Kuwaiti Progressive Movement
The Kuwaiti Progressive Movement () is a Far-left politics, far-left political organization in Kuwait established in 2011. Establishment The Movement was established in 2011 as Kuwait Progressive Bloc () after the People's Union Party () faction, led by Ahmad Deyain, split from Kuwait Democratic Forum on the basis that the latter was taken over by a Neoliberalism, neo-liberal faction. In its establishment proclamation, it states that it's the continuation of the People's Union Party that was established in 1975 which participated in the Forum's establishment in 1991. Background With the increasing visibility of socialism in the 1970s following the Vietnam War, the Ethiopian Civil War, the election of Salvador Allende in Chile, and the success of other national liberation movements such as the MPLA in Angola and the National Liberation Front (South Yemen), NLF in South Yemen (as well as others in the prior decade), leftists in Kuwait originally had to operate secretly due to ...
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