Corrective Move

1969 South Yemen coup d'état
Part of the Arab Cold War
Date 22 June, 1969 Location South Yemen Result Coup successful Overthrow of Al-Shaabi and his allies Nasserists purged from the National Liberation Front South Yemen becomes a Marxist–Leninist state. Official name of South Yemen changes to “People's Democratic Republic of Yemen” from “People's Republic of South Yemen”
Belligerents
Al-Shaabi's government Nasserist faction of the NLF Supported by:  Egypt	Marxist faction of the NLF
Commanders and leaders
Qahtan al-Shaabi President of South Yemen Faysal al-Shaabi Prime Minister of South Yemen	Abd al-Fattah Ismail Salim Rubai Ali
Casualties and losses
No deaths

The Corrective Move^[1] (Arabic: الحركة التصحيحية, romanized: al-ḥaraka at-taṣḥīḥiyya), officially referred to as the "Glorious Corrective Move"^[2] and often referred to as the "Corrective Step", was the takeover of the Yemeni National Liberation Front by the Marxist faction led by Abdel Fattah Ismail and Salim Rubai Ali, in an internal bloodless coup on 22 June 1969 that overthrew the Nasserist President Qahtan al-Shaabi.^[1] The Marxist takeover later led to the creation of the Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP), and South Yemen's transformation into a socialist state.