Burma Socialist Programme Party
Burma Socialist Programme Party မြန်မာ့ဆိုရှယ်လစ်လမ်းစဉ်ပါတီ | |
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| Abbreviation | BSPP (English) မဆလ (Burmese) |
| Chairman | Ne Win |
| Founded | 4 July 1962 (63 years, 256 days) |
| Dissolved | 24 September 1988 (37 years, 174 days) |
| Succeeded by | National Unity Party |
| Headquarters | Rangoon |
| Youth wing | Programme Youth Organisation |
| Ideology | Left-wing Nationalism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| Religion | Theravada Buddhism |
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The Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP), also referred to as the Lanzin Party, was the ruling party of Burma (present-day Myanmar) from 1962 to 1988 and the country's sole legal party from 1964 to 1988. Party chairman Ne Win overthrew the country's democratically elected government in a coup d'état on 2 March 1962. For the next 26 years, the BSPP governed Burma under a totalitarian military dictatorship, until mass protests in 1988 pressured party officials to adopt a multi-party system.