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popular front is a term for a political coalition which is commonly made up of parties ranging ideologically from
liberalism
Liberalism is a Political philosophy, political and moral philosophy based on the Individual rights, rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, the right to private property, and equality before the law. ...
to
communism
Communism () is a political sociology, sociopolitical, political philosophy, philosophical, and economic ideology, economic ideology within the history of socialism, socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a ...
, historically for the purpose of opposing the rise of
fascism
Fascism ( ) is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement. It is characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hie ...
or
far-right politics
Far-right politics, often termed right-wing extremism, encompasses a range of ideologies that are marked by ultraconservatism, authoritarianism, ultranationalism, and Nativism (politics), nativism. This political spectrum situates itself on ...
in general. In
Post-Soviet states
The post-Soviet states, also referred to as the former Soviet Union or the former Soviet republics, are the independent sovereign states that emerged/re-emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Prior to their independence, they ...
, the word has a different meaning, instead connoting a
liberal
Liberal or liberalism may refer to:
Politics
* Generally, a supporter of the political philosophy liberalism. Liberals may be politically left or right but tend to be centrist.
* An adherent of a Liberal Party (See also Liberal parties by country ...
intellectual organization formed to support
self-determination
Self-determination refers to a people's right to form its own political entity, and internal self-determination is the right to representative government with full suffrage.
Self-determination is a cardinal principle in modern international la ...
for the territory in which it operated.
Popular Front may refer to:
Political movements
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Alliance of the Christian Democratic Popular Front
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Azerbaijani Popular Front Party
The Azerbaijani Popular Front Party (APFP; , ) is a political party in Azerbaijan, founded in 1989 by Abulfaz Elchibey. Since Elchibey was ousted from power in the 1993 military coup, the party has been one of the main opposition parties to th ...
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Belarusian Popular Front
The Belarusian Popular Front "Revival" (BPF, ; ''Biełaruski Narodny Front "Adradžeńnie"'', ''BNF'') was a social and political movement in Belarus in the late 1980s and 1990s whose goals were national revival of Belarus, its democratization a ...
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Broad Popular Front Broad Popular Front (in Spanish: ''Frente Amplio Popular'', FRAMPO) was a Panamanian small left-of-center political party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is co ...
, a small Panamanian left-of-center political party, 1977-1984.
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Comorian Popular Front
The Comorian Popular Front (, FPC) was a political party in the Comoros
The Comoros, officially the Union of the Comoros, is an archipelagic country made up of three islands in Southeastern Africa, located at the northern end of the Moza ...
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Humanist Popular Front, a center-left Venezuelan political party formed in 2009.
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Ivorian Popular Front
The Ivorian Popular Front (; abbr. FPI) is a centre-left, democratic socialist and social democratic political party in Ivory Coast.
History
FPI was founded in exile in 1982 by history professor Laurent Gbagbo, Aboudramane Sangaré, and oth ...
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Mauritanian Popular Front
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Popular Democratic Front (Italy)
The Popular Democratic Front (), shortened name of the Popular Democratic Front for Freedom, Peace, Labour (Italian: ''Fronte Democratico Popolare per la libertà, la pace, il lavoro''), was a left-wing political coalition in Italy. Formed in D ...
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Popular Front (Burkina Faso)
The Popular Front () was a political alliance in Burkina Faso.
The FP was founded in October 1987 by that country's president, Blaise Compaoré, immediately after he came to power in a military coup d'état. The first member parties of the FP we ...
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Popular Front (Chile)
The Popular Front ( Spanish: ''Frente Popular'') in Chile was an electoral and political left-wing coalition from 1937 to February 1941, during the Presidential Republic Era (1924–1973). It gathered together the Radical Party, the Socialist Pa ...
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Popular Front (France)
The Popular Front (, ) was an alliance of left-wing movements in France, including the French Communist Party (PCF), the socialist SFIO and the Radical-Socialist Republican Party, during the interwar period. Three months after the victory of ...
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Popular Front (Philippines)
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Popular Front (Senegal)
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Popular Front (Spain)
The Popular Front () was an electoral alliance and pact formed in January 1936 to contest that year's general election by various left-wing political organizations during the Second Spanish Republic. The alliance was led by Manuel Azaña. In ...
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Popular Front (Tunisia)
The Popular Front for the Realization of the Objectives of the Revolution (; ), abbreviated as the Popular Front (ej-Jabha), is a leftist political and electoral alliance in Tunisia, made up of nine political parties and numerous independents.
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Popular Front (UK)
The Popular Front in the United Kingdom was an attempted an alliance between political parties and individuals of the left and centre-left in the late 1930s to come together to challenge the appeasement policies of the National Government led by ...
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Popular Front for Armed Resistance
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Popular Front for Change and Liberation
The Popular Front for Change and Liberation (, ''al-Jabha aš-š‘abiyya li'l-taghayyir wa'l-taḥrīr'') is a coalition of Syrian political parties. It briefly participated as the leader of the official political opposition within the People's ...
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Popular Front for Democracy
The Popular Front for Democracy () is a political party in Lesotho.
At the elections for the National Assembly, 25 May 2002, the party won 1.1% of popular votes and 1 out of 120 seats. In the 17 February 2007 parliamentary election
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, the main opposition political party in Ghana during the Third Republic (1979-1981).
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Popular Front for Recovery
The Popular Front for Recovery (; FPR) is a militia from Chad. It destabilized northern Central African Republic from 2008 to 2012.
The leader of the FPR was General Abdel Kader Baba-Laddé.
History
The FPR has signed ceasefires on several occa ...
, a militia from Chad.
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Popular Front for the Liberation of Bahrain
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Bahrain () was an underground political party in Bahrain with origins in the Arab Nationalist Movement. Its members were inclined towards the leftist Marxist trend within the ANM. It was created after the ...
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Popular Front for the Liberation of Chad
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Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya
Popularity or social status is the quality of being well liked, admired or well known to a particular group.
Popular may also refer to:
In sociology
* Popular culture
* Popular fiction
* Popular music
* Popular science
* Populace, the tot ...
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Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman (in , PFLO) was a Marxist and Arab nationalist revolutionary organisation in the Sultanate of Oman. It fought against the Sultan in the Dhofar Rebellion from the PFLO's foundation until the suppressio ...
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Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP; ) is a secular Palestinian Marxist–Leninist organization founded in 1967 by George Habash. It has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the Palestine Liberation ...
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Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf
The Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf (, abbreviated PFLOAG), later renamed the Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arabian Gulf (), was a Marxist and Arab nationalist revolutionary organisation active in ...
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Popular Front of Estonia
The Popular Front of Estonia (; RR), introduced to the public by the Estonian politician Edgar Savisaar under the short-lived name Popular Front for the Support of Perestroika, was a political organisation in Estonia in the late 1980s and earl ...
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Popular Front of India
Popular Front of India (PFI) is an Islamist political organisation in India, that engages in a radical and exclusivist style of Muslim minority politics. Formed to counter Hindutva groups, it was banned by the Indian Ministry of Home Aff ...
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Popular Front of Latvia
The Popular Front of Latvia () was a political organisation in Latvia in the late 1980s and early 1990s which led Latvia to its independence from the Soviet Union. It was similar to the Popular Front of Estonia and the Sąjūdis movement in Li ...
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Popular Front of Moldova
The Popular Front of Moldova (PFM; , FPM) was a political movement in the Moldavian SSR, one of the 15 union republics of the former Soviet Union, and in the newly independent Moldova, Republic of Moldova. Formally, the Front existed from 1989 to ...
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Popular Front of Potosí The Popular Front of Potosí (Spanish: ''Frente Popular de Potosí'', FPP) was a powerful local left-wing-socialist political party in Potosí.
Popular Front of Potosí was founded in 1936 by the labor leaders of Potosí, after Germán Busch Becer ...
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Popular Front of the Canary Islands
The Popular Front of the Canary Islands () or FREPIC-AWAÑAK is a marginal leftist political party seeking independence from Spain for the Canary Islands.
FREPIC-AWAÑAK was formed by merging minority Canarian political organizations such as Or ...
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Popular Front Party
The Popular Front Party (PFP) was the main opposition political party in Ghana during the Third Republic (1979–1981).
In elections held on 18 June 1979, PFP presidential candidate Victor Owusu won 29.9% of the vote and the party won 42 of 140 ...
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Popular Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Palestine
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Unified Popular Front, a political party in Iraq.
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United Popular Front, a Greek political party founded in July 2011.
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United Popular Front (Iraq)
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Worker Peasant Student and Popular Front
The Worker Peasant Student and Popular Front () or FOCEP is a political party in Peru. It was founded as a broad front in 1977 by a group around Genaro Ledesma Izquieta, Socialist Workers Party, Peruvian Communist Party (Red Flag) and Revolutio ...
Media
* ''Popular Front'', an independent media outlet and podcast founded by British journalist
Jake Hanrahan
Jake Hanrahan (born 23 January 1990) is a British journalist and documentary filmmaker from the East Midlands. He reports on conflict, crime and politics. His work generally focuses on irregular warfare, organised crime and counter culture.
Ha ...
See also
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Popular Democratic Front (disambiguation)
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Popular Liberation Front (disambiguation)
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People's Front (disambiguation)
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