Popular Front

Popular Fronts comprise broad coalitions of political and other groups, often made up of oppositioners or left wingers, and often united against particularly stringent circumstances. Being very broad, they can sometimes include centrist and liberal (or "bourgeois") parties and groups as well as socialists and communists ("working class" groups).

Popular Fronts using other names

• Czechoslovakia - the National Front led by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
• East Germany - the National Front led by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany
• North Korea - the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland led by the Workers' Party of Korea
• People's Republic of China - the United Front Work Department led by the Communist Party of China
• Poland - led by the Polish United Workers' Party
• Vietnam - the Fatherland Front led by the Communist Party of Vietnam