Democratic Movement for National Liberation

Democratic Movement for National Liberation
الحركة الديمقراطية للتحرر الوطنى
Democratic Movement for National Liberation; الحركة الديمقراطية للتحرر الوطنى
Leader	Henri Curiel
Founded	1947
Dissolved	1955
Merged into	UECP
Newspaper	al-Jamahir
Youth wing	Communist Student League
Membership (1952)	2,000-3,000
Ideology	Communism; Marxism; Revolutionary socialism
	Politics of Egypt; Political parties; Elections;

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]

^ 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.
^ 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.

[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.

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