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Popular Action (Peru)
Acción Popular (AP), Peruvian centrist liberal-humanist party founded by Fernando Belaúnde Terry on 7 July 1956; symbol the lampa; two presidencies (1963, 1980); primaries annulled, excluded from the 2026 elections.
Popular Alliance (Bolivia)
Popular Alliance (Bolivia), an electoral alliance of MTS, PSR, and MATE, competed in the 2025 general elections. It secured 8 legislative seats and placed fourth in the presidential vote.
Popular Army – Northern Forces
Popular Army – Northern Forces (PA-NF; الجيش الشعبي – القوات الشمال), also People's Army – Northern Forces, is an Israeli-backed anti-Hamas militia of about 40 fighters in northern Gaza, part of the Popular Forces, led by Ashraf al-Mansi.
Popular cat names
Popular cat names: Luna leads US female lists, Milo and Oliver the male lists; human-name overlap with baby names ~1/3; descriptive names like Smokey and Tiger have declined while food and pop-culture names rise.
Popular culture
Popular culture, also known as pop culture, is the set of practices, beliefs, and objects whose meanings are most widely shared in a society, including media, entertainment, and fashion.
Popular Democratic Party (Puerto Rico)
Popular Democratic Party (Partido Popular Democrático, PPD), Puerto Rico's pro-commonwealth party founded by Luis Muñoz Marín on 22 July 1938; created the 1952 Estado Libre Asociado, alternated power with the pro-statehood PNP, and fell to third in the 2024 gubernatorial race.
Popular Democratic Union (Bolivia)
The Popular Democratic Union (UDP) was a Bolivian center-left political coalition that won the 1980 election, resulting in Hernán Siles Zuazo taking office in 1982 to end military dictatorships.
Popular Forces
Popular Forces: name shared by the South Vietnamese district-level territorial militia (RF/PF, about half of RVNAF manpower) and Yasser Abu Shabab's Israeli-backed anti-Hamas militia in Rafah, Gaza, among other groups.
Popular front
Popular front: Comintern-launched strategy (1935) of broad cross-class anti-fascist coalitions, notably the French Front Populaire (Blum government, June 1936–June 1937) and the Spanish Frente Popular, which won the 16 February 1936 election before the Civil War.
Popular Front (France)
The Popular Front (Front populaire) was the French left coalition of SFIO socialists, communists, and Radicals that won the May 1936 elections, governed under Léon Blum, created paid holidays and the 40-hour week via the Matignon Agreement, and collapsed by 1938.
Popular Front (Spain)
Frente Popular, the Spanish left-wing electoral coalition of republicans, socialists, communists and POUM formed by the January 1936 pact; it won the 16 February 1936 election with 259 of 473 seats before the July 1936 military rising.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya
Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya (PFLL, الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير ليبيا), a Gaddafi-loyalist Libyan militia and political party founded December 26, 2016, supporting Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's presidential candidacy as part of the Green Resistance.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين)
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a far-left Palestinian political and militant organization, was founded by George Habash in 1967 after the Six-Day War.
Popular Front literary culture
Popular Front literary culture was the antifascist, coalition-era current of American writing that took shape after 1935, when the Communist International called for a broad progressive alliance.
Popular Front of Estonia
The Popular Front of Estonia (Eestimaa Rahvarinne) was a political movement founded in Soviet Estonia in April 1988 that became a central force in restoring Estonian independence in 1991.
Popular Front of India
The Popular Front of India, an Indian Muslim organization formed in 2006-07 from the NDF, KFD, and MNP merger and tied politically to the SDPI, was banned for five years under the UAPA in September 2022.
Popular Front of Latvia
The Popular Front of Latvia (Latvijas Tautas fronte) was a mass political movement, active 1988–1993, that led the drive to restore Latvian independence from the Soviet Union.
Popular Mobilization Forces
Popular Mobilization Forces (al-Hashd al-Shaabi, الحشد الشعبي), Iraqi umbrella of about 50 mostly Shia state-sponsored militias formed June 2014 after Mosul fell to ISIS; key in defeating ISIS, legally part of armed forces but largely autonomous, Iran-aligned.
Popular Monster (album)
Popular Monster is the fifth studio album by Falling in Reverse, released August 16, 2024 on Epitaph after a seven-year gap, compiling 2019-2024 singles with guests Tech N9ne, Jelly Roll, and Alex Terrible.
Popular Movement (الحركة الشعبية) (Morocco)
Popular Movement (الحركة الشعبية, MP) is a Moroccan political party, traditionally Amazigh-oriented and classed among palace-aligned parties; it held 28 House of Representatives seats after 2021 and is led by Secretary-General Mohamed Ouzzine.
Popular Movement of the Revolution
Popular Movement of the Revolution (Mouvement Populaire de la Révolution, MPR), Mobutu Sese Seko's party-state in Zaire, founded 20 May 1967; sole legal party until 1990, doctrine of Mobutism and authenticity, dissolved with his fall in 1997.
Popular music
Popular music: commercially disseminated music of wide appeal, distinct from art and folk music. Spans recorded sound from 1857, radio, vinyl, CDs, and streaming; 2025 global revenues $31.7 billion, 2.8 trillion streams in H1 2026.
Popular Orthodox Rally (Λαϊκός Ορθόδοξος Συναγερμός)
Popular Orthodox Rally (Λαϊκός Ορθόδοξος Συναγερμός, LAOS) was a Greek radical-right party, in parliament 2007–2009, that joined the Papademos government and collapsed to 1.58% in 2012, displaced by Golden Dawn.
Popular Party (Albania)
The Popular Party (Partia Popullore) was one of the first political parties of independent Albania, active 1920 or 1921 until dissolution in 1923 under Fan Noli and, initially, Ahmet Zogu.
Popular Photography
Popular Photography was an American monthly magazine for camera enthusiasts, published from 1937 to 2017 and known for independent camera and lens testing in its own laboratory.
Popular Publications
Popular Publications, Inc. was a New York pulp magazine publisher founded in 1930 by Henry Steeger and Harold Goldsmith, the largest American pulp publisher of the 1930s, known for Dime Detective, Dime Mystery, and acquiring Argosy in 1942.
Popular Republican Movement
Popular Republican Movement (Mouvement républicain populaire, MRP), French Christian-democratic party founded November 1944 by Resistance figures such as Bidault and Schumann; dominant in the Fourth Republic's tripartism and Third Force, key to European integration, dissolved into the Centre démocrate in 1967.
Popular Science
Popular Science (PopSci) is an American science and technology publication founded in May 1872 by Edward L. Youmans as Popular Science Monthly; it ended print by 2021 and its digital magazine by 2023, continuing online and via podcasts.
Popular Socialist Party (Mexico)
The Popular Socialist Party (Partido Popular Socialista, PPS) was a Marxist-Leninist party in Mexico, founded on 20 June 1948 by labor leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano as the Popular Party, renamed in 1960.
Popular sovereignty
Popular sovereignty, also called squatter sovereignty or sovereignty of the people, is the doctrine that a state's public powers originate in a grant of power from the people.