Tasht later changed its name to Popular Democracy (الديمقراطية الشعبية, "ad-dimoqratiyyah ash-sha'abiyyah", abbreviated "D.Sh") in 1949. In the early 1950s, Popular Democracy merged with a faction of the People's Liberation Movement (the faction that had not merged with Iskra). The united organization took the name Workers' Vanguard (طليعة العمال). At the time of the July 1952 Revolution Workers' Vanguard was one of the three main communist groupings in Egypt. Darwish recruited several trade union leaders to Workers' Vanguard. Workers' Vanguard was active among textile workers in Shubra El Kheima.