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More than 2,000 people died when a powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Morocco on 8 September. The epicentre was in the High Atlas Mountains, 71km (44 miles) south-west of Marrakesh. Moina (...)
The earthquake that shook Morocco on Friday September 8, 2023 has had serious human and material consequences. Measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale, the epicenter was located in the province of Al-Haouz, southwest of Marrakech. nearby mountainous regions, which lack road infrastructure and (...)
On Sunday 4 December 2022, a national march was organized in the city of Rabat. This march, which brought together around 3,000 people, had the slogan: “All against the high cost of living, oppression and repression”.
It was organized by the National Social Front, which brings together (...)
Anticapitalistas definitively rejects the decision of the Spanish government to support the proposal by the Moroccan autocracy for a Saharan regime of autonomy [within Morocco.] With this decision the Spanish government modifies its traditional policy of defense of “a political, just, lasting (...)
The Moroccan left’s poor performance in the recent elections highlighted its continued challenges in building voter confidence whilst contributing further to the dominance of pro-palace forces
Morocco’s legislative and local elections presented a much-needed opportunity for smaller, leftist (...)
Five years ago, the Hirak protest movement broke out in the Moroccan Rif. Economically, the Rif region has not improved since then. Politically, however, the movement breathed new life into the area.
The dramatic death of fishmonger Mohsin Fikri, crushed by a garbage truck on October 28, (...)
After 60 years of talking about democracy, under various successive names, like “constitutional monarchy”, “democratic process”, “Hassanian democracy" and “democratic transition”, no one dares claim that Morocco is a democratic country other than the official media and liars who have benefited (...)
The revelations about the use made by certain countries of the Pegasus spyware against journalists around the world have focused attention on Morocco’s close surveillance of the media. As Mediapart – itself a victim of Moroccan spying - here reveals, the North African kingdom’s clampdown (...)
The Moroccan Association for the Defense of Human Right (ASDHOM) is scandalized by the arrest and unjustified detention of the Moroccan historian and human rights activist Maâti Monjib. ASDHOM has set up a defense committee and invites you to sign the following statement.
Professor Monjib (...)
For the unity of the struggle of the peoples of the region against reactionary regimes, Zionism and imperialism.
The declaration of the Moroccan regime is only an open affirmation of the formalization of its relations with Israel. It has a very long history of cooperation with Israel since (...)
The current situation in Western Sahara is extremely serious and represents a qualitative leap and a historical event before which we cannot remain impassive.
In the past 45 years, Morocco has not complied with the Peace and Human Rights Accords at any time. The illegal occupation of the (...)
The commune of Imider is located in a valley between the water-rich sedentary Atlas and the mineral-rich volcanic Jbel Saghro mountain ranges in Morocco. At the bottom of the valley, fertile fields cling to the sides of a riverbed where the villagers maintain a diverse mosaic of crops, trees, (...)
“The following statement, published on 30 January 2020, explains the Moroccan judiciary’s threat to close the revolutionary socialist newspaper and website, al-Mounadil-a (‘the Militant’). As the al-Mounadil-a editorial board suggests below, such threats are parts of a wider attack by the (...)
No to the repression of free voices and forms of expression that reject injustice and demand democracy.
Solidarity with all political prisoners and popular struggles.
The Moroccan state increasingly restricts freedoms and harasses activists of popular protests. It tries to silence all (...)
Hajar Raissouni, a Moroccan journalist has been sentenced to a year in prison for premarital sex and having an abortion, in a case that is part of a crackdown on critical reporters.
Police in Rabat arrested Hajar Raissouni, August 31, 2019, in front of a gynaecologist’s clinic in Agdal, (...)
Helena Maleno, who aided rescue of migrants, accused of colluding with traffickers
A Moroccan court has abandoned proceedings against a Spanish human rights activist who had been investigated for supposedly colluding with people traffickers despite helping to save the lives of hundreds of (...)
Recent years have seen a hardening of the regime of King Mohammed VI of Morocco. Increasingly protests in the country have been met with repression of dissidents, culminating in the arrest of more than 400 activist from the Northern Rif region. In this interview, Spanish journalist Ignacio (...)
Since Morocco invaded Western Sahara it has built a 1,700-mile desert barrier keeping Sahrawis out of the resource-rich west
Donald Trump was widely ridiculed earlier this week for suggesting that Spain emulate his $25bn dream for the US-Mexico border and “build a wall” across the Sahara (...)
“RIF Hirak” prisoners in Morocco are facing undeserved sentences
Let’s expand the international solidarity until the drop of adjudications and their release.
The Appeal Court of Casablanca stated on Tuesday, 26 June 2018, heavy sentences against the leaders and activists of the popular and (...)
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled the EU-Morocco Fisheries Agreement illegal under international law, as it breaches the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination by including produce from Western Sahara, currently under military occupation
The ruling coincides (...)
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