Al-Jamahir

Al-Jamahir (in Arabic الجماهير meaning The Masses) was an Arabic language weekly newspaper and the official organ of the Democratic Movement for National Liberation (Arabic: الحركة الديمقراطية للتحرر الوطنى, abbreviated حدتو, 'HADITU', French: Mouvement démocratique de libération nationale, abbreviated M.D.L.N), a communist organization in Egypt between 1947 and 1955.

Several prominent figures in the Revolutionary Command Council and the Free Officers had links to HADITU.

After the executions of the two labour leaders, HADITU and non-communist trade unionists agitated in the working-class neighbourhoods of Alexandria and Kafr Dawar (in vehicles, with loudspeakers, borrowed from the army) calling on workers to remain calm.

The support to the government after the Kafr Dawar crackdown undermined the HADITU influence in the labour movement, and created internal rifts between the party and its trade union cadres.

In February 1955 HADITU merged with six other factions, forming the Unified Egyptian Communist Party.