The Arabian Peninsula People's Union (Arabic: اتحاد الشعب في الجزيرة العربية) was a Nasserist[1] political party in Saudi Arabia.
[3] The party had its origins in the Federation of the Sons of the Arabian Peninsula (FSAP); a Saudi opposition group formed in the late 1950s in Cairo.
[1] Party leader Nasser Al Saeed regained a degree of prominence following the Grand Mosque Seizure.
[12] Others, such as Kat Bird, claimed that Al Saeed was captured by Saudi Intelligence agents in December 1979 and then shipped to Riyadh in a crate, where he was imprisoned for many years.
[13] The party was also undermined by the defeat of Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War, the collapse of most Marxist governments, and Egyptian-Syrian cooperation with the US.
The party was largely regarded as Nasserist in outlook, although the APPU had possibly the most politically diverse membership of the Saudi opposition groups.
The party was also dedicated to the overthrow of the Saudi monarchy, which it viewed as corrupt, and was committed to the political unification of the Arabian peninsula.