Democratic Yemeni Union of Peasants

The Democratic Yemeni Union of Peasants (Arabic: ‫اتحاد الفالحين اليمني‬

Democratic Yemeni Union
‫الديمقراطي‬, romanized: Ittihad al-Fallahin al-Yamani ad-Dimuqrati),
of Peasants
abbreviated Afid (‫)افيد‬, was a mass organization of the peasantry in the
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen). Founded in ‫اتحاد الفلاحين اليمني الديمقراطي‬
1976, the organization was part of the founding of South Yemen.

Background
The Fifth Congress of the National Front Political Organization held in
1972 resolved to create a revolutionary mass organization of peasants,
though Afid was not founded until 1976.[1] The founding congress was
held October 7–8, 1976.[2][3][4] Afid was conceptualized as "a voluntary
mass economic, social, and political organization for cooperative farmers,
individual farmers and nomadic Bedouins".[2] Afid organized farmers'
committees at district and village levels.[5]
Abbreviation Afid
Afid was one of the main mass organizations in the South Yemen party-
state framework.[6] The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen Founded October 1976
Constitution of 1978 enshrined the role of Afid[7] and Article 66 of the Dissolved 1990
Constitution stated that the "Democratic Yemeni Union of Peasants shall Key people Ahmed Obaid Bin
work for deepening the alliance between the peasants and the working Dagher (Chairman
class and creating brotherly relations between the co-operative peasants in 1980s)
and the individual peasants. It shall convince the peasants, by means of
Affiliations Trade Union
presenting the positive example, that the economy is best organized on
International of
the basis of co-operative collectivism. It shall also work for obliterating
Agricultural,
the illiteracy of the peasants and raising their educational, political and
Forestry and
cultural standard."[8][9] Plantation Workers
World Federation of
Afid was affiliated to the Trade Union International of Agricultural,
Trade Unions
Forestry and Plantation Workers of the World Federation of Trade
Unions.[10] The organization signed agreements of cooperation with its
East German counterpart in the 1980s.[11][12]

Leadership
Abdul Baqi Hazza was the chairman of Afid from its founding in 1976 to
June 1978.[13] In June 1978, Hazza was imprisoned in the purge that
followed the seizure of power by Abdul Fattah Ismail in the lead-up to the
Dr. Ahmed Obaid Bin Dagher
first congress of the Yemeni Socialist Party.[13][14] Thereafter, Afid leaders addressing the October 7, 1986
would generally be Central Committee members of the party.[15] In the congress of the Democratic Yemeni
early 1980s Said Saleh was the secretary of Afid.[16] Ahmed Obaid Bin Union of Peasants
Dagher served as the Afid chairman until the Yemeni unification of
1990.[17][18]

Further reading
Mehra, R. N. (1978). "Democratic Yemen (South Yemen) Under Marxist Rule (1968-1978)-A Case Study"
(https://www.jstor.org/stable/44139436). Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. 39 (II). Indian
 History Congress: 895–901. JSTOR 44139436 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/44139436).
References
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2. ‫ م‬١٩٨٧-٦٧ ،ً‫( مالمح التطور في اليمن الديمقراطية خالل عشرين عاما‬https://books.google.com/books?id=-1lFA
QAAIAAJ) (in Arabic). 1988. pp. 36–37.
3. Summary of World Broadcasts: Non-Arab Africa, Issues 5326-5361 (https://books.google.com/books?id=
yxYsAQAAIAAJ). British Broadcasting Corporation| Monitoring Service. 1976. p. 9.
4. Bidwell, Robin Leonard (2019). The Two Yemens (https://books.google.com/books?id=Jk2fDwAAQBAJ).
Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-30652-1.
5. The Present Position and Potential of Rural Development in the LDC's of the ECWA Region (https://book
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and Human Settlement Division, Joint ECWA/FAO Agriculture Division. 1978. p. 55.
6. Burrowes, Robert D. (2010). Historical Dictionary of Yemen (https://books.google.com/books?id=tjXRfqBv
_0UC). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 187. ISBN 978-0-8108-5528-1.
7. Peaslee, Amos (2013). Constitutions of Nations: Volume II — Asia, Australia and Oceania (https://books.g
oogle.com/books?id=O7TyCAAAQBAJ). Springer Science & Business Media. p. 1784. ISBN 978-94-017-
1147-0.
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9. Stookey, Robert W. (2019). South Yemen: A Marxist Republic In Arabia (https://books.google.com/books?i
d=h6yhDwAAQBAJ). Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-31228-7.
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Arabic). 1990. p. 85. "‫"المنار‬
16. Near East/North Africa Report (https://books.google.com/books?id=qOW5AAAAIAAJ). Executive Office of
the President. Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Joint Publications Research Service. 1981. p. 118.
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A8%D9%86-%D8%AF%D8%BA%D8%B1-%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%B3-%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%A7%D
9%86-%D9%82%D9%88%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B1%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%A9-
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