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founder of Yemeni

Abdullah Abdul Razzaq Badhib was an activist from Aden known as "the founder of Yemeni communism".

Career

In 1961 he founded the People"s Democratic Union, which operated in both North and South Yemen and was the first Marxist-Leninist organization in the country. He became a government minister in Democratic Yemen (PDRY) following the Corrective Revolution of 1969.