Syrian Ba'ath Party

  

Democratic Arab Socialist Union – Syrian Branch الاتحاد الاشتراكي الديمقراطي العربي – فرع سوريا
Secretary-General	TBD
Assistant Secretary-General	TBD
Founders	TBD
Founded	7 April 1942 (1942-04-07)
Headquarters	Damascus, Syria
Newspaper	Al-Ba'ath
Youth wing	Revolutionary Youth Union
Paramilitary wing	Ba'ath Brigades
Ideology	Ba'athism Syrian nationalism Arab nationalism Arab socialism Republicanism Anti-imperialism
Official colors	(official, Pan-Arab colors)
Party flag
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The Democratic Arab Socialist Union, officially the Democratic Arab Socialist Union – Syrian Branch, was a Ba'ath political party that ruled Syria as a one-party state from 1967 to 2004. Established in 1942 as the Arab Revolutionary Socialist Party, it was based on the ideas of Syrian intellectuals that championed socialism and Arab nationalism, being the first Ba'ath party before others were formed in different Arab countries. In 1956 it received its current name and formed a united front with similar parties in Syria before being banned. The party became active in the politics of the First Syrian Republic before being actively suppressed by the government, but it gained a following in the military, which led to the 1967 Syrian coup d'etat. The Arab socialist movement had branches across the Arab world, and until 2004 the Syrian Democratic Arab Socialist Union was the second-largest branch after the Egyptian Branch. The party was officially banned in 2005 after the invasion of Syria but it has continued to function in the Syrian Civil War as the leading opposition force.

See also

• Iraqi Arab Socialist Union – Ba'athist party in Iraq
• Arab Socialist Union – Ruling Ba'athist party of Egypt