Socialist Lebanon ( ar, لبنان الاشتراكي, ''Lubnān al-ištirākī'') was a
Marxist
Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...
group in
Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...
. The group was formed in 1965 by intellectuals and academicians including
Ahmad Beydoun
Ahmad ( ar, أحمد, ʾAḥmad) is an Arabic male given name common in most parts of the Muslim world. Other spellings of the name include Ahmed and Ahmet.
Etymology
The word derives from the root (ḥ-m-d), from the Arabic (), from the ve ...
,
Waddah Sharara Waddah sometimes Wadah (in Arabic
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, and
Fawwaz Traboulsi.
الدكتور أحمد بيضون: المفكر والكاتب والباحث الأكاديمي
/ref>[Kazziha, Walid. 1975. ''Revolutionary Transformation in the Arab World: Habash and his Comrades from Nationalism to Marxism''. New York: St. Martin's Press, p. 99.]
In 1970 the group merged with the Organization of Lebanese Socialists The Organization of Lebanese Socialists ( ar, منظمة الاشتراكيين اللبنانيين, ''Munaẓẓamah al-ištirākiyyin al-lubnāniyyin'') was a political organization in Lebanon. The organization was led by Muhsin Ibrahim and Muha ...
, and formed the Communist Action Organization in Lebanon
The Communist Action Organization in Lebanon – CAOL ( ar, منظمة العمل الشيوعي في لبنان , ''munaẓẓamah al-‘amal al-shuyū‘ī fī lubnān''), also known as Organization of Communist Action in Lebanon (OCAL) or Orga ...
.
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1965 establishments in Lebanon
1970 disestablishments in Lebanon
Arab nationalism in Lebanon
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