The Unified Socialist Party (french: Parti Socialiste Unifié, PSU; ar, الحزب الاشتراكي الموحد), previously known as the Party of the Unified Socialist Left (french: Parti de la Gauche Socialiste Unifiée, PGSU; ), is a

democratic socialist Democratic socialism is a left-wing 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-management within a ...

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Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...

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 called Mao Zedong Thought by the Chinese Communist Party, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed to realise a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of Ch ...

student fraction of the largest group in opposition to the

Moroccan monarchy Moroccan may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to the country of Morocco * Moroccan people * Moroccan Arabic, spoken in Morocco * Moroccan Jews See also * Morocco leather Morocco leather (also known as Levant, the French Maro ...

, the

National Union of Popular Forces The National Union of Popular Forces ( ar, الاتحاد الوطني للقوات الشعبية; , UNFP) was founded in 1959 in Morocco by Mehdi Ben Barka and his entourage, because they found that the Istiqlal Party was not radical enough. E ...

. The Party of the Unified Socialist Left was founded by

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

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.

Nabila Mounib Nabila Mounib ( ar, نبيلة منيب; born 14 February 1960) is a Moroccan politician who currently serves as the General Secretary of the Unified Socialist Party (PSU). She is the first woman to be elected head of a Moroccan party. Early l ...

is the secretary-general of the party, and the first woman to become a secretary-general of a political party in

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