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dc.contributor.authorMONCIAUD, Didier
dc.date.accessioned2009-11-13T17:37:49Z
dc.date.available2009-11-13T17:37:49Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifier.issn1028-3625
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/12814
dc.descriptionAn earlier version of this paper was presented in Workshop 14: Workers’ Struggles and Nationalist Movements in the Arab World, 1900-Present at the Tenth Mediterranean Research Meeting, Florence & Montecatini Terme, 25-28 March 2009, organised by the Mediterranean Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute.en
dc.description.abstractFrom the 1930’s, Choubra al-Khyma, the northen suburb of Cairo, becomes rapidly an important industrial and labor stronghold, mostly based on the textile industry. An influential trade unionism arises to become a significant actor of the Egyptian politics shaped by the British colonial rule and an authoritarian monarchy. Enrooted in powerful nationalist and anti-colonial feelings, this trade unionist current promotes an autonomous path, refusing any political tutelage on the trade union movement from the political parties and non-worker figures. The General Union of Mechanical Textile Workers is the main strength of such a trend. It gains a significant influence in Choubra al-Khyma and expands its links with textile workers from other zones. Its leadership gradually shifts from a purely economic perspective to a peculiar form of political consciousness. Progressively, a radical network is set up, made of several textile workers (Mahmoud al ‘Askari, Taha Sa’d ‘Uthmân, …) plus a figure such as the trade unionist Youssef al-Medarek with the jewish marxist lawyer Youssef Darwich. He is himself involved in a secret marxist circle made up of three young jewish Egyptian intellectuals with Sâdeq Sa’d and Raymond Doueik. Progressively, this militant team is moving towards a kind of national labour Marxism. This network gets involved in different campaigns and activities : running the unions, editing its own paper Choubra, supporting a worker candidate for the 1945 parliamentary elections, campaigning to get an Egyptian delegate to the 1945 Paris founding conference of the world trade unions movement At the autumn 1945, a public initiative is launched : the Workers’ Committee for National Liberation (« lagna ‘ummâl lil-tahrîr al-qawmî »). Their campaign aims to pave the way for the setting up of a legal workers party. The impact is important in the country to the point that the Prime Minister, Mahmoud Fahmy Al-Naqrochi, decides to meet the key leaders. Our paper is a case study of such rich and experiment. This project expresses a specific and moving political consciousness : a labour militant network with a strong patriotic profile progressively evolves from a matrix made of nationalism, a strong worker consciousness, religiosity and a feeling for social justice towards a political progressive outlook influenced by marxism. We will firstly examine the general context and origins of such a project. Then, we will deal with its political agenda before dealing with its trajectory on the political scene at a time of huge social and nationalist upheavals. A part will discuss the political identity that was at stake. The last section will examine the tensions and finally the failure of such a rare experiment.en
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dc.subjectlabouren
dc.subjecttrade unionsen
dc.subjectsocial movementen
dc.subjectmobilizationen
dc.subjectnationalismen
dc.subjectnational questionen
dc.subjectMarxismen
dc.subjectpolitical partyen
dc.subjectEgypten
dc.subjectArab worlden
dc.subjectMiddle Easten
dc.titleTravail et emancipation nationale: le comite ouvrier de liberation nationale (1945-46): une tentative avortee de creation d’un parti politique ouvrier legal dans l’egypte dite liberaleen
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