Kamal Khalil ( ar, كمال خليل, ) is an
Egyptian
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engineer and
labour
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activist. He is a leading member of the
Revolutionary Socialists
The Revolutionary Socialists ( ar, الاشتراكيون الثوريون; ) (RS) are a Trotskyist organisation in Egypt originating in the tradition of 'Socialism from Below'. Leading RS members include sociologist Sameh Naguib. The organisati ...
, a representative of the
Workers Democratic Party and the founder
and director of the
Center for Socialist Studies in
Cairo
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. He is a critic of the
social democrats,
youth parties and the
Muslim Brotherhood
The Society of the Muslim Brothers ( ar, جماعة الإخوان المسلمين'' ''), better known as the Muslim Brotherhood ( ', is a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan ...
in the post-
Mubarak Egypt. He advocates more
worker
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s' unity, particularly in regions such as
El-Mahalla El-Kubra
El Mahalla El Kubra ( ar, المحلة الكبرى, , , ) – commonly shortened to ' – is the largest city of the Gharbia Governorate and in the Nile Delta, with a population of 535,278 as of 2012. It is a large industrial and agricultural cit ...
, which has in the past been a center of industrial struggle by
textile workers. Khalil has said Egypt's workers must create independent trade unions and a political party to represent them: "No party will represent the workers other than the workers' party itself."
Prior to the
Egyptian Revolution of 2011
The 2011 Egyptian revolution, also known as the 25 January revolution ( ar, ثورة ٢٥ يناير; ), began on 25 January 2011 and spread across Egypt. The date was set by various youth groups to coincide with the annual Egyptian "Police ho ...
, Khalil had been arrested many times. In 2003, he was arrested by the
State Security Investigations Service
The State Security Investigations Service ( arz, مباحث أمن الدولة ) was the highest national internal security authority in Egypt. Estimated to employ 100,000 personnel, the SSI was the main security and intelligence apparatus of Eg ...
(SSI) and placed in solitary confinement for his role in the
anti-war movement, causing the
Stop the War Coalition in
Britain to demonstrate outside the
Egyptian Embassy
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Africa
*
** Algiers (Embassy)
*
** Luanda (Embassy)
*
** Cotonou (Embassy)
*
** Ouagadougou (Embassy)
*
** Bujumbura ...
in
London
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See also
* Revolutionary Socialists
The Revolutionary Socialists ( ar, الاشتراكيون الثوريون; ) (RS) are a Trotskyist organisation in Egypt originating in the tradition of 'Socialism from Below'. Leading RS members include sociologist Sameh Naguib. The organisati ...
* Workers Democratic Party
* Center for Socialist Studies
References
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Living people
Egyptian democracy activists
Egyptian dissidents
Egyptian human rights activists
Egyptian revolutionaries
Egyptian Trotskyists
People of the Egyptian revolution of 2011
Revolutionary Socialists (Egypt)
Egyptian trade unionists
Year of birth missing (living people)