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People's Action Party 人民行动党 Parti Tindakan Rakyat மக்களின் செயல் கட்சி | |
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| Abbreviation | PAP |
| Chairman | Heng Swee Keat |
| Founders | Li Guangyao S. Rajaratnam |
| Founded | 21 November 1954 |
| Preceded by | Malayan Forum |
| Succeeded by | Democratic Action Party (Malaysia) |
| Political orientation | Liberalism State capitalism Conservatism |
The People's Action Party (PAP) is a bourgeois political party in Singapore that has ruled Singapore since independence. It is one of three major bourgeois parties in parliament along with the Workers' Party (WP) and the Progress Singapore Party (PSP).
History
The PAP made an alliance with the Communist Party to drive out the British colonizers. In 1961, it purged its left wing, which turned into the Socialist Front. It began Operation Cold Store in 1963 to destroy the Socialist Front's leadership.[1]
References
- ↑ Vijay Prashad (2008). The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World: 'Singapore' (p. 250). [PDF] The New Press. ISBN 9781595583420 [LG]