Third Force

Third Force may refer to:

Politics

Third party (politics), party other than one of the two dominant ones in a two-party political system
- Third party (United States), in American politics
- Third parties in a two-party system in which two political parties dominate voting in nearly all elections at every level of government
- Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party, predecessor being named "Third party" in 1930s.
Third Force (France), French political coalition during the Fourth Republic
Third Force (China), represent attempts to establish another force against the authoritarian Kuomintang and the radical Chinese Communist Party during the Republic of China (1912-1949) era, and also attempts to establish an alternative to the Chinese-Communist-Party-lead People's Republic of China as well as the Kuomintang-lead Republic of China after the establishment of PRC and expulsion of KMT from Mainland China in 1949.
Third Force (Hong Kong), Political party in Hong Kong, supportive of China
Third Force (Iran), Socialist–nationalist political movement in Iran during Abadan Crisis
Third Force (Northern Ireland), former Northern Irish paramilitary organisation
Third Force (Myanmar), informal name given to a collection of new political parties in Myanmar which contested the 2010 Burmese elections
Third force (Russian presidential election, 1996) an electoral coalition proposed during the 1996 Russian presidential election
Third Force (South Africa), late apartheid era militants, resistant to change
Third Force (Nigeria), political movement described by Obasanjo as a Coalition for Nigeria (CN) that would rise above and defeat the PDP and APC
Political Party "Third Force", Ukrainian political party

Music

3rd Force, a smooth jazz band
Third Force, a 1991 Jazz CD by American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist Thomas Chapin

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