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| Somali Democratic Republic Jamhuuriyadda Dimoqraadiga Soomaaliyeed الجمهورية الديمقراطية الصومالية | |
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| 1969–1991 | |
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Anthem: Soomaaliya Ha Noolaato (Somali)
"Long live Somalia" | |
| Capital | Mogadishu (Hamar) |
| Largest city | Mogadishu |
| Common languages | Somali Arabic English Italian |
| Religion | Islam |
| Demonym(s) | Somali |
| Dominant mode of production | Socialism |
| Government | People's dictatorship under a one-party African (Somali) socialist republic |
• President | Mohamed Siad Barre |
| Legislature | People's Assembly |
| History | |
• Established | 1969 |
• Dissolution | 1991 |
The Somali Democratic Republic was the socialist administration of Somalia ruled by Siad Barre and the Supreme Revolutionary Council and the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party from 1969 to 1991.
1969 Revolution
Government
President
Central Government
Standing Committee
People's Assembly
Judiciary
Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party
Statute
The statute of the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party, is the legal, and official document of the SRSP's position in the Somali socialist state, as well as its guiding ideals, including its sub-organizations, and other topics, like women, economics, the military, membership, and important roles, that the party is directed by.
General Principles
The SRSP defined by the Statute of the SRSP, is the ''vanguard of the Somali Working People.'' It states that the most ''active, progressive, and politically conscious members of the society who represent worker's, peasant farmers, progressive intellectuals, the armed forces and petty nationalist traders.'' The party endlessly ''relentlessly'', opposes imperialism, neo-colonialism (colonialism), racism, Zionism, and any and all forms of exploitation of man by man, and leads the Somali masses and struggles for the creation of a new society that is based on social justice and the establishment of the material base which states that it is an objective necessity for building socialism. The co-operation and friendly relationship of the Party with the revolutionary movements of the world and the socialist countries will play an important role in this direction. Scientific Socialism is what the SRSP's guiding philosophy was...