Appendices: Political Map of El Salvador’s Revolutionary Forces

UNIFIED REVOLUTIONARY DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTIONARY FRONT (FOR)
DIRECTORATE (DRU) Formed May 1980
Formed May 1980
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1. FPL (Popular Forces of Ubera- – 1.
tion-Farabundo Marti) Military arm: FAPL (Armed
Forces of Popular Liberation) Formed 1970
Revolutionary Coordinating
Council of the Masses (CRM)
Formed January 1980
BPR (People’s Revolutionary
Bloc) Formed 1975 FTC (Federation of Rural Workers) FECCAS (Christian Federation of Salvadorean Farmworkers) UTC (Farmworkers’ Union) MERS (High School Students’ Revolutionary Movement) FUR-30 (United Revolutionary Front of July 30) UR-19 (Revolutionary University Students of July 19) CCS (Jose Guillermo Rivas Coor- dinating Committee of Unions) MCP (Popular Culture Move- ment) ANDES (National Association of Salvadorean Educators of June 2)
Democratic Front
Formed 1980
1. MNR (National Revolutionary
Movement)
2. MPSC (Popular Social Chris-
tian Movement)
3. UES (National University of El
Salvador)
4. AGEUS (Association of Univer- sity Students)
5. MIPTES (Independent Move- ment of Professionals and
Technicians)
6. AEAS (Association of Bus
Companies of El Salvador)
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UNIFIED REVOLUTIONARY
DIRECTORATE (DRU)
2. RN (National Resistance) – 2. FAPU (Unified Popular Action
Military arm: FARN (Armed Front)
Forces of National Resistance) Formed 1974
Formed 1975 MRC (Revolutionary Campesino
Movement)
FUERSA (United Front of Revolu-
tionary Students, Salvador
Allende)
ARDES (Revolutionary Associa-
tion of High School Students)
VP (Proletariat Vanguard)
OMR (Organization of Revolution-
ary Teaching)
3. PRS (The Party of the Salva- – 3. LP-28 (People’s Leagues-
dorean Revolution) 28th of February)
Military arm: ERP (Revolution- Formed 1977
ary Army of the People) LPC (People’s Campesino
Formed 1971 Leagues, Heroes of October 29)
LPS (People’s Leagues of High
Schools, Edwin Arnoldo
Contreras)
LPO (People’s Leagues of Work-
ers, Marco Antonio Solis)
LPU (People’s Leagues of Uni-
versity Students, Mario
Nelson Alfaro)
ASUTRAMES (Association of
Market Workers of El Salvador,
Maristela Serrano)
CB-LP-28 (Barrio Committee,
Victor Orlando Quintanilla)
7. FENASTRAS (Federation of
Salvadorean Workers)
8. FESTIAVTSCES (Federation of
Food, Clothing and Textile
Workers)
9. FSR (Revolutionary Federation
of Unions)
10. FUSS (United Federation of
Unions of El Salvador)
11. STISS (Union of Social
Security Workers)
12. STIUSA (Union of Workers of
United Industries)
Observers:
1. FENAPES (National Federation
of Small Business)
2. UCA (Catholic University
“Jose Simeon Canas”)
4. UDN (Nationalist Democratic
Union)
Formed 1969
AES (Association of High School
Students)
FAU (University Action Front)
ATACES (Association of Farm-
workers)
CUT (Workers’ Central)
5. MLP (Movement for Popular
Uberation)
Formed 1979
BTC (Brigade of Farmworkers)
CBO (Workers’ Bases Commit-
tee)
BRES (Revolutionary Brigade of
High School Students)
LL (Leagues for Liberation)
4. PCS (Communist Party of El
Salvador)
Formed 1930
Source: Institute for Policy Studies