Hillel Schwartz (13 February 1923 – 1 August 2007), an Egyptian Jew, was the founder of the

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('al-Sharara') party, a small Communist political party which was one of the Egyptian political groupings advocating full independence from

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before the Egyptian Revolution of 1952. Iskra was a

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party, which "emphasized the need for the mobilization of a revolutionary reserve of Marxist consciousness and intellectuals in order to establish a sound base from which popular activity could follow."

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