ABSTRACT
There are two main currents in the Arab Socialist movement. The first, and by far the stronger, is represented by the ‘Ba’ath al-Arabi al-Ishtiraki’, or party of the ‘Arab Socialist Renaissance’, often called simply the Ba’ath (Renaissance). This party holds that the Arab world, by its unity of culture and of aspiration, forms ‘one nation’ and that its present political divisions are artificial. The party is organized to bring about this union, in which all its members are
required to believe. Its general secretary has authority over all the party’s sections and cells in all Arab countries.
