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Maroc & Sahara occidentalMaroc : Un despotisme broyeur d’hommes – Construisons les outils de lutte pour sa chute
L’acte de broyer Mohcine Fikri – et de plus à Hoceima – est un signal clair : il montre et éclaire l’effroyable situation imposée à notre peuple.
Un Etat dictatorial arrogant qui ne voit le peuple et l’individu que comme une populace à dresser par la cravache, à soumettre en l’avilissant, à contraindre (...)WomenPrize-winning novelist describes arrest of two teenage girls who were caught kissing as ‘humiliation and abuse of power’.
Moroccans must rebel against the country’s “medieval laws”, the winner of France’s top literary prize has declared, following the arrest of two teenage girls who were caught (...)
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Islam politique, islamismeCultures patriarcales, extrémistes religieux, voile et société : « Les intégristes sont obsédés par le corps des femmes »
Chahla Chafiq, sociologue, interroge l’islamisme sous l’angle du rapport entre le religieux, le politique, le sexe et le genre. Dès qu’une femme se voile, dit-elle, ce geste banalise un signe sexuel et symbolise une féminité soumise au regard de l’homme. La condition des femmes questionne radicalement (...)
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Morocco & Western SaharaMarginalisation and inequality: After fisherman crushed to death in a garbage truck, Moroccan activists plan protests to coincide with UN climate summit
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 (...) -
Morocco & Western SaharaFreedoms : Morocco banned Skype, Viber, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. It didn’t go down well
Moroccans and expatriates have taken their fury against the blocking of voice over IP (VoIP) calls onto social media.
Moroccans and expatriates have taken their fury against the blocking of voice over IP (VoIP) calls to social networks, and have called for the boycott of the North African (...) -
History, analyses, debates“Learning to Think” today – On the debate about the war in Syria and Left stand
Socialist Worker has republished a 1938 essay by Leon Trotsky, called “Learn to Think,” about imperialism and liberation struggles, which is already available on ESSF website . We are reproducing below the opening comment by Ashley Smith to SW publication.
THE LEFT and antiwar formations are in (...) -
History, analyses, debatesSyria & Middle East: Without compelling change on ground there is no end for war
Without compelling change on ground there is no end for war in Syria, says prominent political scientist Gilbert Achcar.
With US President Barack Obama approaching the final weeks of his time in the Oval Office, it is clear he is leaving behind an incomplete vision for democracy and peace in (...) -
SyriaSyria’s “Voice of Conscience” has a message for the West – "It came to me as a shock that most of the left have sided with Bashar al-Assad
YASSIN AL-HAJ SALEH has lived a life of struggle for his country. Under the Syrian regime of Hafez al-Assad, he was a student activist organizing against the government. In 1980, Saleh and hundreds of others were arrested and accused of membership in a left-wing political group. He was just 19 (...)
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Maroc & Sahara occidentalMaroc : Mohcine Fikri, né en 1985, célibataire, vendeur de poisson : C’est le makhzen qui l’a tué.
Vendredi 28 octobre 2016
Al Hoceima : Mohcine Fikri a été arrêté par plusieurs agents de la police à la sortie du port d’Al Hoceima. Ces derniers, l’ont arrêté pour contrôle. Ils lui ont saisi le poisson qu’il allait vendre au marché comme il le fait d’habitude. Sans prendre la peine de le mener au (...)