Early leftist militant, Mohamed Basri, passes away
Morocco, People, 10/15/2003

Morocco's Mohamed Basri, an early leftist militant and resister to French protectorate, passed away this Tuesday morning in Chefchaouen at 73, his relatives announced. Basri, a founder of the National Union of Popular Forces (UNFP) that became later on the Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP) and director of the party's mouthpiece "Attahrir," had suffered a heart stroke and was operated on in Paris.

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