Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party

Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party
Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party
Somali name	Xisbiga Hantiwadaagga Kacaanka Soomaaliyeed
Arabic name	الحزب الاشتراكي الثوري الصومالي
Abbreviation	SRSP (English); XHKS (Somali)
General Secretary	Siad Barre
Founder	Abdulrahman Dhabdhable
Founded	26 June 1976 (founding congress); 1 July 1976 (election of first Central Committee)
Dissolved	26 January 1991
Headquarters	Mogadishu
Membership	20,000
Ideology	Communism; Marxism–Leninism; Islamic socialism; Scientific socialism; Somali nationalism; Greater Somalia; Irredentism; National liberation; Anti-Tribalism
Political position	Far-left
Colours	Blue and red
Party flag
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The Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party (SRSP, Somali: Xisbiga Hantiwadaagga Kacaanka Soomaaliyeed, XHKS, Arabic: الحزب الاشتراكي الثوري الصومالي, al-Ḥizb al-ishtirākī at-thawrī as-ṣūmālī) was the ruling party of the Somali Democratic Republic from 1976 to 1991.

[foundation-1] Mukhtar, Mohamed Haji (25 February 2003). Historical Dictionary of Somalia. Historical Dictionaries of Africa (Revised ed.). Scarecrow Press. p. 237. ISBN 978-0-8108-6604-1.

[2] The Historical Evolution of the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party. Xisbiga Hantiwadaagga Kacaanka Soomaaliyeed, 1984. p. 18

[3] ttps://www.hiiraan.com/op4/2018/nov/161152/siyaad_barre_was_a_nationalist_regardless_of_his_shortcomings.aspx

[4] ttps://www.jstor.org/stable/45176419

[5] ttps://africanvault.com/siad-barre-quotes/

[6] ttps://countrystudies.us/somalia/65.htm

[7] ttps://www.accord.org.za/conflict-trends/understanding-civil-militia-groups-somalia/

[8] ttp://sociologiecraiova.ro/revista/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/8.-ARCONADA-LEDESMA-FROM-IRREDENTISM-TO-STATE-DISINTEGRATION-GREATER-SOMALIA-DURING-SIAD-BARRE-REGIME-1969-1991-PP.-94-105.pdf

[9] ttps://www.accord.org.za/conflict-trends/understanding-civil-militia-groups-somalia/

[10] ttps://www.academia.edu/38424072/From_irredentism_to_state_disintegration_Greater_Somalia_during_Siad_Barre_regime_1969_1991a

[11] ttps://hornreview.org/2025/04/07/a-gift-unreturned-siad-barres-legacy-and-the-fractured-narrative-of-djiboutis-birth/

[12] ttps://www.hiiraan.com/op4/2018/nov/161152/siyaad_barre_was_a_nationalist_regardless_of_his_shortcomings.aspx

[13] ttps://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/people-global-african-history/mohamed-siad-barre-1910-1995/

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Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party

Somali name	Xisbiga Hantiwadaagga Kacaanka Soomaaliyeed
Arabic name	الحزب الاشتراكي الثوري الصومالي
Abbreviation	SRSP (English) XHKS (Somali)
General Secretary	Siad Barre
Founder	Abdulrahman Dhabdhable
Founded	26 June 1976 (1976-06-26) (founding congress)^[1] 1 July 1976 (1976-07-01) (election of first Central Committee)^[1]
Dissolved	26 January 1991 (1991-01-26)
Headquarters	Mogadishu
Membership	20,000
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism Islamic socialism Scientific socialism Somali nationalism^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7] Greater Somalia^[8]^[9] Irredentism^[10]^[11] National liberation^[12] Anti-Tribalism^[13]
Political position	Far-left
Colours	Blue and red
Party flag

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