Syrian Social Nationalist Party الحزب السوري القومي الاجتماعي | |
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Abbreviation | SSNP |
President | Rabie Banat[1] |
Founder | Antoun Saadeh |
Founded | 16 November 1932 |
Headquarters | Damascus (Syria) Beirut (Lebanon) |
Newspaper | Al Binaa |
Armed wing | Eagles of the Whirlwind |
Membership (2016) | 100,000 |
Ideology | Historical: |
Political position | Syncretic[a] |
National affiliation | National Progressive Front March 8 Alliance |
International affiliation | Axis of Resistance |
Colours | Black, red, and white |
People's Assembly | 3 / 250 |
Cabinet of Syria | 1 / 28 |
Parliament of Lebanon | 0 / 128 |
Cabinet of Lebanon | 1 / 24 |
Party flag | |
Website | |
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The Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP; Arabic: الحزب القومي السوري الإجتماعي) is a Syrian nationalist party operating in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine. It advocates the establishment of a Greater Syrian nation state spanning the Fertile Crescent, including present-day Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Cyprus, Sinai, Hatay Province, and Cilicia, based on geographical boundaries and the common history people within the boundaries share.[20] It has also been active in the Syrian and Lebanese diaspora, for example in South America,[21] and as of 2020 is the second-largest political party in the pro-Assad National Progressive Front (with 3 seats in the People's Assembly, in comparison with the 167 seats for the Syrian Ba'ath Party).[22]
Founded in Beirut[23] in 1932[21] by the Lebanese intellectual Antoun Saadeh[24] as an anticolonial political organization hostile to French colonial rule, the party played a significant role in Lebanese politics. It launched coups d'état attempts in 1949 and 1961, following which it was repressed in the country. SSNP was active in the fight against the Israeli military during the 1982 Lebanon War and subsequent Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon until 2000, while simultaneously supporting the Syrian occupation of Lebanon due to its beliefs in Syrian irredentism.
In Syria, SSNP operated as an ultranationalist movement until the 1950s; advocating armed uprising to establish a one-party state. It participated in the 1949 Syrian coup d'état, which overthrew the democratically elected government of Shukri al-Quwatli. SSNP continued to engage in violent activities throughout the country; and was banned in 1955 after its assassination of a Syrian Ba'athist military officer Adnan al-Malki. Despite its ban, the party remained organized, and by the late 1990s had allied itself with the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Lebanese Communist Party, despite the ideological differences between them. The SSNP was legalized in Syria in 2005, and joined the Syrian Ba'ath Party-led National Progressive Front. From 2012 to 6 May 2014,[25][26] the party was part of the Popular Front for Change and Liberation.[27] The party would take the side of the Ba'athist government during the Syrian Civil War, where almost 12,000 fighters of its armed branch, the Eagles of the Whirlwind (dismantled in 2019), fought alongside the Syrian Armed Forces against the Syrian opposition and the Islamic State.[28]
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).[The SSNP] greet their leaders with a Hitlerian salute; sing their Arabic anthem, "Greetings to You, Syria," to the strains of "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles"; and throng to the symbol of the red hurricane, a swastika in circular motion.
The SSNP flag, which features a curved swastika called the red hurricane (zawba'a), points to the party's fascistic origins.
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).It survived and made itself useful during Syria's occupation of Lebanon by relying on its militia, unique ideology, and adopting a politically pragmatic approach that brought the SSNP from the right side of the political spectrum to its current place in the camp of the left.
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