#OTD in 1977, the General People's Congress of Libya announced the beginning of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. Under this form of government, direct democracy, via popular councils and communes, would lead the country instead of political parties or religious authorities, and some forms of exploitative private ownership were abolished.

Today's art source: https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=665422

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