United Front of Leftists

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United Front of Leftists
Founded1952; 73 years ago (1952)
HeadquartersThiruvananthapuram
IdeologyFactions
Communism
Secularism
Socialism[1][2]
Political positionLeft-wing[1][2][3]

The United Front of Leftists (UFL) was a political alliance of the leftist and the socialist parties based in the erstwhile Indian state of Travancore-Cochin. It was created in 1952 by the political parties namely Communist Party of India, Revolutionary Socialist Party, and Kerala Socialist Party.[1] Later, Praja Socialist Party, which was one of the strongest parties in the erstwhile Travancore-Cochin, also joined the alliance.[1]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Basheer Ahmed (1966). Asian Survey (Communist and Congress prospects in Kerala). University of California. p. 389.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Special Election Currespondent (26 January 1954). "Travancore-Cochin prepares for elections" (PDF). The Economic Weekly. Retrieved 25 September 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. Horst Hartmann (1968). Economic and Political Weekly Vol. 3, No. 1/2. Economic and Political Weekly. p. 163.