Arab Socialist Union (Libya)
Appearance
- This article refers to the ASU in Libya. For sister parties in other Arab states, see Arab Socialist Union
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Arab Socialist Union الاتحاد الاشتراكي العربي الليبي | |
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The Eagle of Saladin which Nasser adopted as a symbol of Arab Nationalism | |
Leader | Muammar Gaddafi |
Founder | Muammar Gaddafi |
Founded | 1971 |
Dissolved | 1977 |
Headquarters | Tripoli, Libya |
Ideology | Arab nationalism, Arab socialism, Pan-Arabism, Nasserism, Third Worldism[citation needed] |
The Arab Socialist Union of Libya (Arabic: الاتحاد الاشتراكي العربي الليبي, Al-Ittiḥād Al-Ištirākī Al-ʿArabī Al-Liby) was a political party in Libya.
Many aspects of Muammar Gaddafi's Libyan revolution were based on that of Gamal Abdel Nasser. Like Nasser, Gaddafi seized power with a Free Officers Movement, which, in 1971, became the Arab Socialist Union of Libya. Like its Egyptian counterpart, the Libyan ASU was the sole legal party, and was designed as a vehicle for integrated national expression rather than as a political party.
Bashir Hawady was the general secretary of the party.[1] In May 1972 the Libyan ASU and the Egyptian ASU agreed to merge their two parties into a single body.[2]
References
- ^ Cairo Press Review, 1972. p. 11
- ^ The Middle East: Abstracts and index, Vol. 23, Part 2. Library Information and Research Service., 1999. p. 248