The Unified Socialist Party , or PSU, previously known as the Party of the Unified Socialist Left , or GSU, is a political party

Political party

A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

 in Morocco

Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

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Historical roots

The Unified Socialist Party is a mixture of various movements that sprung throughout the 60's and the 70's. It first started with the spin-off "23 Mars" (a reference to the 23 Mars students' uprising), a radical, Maoism student fraction of the largest opposition to the Moroccan monarchy, the National Union of Popular Forces

National Union of Popular Forces

The National Union of Popular Forces was founded in 1959 in Morocco by Mehdi Ben Barka and his entourage, because they found that the Istiqlal Party - which had led the independence struggle - wasn't radical enough.Espousing socialist policies, the party took a strongly critical line towards the...

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"23 Mars" too was party to split in various groups, though other splits from the then-Moroccan Communist Party

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 existing in Morocco since 1920. The founding general secretary of the party was Léon Soltane...