{{Infobox political party | name = Arab Ba'ath Movement | native_name = حركة البعث العربي | logo = [[File:Flag of the Ba'ath Party.svg|150px|border]] | colorcode = {{party color|Ba'ath Party}} | leader = [[Michel Aflaq]] and [[Salah al-Din al-Bitar]] | foundation = {{start date|1940}} | dissolved = {{end date|1947}} | predecessor = [[Party of National Brotherhood]] | successor = [[Ba'ath Party]] | newspaper = ''[[Al-Tali'a]]'' | ideology = [[Ba'athism]] | colors = Black, Red, White and Green ([[Pan-Arab colors]]) | native_name_lang = ar | country = Syria }} {{Baathism sidebar}} The '''Arab Ba{{ayin}}ath Movement''' ({{langx|ar|حركة البعث العربي}} ''Ḥarakat al-Ba{{ayin}}th al-‘Arabī;'' [[Literal translation|lit]]''.'' '''Arab Resurrection Movement''' or '''Arab Renaissance Movement''') was a [[Baathism|Ba'athist]] political party and predecessor of the [[Ba{{ayin}}ath Party|Arab Socialist Ba{{ayin}}ath Party]].<ref>Jasim M. Abdulghani. Iraq & Iran: the years of crisis. Croom Helm, Ltd., 1984. Pp. 27.</ref> The party was first named the '''Arab Ihya Movement''' (''Ḥarakat al-Iḥyā{{hamza}} al-‘Arabī;'' Arab Revitalization Movement) until 1943 when it adopted the name "Ba{{ayin}}ath" (meaning resurrection).<ref>Michel Curtis. People and Politics in the Middle East. Transaction Books. Pp. 132, 139.</ref><ref>Jasim M. Abdulghani. Iraq & Iran: the years of crisis. Croom Helm, Ltd., 1984. Pp. 27.</ref> It was founded in 1940 by [[Michel Aflaq]].<ref>Michel Curtis. People and Politics in the Middle East. Pp. 132.</ref><ref>David Seddon. A political and economic dictionary of the Middle East. London, England, UK: Taylor & Francis e-library, 2005. Pp. 19.</ref><ref>Ghareeb, Edmund A.; Dougherty, Beth K. Historical Dictionary of Iraq. Lanham, Maryland and Oxford: The Scarecrow Press, Ltd., 2004. Pp. 2.</ref> Its founders, Aflaq and Bitar, were both associated with [[nationalism]] and [[socialism]].<ref>Rami Ginat. ''Egypt's incomplete revolution: Lutfi al-Khuli and Nasser's socialism in the 1960s''. Routledge, 1997. Pp. 11.</ref>
==History== The Movement was formed in 1940 as the Arab Ihya Movement by Syrian expatriate Michel Aflaq.
Shortly after being founded, the Movement became involved in anti-colonial Arab nationalist militant activities, including [[Michel Aflaq|Aflaq]] founding the [[Syrian Committee to Help Iraq]] that was created in 1941 to support the anti-British and pro-[[Axis powers|Axis]] government of [[Kingdom of Iraq|Iraq]] against the British during the [[Anglo-Iraqi War]] of 1941.<ref>Spencer Tucker. ''The Encyclopedia of Middle East Wars: The United States in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq Conflicts, Volume 1''. Santa Barbara, California, USA: ABC-CLIO, 2010. Pp. 30</ref> The Syrian Committee sent weapons and volunteers to fight alongside Iraqi forces against the British.<ref>Spencer Tucker. ''The Encyclopedia of Middle East Wars: The United States in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq Conflicts, Volume 1''. Santa Barbara, California, USA: ABC-CLIO, 2010. Pp. 30</ref>
Aflaq unsuccessfully ran as a candidate for the Syrian parliament in 1943.<ref>Spencer Tucker. ''The Encyclopedia of Middle East Wars: The United States in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq Conflicts, Volume 1''. Santa Barbara, California, USA: ABC-CLIO, 2010. Pp. 30</ref> After the Syrian election defeat, the Movement sought cooperation with other parties in elections in Syria, including the [[Arab Socialist Movement]] of [[Akram El-Hourani]].<ref>Spencer Tucker. ''The Encyclopedia of Middle East Wars: The United States in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq Conflicts, Volume 1''. Santa Barbara, California, USA: ABC-CLIO, 2010. Pp. 30</ref>
The Party merged with Al-Arsuzi's [[Arab Ba{{ayin}}ath|Arab Ba{{ayin}}ath Party]] in 1947, and al-Hawrani's Arab Socialist Movement later merged into the party in the 1950s to establish the Arab Socialist Ba{{ayin}}ath Party.
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Ba'ath Party}} {{Syrian political parties}} {{Arab nationalism}}
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