People's Liberation Army (disambiguation)

The People's Liberation Army is the military wing of the Chinese Communist Party and the principal armed forces of the People's Republic of China. It may also refer to:

Africa

• Ambazonia Defence Forces (ADF) is the people’s army of Ambazonia, former British Southern Cameroons fighting a self defense campaign to restore independence.
• Azanian People's Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania during the Apartheid years
• People's Liberation Army of Namibia, the armed forces of SWAPO during the Namibian national liberation struggle
• Sahrawi People's Liberation Army, the army of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and the armed wing of the Polisario Front that also struggles for national liberation
• South Sudan People's Defence Forces (formerly the Sudan People's Liberation Army), the armed forces of the South Sudan.

Asia

• People's Liberation Army (Myanmar), armed wing of the Communist Party of Burma
• People's Liberation Army of Kurdistan (ARGK), former armed wing of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
• People's Liberation Army, Nepal, the armed wing of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
• People's Liberation Army of Manipur, separatist armed group fighting for an independent state of Manipur, a state in northeastern India
• Pathet Lao, officially called the Lao People's Liberation Army starting in 1965
• People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (India), the armed wing of the Communist Party of India (Maoist)
• People's Liberation Army of Turkey (THKO), a defunct left-wing group founded in 1970. Several splinter-groups have used versions of the name:
  • People's Liberation Army of Turkey – United Struggle
  • People's Liberation Army of Turkey – Revolutionary Path of Turkey

Middle East

• People's Liberation Army (Lebanon), the armed wing of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP)

Europe

• Irish National Liberation Army, sometimes went under the name of People's Liberation Army
• Yugoslav Partisans (officially known simply as the "People's Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia"), the anti-fascist resistance army in Yugoslavia, led by Josip Broz Tito
• ELAS (abbreviation of Greek People's Liberation Army), the anti-fascist resistance army in Greece
• Macedonian Partisans, (officially known simply as the "National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Macedonia"), the defunct communist and antifascist resistance movement in Macedonia

South America

• Popular Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of Colombia (Marxist–Leninist)

See also

• People's Army (disambiguation)
• People's Revolutionary Army (disambiguation)