Arab Socialist Action Party – Lebanon حزب العمل الاشتراكي العربي - لبنان
Secretary-General	Hussein Hamdan
Founders	George Habash
Founded	1969 (1969)
Newspaper	Tariq al-Thawrah
Ideology	Marxism Anti-Zionism Pan-Arabism
International affiliation	Arab Socialist Action Party
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TheArab Socialist Action Party – Lebanon orASAP–L (Arabic:حزب العمل الاشتراكي العربي - لبنان |Hizb al-'Amal al-Ishtiraki al-'Arabi - Lubnan), is the Lebanese branch of theArab Socialist Action Party. The party is the Lebanese equivalent of thePopular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

The party was founded byGeorge Habash in 1969 and was closely linked to thePFLP, which Habash also led.^[1][2]The party held its first congress in 1972, during which it distanced itself from other communists by advocating violence as the best means by which to endclass conflict.^[3] Although a secular group, most of the party's membership came from theShia Muslim community.^[3]

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Arab Socialist Action Party – Lebanon حزب العمل الاشتراكي العربي - لبنان
Flag of the Arab Socialist Action Party Lebanon militia (1975–1991)
Leaders	Hussein Hamdan
Dates of operation	1975–1991
Headquarters	West Beirut
Active regions	Lebanon
Part of	Lebanese National Movement Lebanese National Resistance Front
Allies	Al-Mourabitoun Progressive Socialist Party (PSP)/People's Liberation Army (PLA) Lebanese Communist Party (LCP)/Popular Guard Organization of Communist Action in Lebanon (OCAL) Lebanese Arab Army (LAA) Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Syrian Arab Armed Forces
Opponents	Lebanese Front Lebanese Forces Lebanese Armed Forces Internal Security Forces South Lebanon Army (SLA) Israel Defense Forces (IDF)
Wars	Lebanese Civil War

The ASAP–L's own militia was trained by the PFLP and provided with small-arms by Libya, but collapsed by August 1975.

The ASAP–L was a member of both theLebanese National Movement (LNM) and its successor, theLebanese National Resistance Front (LNRF) during theLebanese Civil War.^[4] In 1976, the party confiscated the estates of the Shiaza'im (political boss)Kazem al-Khalil at a village nearTyre. The purpose of the confiscation was to turn the estates into a collective; but the ASAP–L soon lost control of the estates in the wake of theJune 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.^[3]

The party's leader Hussein Hamdan took part in the founding of the LNRF, along withGeorge Hawi of theLebanese Communist Party (LCP) andMohsen Ibrahim of theOrganization of Communist Action in Lebanon (OCAL).^[5]

The ASAP–L was also involved in January 1976 in the founding of the so-calledPeople's Republic of Tyre (Arabic:جمهورية صور الشعبية|Jumhūriyya Ṣūr al-Ša'biyya), a short-livedautonomous Canton formed that same month at the port city ofTyre inSouthern Lebanon.^[6] With the active support of their ASAP–L andLebanese Arab Army (LAA) allies,^[7] localPalestine Liberation Organization (PLO) commanders took over the municipal government of the city, proclaimed the "People's Republic of Tyre", occupied the Lebanese Army's Adloun and Benoit Barakat Barracks, set up roadblocks and started collecting customs at the port.^[8] However, the joint PLO-LAA-ASAP–L "People's Republic of Tyre" government quickly lost the political support of the local population,^[9] mostly due to their "arbitrary and often brutal behavior".^[10]

• Lebanese Civil War
• Lebanese National Movement
• Lebanese National Resistance Front

• Robert Fisk,Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War, London: Oxford University Press, (3rd ed. 2001).ISBN 0-19-280130-9 –[1]
• Tom Najem and Roy C. Amore,Historical Dictionary of Lebanon, Second Edition, Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Boulder, New York & London 2021.ISBN 9781538120439, 1538120437
• Wade R. Goria,Sovereignty and Leadership in Lebanon, 1943–76, Ithaca Press, London 1985.ISBN 978-0863720314
• Who's Who in Lebanon 2007–2008, Publitec Publications & De Gruyter Saur, Beirut / Munich 2007.ISBN 978-3-598-07734-0
• Ze'ev Schiff and Ehud Ya'ari,Israel's Lebanon War, Simon and Schuster, New York 1985.ISBN 978-0671602161 –[2]

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