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(Politika Siyaset) A popular front is a broad coalition of different political groupings, often made up of leftists and centrists. Being very broad, they can sometimes include centrist and liberal (or "bourgeois") forces as well as socialist and communist ("working-class") groups. Popular fronts are larger in scope than united fronts, which contain only working-class groups
a leftist coalition organized against a common opponent
pact between the communist party and the rest of the left and central parties against the right political parties
A political coalition of leftist parties against fascism, such as that formed among European countries during the 1930s. In European politics, any coalition of working-class and middle-class political parties united to defend democracy against an expected fascist assault. The policy of a "united front" against fascism was announced at the communist Third International (1935); it was to include not only communists and socialists but also liberals, moderates, and even conservatives. Popular-front governments were formed in France and Spain in 1936, but the financial consequences of the reforms undertaken by the French government, under Léon Blum, proved its undoing, and the Spanish government was brought down by Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War

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