The Progressive Liberation Front (, commonly known by its acronym 'جات', ''Gat'') was a small
communist
Communism () is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, di ...
organization in
Egypt
Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...
. The organization emerged in 1948 as a split from the
Democratic Movement for National Liberation
The Democratic Movement for National Liberation (, abbreviated حدتو, HADITU, , abbreviated M.D.L.N.) was a communist organization in Egypt from 1947 to 1955. HADITU was led by Henri Curiel. The movement followed the line of the National Democ ...
(HADITU).
[Ismael, Tareq Y., and Rifʻat Saʻīd. ]
The Communist Movement in Egypt, 1920-1988
'. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1990. p. 65[Markaz Al-Buḥūth 'arabīyah Wa Al-Ifrīqīyah. ]
Shahādāt wa-ruʼá al-Juzʼ al-khāmis
'. Al-Qāhirah: [s.n, 2007. pp. 188-189 Leaders of Gat included Issamuddin Jilal, Ahmed Taha, Ismail Jibr, Salah Salma and Ehia al-Mazsi.
Gat merged with HADITU-Revolutionary Action, but Gat was reconstituted when HADITU-Revolutionary Action ceased to function. In 1950, Gat rejoined HADITU but remained a separate fraction of the Egyptian communist movement during various years of the 1950s. Ahmed Taha was the sole Gat member on the Central Committee of HADITU.
References
Defunct communist parties in Egypt
Political parties established in 1948
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