Political Aspects:-
Singapore in the late 1980s was effectively a single-party state. The ruling People's Action Party (PAP) of former Prime Minister Lee Kuna Yew has dominated the country since 1959.
Majority function of the PAP in (1961)split was to form a new party, the Socialist Front (SF), also known as the Barisan Socialis. In 1966 11 SF members resigned their seats in parliament and 2 others joined the underground opposition to the Lee government, leaving the PAP as the sole party represented in parliament. Till 1990 they were in the government with Ling How Doong and Cheo Chai Chen. The Workers' Party MP was Low Thai Khiang.