Back Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League German Liga Antifascista para la Libertad del Pueblo Spanish اتحادیه ضد فاشیست آزادی مردم Persian Ligue anti-fasciste pour la liberté du peuple French एन्टी फ़ासिस्ट पीपल्स फ़्रीडम लीग Hindi Liga Kebebasan Rakyat Anti Fasis ID Lega della Libertà Popolare Anti-Fascista Italian 反ファシスト人民自由連盟 Japanese 반파시스트 인민자유연맹 Korean ဖက်ဆစ်ဆန့်ကျင်ရေး ပြည်သူ့လွတ်လပ်ရေး အဖွဲ့ချုပ် Burmese
Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League ဖက်ဆစ်ဆန့်ကျင်ရေး ပြည်သူ့လွတ်လပ်ရေး အဖွဲ့ချုပ် | |
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| Chairman | U Nu |
| Founded | 1–3 March 1945 |
| Dissolved | June 1958 |
| Preceded by | Anti-Fascist Organisation |
| Succeeded by | Clean AFPFL Stable AFPFL |
| Ideology | Anti-fascism Burmese nationalism[1] Democratic socialism[2][3][4] Anti-communism (From January 1953)[3][4] Anti-Marxism (From January 1953)[3][4] Anti-imperialism[3] Anti-Totalitarianism[3] Faction: Marxism (Until October 1948)[5] |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| Religion | Buddhism (From January 1958)[4] |
| Colours | Red |
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The Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League (AFPFL)[n 1] was a broad popular front that ruled Burma (now Myanmar) between 1947 and 1958. It included both political parties and trade unions as members.
The league evolved out of the anti-Japanese resistance organization Anti-Fascist Organisation (AFO) founded in August 1944 during the Japanese occupation by the Communist Party of Burma (CPB), the Burma National Army and the socialist People's Revolutionary Party (PRP). The AFO was renamed AFPFL in March 1945.
An AFPFL delegation under the leadership of Aung San led the negotiations for independence in London in January 1947. After winning the elections of April 1947 for a Constitutional Assembly, the AFPFL leadership drafted the new constitution for a sovereign Burma. It initially included a Marxist faction led by Thakin Than Tun, but they were purged from the party in October 1948.[5]
The AFPFL determined Burma's post-independence politics and policies until June 1958, when the party split into two factions, the Clean AFPFL and the Stable AFPFL.
- ^ Lansford, Tom (20 March 2014). Political Handbook of the World 2014. SAGE Publications. p. 988. ISBN 978-1483386263. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
- ^ Maung, Maung (October–December 1958). "Burma at the Crossroads". India Quarterly. 14 (4). JSTOR: 382. JSTOR 45068809. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
- ^ a b c d e Trager, Frank N. (October 1958). "The Political Split in Burma". Far Eastern Survey. 27 (10). JSTOR: 150. doi:10.2307/3023919. JSTOR 3023919. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
- ^ a b c d Trager, Frank N. (1 January 1959). "Political Divorce in Burma". Foreignaffairs.com. Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
In the first month of 1958, it concluded its third All-Burma National Congress by approving, in an apparent burst of unity, a resounding four-hour speech by the Prime Minister, U Nu, which dedicated the party to democratic socialism and Buddhism and opposed Communism and Marxism, identified as synonymous.
- ^ a b Ba 1968, p. 45.
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