Egyptian Communist Party (ar-Rayat ash-Sha'ab)
Egyptian Communist Party | |
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Marxism-Leninism | |
| Political position | Far-left |
The Egyptian Communist Party (
The party was led by Fuad Mursi and Ismail Sabri Abdullah, who both had studied in Paris and joined the French Communist Party there.[1] When Mursi returned to Egypt in 1949, the party was founded (Abdullah returned to Egypt in 1951).[1][3] Mursi opposed the influence of Jews within the Egyptian communist movement, and rejected the Democratic Movement for National Liberation (Hadeto) and its leader Henri Curiel.[1] The Raya leadership argued that Jewish influence and sexual libertinism had led to the fall of Hadeto, and they Jews and women were barred from party membership (The prohibition for women to join the party was later gradually relaxed).[1] The Raya group was the sole communist faction in Egypt at the time, in which Jewish communists did not participate.[4] Being the smallest of the three main communist organizations in the country, the party had less than 100 members, mainly intellectuals.[1] It worked completely clandestinely.[1] The party had a disproportionate membership of Copts from Middle Egypt.[3]
The party classified the government of
By the mid-1950 the Raya group was particularly active in the student movement, and expanded its influence.
By late 1956, unity talks began among the main factions of the Egyptian communist movement.
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-520-07036-3.
- ^ a b World Marxist Review. 1987. p. 155.
- ^ ISBN 978-977-424-890-0.
- ISBN 978-1-137-00830-5.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-520-07036-3.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-520-07036-3.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-107-19793-0.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8156-2497-4.
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