Arab Socialist Union (Libya)
- This article refers to the ASU in Libya. For sister parties in other Arab states, see Arab Socialist Union
Arab Socialist Union Arabic: الاتحاد الاشتراكي العربي الليبي | |
|---|---|
| Brotherly Leader | Muammar Gaddafi |
| General Secretary | Bashir Hawady |
| Founded | 1971 |
| Dissolved | March 3, 1977 |
| Headquarters | Tripoli, Libya |
| Ideology | Arab nationalism Arab socialism Pan-Arabism Nasserism |
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 socialist 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.[1] 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.[2] In May 1972 the Libyan ASU and the Egyptian ASU agreed to merge their two parties into a single body.[3]
References
- ^ http://countrystudies.us/libya/71.htm
- ^ Cairo Press Review, 1972. p. 11
- ^ The Middle East: Abstracts and index, Vol. 23, Part 2. Library Information and Research Service., 1999. p. 248
