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tian prime minister] suprcssed the revolutionary movement,"
he began. "Sidky was a kind of Egyptian Mussolini. He had
one idea—force. But you can't stop Marxism by force, or by
laws, because its roots go very deep into the misery of the
people. The Communist movement here really began in
1939 when students and intellectuals formed a group called
Art and Freedom. We studied the theory of Communism,
read Marx and Lenin, received literature from London and
Paris; from America we got the Daily Worker and The Militant.1 We also had revolutionary newspapers from Beirut,
Damascus, and Baghdad. Nothing from Russia. It was wartime.
"Two years later Bread and Freedom replaced Art and
Freedom," Anwar Kamel went on. "This was made up of a
dynamic group o bv