Socialist Front (Thailand)

Socialist Front
พรรคแนวร่วมสังคมนิยม
ChairmanKeaw Norapiti
Founded21 November 1974
Dissolved1976
HeadquartersThailand
IdeologySocialism
Political positionLeft-wing

The Socialist Front was a political coalition in Thailand, formed by leftwing parties in late 1956.[1] The main group in the coalition was the Economist Party, led by Thep Chotinuchit.[2] The other two constituents of the Socialist Front were the Free Democratic Party and the Hyde Park Movement Party.[3] Thep Chotinuch was the chairman of the Socialist Front.[4] The parliamentarians who founded the Socialist Front came from northeast Thailand.[5] The Socialist Front favoured a neutralist foreign policy, and called for Thai withdrawal from SEATO.[6]

In the 1975 general election the Socialist Front won ten seats, all of them from the northeast. In total the Socialist Front got 3.8 percent of the nationwide vote.[3]

  1. ^ Wilson, David A.. China, Thailand and the Spirit of Bandung (Part II), in The China Quarterly, No. 31 (Jul. - Sep., 1967), pp. 96-127
  2. ^ http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/view/B31950206/ft.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  3. ^ a b Ockey, James. Through Multiple Transitions in Thailand. Variations on a Theme: Societal Cleavages and Party Orientations Archived 2009-06-11 at the Wayback Machine, in Party Politics 2005; 11; 728
  4. ^ "1984 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Public Service - Thongbai Thongpao". Archived from the original on 2008-03-11. Retrieved 2009-07-21.
  5. ^ Nguyen, Thi Dieu. The Mekong River and the Struggle for Indochina: Water, War, and Peace. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 1999. p. 81
  6. ^ "The Age - Google News Archive Search".