Arab Revolutionary Workers Party

The Arab Revolutionary Workers Party () is a political party active in Iraq and Syria.National Democratic Institute. NDI Assessment Mission to Iraq June 23 to July 6, 2003 As of 2008 the general secretary of the party is Abdul Hafiz Hafiz. As of 2011, the chairman of the party is Tariq Abu Al-Hassan.World Bulletin. Asrarr. سورية - الأحزاب السياسية

The party was founded in 1966 by , as a Marxist splinter group of the Ba'ath Party. The party rejected the Ba'athist ideology of Michel Aflaq as reactionary and backward-looking. Instead the party opted for scientific socialism.Tibi, Bassam, Marion Farouk-Sluglett, and Peter Sluglett. Arab nationalism: between Islam and the nation-state. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. p. 212Choueiri, Youssef M. Islamic Fundamentalism: The Story of Islamist Movements. London: Continuum, 2010. p. 117 Another early prominent leader of the party was Ali Salah Saadi.Seddon, David. A Political and Economic Dictionary of the Middle East. London: Europa Publications, 2004. p. 63 This split in the Ba'ath Party emerged parallel to the growth of leftist dissent in the Arab Nationalist Movement.Salem, Paul. Bitter Legacy: Ideology and Politics in the Arab World. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1994. p. 187

The party was active in Lebanon during the 1970s.Buwārī, Ilyās. Tārīkh al-ḥarakah al-ʻummālīyah wa-al-niqābīyah fī Lubnān. Bayrūt: Dār al-Fārābī, 1979. During the initial years of the Lebanese Civil War (1975–76), al-Hafiz lived in Beirut.Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East 2. D - K. New York [u.a.]: Macmillan [u.a.], 1996. p. 756 Al-Hafiz died in Beirut in October 1978.سؤال التنوير. في الذكرى الثلاثين لوفاة ياسين الحافظ

During the "Damascus Spring", the initial period of Bashar al-Assad's rule, the party could meet somewhat undisturbed under the guise of the 'Left Forum'.Zîser, Eyāl. Commanding Syria: Bashar Al-Asad and the First Years in Power. London [u.a.]: Tauris, 2007. p. 83 The party, along with other left-wing groups in Syria, decided to boycott the 2003 parliamentary election.Al-Ahram Center for Political & Strategic Studies. I. Internal Reforms in the Arab World The party was one of the forces behind the National Democratic Gathering and the Damascus Declaration.Damascus Centre for Theoretical and Civil Rights Studies. أمين عام حزب العمال الثوري العربي يدعو للإفراج عن معتقلي إعلان دمشق وطي ملف الاعتقال السياسي

The party is part of the Syrian opposition and was active in the civil uprising phase of the Syrian Civil War. On June 30, 2011, the party took part in forming the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change. A politburo member of the party, Hazem Al-Nahhar was included in the leadership of the Association.Al-Ahram. New voices for change On October 10, 2011, the party decided to withdraw from the Coordination, but retained its commitment to working with the National Democratic Rally.Nidaasyria. حزب العمال الثوري العربي.. قرار انسحاب من هيئة التنسيق الوطني

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