The Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party (Chinese:
中国农工民主党; Pinyin: Zhōngguó Nónggōng Mínzhǔdǎng) is one of the
eight non-communist, legally recognised political parties in the
People's Republic of China that follow the direction of the
Communist Party of China and is a member of the Chinese People's
Political Consultative Conference. The party had its origins in
the collapse of the First United Front when they first met on
November 1927. Its original members were left-wing Nationalists
and expelled Communists which called themselves the "Provisional
Action Committee of the Chinese Nationalist Party" or "Third
Party" (despite the name, the Young China Party was third
largest in the late 1920s-40s). After August 1930, the party
became a cohesive entity under Deng Yanda, who organized it
under democratic centralism like both the Nationalists and
Communists. Deng was secretly executed by Chiang Kai-shek in
1931 and the party went underground. In 1933, the party, now led
by Huang Qixiang, joined with t