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People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm is the debut album by A Tribe Called Quest, featuring the songs "Can I Kick It?" and "Bonita Applebum."
People's Justice Party (Malaysia)
People's Justice Party (Parti Keadilan Rakyat, PKR, KEADILAN): Malaysian centrist multiracial party formed 2003 from keADILan-PRM merger, born of 1998 Reformasi; led Anwar Ibrahim's Pakatan Harapan government and today's unity government, 31 seats in 2022.
People's Liberation Army (Myanmar)
People's Liberation Army (Myanmar): armed wing of the underground Communist Party of Burma, founded 15 March 2021 by 32 KIA-trained youths; distinct from China's PLA and from the 1940s Burmese force of the same name.
People's Liberation Army (中国人民解放军)
People's Liberation Army (中国人民解放军, PLA), the armed force of the Communist Party of China, founded 1927. Four services plus four service arms after the 2024 dissolution of the Strategic Support Force; CMC chaired by Xi Jinping; ~332-ship navy, 2027/2035/2049 modernization goals.
People's Liberation Army Aerospace Force
The PLA Aerospace Force (PLAASF/ASF) is China's military space branch, created 19 April 2024 from the Strategic Support Force's Space Systems Department, one of four PLA arms directly under the Central Military Commission, responsible for space operations and launches.
People's Liberation Army Air Force (中国人民解放军空军)
The People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF, 中国人民解放军空军) is the air service of China's PLA, with about 2,200 fighters, five theater air force commands, the H-6N nuclear-capable bomber, and the developing H-20 stealth bomber.
People's Liberation Army Cyberspace Force
PLA Cyberspace Force (网络空间部队, CSF/PLACSF), China's cyber warfare arm created April 19, 2024 from the Strategic Support Force's Network Systems Department; reports to the Central Military Commission, conducts cyber, electronic warfare, technical reconnaissance, and Three Warfares information operations.
People's Liberation Army General Staff Department
The People's Liberation Army General Staff Department (中国人民解放军总参谋部) was the chief planning and operations organ of China's armed forces under the Central Military Commission, with origins reaching back to 1927.
People's Liberation Army Ground Force (中国人民解放军陆军)
People's Liberation Army Ground Force (中国人民解放军陆军, PLAGF) is China's land warfare branch. Reorganized since 2015 under a separate headquarters into combined arms brigades under five theater commands, with mixed modern and legacy equipment.
People's Liberation Army Information Support Force (信息支援部队)
The PLA Information Support Force (信息支援部队, ISF) is a Chinese military branch created 19 April 2024 when the Strategic Support Force was dissolved. It handles network information systems, network defense, and communications support, reporting directly to the Central Military Commission at deputy theater-command grade.
People's Liberation Army Joint Logistics Support Force (联勤保障部队)
PLA Joint Logistics Support Force (联勤保障部队, JLSF), China's joint military logistics arm, established September 13, 2016 under Xi Jinping's reforms; headquartered at Wuhan JLSB with five JLSCs aligned to the theater commands.
People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force (中国人民解放军海军航空兵)
The People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force (中国人民解放军海军航空兵) is the aviation branch of China's PLA Navy, founded in the early 1950s and refocused on carrier aviation.
People's Liberation Army Navy (中国人民解放军海军)
People's Liberation Army Navy (中国人民解放军海军, PLAN), China's naval service founded in 1949; the world's largest navy by ship count, with three fleets, over 370 battle force ships, and three aircraft carriers including the catapult-equipped Fujian.
People's Liberation Army Navy Surface Force
PLAN Surface Force (水面舰艇部队), the surface-warfare branch of the Chinese navy with Beihai, Donghai and Nanhai fleets; over 140 major surface combatants including Type 055 cruisers, Type 052D destroyers and Type 054A frigates.
People's Liberation Army of Macedonia
The People's Liberation Army of Macedonia (Народноослободителна војска, NOV i POM) was the Communist-led army that fought in Vardar Macedonia from 1941 to 1945, part of the Yugoslav Partisan movement.
People's Liberation Army of Namibia
The People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) was the armed wing of SWAPO, whose guerrilla campaign against South African rule won Namibia's independence in 1990.
People's Liberation Army Rocket Force (中国人民解放军火箭军)
The People's Liberation Army Rocket Force (中国人民解放军火箭军), created December 31, 2015 from the Second Artillery Force, operates China's land-based nuclear and conventional missiles, including the DF-26, DF-41, DF-17, and DF-61, under a no-first-use nuclear posture, and saw its senior leadership purged for corruption from 2023 onward.
People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force (中国人民解放军战略支援部队)
The PLA Strategic Support Force (中国人民解放军战略支援部队) was China's theater command-level force for space, cyber, electronic, and psychological warfare, established December 31, 2015, reporting to the CMC, and dissolved April 19, 2024 into Aerospace, Cyberspace, and Information Support Forces.
People's March
People's March: rebranded Women's March protest held January 18, 2025 in Washington, D.C., before Trump's second inauguration, broadened beyond women to LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, and allied organizations.
People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (سازمان مجاهدین خلق ایران)
People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (سازمان مجاهدین خلق ایران), also MEK/PMOI/MKO: exiled Iranian opposition group founded in the 1960s against the Shah, later allied with Saddam Hussein, designated a US Foreign Terrorist Organization in 1997 and delisted in 2012.
People's Movement of Ukraine
The People's Movement of Ukraine (Народний Рух України, known as Рух) is a right-centrist national-democratic party founded in 1989 as the first mass anti-Communist organization in Soviet Ukraine.
People's Movement Party
People's Movement Party names several unrelated parties: Romania's Partidul Mișcarea Populară (PMP), a small pro-European, center-right EPP member led by Eugen Tomac; Morocco's Berber landowner-linked Popular Movement Party; and a Kenyan party registered in 2026.
People's National Congress (Guyana)
The People's National Congress (PNC) is a Guyanese political party founded by Forbes Burnham in 1957 after a split in the People's Progressive Party, governing Guyana from 1964 to 1992.
People's National Movement
The People's National Movement (PNM) is Trinidad and Tobago's founding political party, established by Eric Williams in 1956; it governed for 30 continuous years, shares a two-party system with the UNC, and lost the April 2025 snap election, taking 13 of 41 seats.
People's National Party
People's National Party (PNP), Jamaican center-left party founded by Norman Manley on September 18, 1938; democratic socialist under Michael Manley 1972-1980; governed 1955-1962, 1972-1980, 1989-2007, 2011-2016; opposition to the JLP since 2016, 29 seats after the 2025 election.
People's Party (Spain)
The People's Party (Partido Popular, PP) is Spain's main center-right conservative party, founded as Alianza Popular in 1976 by Manuel Fraga, renamed PP in 1989, member of the European People's Party, and led since 2022 by Alberto Nunez Feijoo.
People's Party (United States)
The People's Party (Populist Party) was an American agrarian third party founded 1891-1892, strongest in the South and West. It ran James B. Weaver in 1892 (22 electoral votes), adopted the Omaha Platform, fused with Bryan's Democrats in 1896, and dissolved by 1900.
People's Party (พรรคประชาชน) (Thailand)
People's Party (พรรคประชาชน, Phak Prachachon), Thai progressive party founded August 2024 as successor to the dissolved Move Forward Party; led by Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut, with 143 former Move Forward MPs, an inverted orange triangle symbol, and a liberty-equality-fraternity ideology.
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD, Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie) is the Dutch right-wing liberal party founded 24 January 1948 from the Partij van de Vrijheid and Comité-Oud; largest party 2010-2021 under Mark Rutte, now led by Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius with 22 House seats.
People's Party of Canada
The People's Party of Canada (PPC) is Maxime Bernier's right-wing populist, libertarian federal party, founded September 2018 after he left the Conservatives; it won 1.6% (2019), 5.1% (2021), and 0.7% (2025) of the national vote with no seats.