Libyan National Movement Explained

Libyan National Movement
Native Name:الحركة الوطنية الليبية
Colorcode:
  1. FFCB35
Secretary General:Muftah Lamlum
Native Name Lang:ar
Predecessor:Libyan Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
Newspaper:Sawt at-Talia (discontinued)
Ideology:Arab nationalism
Ba'athism
Left-wing nationalism
National:National Conference for the Libyan Opposition
Country:Libya
Website:sawt-altalea.com

The Libyan National Movement (Arabic: الحركة الوطنية الليبية, ) is a Libyan political organization. The Libyan National Movement was established in December 1980, by opponents of Muammar Gaddafi's government.[1] The founder of the organization was the Ba'athist lawyer Umran Burweiss. Muftah Lamlum is the general secretary of the Libyan National Movement.[2] Politically, the Libyan National Movement has a left-wing nationalist agenda with a Ba'athist orientation. The organization operates in exile, primarily amongst Libyans in Europe, during the mid-1980s it was active amongst students abroad.[3] The publication of the organization was called Sawt at-Talia ('Voice of the Vanguard'). The magazine was later discontinued and substituted by a website.[1] [4]

The organization was originally financed by Iraqi Ba'athists.[5] which enabled it to produce relatively high-quality propaganda materials. For example, it issued audio cassettes, which were smuggled into Libya, alongside Sawt at-Talia during the 1980s. The organization also ran radio broadcasts over Radio Baghdad.[6]

In January 1987, the Libyan National Movement and seven other opposition groups (such as the Libyan National Struggle Movement and the Libyan Liberation Organization) agreed to form a working group headed by Major Abd al Munim al Huni, a former RCC member who had been living in Cairo since the 1975 coup attempt.[7]

In July 2005, the Libyan National Movement took part in a foundation of the National Conference for the Libyan Opposition in London, which signed a joint 'national accord' calling for the removal of Gaddafi from power and the establishment of a transitional government.[8] [9]

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  3. Tachau, Frank. Political Parties of the Middle East and North Africa. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1994. p. 375
  4. Ray, Donald I. Dictionary of the African Left: Parties, Movements and Groups. Aldershot, Hants u.a: Dartmouth, 1989. p. 79
  5. The Middle East, Volumes 111–12. London: IC Magazines, etc., 1984. p. 20
  6. Shaked, Haim and Daniel Dishon (eds.). Middle East Contemporary Survey, Vol. 8, 1983–84. p. 583
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  8. The Gulf Today. Hichem Karoui: Leader of mercenaries and slaves
  9. Eurasia Review. Libya: Political Dynamics And Profiles – Analysis