The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 127)

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 127)

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with Egypt. The early 1960's were in fact the golden years
of the ANM in Syria; it attracted large segments of the
population especially among the working-class people who
responded to the ANM which has become the outspoken voice
of Nasserism in syria.>?
In Kuwait the Movement's membership consisted
mainly of students and teachers. It also had its followers
among the workers of the Kuwait Oil Company. In the 'fifties
the Movement's appeal for democracy and constitutional rights
won her many sympathizers among merchants, business men,
and contractors who supported the Movement financially. But
since the Movement began to preach socialism in the early
‘sixties these bourgeois elements were repelled by the new
slogans. °2
In Yemen and South Arabia, the ANM which was
organized by young students returning from their schools in
Egypt and elsewhere took a different approach. Their
commitment was essentially to the poor peasants and workers
where one could trace the origin of many of their leaders.
In Aden, they infiltrated the trade unions and spread their
cells in the countryside. In Yemen, they ran the only trade
union in the country which included the workers constructing
the American-financed road between Ta‘iz and San'a.->
31 statement by Hani-al-Hindi, personal interview,
June 22, 1970.
326+ atement by Ahmed al-Khatib, personal interview,
November 12, 1968.
33 pred Halliday, "Counter-Revolution in the Yemen"
New Left Review, September-October 1970, p. ll.

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

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1971-02-07

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Basil R. Al-Kubaisi

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