 The National Liberation Front NLF yaiva sangano reMarxist paramilitary uye bato rezvematongerwo enyika raive muFederation of South Arabia, yava kunzi kumaodzanyemba kweYemen panguva yeAden Emergency. Mukati meNorth Yemen Civil War, kurwisana kwakatambanukira kuSouth Yemen sezvo vaBritain vakaedza kutanga nyika yakazvimirira inozivikanwa seFederation of South Arabia. Zvichitevera kubuda kwemauto eBritain, NLF yakatora simba kubva kumukwikwidzi wayo, maArab nationalist Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen FLOSY. Mushure mekukurumidzira, NLF yakazvirongazve ikava Yemeni Socialist Party uye yakatanga hurumende yeMarxist-Leninist, inozivikanwa sePeoples Democratic Republic of Yemen. 