United Democratic Front

The United Democratic Front was a political alliance in the early United Republics. Established in 1934 following the Red victory in the civil war and ahead of the United Republics' first elections, the UDF united the major political forces that sided with the Red May Revolution and the dissolution of the United States - the Workers' Communist Party, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and the Democratic-Republican Party. The alliance replaced the Popular Front, the electoral pact the WCP and DFLP had formed to compete in the final U.S. elections before the Civil War. The only significant union-wide party competing in 1934 that was not a UDF member was the True Democrats - made up of conservatives that had opposed the Revolution, but also the MacArthur Putsch and consequentially the Government of National Salvation, now forced into exile in Cuba following its defeat in the Civil War. With most old bourgeois figures of the American establishment having sided either with Douglas MacArthur's fascist NSF or the Progressive DRP, the rump True Democrats were left as a minor faction, and consequently the UDF won a combined 88.6% of the popular vote in the UASR's inaugural election.

The aim of the UDF was to form and negotiate on the structure of the new socialist American state in the aftermath of the Civil War. In spite of the domination of the WCP within the Front, party leaders aimed to encourage pluralism and consensus among the pro-revolutionary forces in the new Republic's early years, with the 1934 elections establishing the balance of power within the Front. The UDF would be dissolved ahead of the 1936 election, as the WCP announced its intention to compete alone.