Mehdi Ben Barka

Mehdi Ben Barka's son, Bachir Ben Barka, who has been waging a campaign for the opening of secret service files on his father's assassination for 35 years. He was interviewed in the November 1999 issue of the French Marxist paper, La Riposte.

Mehdi Ben Barka : This photograph was taken shortly after a previous assassination attempt in November 1962.

Searching in lake at Ballancourt, France, for the corpse of Mehdi Ben Barka, still unlocated to this day.

Mehdi Ben Barka speaking to a mass meeting in Morocco, 11th May 1963. One week later, he was elected to as MP for the working class suburbs of the Moroccan capital, Rabat.

See also:

• Ben Barka Appeal (also in French)
• Interview with Bachir Ben Barka (also in French)
• The Ben Barka affair and the situation in Morocco today (also in French)
• Marxism and the struggle against imperialism

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