The People's Vanguard Party was a Ba'athist

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South Yemen South Yemen ( ar, اليمن الجنوبي, al-Yaman al-Janubiyy), officially the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (, ), also referred to as Democratic Yemen (, ) or Yemen (Aden) (, ), was a communist state that existed from 1967 to 19 ...

. It was aligned with the

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

n-based Ba'ath Party.

Abdullah Badhib Abdullah Abdulrazzaq Badheeb (1931-1976) was a Yemeni socialist writer, theorist, journalist and politician, and one of the leaders of the Marxist faction the National Liberation Front in southern Yemen during the late 20th century that sought to ...

was the general secretary of the party. Badhib was appointed Minister of Education in December 1969.Halliday, Fred.
Revolution and Foreign Policy: The Case of South Yemen, 1967-1987
'. Cambridge Middle East library, 21. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. p. 24 The party was one of two non- National Front parties tolerated during the early 1970s. In October 1975 it joined the NF-dominated United Political Organization (which evolved into the

Yemeni Socialist Party The Yemeni Socialist Party ( ar, الحزب الاشتراكي اليمني, ''al-Hizb al-Ishtiraki al-Yamani'', YSP) is a political party in Yemen. A successor of Yemen's National Liberation Front, it was the ruling party in South Yemen until Y ...

in 1978).Ismael, Tareq Y., Jacqueline S. Ismael, and Kamel Abu Jaber.
Politics and Government in the Middle East and North Africa
'. Miami: Florida International University Press, 1991. p. 441 The merger was ratified by the third PVP congress held in August 1975.Halliday, Fred.
Revolution and Foreign Policy: The Case of South Yemen, 1967-1987
'. Cambridge Middle East library, 21. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. p. 28

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Arab nationalism in Yemen Ba'athist parties

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