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border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa; line-height: 1.5em;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1936_Syrian_general_strike.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/1936_Syrian_general_strike.jpeg/300px-1936_Syrian_general_strike.jpeg" decoding="async" width="300" height="181" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/1936_Syrian_general_strike.jpeg/450px-1936_Syrian_general_strike.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/1936_Syrian_general_strike.jpeg/600px-1936_Syrian_general_strike.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="995" data-file-height="600" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="padding:0.35em 0.35em 0.25em;line-height:1.25em;">Crowds in <a href="/wiki/Damascus" title="Damascus">Damascus</a> cheering <a href="/wiki/National_Bloc_(Syria)" title="National Bloc (Syria)">National Bloc</a> leaders headed by <a href="/wiki/Jamil_Mardam_Bey" title="Jamil Mardam Bey">Jamil Mardam Bey</a> before they left for talks in Paris on 31 March 1936.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Date</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">20 January – 6 March 1936</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Location</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div style="display:inline;" class="location"><a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Caused by</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">Closure of <a href="/wiki/National_Bloc_(Syria)" title="National Bloc (Syria)">National Bloc</a> offices and arrest of two nationalist leaders</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Goals</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">Independence</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Methods</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Riot" title="Riot">Riots</a>, Strike, Protests</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Resulted in</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">French concessions in the form of the <a href="/wiki/Franco-Syrian_Treaty_of_Independence_(1936)" class="mw-redirect" title="Franco-Syrian Treaty of Independence (1936)">1936 Franco-Syrian Treaty of Independence</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#CEE0F2;">Parties</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><table style="width:100%; border-spacing:0; margin:0; text-align:left; display:inline-table;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width:50%;"><div> <a href="/wiki/French_Mandate_of_Syria_and_Lebanon" class="mw-redirect" title="French Mandate of Syria and Lebanon">French Mandate authorities</a></div></td> <td style="width:50%; padding-left:0.25em; border-left:1px dotted #aaa"><div> <a href="/wiki/National_Bloc_(Syria)" title="National Bloc (Syria)">National Bloc</a><br /><a href="/wiki/League_of_National_Action" class="mw-redirect" title="League of National Action">League of National Action</a></div></td> </tr> </tbody></table></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#CEE0F2;">Lead figures</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244901718">.mw-parser-output .infobox-columns{display:flex}.mw-parser-output .infobox .infobox-columns-text-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .infobox-columns>div{box-sizing:border-box;width:50%;padding:2px}.mw-parser-output .infobox-columns-3>div{width:33.33%}.mw-parser-output .infobox-columns-4>div{width:25%}.mw-parser-output .infobox-columns>div:not(:first-child){border-left:1px dotted #aaa;padding-left:5px}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist infobox-columns infobox-columns-2 infobox-columns-text-left"> <div> <p><a href="/wiki/Shukri_al-Quwatli" title="Shukri al-Quwatli">Shukri al-Quwatli</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Khalil_Mardam_Bey" title="Khalil Mardam Bey">Khalil Mardam Bey</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Faris_al-Khoury" class="mw-redirect" title="Faris al-Khoury">Faris al-Khoury</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Lutfi_al-Haffar" title="Lutfi al-Haffar">Lutfi al-Haffar</a> </p> </div> <div> <p><a href="/wiki/Damien_de_Martel" title="Damien de Martel">Damien de Martel</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Charles_Huntziger" title="Charles Huntziger">Charles Huntziger</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Taj_al-Din_al-Hasani" title="Taj al-Din al-Hasani">Taj al-Din al-Hasani</a> </p> </div> </div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#CEE0F2;">Casualties and losses</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><table style="width:100%; border-spacing:0; margin:0; text-align:left; display:inline-table;"><tbody><tr> <td style="width:50%;"><div> <b>Deaths:</b> dozens<br /><b>Arrests</b>: at least 3,000</div></td> <td style="width:50%; padding-left:0.25em; border-left:1px dotted #aaa"><div> </div></td> </tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>1936 Syrian general strike</b> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Template:Lang-ar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template:Lang-ar (page does not exist)">Template:Lang-ar</a>) was a 50-day strike that was organized as a response to the policies of the <a href="/wiki/French_Mandate_of_Syria_and_Lebanon" class="mw-redirect" title="French Mandate of Syria and Lebanon">French occupation of Syria and Lebanon</a>. The strike action paralyzed the country for two months and forced France to negotiate the <a href="/wiki/Franco-Syrian_Treaty_of_Independence_(1936)" class="mw-redirect" title="Franco-Syrian Treaty of Independence (1936)">Franco-Syrian Treaty of Independence</a> with the <a href="/wiki/National_Bloc_(Syria)" title="National Bloc (Syria)">National Bloc</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2></div> <p>On 11 January 1936, the <a href="/wiki/National_Bloc_(Syria)" title="National Bloc (Syria)">National Bloc</a> held a commemoration for one of its leaders, <a href="/wiki/Ibrahim_Hananu" title="Ibrahim Hananu">Ibrahim Hananu</a>, who had died in November 1935. The meeting featured several speeches that lamented and attacked the French occupation.<sup id="cite_ref-Sulh_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sulh-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Soon thereafter the French mandate authorities closed the office of the National Bloc in <a href="/wiki/Damascus" title="Damascus">Damascus</a>, and arrested two prominent nationalist leaders from the party, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Fakhri_al-Baroudi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fakhri al-Baroudi (page does not exist)">Fakhri al-Baroudi</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sayf_al-Din_al-Ma%27mun&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sayf al-Din al-Ma'mun (page does not exist)">Sayf al-Din al-Ma'mun</a>. In response, the Bloc called for strike action against the French occupation policies. The strike, which started on 20 January with work stoppages and student protests in Damascus, <a href="/wiki/Homs" title="Homs">Homs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hama" title="Hama">Hama</a> and <a href="/wiki/Aleppo" title="Aleppo">Aleppo</a>, soon spread to all major towns.<sup id="cite_ref-Thomas_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thomas-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Leaders from the National Bloc, including <a href="/wiki/Jamil_Mardam_Bey" title="Jamil Mardam Bey">Jamil Mardam Bey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lutfi_al-Haffar" title="Lutfi al-Haffar">Lutfi al-Haffar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Faris_al-Khoury" class="mw-redirect" title="Faris al-Khoury">Faris al-Khoury</a> actively participated and organized demonstrations against the French occupation and the French-appointed president, <a href="/wiki/Taj_al-Din_al-Hasani" title="Taj al-Din al-Hasani">Taj al-Din al-Hasani</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Moubayed_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Moubayed-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and demanded the reinstatement of the 1930 constitution that was suspended in 1933. The <a href="/wiki/League_of_National_Action" class="mw-redirect" title="League of National Action">League of National Action</a> supported the strike and participated in organizing marches and protests in Damascus.<sup id="cite_ref-Commins_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Commins-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The civil disobedience action paralyzed the economy and quickly brought the country to the "verge of a complete shutdown."<sup id="cite_ref-Thomas_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thomas-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="French_response">French response</h2></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/High_Commissioners_of_Syria_and_Lebanon" class="mw-redirect" title="High Commissioners of Syria and Lebanon">French High Commissioner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Damien_de_Martel" title="Damien de Martel">Damien de Martel</a>, was urgently recalled from <a href="/wiki/Beirut" title="Beirut">Beirut</a> to Damascus to handle the situation,<sup id="cite_ref-Thomas_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thomas-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and General <a href="/wiki/Charles_Huntziger" title="Charles Huntziger">Charles Huntziger</a>, commander of the <a href="/wiki/Army_of_the_Levant" title="Army of the Levant">Army of the Levant</a> was tasked with restoring calm. Several Bloc leaders including <a href="/wiki/Nasib_al-Bakri" title="Nasib al-Bakri">Nasib al-Bakri</a> and Mardam Bey were exiled, and more than 3,000 people were arrested.<sup id="cite_ref-Sulh_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sulh-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In an effort to disperse the demonstrations, French troops opened fire on the protesting crowds, leaving dozens dead.<sup id="cite_ref-Thomas_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thomas-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the measures failed to quell the uprising which garnered support from other Arab countries as people protested on the streets of <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lebanon" title="Lebanon">Lebanon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Palestine" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestine">Palestine</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jordan" title="Jordan">Jordan</a> in solidarity with the Syrian people. The French government also came under severe pressure inside France from the leftist media and the emerging <a href="/wiki/Popular_Front_(France)" title="Popular Front (France)">Popular Front</a> which called for a complete re-haul of its policy in Syria and Lebanon.<sup id="cite_ref-Sulh_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sulh-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Resolution">Resolution</h2></div> <p>On 2 March the French authorities relented and agreed to start negotiations with the National Bloc. They also granted a general amnesty for those arrested or exiled during the crisis. The Bloc called off the strike on 6 March after the release of its arrested leaders. Later that year, a delegation from the National Bloc travelled to Paris and signed the <a href="/wiki/Franco-Syrian_Treaty_of_Independence_(1936)" class="mw-redirect" title="Franco-Syrian Treaty of Independence (1936)">Franco-Syrian Treaty of Independence</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Sulh_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sulh-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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