ABSTRACT
A Buddhist-Sodalist ideology as the ideology of the Burmese nation had developed in the course of the nationalist revolution. The founding of the All-Burma Trades Union Congress and the All-Burma Peasants' Organization under the leadership of Socialist Thakin members were events of great historical significance. The Communists as well as some of the Socialists in the Thakin movement leadership declared themselves against any alliance with the Japanese: the Communists because the Soviet Union supported China against Japan; the Socialists because Japan was a Fascist state. The Communists rejected the revolutionary tactics adopted by the Socialists out of respect for the alliance between the Soviet Union and Great Britain. The Communists were determined to carry their battle for power through to the bitter end—to the wrecking of democracy in Burma. The Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League emerged from the second parliamentary elections of April 1956 with its majority reduced, while the Communist-led opposition strengthened its position.
