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People's Action Party

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People's Action Party

人民行动党
Parti Tindakan Rakyat
மக்களின் செயல் கட்சி
AbbreviationPAP
ChairmanHeng Swee Keat
FoundersLi Guangyao
S. Rajaratnam
Founded21 November 1954
Preceded byMalayan Forum
Succeeded byDemocratic Action Party (Malaysia)
Political orientationLiberalism
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).

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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]

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