Democratic Party of Guinea – African Democratic Rally Parti Démocratique de Guinée - Rassemblement Démocratique Africain | |
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| Abbreviation | PDG-RDA |
| Secretary General | Mohammed Ture |
| Acting Secretary General | Oyé Beavogui |
| Founded | June 1947 |
| Headquarters | Conakry |
| Political orientation | Democratic Socialism Scientific Socialism Pan-Africanism Black Nationalism |
 Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/pdg.rda |
The Democratic Party of Guinea - African Democratic Rally (PDG-RDA), commonly known as the Democratic Party of Guinea, is a Guinean left-wing, Democratic Socialist political party. The PDG-RDA, built by worker organizers and revolutionary activism and formerly led by the likes of Ahmed Seku Ture, Mafory Bangoura, and Kwame Ture; the Guinean section African Democratic Rally of the would grow to become the sole anti-colonial voice in French Guinea. The party's anti-colonial activism and active engagement with labor strikes across Guinea played a pivotal role in Guinea's rejection of the French Community, leading to immediate independence and the creation of the Republic of Guinea over autonomy within a greater French Union. Since independence, the PDG led Guinea as the sole-legal political party in the country as the vanguard of the Guinean masses. During this period, the PDG organized masses of Africans throughout Guinea's urban and rural centers to carry out literacy campaigns, emancipate women from feudal chiefs, construct clinics and schools, as well as develop Guinean agriculture.[1] Due to French campaigns to sabotage the Guinean state since independence, a series of purges took place within the PDG and the convicted were transported to Camp Boiro. Under the leadership of Seku Ture, the party would play a significant role in the independence of Guinea-Bissau, resulting in the Portuguese invasion of Guinea in an attempt to destroy Cabral's forces and overthrow the Democratic Party. In the aftermath of the death of Seku Ture, Prime Minister Louis Lansana Beavogui would be appointed interim president until the National Political Bureau appointed a new president. Only hours before the meeting could take place, military forces launched a coup in 1984, deposing the PDG, purging its supporters, and freeing political dissidents arrested under Ahmed Seku Ture's government.
In 1992, the party was revived after several decades of military rule. Due to the American arrest of the party's Secretary General and son of Ahmed Seku Ture, Mohammed Ture and his wife, Oyé Beavogui was appointed acting secretary general by the National Political Bureau of the PDG-RDA.[2] The Party is currently a member of the National Transition Council established by Colonel Doumbouya after his successful overthrow of the Alpha Condé government.[3]