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Politics in many countries, from Argentina to Canada and from
South Korea to Turkey, takes place by means of political parties. Politi-

cal parties are indispensible to modern politics and democracies. Parties
may be regarded as the main tool of democracy or a source of oppres-
sion, but they are nonetheless links between the state and the people.
Some of the parties in Yemen that have kept this bond alive are:
The Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP), the General People's Congress
(GPC), the Islaah Party (The Yemeni Congregation for Reform), the Peo-
ples Nasserite Reformation Party, the Liberation Front Party, the
Nasserite Democratic Party, the League of the Sons of Yemen, the Fed-
eration of Popular Forces, the National Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, the

National Democratic Front, Al Haq Party, the Yemen League Party, and

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