ABSTRACT
Chapter 3. The Fighting Vanguard and the radicalisation of the SMB’s discourse: This chapter focuses on the radicalisation of some sectors of the SMB, as a result of the Assad regime’s brutal repression. In addition, it explores the prelude to the armed struggle led by the Fighting Vanguard, whose relationship to the SMB is both problematic and ambiguous. As a result of this particularity, during the years after the 1982 massacre, the SMB’s activity was characterised by an ideological revision, and the inauguration of secret rounds of negotiations with the regime.
