Popular Democratic Union (Yemen)

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The Popular Democratic Union (Arabic: اتحاد الشعب الديمقراطي, romanized: Ittiḥād al-Sha‘b al-Dīmuqrāṭiyy; PDU) was a Marxist political organization in South Yemen. Formally established in October 1961 in the Aden Colony under the leadership of writer and journalist Abdullah Badheeb, the party was the oldest communist party in Yemen and the Arabian Peninsula. Despite its small size, with a total membership less than 500, the PDU exercised significant long-term influence over South Yemeni politics by forming an ideological symbiosis with the National Front (NF) and playing a role in founding the Unified Political Organization of the National Front and later the Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP).

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