The Unified Socialist Party (, PSU; ), previously known as the Party of the Unified Socialist Left (, PGSU; ), is a

democratic socialist Democratic socialism is a left-wing economic and political philosophy that supports political democracy and some form of a socially owned economy, with a particular emphasis on economic democracy, workplace democracy, and workers' self-mana ...

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...

Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...

History and profile

The Unified Socialist Party is a mixture of various movements that sprung up throughout the 1960s and 1970s. It first started with the spin-off "23 Mars" (a reference to the 23 March 1965 students' uprising), a radical,

Maoist Maoism, officially Mao Zedong Thought, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed while trying to realize a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic o ...

student fraction of the largest group in opposition to the Moroccan monarchy, the

National Union of Popular Forces The National Union of Popular Forces (; , UNFP) was a political party in Morocco founded in 1959 in Morocco by Mehdi Ben Barka and others. It opposed the monarchy and it was closely associated with the labour movement, the student movement (partic ...

. The Party of the Unified Socialist Left was founded by

Mohamed Bensaid Ait Idder Mohamed Bensaid Ait Idder (, , 1 July 1925 – 6 February 2024) was a Moroccan politician and activist. Ait Idder started his activism first against the French Protectorate in Morocco, and was one of the founders and leaders of the Moroccan Army ...

in 2002. The Unified Socialist Party was founded in 2005 as a merger of the Party of the Unified Socialist Left and the “Fidélité à la Démocratie” association. The party boycotted the 2011 parliamentary election. In 2012,

Nabila Mounib Nabila Mounib (; born 14 February 1960) is a Moroccan politician who currently serves as a member of parliament (MP) for the Casablanca-Settat constituency in the House of Representatives. She also served as General Secretary of the Unified Soc ...

became the secretary-general of the party, and the first woman to head a political party in

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