The Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP) (الحزب الاشتراكي اليمني, Al-Hizb Al-Ishtiraki Al-Yamani) is a political party in Yemen.
It was the ruling party in South Yemen, the only Marxist Arab state, before unification in 1990. Now it is an democratic socialist opposition party in the unified Yemen.
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