Editing Ba'ath Party (section)

===Libya===
{{main|Libyan Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party}}
The Regional Branch was founded in the 1950s{{sfn|Simmons|1993|p=166}} by Amr Taher Deghayes.{{sfn|Wright|1981|p=227}} Ba'athism was a major political force in Libya following the establishment of the [[United Arab Republic]]. Many intellectuals were attracted to Ba'athist ideology during the later years of the [[Kingdom of Libya]]. However, with help from Nasserist propaganda, several Ba'athists changed affiliation and became Nasserists instead.{{sfn|Wright|1981|p=94}} The growth of these pan-Arab ideologies concerned the government, which led to the incarceration of several Nasserist and Ba'athist military officers in the early sixties.{{sfn|Wright|1981|p=96}} The Ba'athist were accused of working to overthrow "the political, economic and social system" of the Kingdom; the sentences ranged from everything to eight months to two years.{{sfn|Simmons|1993|p=161}} By 1964, the Libyan Regional Branch had only managed to establish one-level below the Regional Command, the branch-level.{{sfn|Devlin|1979|p=18}} Syrian specialist John Devlin estimated that the Libyan Regional Branch had been 50 and 150 members in 1964.{{sfn|Devlin|1979|p=18}}