 Soe together with Thakin Ba Tin and other nationalists founded the Communist Party of Burma in 1939.Communist leaders Thakin Than Tun and Thakin Soe, and Socialist leaders Ba Swe and Kyaw Nyein and the Burma National Army (BNA) led by General Aung San founded the Anti-Fascist Organisation (AFO) in August 1944 at a secret meeting of the CPB, the PRP and the BNA in Pegu.The AFO was later renamed the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League(AFPFL).