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Ba'th Party

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Ba'th Party

 or Baath Party

Arab political party that advocates formation of a single Arab socialist state. It was founded in Damascus, Syria, by Michel 'Aflaq and Salah al-Din al-Bitar in 1943 and in 1953 merged with the Syrian Socialist Party to form the Arab Socialist Ba'th Party. It espoused nonalignment and opposition to imperialism and colonialism. It gained control of Syria in 1963 after the failure of a short-lived union with Egypt and of Iraq in 1968 after a series of coups there; the Iraqi branch of the party was toppled in 2003 as a result of the Iraq War. The party also has branches in other Middle Eastern countries. See also Pan-Arabism; Hafiz al-Assad; Saddam Hussein.
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Sakai's chapter identifies the major targets of the revolution that began on 1 March 1991: Ba'th Party buildings, security and police offices and prisons.
Keiko Sakai, Editor. Social Protests and Nation Building in the ... by Haddad, William W. / Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
Alhabeeb, who fled his native Iraq in 1982 because he was harassed for not being a member of the Ba'th Party, says the Amherst officers talked to him for five or ten minutes.
Bush's Valentine. by Rothschild, Matthew / The Progressive
The government has imposed mandatory death sentences for nonviolent political "crimes" such as recruiting a current or former Ba'th Party member into any other political organization, or publicly insulting the president or the party.
What solidarity requires. (Cover Story) by Stork, Joe / The Progressive
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