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The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen in Southern Arabia was formerly a British colonial possession in the Middle East. In the late 1950's, a guerrila movement expousing a brand of Nasserism tinged with Marxism arose to challenge the rule of British, French & Indian bankers, shipowners, merchants oil magnates, & local feudal chieftains, sultans, emirs, & sheikhs. In 1962, an anti-monarchist coup occurred in Northern Yemen, & was followed by an insurrection supported in part by Egypt. An independent nat'l liberation front (NLF) gained the support of the people in Ur guerrila actions against both the British in Aden & the reformist Front for the Liberation of South Yemen (FLOSY) backed by Egypt. After the ouster of the British in 1967 & the defeat of the moderate reformers, the left wing of the NLF initiated revolutionary changes. Peasants & workers seized landholdings & factories in order to set up state farms & production cooperatives. A "nat'l & democratic revolution" has democratized the civil service, the armed forces & the police. The National Front, a rigidly desciplined monolithic party run on the principle of "democratic centralism" rules in conjunction with the Communists & the Baathists. The state has nat'lized foreign businesses, coordinated foreign trade & drafted a development plan that allots private capital only a modest role. Under current austerity measures, gov salaries were dramatically cut & income diff'ials greatly reduced. Laws emancipating women & establishing a soc security system are being introduced. The new, small, poor, developing secular state enjoys good relations with the USSR & China, but fears the US, Saudi Arabia & the Arab Republic of Yemen (North Yemen). A. Karmen.

Condensed from "Women in South Yemen» by Maxine D.Molyneux, Peuples Mediterraneens, (Mediterranean Peoples),no. 12, Paris, Juillet-Septembre 1980, pp. 33-49.

Dietl interviewed South Yemen's president Haidar Abu Bakr al Attas and the foreign minister Abdul Aziz al Dali about relations with North Yemen, the new economic blocs which are emerging in the Arab world, and political and economic liberalisation within South Yemen itself. (DÜI-Sdt)

Der Beitrag untersucht die Hintergründe der blutigen Machtkämpfe zwischen den beiden Flügeln der Jemenitischen Sozialistischen Partei vom Januar 1986, den Verlauf der Krise, die Rolle der Sowjetunion und die Implikationen der Krise für die Zukunft. (DÜI-Hns)

This book traces the development of nationalist sentiment in South Yemen and the emerge of the two main groups in the struggle for independence: the NLF and FLOSY. (DÜI-Sdt)

Contents: Social groups and status; Religion; The family; Women; Youth; Culture; The socialist ethic; Tools of social engineering; Soviet assistance.