Arab Socialist Union (Libya)
| Brotherly Leader | Muammar Gaddafi |
|---|---|
| General Secretary | Bashir Hawady |
| Founded | 11 June 1971[1] |
| Dissolved | 3 March 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; Italian: Unione Socialista Araba Libica) 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.[2] 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.[3] In May 1972 the Libyan ASU and the Egyptian ASU agreed to merge their two parties into a single body.[4]
References
- ^ Political Culture in Libya. Routledge. 5 September 2013. p. 46. ISBN 9781136115868.
- ^ 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
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