The Arab Socialist Action Party – Lebanon or ASAP–L ( ar, حزب العمل الاشتراكي العربي - لبنان , ''Hizb al-'Amal al-Ishtiraki al-'Arabi - Lubnan''), is the Lebanese branch of the of the

Arab Socialist Action Party The Arab Socialist Action Party ( ar, حزب العمل الاشتراكي العربي) was a Pan-Arab political party, formed by the right-wing faction of the Arab Nationalist Movement after the latter's disintegration. The general secretary of ...

. The party is the Lebanese equivalent of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

Origins

The party was founded by

George Habash George Habash ( ar, جورج حبش, Jūrj Ḥabash), also known by his laqab "al-Hakim" ( ar, الحكيم, al-Ḥakīm, "the wise one" or "the doctor"; 2 August 1926 – 26 January 2008) was a Palestinian Christian politician who founded the ...

in 1969 and was closely linked to the PFLP, which Habash also led. The party held its first congress in 1972, during which it distanced itself from other communists by advocating violence as the best means by which to end

class conflict Class conflict, also referred to as class struggle and class warfare, is the political tension and economic antagonism that exists in society because of socio-economic competition among the social classes or between rich and poor. The forms ...

. Although a secular group, most of the party's membership came from the Shia Muslim community.

The ASAP–L in the Lebanese Civil War

The ASAP–L was a member of the Lebanese National Resistance Front during the

Lebanese Civil War The Lebanese Civil War ( ar, الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية, translit=Al-Ḥarb al-Ahliyyah al-Libnāniyyah) was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990. It resulted in an estimated 120,000 fatalities a ...

. In 1976, the party confiscated the estates of the Shia za'im

Kazem al-Khalil Kazem Ismail al-Khalil (born 1901 in the Lebanese port town of Tyre/Sour, then part of the Ottoman Empire; died on 22 April 1990 in Paris at the age of 89) - commonly known as Kazem al-Khalil or Kazem el-Khalil, also transliterated Kazim from the ...

at a village near Tyre. The purpose of the confiscation was to turn the estates into a collective; but the SAAP soon lost control of the estates in 1982 with the Israeli invasion. The party's leader Hussein Hamdan took part in the founding of the Lebanese National Resistance Front, along with George Hawi of the Lebanese Communist Party and

Mohsen Ibrahim Mohsin Ibrahim ( ar, محسن إبراهيم ''Muḥsin ‘Ibrāhīm''), kunya Abu Khaled (; 1935 – June 3, 2020), was a Lebanese politician. He was a prominent personality of the Lebanese and Arab left. Initially a Nasserist nationalist, he ...

of the Communist Action Organization.

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Origins

The ASAP–L in the Lebanese Civil War

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