Lebanese National Movement

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Lebanese National Movement الحركة الوطنية اللبنانية
Leaders	Kamal Jumblatt Walid Jumblatt George Hawi Mohsen Ibrahim Assem Qanso Inaam Raad
Dates of operation	1969–1982
Group(s)	Al-Mourabitoun Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) Lebanese Communist Party (LCP) Syrian Social Nationalist Party in Lebanon (SSNP) Communist Action Organization in Lebanon (OCAL) Lebanese Movement in Support of Fatah (LMSF) Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Lebanon Region Revolutionary Communist Group Sixth of February Movement Socialist Arab Lebanon Vanguard Party (SALVP) Popular Nasserist Organization (PNO) Toilers League Lebanese Arab Army (LAA) Other minor organizations
Active regions	Throughout Lebanon, especially in Palestinian refugee camps
Ideology	Communism Socialism Secularism Arab nationalism Nonsectarianism Pan-Arabism Anti-Zionism
Size	18,700 (1975) 46,900 (1976) (including allied PLO fighters)
Allies	Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)  Fatah Movement  Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)  Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) Palestinian Liberation Front (PLF) Rejectionist Front Amal Movement Iraq  Libya  Syria (after 1978)  South Yemen  Soviet Union
Opponents	Lebanese Front Lebanese Forces Lebanese Armed Forces Internal Security Forces (ISF) Army of Free Lebanon (AFL) South Lebanon Army (SLA)  Israel  Syria (1976 - 1978)
Battles and wars	Lebanese Civil War
Succeeded by Lebanese National Resistance Front (LNRF)

The Lebanese National Movement (LNM; Arabic: الحركة الوطنية اللبنانية, Al-Harakat al-Wataniyya al-Lubnaniyya) was a front of Leftist, pan-Arabist and Syrian nationalist parties and organizations active during the early years of the Lebanese Civil War, which supported the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). It was headed by Kamal Jumblatt, a prominent Druze leader of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP). The Vice-President was Inaam Raad, leader of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party and Assem Qanso of the pro-Syrian Lebanese Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. The general secretary of the LNM was Mohsen Ibrahim, leader of the Communist Action Organization in Lebanon (CAOL).^[1]

The LNM was one of two main coalitions during the first rounds of fighting in the Lebanese Civil War, the other being the militias of the mainly Christian Lebanese Front, which comprised the nationalist Phalange, the National Liberal Party and others; as well as parts of the Maronite-dominated central government.