UAR Socialist Youth Organization

The UAR Socialist Youth Organization was a youth organization in Egypt.[1] It was set up as the youth wing of the Arab Socialist Union in 1965. It came under the leadership of Marxist sectors.[2] Mufid Shihab was the general secretary of the organization.[1]

Gamal Abdul Nasser clamped down on the organization (as well as other leftist sectors in the Arab Socialist Union) in 1968, halting much of its activities.[3] Many of its activists later left the organization, dissatisfied with Nasser's Arab socialism. These activists became the core of the radical student movement during the early 1970s.[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Middle East Record 1968. p. 9
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 MERIP Reports, No. 17. (May, 1973)
  3. ↑ Migdal, Joel S. Strong Societies and Weak States: State-Society Relations and State Capabilities in the Third World. Princeton (N.J): Princeton university press, 1988. p. 200