Arab Socialist Movement (Damascus branch)

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Arab Socialist Movement
حركة الاشتراكيين العرب
Leader Omar Adnan al-Alawi
Founder Akram al-Hawrani
Banned29 January 2025;32 days ago (2025-01-29) [1]
Split from Arab Socialist Movement
Headquarters Damascus, Syria
Ideology Arab socialism
Arab nationalism
Pan-Arabism
Neo-Ba'athism [2]
Anti-Islamism [2]
Political position Left-wing
National affiliation National Progressive Front (until 2025)
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The Arab Socialist Movement's Damascus branch was a Syrian political party that operated from Damascus.

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History

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 (NPF) government in 1972 [3] [4] 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. [5] 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]

Following the fall of the Assad regime the party, along with all other NPF members, was dissolved by the Syrian transitional government on 29 January 2025. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 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 Arabic). France 24 . Retrieved 31 January 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Al-Tamimi, Aymenn Jawad (4 February 2019). "The Arab Socialist Movement: Interview". Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi.
  3. ↑ Seale 1990, pp. 175, 176.
  4. ↑ Akram al-Bunni (2013), pp. 5, 8.
  5. ↑ Al-Tamimi, Aymenn Jawad. "Quwat Muqatili al-Asha'ir: Tribal Auxiliary Forces of the Military Intelligence". Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi.

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