The Arab Liberation Movement was a fascist political party of the Syrian Republic that lasted from 1952 to 1963. From 1952 to 1954, under the leadership of Adlib Shishakli, it was the only legal party.
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The Arab Liberation Movement was a neo-fascist, populist, Arab nationalist, pro-Greater Syria party founded on 25 August 1952 by President Adib Shishakli of the Syrian Republic. The ALM was the only legal political party under Shishakli's dictatorship from 1952 to 1954, and Shishakli banned the Syrian Communist Party, Muslim Brotherhood, People's Party, and the Syrian Regional Branch of the Ba'ath Party from the country. Despite his downfall, the ALM won 2 seats in the Syrian parliament in 1954, although it was banned in 1958 by Gamal Abdel Nasser when the United Arab Republic was formed. In 1961, it gained 4 seats in Syrian parliament, but on 8 March 1963 after the 8 March Revolution, the Ba'ath Party under Michel Aflaq and Hafez al-Assad took power and the Arab Liberation Movement was banned.