[6] The objectives of the party included resistance against the feudalists and the comprador bourgeoisie, recover lands claimed by Saudi Arabia and reunification with South Yemen.
[3] The party supported the struggle of the National Liberation Front in South Yemen against the rule of Qahtan ash-Sha'bi.
Generally the party had its main base in urban areas, and could not muster rural tribal forces against the government.
Alongside the Organisation of Revolutionary Resistors of Yemen, it began guerrilla warfare against government and tribal forces.
[1][3] On March 23, 1973, the party signed a joint appeal of political forces in North Yemen against the ceding of Yemeni territories to Saudi Arabia.