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By LAC
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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This year's May Day rallies in Morocco
revealed a more militant mood and where the Marxists intervened they received a
huge welcome from the workers.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Wednesday, 14 November 2007 |
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At the beginning of
November, the Marxists in the Moroccan student union UNEM organised a political
drive towards this year’s new intake of university students. Here you can read
extracts of a remarkable report.
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By Marxy.com
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Wednesday, 20 June 2007 |
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The increasing use of
repressive measures in Morocco reflects the weakness, not the strength of the
present regime. We can expect more of this in the next periods as the protests
spread. The families of the arrested workers and youth thank everyone for their
support and renew their appeal for more solidarity actions.
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By our correspondent
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Friday, 01 June 2007 |
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The answer of the Swiss bosses to the international solidarity campaign
with the workers at the Rieker shoe factory in Morocco has been to sack another
ten workers! The orde was quite specific: “Eradicate the Marxist cells!” Please
take part in the campaign and send messages to the addresses provided.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Friday, 25 May 2007 |
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The health of one of the political prisoners
recently arrested in Morocco, Abderahim Karrad, is
being seriously affected by the conditions in his cell. Please continue the
protest campaign.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Wednesday, 23 May 2007 |
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Repressive measures in Morocco are being stepped up. The five activists arrested in Ksar-ek-kebir in the aftermath
of the May Day demonstrations have been sentenced to three years in prison!
They need the solidarity of the workers and youth of the world. Please take up
the issue in your country and join the protest movement.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Tuesday, 22 May 2007 |
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Further to yesterday's report, we publish some pictures of the demonstration in support of the
political prisoners of KK yesterday in front of the court. The sit-in was composed of young left wing activists, members of the union,
of the ANCDM (the unemployed youth association), of the AMDH (the Human
Rights Association) and of activists of the youth of Voie Democratique.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Monday, 21 May 2007 |
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A number of left-wing
activists have been arrested and sentenced to severe terms in prison in Morocco. The
regime is cracking down because there is a growing wave of militancy in the
country. Please sign and send off the protest letter here provided.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Friday, 20 April 2007 |
 Workers at the Riekebir shoe factory in Morocco work
under terrible conditions with dangerous chemicals. They have set up a union and
are fighting for better and safer working conditions. The bosses have launched
a counter campaign of sackings and intimidation. We are launching the following
appeal in support of the workers at the factory.
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By Communist League of Action
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Tuesday, 27 February 2007 |
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The Communist League of
Action has published a reply to the leadership of the Democratic Path in Morocco. The
Democratic Path, the main left-wing party in Morocco
and inheritor of the old Marxist-Leninist left, has recently called for
negotiations to resolve the question of the Western Sahara.
The purpose of CLA’s critique is to arm the new generation of socialist
activists with a clear Marxist understanding of the question of the Western Sahara and the national question in general.
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By Hosam Benhamza
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Monday, 15 January 2007 |
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It is the first time
in the history of Morocco
that we witness a simultaneous explosion of protest in al the cities and even
in the remote villages. The dictatorial regime of the King Mohamed VI is starting to lose ground. Hosam
Benhamza, leader of the Communist League of Action analyses the reasons for
this movement, draws some lessons and advances a socialist alternative for Morocco.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Friday, 22 December 2006 |
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The National Union of Moroccan students
recently organised a week of political and cultural activities with the aim of reaching
new layers of youth with their ideas. From meetings to film shows, the National
Union was able to explain their ideas and discuss current events in Latin America and the world with a wide layer of
students.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Wednesday, 19 July 2006 |
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Yesterday a newly
formed Moroccan Marxist group was publicly launched on the website
www.marxy.com. The group, called the Communist League of Action, brings
together students and young workers from different towns in the country.
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By the Rank and File Tendency - www.attawajohalkaidi.com
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Wednesday, 10 May 2006 |
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The Rank and File Tendency
of the National Union of Moroccan Students participated in this
year’s May Day activities. The following is a report of their
activities and provides extracts of a leaflet they distributed on the
demonstration.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Thursday, 13 April 2006 |
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Arab supporters of the Venezuelan
revolution have launched a new website at http://arabic.handsoffvenezuela.org. Its aim is to build up
solidarity for the revolution in Venezuela in the Arabic speaking
countries and help in the work of developing the revolutionary
movement in the Arab world.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Thursday, 23 March 2006 |
 Beginning on March 8,
International Working Women’s Day, the “Rank and File” Tendency
of the National Student Union in Morocco organised a week of
activities around the question of the emancipation of women. We
publish here a report of the week of action. Picture gallery available here.
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By Corriente Marxista Revolucionaria
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Monday, 23 January 2006 |
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Another message of support (in Spanish) from the Corriente Marxista Revolucionaria (CMR) and the Juventud Socialista Revolucionaria (JSR) to the 180 students gathered in December at the University of Tetouan. |
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By Sindicato de Estudiantes
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Monday, 23 January 2006 |
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This is a message of support (in Spanish) from the Spanish Sindicato de Estudiantes to the 180 students gathered in December at the University of Tetouan in the north of Morocco. |
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Monday, 23 January 2006 |
 Some 180 students gathered in December at the University of Tetouan in the north of Morocco for the first ever meeting in solidarity with Venezuela. This historic initiative in Morocco and in the Arab world was taken by the left-wing students of the TAWAJOH AL KAAIDI, the young activists of the ‘rank-and-file’ tendency (‘tendance basistes’). This activity was part of a whole week of debates and discussions at the university about the right to education and the right to work. |
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Tuesday, 22 November 2005 |
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The sacked Dewhirst workers in Morocco are building up support for their struggle. Messages from Spain, Uruguay, Belgium, the USA, Britain and Sweden have been a big morale booster for them. The conditions in the factory are atrocious. Please keep the solidarity and protest messages coming in. |
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Thursday, 17 November 2005 |
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We urge you to support this group of Moroccan workers who have been sacked simply for standing up for their rights. The British clothing manufacturer Dewhirst, linked to Marks and Spencer, pays Moroccan workers a pittance. Send protest messages and make them see that workers around the world will not accept such brutal policies. |
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By Rob Lyon
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Friday, 03 June 2005 |
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On February 24, 2004 a large earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter
scale rocked the Rif region in northern Morocco. More than one year
later, hundreds of families continue to live in utter misery. Now other
tremors are hitting the region.
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By Jordi Martorell
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Tuesday, 29 March 2005 |
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The conflict in the Western Sahara is an important question for
revolutionaries in the Maghreb not only from the theoretical point of
view (taking into consideration the importance Marxism gives to the
right of self-determination), but also from the political and practical
side of the issue (as it is impossible to carry out the tasks of the
socialist revolution in the region without putting forward a clear
Marxist and internationalist understanding of the national question).
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By Jean Duval
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Thursday, 17 June 2004 |
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When King Hassan II died at the end of the last century all expectations of
change were concentrated in the figure of his son Mohammed VI. Fascination
grew over this young and apparently modern monarch who announced he would
transform his country, establish the rule of law and lead it successfully into
the 21st century. Expectations were running high. Only one
year after his arrival, the royal reform movement stalled - the
alliance of the Throne and the socialists has not delivered the results the
masses had hoped and waited for. This is a recipe for future explosions in the
class struggle. |
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Thursday, 19 June 2003 |
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The new King Mohammed VI is fond of presenting an image of Morocco as a
southern Mediterranean country steadily moving towards modernity and democracy.
We asked two Moroccan Marxists to shed some light on these claims, which to many
ordinary people seem completely unjustified. |
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By Roberto Sarti
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Monday, 19 May 2003 |
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On Saturday forty-one people were killed and many more were injured in
Casablanca, Morocco, in a terrorist attack which came only four days after the
synchronised suicide bombings on expatriate residences in the Saudi capital,
Riyadh. This striking event, and the other recent attacks, are clear indications that
the so-called "war on terror" was far from finished with the fall of Saddam
Hussein. |
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By Omar Jalal and Nidhal Eddeym
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Monday, 16 July 2001 |
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We have received this report about the brutal repression at Sidi Ben Abdellah University
last May which left 4 students dead. The news about these clashes have not been reported
anywhere outside Morocco and the Moroccan press has given an extremely biased version of
them. We urge our readers to express solidarity and spread the news of what actually
happened. |
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By J. J. Catal
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Tuesday, 03 July 2001 |
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The United Nations has betrayed the Saharawi people once again. After ten years of
promising a referendum on self-determination, they have now dropped this plan altoghether
and are proposing limited autonomy. We publish here an article from the Spanish Marxist
paper El Militante written just before the latest
developments. The author argues that the Saharawis will find their best allies in the
Moroccan workers and youth in their common struggle against the hated Moroccan monarchy
and for a Socialist Federation of the Maghreb. (J.J. Catala, June 2001) Also in Spanish: En la clase obrera marroquí el
pueblo saharaui debe buscar a su mejor aliado. Marruecos, una bomba de relojería |
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By Ted Grant and Alan Woods
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Thursday, 25 June 1998 |
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It is nearly seven years since George Bush, the then president of the US, made
his famous "New World Order" speech. This was in 1991. In the build-up to the
Gulf War the main imperialist power on earth promised a world without wars, without
dictatorships and, of course, a world firmly under the control of a single all-powerful
world policeman--the US. After the fall of Stalinism, US imperialism really thought that
the world would be firmly under their command and they would be able to dictate the
destiny of each and every country. Now all these dreams have been reduced to rubble. In
this document Ted Grant and Alan Woods make an in-depth analysis of the history of the
imperialist domination of the Third World and the way. |
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