arab Socialist Movement: Interview". Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi.
- ^ "Ahmad Al-Sharaa officially named Syria's transitional president". www.aa.com.tr. Retrieved 2025-01-30.
- ^ Seale 1990, pp. 175, 176.
- ^ Akram al-Bunni (2013), pp. 5, 8.
- ^ Al-Tamimi, Aymenn Jawad. "Quwat Muqatili al-Asha'ir: Tribal Auxiliary Forces of the Military Intelligence". Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi.
Works cited
[edit]- Akram al-Bunni (2013). An Analysis of the Syrian Left Realities (PDF). Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
- Seale, Patrick (1990). Asad of Syria: The Struggle for the Middle East. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-06976-5.
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