Yemeni Socialist Party founded as South Yemen's sole ruling party

In October 1978 the National Front transformed itself into the Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP), the sole legal, Marxist-Leninist ruling party of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen). It won all 111 seats in the December 1978 Supreme People's Council election and governed the only avowedly communist state in the Arab world.

Referenced entities

Parties

Yemeni Socialist Party

Sources

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Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). Yemeni Socialist Party founded as South Yemen's sole ruling party [Event record]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/50d84219-0fbe-483a-be2e-21e4379073b5

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Yemeni Socialist Party founded as South Yemen's sole ruling party." Event record, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/50d84219-0fbe-483a-be2e-21e4379073b5.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-event-50d84219-0fbe-483a-be2e-21e4379073b5,
  title     = {{Yemeni Socialist Party founded as South Yemen's sole ruling party}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Event record},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/50d84219-0fbe-483a-be2e-21e4379073b5},
  urldate   = {2026-07-27},
  note      = {Event date: 1978-10-13. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint

Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

BibTeXPreprint

@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-07-27},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

Event date: 1978-10-13. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.