The Arab Socialist Revolutionary Ba'ath Party was a Ba'athist

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, a splinter group from the Ba'ath Party. The party was led by Abdullah Rimawi and sponsored by the United Arab Republic.
Middle East Record 1961
'. London: published for the Israel Oriental Society, the Reuven Shiloah Research Center. p. 378 Rimawi had been the secretary-general of the

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ian branch of the Ba'ath Party and a member of the National Command of the party. At the August 27-September 1, 1959

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Ba'ath Party convention Rimawi was deposed, accused of disruptions in the party. On September 6, 1959, Rimawi and Abu Gharbiyah (a Jordanian Ba'athist leader, exiled in

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) rebuffed the accusations and labelled the decisions of the Beirut convention as illegitimate. On May 19, 1960, the Rimawi faction issued a statement, claiming that a convention with participation from across the Arab world (except the United Arab Republic) had assembled in Damascus and elected a Temporary Command consisting of Rimawi, Abu Gharbiyah, Sulayman al-Hadidi, Shaykhun Habusi and Hafiz Abd al-Hadi. All were Jordanians living in exile in Damascus. In August 1960, the Rimawi group stated that a 'National Revolutionary Command' had been elected and a new party programme formulated at a second party convention. No names were published of the new party leadership, though. On August 28, 1960, the party issued a statement hailing the United Arab Republic as the bastion of Arab nationalism, condemning the rulers of

and

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.
Middle East Record 1960
'. London: published for the Israel Oriental Society, the Reuven Shiloah Research Center. pp. 497-498 The Revolutionary Ba'ath Party accused the Ba'ath Party (or ' Aflaqites' in their discourse) for deviations from Arab nationalist ideology. On July 17, 1961, a group of Rimawi followers opened fire on Ba'ath Party members in Tripoli. No one was killed in the incident.

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