- Ali Yata
Ali Yata was a Moroccan
communist leader. He was born inTangier in 1920. Yata took part in the foundation of theMoroccan Communist Party (PCM) in 1943. After a few years he became the general secretary of the party, replacing the founding general secretaryLéon Soltane who died in 1945. [http://www.lagazettedumaroc.com/articles.php?r=2&sr=985&n=471&id_artl=9970]In 1960 PCM was banned. Yata then founded the
Liberation and Socialism Party , which was banned in 1969. In 1974 he founded theParty of Progress and Socialism (PPS). He became increasingly moderate, and supported the claims of the Moroccan government onWestern Sahara . After the fall of the Socialist Bloc, his party distanced itself from communism.Ali Yata died in 1997. He was replaced by Ismaïl Alaoui as the leader of PPS. [http://www.terra.es/personal2/monolith/morocco.htm]
External links
* [http://www.humanite.presse.fr/journal/1997-08-14/1997-08-14-785135 Obituary in l'Humanité]
* [http://www.sinophilia.org/china/storia4.htm Photo of Yata with Mao Zedong]
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