The People's Movement is a Lebanese

Lebanon

Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...

 political party, founded in 2000 by former MP

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

 Najah Wakim

Najah Wakim

Najah Wakim is the president and one of the founders of the Lebanese leftist group the People's Movement. He is a secular lebanese lawyer who believes in secular Arabist ideology....

 and a group of intellectuals, journalists, radical leftist and Arab nationalist trade union movements.

The People's Movement is particularly opposed the economic policies of Rafik Hariri

Rafik Hariri

Rafic Baha El Deen Al-Hariri , was a business tycoon and the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 until his resignation, 20 October 2004.He headed five cabinets during his tenure...

 and his Future Movement and adopts radical alter-globalists, anti-American and anti-Israeli positions. The Movement is now part of the Lebanese opposition

March 8 Alliance

The March 8 Alliance is a coalition of various political parties in Lebanon. It has been the ruling coalition since January 25, 2011 when the alliance managed to nominate Najib Mikati as the new prime minister.-History:...

 against the March 14 Alliance

March 14 Alliance

The March 14 alliance , named after the date of the Cedar Revolution, is a coalition of political parties and independents in Lebanon that call for sovereignty over all Lebanese territories, led by MP Saad Hariri, younger son of Rafik Hariri, the assassinated former prime minister of Lebanon, as...

 and is allied to Hezbollah, the Free Patriotic Movement

Free Patriotic Movement

The Free Patriotic Movement , also known as the "Aounist Movement" , is a Lebanese political party, led by Michel Aoun and allied with Hezbollah, The movement was officially declared a political party on September 18, 2005Though most of the party's support comes from Lebanon's...

, the Syrian Social Nationalist Party

Syrian Social Nationalist Party

The Syrian Social Nationalist Party , is a secular nationalist political party in Lebanon and Syria. It advocates the establishment of a Syrian nation state spanning the Fertile Crescent, including present day Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, the Palestinian Territories, Israel, Cyprus, Kuwait,...

, the Lebanese Communist Party

Lebanese Communist Party

The Lebanese Communist Party – LCP or Parti communiste libanais in French, is a communist political party in Lebanon...

, the Marada Movement and several other smaller parties and secularist groups.

The People's Movement enjoys a considerable popularity among youth, especially at the American University of Beirut

American University of Beirut

The American University of Beirut is a private, independent university in Beirut, Lebanon. It was founded as the Syrian Protestant College by American missionaries in 1866...

. The Movement is not represented in Parliament since 2000, after the failure of Wakim in the 2005 elections and its withdrawal five years earlier. The movement adopts an Arab nationalist, Nasserist

Nasserism

Nasserism is an Arab nationalist political ideology based on the thinking of the former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. It was a major influence on pan-Arab politics in the 1950s and 1960s, and continues to have significant resonance throughout the Arab World to this day. It also...

 and pro-communist ideology.