Editing People's Action Party (section)

====Barisan Sosialis====
The breakaway group of members formed the [[Barisan Sosialis]] with Lim Chin Siong as secretary-general.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Fajar Generation: The University Socialist Club and the Politics of Postwar Malaya and Singapore|last1=Poh|first1=Soo K|last2=Tan|first2=Jing Quee|last3=Koh|first3=Kay Yew|publisher=SIRD|year=2010|isbn=9789833782864|location=Petaling Jaya|pages=59–60}}</ref> Aside from the Chinese union leaders, lawyers Thampoe Thamby Rajah and Tann Wee Tiong,<ref>{{cite news|title=Lawyers Rajah, Tann join Barisan Socialis|url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19610815-1.2.49|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=15 August 1961|access-date=18 September 2017|archive-date=30 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180830151144/http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19610815-1.2.49|url-status=live}}</ref> several members from the University Socialist Club such as [[James Puthucheary]] (uncle of [[Janil Puthucheary]]) and [[Poh Soo Kai]] joined the party.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya: Tangled Strands of Modernity|last=Loh|first=Kah S|publisher=Amsterdam University Press|year=2012|isbn=978-9089644091|location=Amsterdam|pages=24–25}}</ref> 35 of 51 branches of the PAP and 19 of 23 branch secretaries defected to Barisan.