Libyan Arab Socialist Union

The Arab Socialist Union of Libya (Arabic: الاتحاد الاشتراكي العربي الليبي‎‎, Al-Ittiḥād Al-Ištirākī Al-ʿArabī Al-Liby) was a political party in Libya.

Many aspects of Muammar Gaddafi's Libyan socialist revolution were based on that of Gamal Abdel Nasser. Like Nasser, Gaddafi seized power with a Free Officers Movement, which, in 1971, became the Arab Socialist Union of Libya.^[1] Like its Egyptian counterpart, the Libyan ASU was the sole legal party, and was designed as a vehicle for integrated national expression rather than as a political party.

Bashir Hawady was the general secretary of the party.^[2] In May 1972 the Libyan ASU and the Egyptian ASU agreed to merge their two parties into a single body.^[3]

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Political parties in Libya
Active	Democratic Party Homeland Party Justice and Construction Party Libyan National Movement Libyan Popular National Movement National Centrist Party National Forces Alliance National Front Party National Party for Development and Welfare Party of Reform and Development Union for Homeland
Defunct	Libyan Arab Socialist Union Libyan Communist Party Libyan Freedom and Democracy Campaign Libyan National Democratic Front Muslim Association of the Lictor National Conference for the Libyan Opposition National Front for the Salvation of Libya