Arab Socialist Union (Egypt)

Arab Socialist Union الاتحاد الاشتراكى العربى
General Secretary	Gamal Abdel Nasser (1962–1965) Ali Sabri (1962–1971) Anwar Sadat (1971–1978)
Chairman	Gamal Abdel Nasser (1962–1970)
Founded	1962 (1962)
Dissolved	1978 (1978)
Succeeded by	National Democratic Party
Headquarters	Cairo, Egypt
Youth wing	UAR Socialist Youth Organization
Ideology	Arab nationalism Arab socialism Pan-Arabism Nasserism
Political position	Big tent
International affiliation	None
Politics of Egypt Political parties Elections

The Arab Socialist Union (Arabic: الاتحاد الاشتراكى العربى‎‎ al-Ittiḥād al-Ištirākī al-ʿArabī) was an Egyptian political party based on the principles of Nasserist Arab socialism.

The Arab Socialist Union was founded in Egypt in December 1962 by Gamal Abdel Nasser as the country's sole political party. The ASU grew out of the Free Officers Movement of the Egyptian Revolution of 1952. The party's formation was just one part in Nasser's National Charter. The Charter set out an agenda of nationalization, agrarian reform, and constitutional reform, which formed the basis of ASU policy. The programme of nationalisation under Nasser saw seven billion Egyptian pounds of private assets transferred into the public sector. Banks, insurance companies, many large shipping companies, major heavy industries and major basic industries were converted to public control. Land reforms saw the maximum area of private land ownership successively reduced from 200 to 100 feddans. A 90% top rate of income tax was levied on income over ten thousand Egyptian pounds. Boards of directors were required to have a minimum number of workers, and workers and peasants were guaranteed at least half of the seats in the People's Assembly. The Charter also saw a strong assertion of Arab nationalism, within the context of historical Egyptian nationalism.

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