Liberation Rally (Egypt)

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Liberation Rally (Egypt) was the first mass political organization created by Gamal Abdel Nasser’s regime after the 1952 revolution to mobilize popular support and replace traditional party politics.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf mass organization
political organization
basedOn concept of a single-party or single-organization state
country Egypt
dissolved 1956
fieldOfWork mass political education
political mobilization
state propaganda
followed dissolution of pre-1952 political parties
foundedBy Free Officers Movement NERFINISHED
Gamal Abdel Nasser NERFINISHED
governs political participation channels under Nasser’s early rule
hasEffect institutionalization of one-party rule in Egypt
marginalization of independent political parties in Egypt
hasLeader Gamal Abdel Nasser NERFINISHED
other Free Officers in senior positions
hasPart peasants’ committees
professional and student branches
workers’ committees
headquartersLocation Cairo
ideology Arab socialism (early precursor)
anti-communism
anti-imperialism
anti-liberalism
inception 1953
languageOfWorkOrName Arabic
legalStatus sole officially sanctioned political organization at the time
membershipPolicy mass membership encouraged
operatedIn United Arab Republic (Egyptian territory) prior to union NERFINISHED
opposedTo Muslim Brotherhood (as rival mass movement) NERFINISHED
traditional liberal parties such as the Wafd Party
partOf Nasserist political system NERFINISHED
politicalLine opposition to old Wafd-led party system
support for military-led revolutionary regime
politicalPosition Arab nationalism
Egyptian nationalism
authoritarianism
statism
purpose mobilize popular support for the July 1952 regime
provide a single mass political framework for the new regime
replace traditional party politics in Egypt
replaced multi-party parliamentary system in Egypt
replacedBy National Union (Egypt) NERFINISHED
significantEvent campaigns for regime-backed plebiscites
launch as first official mass organization of the Nasser regime
mobilization during negotiations over British evacuation from the Suez Canal Zone
temporalCoverage early Nasser era

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National Union precededBy Liberation Rally (Egypt)
subject surface form: National Union (Egypt)