Kamal Khalil (, ) is an

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engineer and labour activist. He is a leading member of the Revolutionary Socialists, a representative of the Workers Democratic Party and the founder and director of the Center for Socialist Studies in

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. He is a critic of the

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, youth parties and the

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in the post- Mubarak Egypt. He advocates more workers' unity, particularly in regions such as El-Mahalla El-Kubra, which has in the past been a center of industrial struggle by textile workers. Khalil has said Egypt's workers must create independent trade unions and a political party to represent them: "No party will represent the workers other than the workers' party itself." Prior to the

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, Khalil had been arrested many times. In 2003, he was arrested by the

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(SSI) and placed in solitary confinement for his role in the

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, causing the

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to demonstrate outside the Egyptian Embassy in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Khalil, Kamal Living people Egyptian democracy activists Egyptian dissidents Egyptian human rights activists Egyptian revolutionaries Egyptian Trotskyists People of the Egyptian revolution of 2011 Revolutionary Socialists (Egypt) Egyptian trade unionists Year of birth missing (living people)

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