 Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Pachigaro, YSP yakatambudzwa nemapoka emukati. Muna 1980 Ismail akatsiviwa semutungamiri weSouth Yemen naAli Nasir Muhammad, uyo aive mutungamiri ane mwero uye anoyananisa achienzaniswa neSoviet leftism yaIsmail. Akatsvaka kuvandudza ukama hweSouth Yemen nevavakidzani vechiArabhu uye neWest. Kurwisana pakati pemapoka maviri aya kwakatungamira kuSouth Yemen Civil War muna 1986 iyo yakatungamira kurufu rwaAbdul Fattah Ismail, kunyange hazvo mubatsiri wake Ali Salem al Beidh akatora hurumende yebato, nepo Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas akava mutungamiri wenyika. Al-Beidh naal-Attas vaizotora nzvimbo muhurumende yeYemen yakabatanidzwazve kusvikira hondo yevagari vemo ya1994. Sarudzo dzeparamende dzakaitwa muna Gumiguru 1986, uye kunyange zvazvo YSP yakaramba iri bato rimwe chete repamutemo, vamiriri vakazvimirira vakabvumidzwa kukwikwidza musarudzo, kuhwina 40 yezvigaro 111, neYSP ichikunda zvimwe 71. 