The United Labour Front is a defunct political party in Trinidad and Tobago. Between 1976 and 1986 is served as the Opposition party in Parliament.
The party was founded as a combination of socialist and labour groups which united to contest the 1976 General Elections. Originally the party had a collective leadership, but this eventually coalesced around Basdeo Panday.
In 1981 the ULF combined with two other political parties, the Democratic Action Congress (led by A.N.R. Robinson) and the Tapia House Movement (led by Lloyd Best ) to contest the 1981 General Elections as the National Alliance. In 1986 these parties merged with the Organisation for National Reconstruction to form the National Alliance for Reconstruction which won the 1986 General Elections, defeating the People's National Movement for the first time since 1956.
The NAR later split and much of the former ULF element left the party to found the United National Congress.
See also
References
- Meighoo, Kirk. 2003. Politics in a Half Made Society: Trinidad and Tobago, 1925-2002 ISBN 1558763066
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