The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 122)

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 122)

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The zeal and excitement of the first generation
waned when they soon discovered the hard realities of life.
It was sometime toward the late fifties when the Movement
observed that it was not going to fulfill its aims through
its "boy scouts". The achievement of unity between Egypt
and Syria in 1958 shed some light on the weakness of the
ANM which was until then indulging in organizing students,
especially high school students. The National Congress
which convened later that year reviewed in detail the
previous experience of the Movement and found that its
criteria for membership was too rigid to attract members
from any group other than students. It called upon the
Commands of the Regions to look for new vistas to recruit
workers, farmers and members of the armed forces. *4
The Movement now associated itself with the rising
tide of Nasserism and a breakthrough could be established
in more than one Arab state and among a multitude of classes,
Social groups and sections of the population. In Iraq, the
Movement members threw their lot with the Ba'thists and
other nationalist forces to combat communism which all of
a sudden was threatening the newly established revolutionary
regime. When Kassim collaborated with the communists, they
turned against him and stubbornly fought his dictatorship.
24 tatement by Mustafa Baydoun, personal interview,
November 17, 1968.

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party

تاريخ

1971-02-07

المنشئ

Basil R. Al-Kubaisi

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