Socialist Labour Party (Egypt)
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The Egyptian Islamic Labour Party
حزب العمل الاسلامي Hizb al-ʿamal al-islami al-Masri |
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| Chairman | Ibrahim Shoukry |
| Founded | 1978 |
| Headquarters | Cairo |
| Newspaper | Al Shaab (currently suspended) |
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Islamic socialism Islamism |
| National affiliation | Anti-Coup Alliance |
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The Egyptian Islamic Labour Party (Arabic: حزب العمل الإسلامي, translit. Ḥizb al-ʿamal al-islāmī al-Masri), previously the Socialist Labour Party (Arabic: حزب العمل الإشتراكي, translit. Ḥizb al-ʿamal al-iڑtirākī), is an Egyptian Islamist political party.
The party was suspended, but it later joined the Democratic Alliance for Egypt during the 2011-2012 parliamentary election, where it had gained 1 seat in the People's Assembly of Egypt.
The party established on 9 September 1978 by Ibrahim Shoukry and others. It was originally a socialist party. The party is the successor of the Masr Al Fattah Movement, which was founded by Ahmad Hussain in 1933.
Since 1986 the party has undergone a major ideological change turning into an Islamist party. In 1987 the party formed an alliance, called Tahaluf, with the Muslim Brotherhood and the Socialist Liberals Party. This change was first demonstrated in the party's fifth conference in 1989 which was entitled "Reform from an Islamic perspective".
The party platform calls for:
The party and a few others abstained from the election because of an amendment to the 1972 Electoral Law forbidding unified lists, with the Socialist Labour Party attempting to combine with the Muslim Brotherhood in hope to change the Muslim Brotherhood's view on Islam in a more leftist way, but this plan failed when they were suspended in 2000.The Muslim Brotherhood and the Labour Party still remain great allies.
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