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National Union of Popular Forces

National Union of Popular Forces

The National Union of Popular Forces (Arabic: الاتحاد الوطني للقوات الشعبية, romanized: al-Ittiḥād al-Waṭanī lil-Quwwāt al-Shaʿbiyya; French: Union Nationale des Forces Populaires, 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 (particularly the ), and the trade unions.