The Party of Liberation and Socialism ( ar, حزب التحرر والاشتراكية; french: Parti de la libération et du socialisme,

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PLS) was a

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that existed from 1968 to 1974.

Ali Yata Ali Yata was a Moroccan communist leader. He was born in Tangier on 25 August 1920. Yata took part in the foundation of the Moroccan Communist Party (PCM) in 1943. After a few years he became the general secretary of the party, replacing the found ...

was the general secretary of the party.
Cahiers du communisme
', Volym 45, Ed. 2. Kraus Reprint, 1969. p. 125

History

The foundation of PLS was announced by Ali Yata on January 26, 1968. PLS was founded as a successor 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).Storm, Lise.
Democratization in Morocco: The Political Elite and Struggles for Power in the Post-Independence State
'. London: Routledge, 2007. p. 41''La Gazette Du Maroc''.
Ali Yata : Un communiste musulman
'' PLS advocated establishing socialism adapted to Moroccan national conditions, and called for the unify patriotic forces in a 'United Popular Front' with anti-imperialist and anti-bourgeois characteristics. The party was banned by the Moroccan government in 1969.

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Партия освобождения и социализма
/ref> Ali Yata was jailed. PLS dissidents founded the '' Ila al-Amam'' group in 1970.Storm, Lise.
Democratization in Morocco: The Political Elite and Struggles for Power in the Post-Independence State
'. London: Routledge, 2007. p. 179 In 1974 the

Party of Progress and Socialism The Party of Progress and Socialism ( ar, حزب التقدم والاشتراكية, translit=Hizb Al-Taqadoum Wal-Ishtirakiyeh; zgh, ⴰⴽⴰⴱⴰⵔ ⵏ ⵓⴼⴰⵔⴰ ⴷ ⵜⵏⵎⵍⴰ; french: Parti du Progrès et du Socialisme, PPS) ...

(PPS) was founded as a successor of PLS.

References

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