Corrective Move

Corrective Move
	Part of the Arab Cold War
	; Chairman and members of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Council after the corrective step on June 26, 1969. From left to right: Abdul Fattah Ismail, Muhammad Saleh Awlaki, Salemin, Ali Antar, Muhammad Ali Haitham
Date	22 June 1969
Location	South Yemen
Result	Coup successful Qahtan placed under house arrest until his death on 1980; Nasserist and right-wing faction purged from the National Front; South Yemen becomes a Marxist–Leninist state.; Official name later changed to "People's Democratic Republic of Yemen" in 1970;
Belligerents
Left-wing faction of the National Front	Right-wing faction of the National Front
Commanders and leaders
Abdul Fattah Ismail; Salemin; Muhammad Ali Haitham; Muhammad Saleh Awlaki; Ali Antar;	Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi; Faysal al-Shaabi;
Casualties and losses
	None

The Corrective Move^[1]^[2] (Arabic: الحركة التصحيحية, romanized: al-ḥaraka at-taṣḥīḥiyya), officially referred to as the "Glorious Corrective Move"^[3]^[4] also referred to as the "Corrective Step", was an internal bloodless coup that happened after the takeover of the ruling National Front (NF) party by the Marxist faction led by Abdel Fattah Ismail and Salim Rubaya Ali on 22 June 1969 that overthrew the then-President of South Yemen, Qahtan al-Shaabi.^[2]^[5] The Marxist takeover later led to the creation of the Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP), and South Yemen's transformation into a Marxist-Leninist state.

^ ^a ^b Halliday, Fred (April 1985). Aspects of South Yemen's foreign policy, 1967–1982 (Thesis).
^ ^a ^b Burrowes, R.D. (2010). Historical Dictionary of Yemen. Scarecrow Press. p. 390. ISBN 9780810855281. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
^ Brehony, N. (2013). Yemen Divided: The Story of a Failed State in South Arabia. I. B. Tauris. p. 45. ISBN 9781780764917. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
^ Müller, Miriam M. (2015), "Phase II: The Phase of Establishment and Expansion 1969 to 1978 Incorporating Marxism-Leninism into a Tribal Society", A Spectre is Haunting Arabia, How the Germans Brought Their Communism to Yemen, transcript Verlag, pp. 265–296, ISBN 978-3-8376-3225-5, retrieved 2024-12-31
^ Mehra, R. N. (1978). "Democratic Yemen (South Yemen) Under Marxist Rule (1968–1978)-a Case Study". Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. 39: 895–901. ISSN 2249-1937. JSTOR 44139436.