People's Action Party

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People's Action Party

人民行动党
Parti Tindakan Rakyat
மக்களின் செயல் கட்சி
FoundersLi Guangyao
S. Rajaratnam
Founded21 November 1954
Political orientationLiberalism
State capitalism


The People's Action Party (PAP) is a bourgeois political party in Singapore.

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

  1. Vijay Prashad (2008). The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World: 'Singapore' (p. 250). [PDF] The New Press. ISBN 9781595583420 [LG]