Democratic Movement for National Liberation

Democratic Movement for National Liberation
الحركة الديمقراطية للتحرر الوطنى
LeaderHenri Curiel
Founded1947
Dissolved1955
Merged intoUECP
Newspaperal-Jamahir
Youth wingCommunist Student League
Membership (1952)2,000-3,000
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism
Revolutionary socialism

The Democratic Movement for National Liberation (Arabic: الحركة الديمقراطية للتحرر الوطنى, abbreviated حدتو, HADITU, French: Mouvement démocratique de libération nationale, abbreviated M.D.L.N.) was a communist organization in Egypt from 1947 to 1955. HADITU was led by Henri Curiel.[1] The movement followed the line of the National Democratic Revolution.[2]

  1. ^ Beinin, Joel. Was the Red Flag Flying There?: Marxist Politics and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Egypt and Israel, 1948-1965. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, p. 106.
  2. ^ Beinin, Joel, and Zachary Lockman. Workers on the Nile: nationalism, communism, Islam, and the Egyptian working class, 1882 - 1954. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1998, p. 452.