Ali Yata (in

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: علي يعتة) was a Moroccan

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leader. He was born in

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on 25 August 1920. Yata took part in the foundation of the

Moroccan Communist Party The Moroccan Communist Party was a political party in Morocco. The party was established in November 1943 on the basis of the individual communist groups that had been active in Morocco since 1920.Great Soviet EncyclopediaМарокканская ...

(PCM) in 1943. After a few years he became the general secretary of the party, replacing the founding general secretary

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who died in 194

In 1960 PCM was banned. Yata then founded the

Party of Liberation and Socialism The Party of Liberation and Socialism (; , abbr. PLS) was a communist party in Morocco that existed from 1968 to 1974. Ali Yata was the general secretary of the party.Cahiers du communisme', Volym 45, Ed. 2. Kraus Reprint, 1969. p. 125 Hi ...

, which was banned in 1969. In 1974 he founded the

Party of Progress and Socialism The Party of Progress and Socialism (; ; , PPS) is a left-wing socialist political party in Morocco. History and profile The party was founded in 1974 by Ali Yata as the successor of Moroccan Communist Party and Party of Liberation and Socia ...

(PPS). He became increasingly moderate, and supported the claims of the Moroccan government on

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. After the fall of the Socialist Bloc, his party distanced itself from communism. Ali Yata died on 12 August 1997, aged 76. He was replaced by Ismaïl Alaoui as the leader of PPS.

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Obituary in l'Humanité
1920 births 1997 deaths Yata Ali Party of Progress and Socialism politicians Moroccan Communist Party politicians Moroccan communists {{Morocco-politician-stub