Union of Working People's Forces-Corrective Movement


The Union of Working People's Forces-Corrective Movement was a Nasserist political party in Lebanon. The party was led by Issam Al-Arab. The party was formed through a split from the Union of Working People's Forces in October 1974. Apart from Al-Arab, co-founders of the group included Fouad Itani and Samih Hamada.
In founding the new party, Al-Arab condemned the support of the Union of Working People's Forces leadership to the new Egyptian president Anwar Sadat. Al-Arab argued that the Egyptian government under Sadat had abandoned Nasserism. The party joined the Lebanese National Movement, whilst its mother party Union of Working People's Forces parted ways with the LNM as it sided with the Syrian government.
The party had a small militia, the Nasser Forces. The formation of the Nasser Forces was announced on April 15, 1975. The Nasser Forces took part in fighting in Beirut, in the Battle of the Hotels, Chyah, on the Ras Nabi-Sodeco axis, at Khandak El Ghamik as well as in combats in Mount Lebanon. The party was supported financially and militarily by the Libyan government.
The party underwent a split in 1978. An en extraordinary congress there was a dispute between Al-Arab, who argued in favour of alliance with the governments of Iraq and Libya, and his opponents led by Hassan Qubaisi. On July 23, 1978 Al-Arab was declared expelled from the party and Qubaisi was named new General Secretary of the party.
The Nasser Forces continued confronting right-wing militias between 1978 and 1982. After the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the departure of PLO, the Nasser Forces went underground and supposedly converted itself into a clandestine resistance group.