Independent Popular Action

{{Infobox political party

|name = Independent Popular Action

|native_name = Acción Popular Independiente

|logo = Accion Popular Independiente.png

|logo_size = 80px

|colorcode = {{party color|Independent Popular Action}}

|founder = Rafael Tarud Siwady

|founded = 27 April 1968

|legalised = 27 September 1971

|dissolved = 8 October 1973

|headquarters = Santiago, Chile

|ideology = Left-wing nationalism
Populism

|position = Left-wing

|national = Popular Unity

|newspaper = Api

|country = Chile

}}

The Independent Popular Action ({{langx|es|Acción Popular Independiente}}, API) was a Chilean political party, created on 27 April 1968,{{cite book |first=Jonathan |last=Haslam |date=17 September 2005 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cBcDJ34AJGMC&dq=Acci%C3%B3n+Popular+Independiente+api+1968&pg=PA35 |title=The Nixon Administration and the Death of Allende's Chile: A Case of Assisted Suicide |publisher=Verso Books |isbn=978-1844670307}} intended to be part of the Popular Unity and support the candidacy of Salvador Allende in the presidential election of 1970. Its main leader was Rafael Tarud.

In 1969, together with the Popular Unitary Action Movement, the Radical Party, the Socialist Party and the Communist Party, it was part of the political agreement called Popular Unity of Marxist ideals, to support the government of Salvador Allende. In the case of API, it was an organization that brought together left-wing independent elements, and less revolutionary than the MAPU and the MIR. The party joined the moderate wing of the UP, maintaining a critical position.{{cite web |url=http://historiapolitica.bcn.cl/partidos_politicos/wiki/Acci%C3%B3n_Popular_Independiente |title=Acción Popular Independiente |language=es |trans-title=Independent Popular Action |work=Historia Política Legislativa |author=Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile |access-date=January 2, 2013 |archive-date=August 10, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810014536/http://historiapolitica.bcn.cl/partidos_politicos/wiki/Acci%C3%B3n_Popular_Independiente |url-status=dead }}

In the parliamentary elections of 1973 the party managed to elect two deputies: Silvia Araya González and Luis Osvaldo Escobar Astaburuaga.

The party was dissolved and banned by Decree Law No. 77 of October 8, 1973, signed by the military Junta. The same situation was repeated for all parties that made up the Popular Unity.{{cite web |url=http://www.leychile.cl/Navegar?idNorma=5730 |date=February 14, 1991 |title=Decreto ley Nº 77: Declara ilícitos y disueltos los partidos políticos que señala |language=es |trans-title=Decree Law No. 77: Declares illegal and dissolved the political parties indicated |author=Ministerio del Interior de Chile |access-date=August 2, 2014}} API President Rafael Tarud, went into exile, and in 1987 was one of the founders of the Party for Democracy (PPD).