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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, 2016 (...)
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 from (...)
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 targets (...)
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 its (...)
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, (...)
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 (...)
“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 (...)
In December 2017, ATTAC Morocco, a member of the global network for the abolition of illegitimate debts (CADTM), organised a seminar in Agadir, Morocco with the participation of activists from Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, to discuss the devastation caused by free trade agreements in the (...)
In Morocco, the experience of the 20 February Movement indicated that the left faces real dilemmas. Some of its currents refused to get involved in the Movement due to the presence of obscurantist forces, while other currents drew closer to the obscurantists themselves under the pretext of (...)
Delegates from around the world will meet in Marrakech as protesters vow to step up unrest triggered by a fisherman’s death.
Moroccan activists are planning to extend countrywide protests through the weekend so as to bring issues of marginalisation and inequality to international attention at a (...)
On Wednesday, Oct. 26, the well-known Moroccan historian and human rights activist Maâti Monjib and five of his colleagues were hauled into the High Court at Rabat to answer charges of “attacks on national security” and “receiving foreign funds.” They are facing up to five years in prison for their (...)
Marrakech authorities prevent ATTAC/CADTM Morocco from the organization of its twelve (12) spring university
Neither prevention nor repression will stop our struggle against liberal policies Marrakech authorities proceeded today to the prevention of ATTAC Morocco to organize its spring (...)
Thousands took to the streets in Morocco’s northern city of Tangier late on Saturday to protest over high prices for water and electricity, in the nation’s largest protest since pro-democracy marches in 2011 demanding political reforms.
Large-scale protests are rare in Morocco, where the king (...)
Why we boycott the World Human Rights Forum (WHRF) in Marrakech from 27th to 30th November 2014 ?
Morocco will host the second edition of the World Human Rights Forum (WHRF) in Marrakech from 27th to 30th November 3014. The holding of this event coincides with the policy of muzzling of civil (...)
Unjust conviction of Amina Morad and Benacer Ismaïni, 2 activists of the Association for Defending Victims of microcredit in Ouarzazate (south of morocco) : 1 year in prison and a fine of 30000 MAD and 10000 MAD for Inmaa a microcredit organization as compensation. The convicted activists 10 (...)
CASABLANCA—In these perilous times in the Maghreb, it is easy to forget that more than 15 years ago, the brilliant Algerian novelist Rachid Mimouni sought refuge in neighboring Morocco. Threatened by Islamic fundamentalists in his own country, Mimouni saw Morocco as a bastion of creative and (...)
Since the early 1990s, the earth has begun to quake under the feet of the dictatorship as a result of the consequences of the neoliberal policies of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund which have generated unprecedented forms of popular protest.
The revolutionary wave (...)
Editorial from issue number 40 of the journal Al Mounadil-a.
In the Moroccan political context, the February 20th Movement was a form of resonance of the revolutionary wave that has swept across the Arab and Maghrebian region. Because of the specific recent political history of Morocco – a (...)
Faithful to its repressive practices, the Moroccan regime and after failing to cause an implosion from within the movement, led in recent weeks an escalating crackdown that targeted several activists including our friend and member of the national secretariat of Attac/Cadtm Morocco Mostapha (...)
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