The Ba'ath Party

What was the Ba'ath Party?

The Ba'ath Party was an Arab nationalist political party that operated in a number of different Arab states.

What were the views of the Ba'ath Party?

Ba'ath Party had 5 main views.

• ❖ The Ba'ath Party's motto was 'Unity, Liberation and Socialism'.
• ❖ 'Unity' suggested the union of all Arab states into one nation.
• ❖ 'Liberation' meant freedom from non-Arab control.
• ❖ 'Socialism' referred to improving the lives of ordinary Arab people.
• ❖ The Ba'ath Party was strongly against the existence of the state of Israel.

Who was in the Ba'ath Party?

The Ba'ath Party was an international political party that also operated in a number of other Arab states.

Where did the Ba'ath Party operate?

There were branches of the Ba'ath party in a number of Arab states.

• ❖ It was first set up in Syria in the early 1940s.
• ❖ The Iraqi Ba'ath Party often clashed with the Syrian Ba'ath Party over who should lead the Arab world.
• ❖ Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Kuwait all had Ba'ath party branches.
• ❖ In Iraq, the Ba'ath Party was dominated by Sunni Muslims by the 1960s.