The Arab Revolutionary Workers’ Party

June 6, 2012
Summary
The Arab Revolutionary Workers’ Party is a leftist nationalist party; it is active in the National Democratic Rally and retains a formal presence in the Damascus Declaration.
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The Arab Revolutionary Workers’ Party is a leftist nationalist party; it is active in the National Democratic Rally and retains a formal presence in the Damascus Declaration. The party calls for secular democracy, freedom, social justice, and Arab unity.

Major Figures

Abdul Hafiz Hafiz: secretary-general
Tariq Abu al-Hassan: chairman
Hazem Nahar: founding member of the Syrian Democratic Platform

Background

Founded in 1966 by Yasin al-Hafiz, the Arab Revolutionary Workers’ Party is a small Baathist splinter group influenced by Marxist ideology and has been an active member of the National Democratic Rally since 1980. In June 2011 it participated in the founding of the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change, but left it soon thereafter. Though part of the Damascus Declaration of 2005, it declined to follow other signatories who joined the Syrian National Council in October 2011. Party activist Hazem Nahar was a leading member of the National Coordination Body and is now involved with the Syrian Democratic Platform that was established in February 2012.

Platform

Policy Toward the Crisis

  • Rejects external military intervention
  • Supports the Annan peace plan

Political Objectives

  • A secular democratic government
  • Free elections
  • Separation of powers
  • Equality between citizens
  • Freedom of assembly and speech
  • Arab unity
Source: http://carnegie-mec.org/2012/06/06/arab-revolutionary-workers-party/b6zq

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70%

of oil consumed in the United States

is for the transportation sector.

20%

of Chechnya’s pre-1994 population

has fled to different parts of the world.

58%

of oil consumed in China

was from foreign sources in 2012.

32

million cases pending

in India’s judicial system.

20

million people killed

in Cold War conflicts.

18%

of the U.S. economy

is consumed by healthcare.

$536

billion in goods and services

traded between the United States and China in 2012.

$100

billion in foreign investment and oil revenue

have been lost by Iran because of its nuclear program.

4700%

increase in China’s GDP per capita

between 1972 and today.

$11

billion have been spent

to complete the Bushehr nuclear reactor in Iran.

2%

of Iran’s electricity needs

is all the Bushehr nuclear reactor provides.

82

new airports

are set to be built in China by 2015.

78

journalists

were imprisoned in Turkey as of August 2012 according to the OSCE.

67%

of the world's population

will reside in cities by 2050.

16

million Russian citizens

are considered “ethnic Muslims.”

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