Tali`a al-`Ummal Collection

Period  1945- c. 1956
Total size   0.24 m.
Consultation Not restricted

History

Tali`a al-`Ummal (The Workers' Vanguard) was founded in 1945 in Cairo as one of the communist organizations that came about in Egypt at the end of the Second World War; one of its founders was Raymond Douek.

Content

Collection of Raymond Douek consisting of statutes, a programme, some Central Committee resolutions, a manual for cadre training, bulletins, pamphlets, leaflets and copies of periodicals, including copies of al-Fajr al-Jadid, Majallat al-Damir, Kifah al-Sha`b, Al-Nashra, Majallat al-Hadaf, al-Muqawama al-Sha`biyya and other periodicals 1945-c. 1956.

Processing information

Inventory made by Roel Meijer in 2000