Unified Socialist Party (Morocco)


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

History and profile

The Unified Socialist Party is a mixture of various movements that sprung up throughout the 60s and the 70s. It first started with the spin-off "23 Mars", a radical, Maoist student fraction of the largest group in opposition to the Moroccan monarchy, the National Union of Popular Forces.
The Party of the Unified Socialist Left was founded by Mohamed Bensaid Ait Idder 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 is the secretary-general of the party.
Nabila Mounib is the first woman to become a secretary-general of a political party in Morocco.