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Libyan National Movement

الحركة الوطنية الليبية
Libyan National Movement الحركة الوطنية الليبية
Secretary-General	Muftah Lamlum
Founded	December 1980; 43 years ago
Preceded by	Libyan Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
Newspaper	Sawt at-Talia (discontinued)
Ideology	Arab nationalism; Ba'athism; Left-wing nationalism
National affiliation	National Conference for the Libyan Opposition
Website
	sawt-altalea.com
	Politics of Libya; Political parties; Elections;

The Libyan National Movement (Arabic: الحركة الوطنية الليبية, al-Ḥarakah al-Waṭanīyah al-Lībīyah) is a Libyan political organization. The Libyan National Movement was established in December 1980, by opponents of Muammar Gaddafi's government.^[1] The founder of the organization was the Ba'athist lawyer Umran Burweiss.^[2] Muftah Lamlum is the general secretary of the Libyan National Movement.^[3] Politically, the Libyan National Movement has a left-wing nationalist agenda with a Ba'athist orientation.^[4] The organization operates in exile, primarily amongst Libyans in Europe, during the mid-1980s it was active amongst students abroad.^[2]^[4] The publication of the organization was called Sawt at-Talia ('Voice of the Vanguard'). The magazine was later discontinued and substituted by a website.^[1]^[4]

The organization was originally financed by Iraqi Ba'athists.^[5] which enabled it to produce relatively high-quality propaganda materials. For example, it issued audio cassettes, which were smuggled into Libya, alongside Sawt at-Talia during the 1980s.^[6] The organization also ran radio broadcasts over Radio Baghdad.^[6]

In January 1987, the Libyan National Movement and seven other opposition groups (such as the Libyan National Struggle Movement and the Libyan Liberation Organization) agreed to form a working group headed by Major Abd al Munim al Huni, a former RCC member who had been living in Cairo since the 1975 coup attempt.^[7]

In July 2005, the Libyan National Movement took part in a foundation of the National Conference for the Libyan Opposition in London, which signed a joint 'national accord' calling for the removal of Gaddafi from power and the establishment of a transitional government.^[8]^[9]