https://znetwork.org/category/place/africa/morocco/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:35:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/category/place/africa/morocco/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/moroccos-gen-z-and-the-regional-volcano/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/moroccos-gen-z-and-the-regional-volcano/#respond Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290371 Only a few years pass before events emerge that reaffirm the thesis that what began in Tunisia on December 17, 2010, and culminated the following year in a massive wave of popular uprisings that spread to six countries in the region and included various forms of mass mobilization in other countries—the wave known as the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/moroccos-gen-z-and-the-regional-volcano/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gen-z-212-and-youth-protests-in-morocco-from-the-digital-sphere-to-the-street/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gen-z-212-and-youth-protests-in-morocco-from-the-digital-sphere-to-the-street/#respond Sun, 05 Oct 2025 14:51:13 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289546 Morocco is currently—Autumn 2025—witnessing a broad youth-led mass protest wave that has brought back to the political arena fundamental questions about social justice, basic rights, the deterioration of public services, and the political legitimacy of the regime. This movement, which took the name “Gen Z 212”*, after the country’s international dialing code, did not arise [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gen-z-212-and-youth-protests-in-morocco-from-the-digital-sphere-to-the-street/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/moroccans-take-to-the-streets-in-largest-protests-in-years/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/moroccans-take-to-the-streets-in-largest-protests-in-years/#respond Thu, 02 Oct 2025 15:49:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289430 Prioritizing the expenditure of public finances on building stadiums for the 2030 FIFA World cup, while the situation of healthcare sector, education and employment has been drastically deteriorating, have sparked nationwide protests. Demonstrations swept through 11 cities in Morocco over the weekend, with thousands protesting the government’s corruption and expenditure policies. The government has been [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/moroccans-take-to-the-streets-in-largest-protests-in-years/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/western-sahara-colonialism-labor-and-imperialist-complicity/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/western-sahara-colonialism-labor-and-imperialist-complicity/#respond Wed, 14 May 2025 12:24:39 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283735 In 2025, we mark 50 years since Morocco’s illegal occupation of Western Sahara — a colonial occupation sustained by a repressive military apparatus, a deliberate policy of demographic substitution, and, above all, a web of international complicity. It is a colony in the full Marxist sense of the term: a territory exploited, dominated, and manipulated [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/western-sahara-colonialism-labor-and-imperialist-complicity/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/north-africas-regional-power-struggle/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/north-africas-regional-power-struggle/#respond Wed, 12 Feb 2025 18:47:45 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1279642 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/north-africas-regional-power-struggle/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-need-a-global-campaign-to-support-the-sahrawi-liberation-struggle/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-need-a-global-campaign-to-support-the-sahrawi-liberation-struggle/#respond Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:58:05 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1272516 Eye on Western Sahara is the monthly newsletter of the US-based Campaign to End the Moroccan Occupation of Western Sahara (freewesternsahara.org). The Campaign is a diverse coalition of individuals committed to international justice and respect for national self-determination. The campaign is broad and non-partisan and includes people from across the entire political spectrum. The Sahrawi [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-need-a-global-campaign-to-support-the-sahrawi-liberation-struggle/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/morocco-popular-anger-against-israels-war-on-gaza-spills-into-the-streets-posing-dilemma-for-rabat/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/morocco-popular-anger-against-israels-war-on-gaza-spills-into-the-streets-posing-dilemma-for-rabat/#respond Tue, 27 Aug 2024 16:43:37 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1271445 The Palestinian question has been a central topic for the Arab world for many decades now. Over the years, Arab leaders have used the Palestinian cause as one of their talking points to gain support from the populace. Over the last decade, however, the topic began to lose steam, especially thanks to the Abraham Accords [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/morocco-popular-anger-against-israels-war-on-gaza-spills-into-the-streets-posing-dilemma-for-rabat/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/at-western-sahara-visiting-a-forgotten-people/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/at-western-sahara-visiting-a-forgotten-people/#respond Thu, 23 May 2024 15:44:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1266810 South of the Algerian town of Tindouf on the border with Western Sahara are five refugee camps. The camps are home to the Sahrawi people of Western Sahara and are administered by their freedom movement Polisario, which is fighting to liberate their homeland from Morocco. Life in the desert camps leaves a deep impression and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/at-western-sahara-visiting-a-forgotten-people/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/disastrous-capitalism-in-morocco-in-wake-of-earthquake/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/disastrous-capitalism-in-morocco-in-wake-of-earthquake/#respond Mon, 16 Oct 2023 16:20:57 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1255869 On 8 September 2023, a devastating earthquake hit Morocco killing over 3,000 people and injuring thousands more. While grassroots solidarity initiatives mushroomed, the state’s relief response has been sorely lacking with deadly consequences. The impact of the earthquake was most severe in the most marginalised and poorest areas, especially in the countryside. In this article, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/disastrous-capitalism-in-morocco-in-wake-of-earthquake/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/morocco-earthquake-death-toll-at-2500-criticism-grows-over-kings-response-to-humanitarian-crisis/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/morocco-earthquake-death-toll-at-2500-criticism-grows-over-kings-response-to-humanitarian-crisis/#respond Mon, 11 Sep 2023 15:41:19 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1253798 We get an update from Morocco, which has declared three days of mourning after the strongest earthquake to hit the region in at least a century. About 2,500 people died in the 6.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the country on Friday, with another 2,500 injured and the death toll expected to rise. The epicenter was in [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/morocco-earthquake-death-toll-at-2500-criticism-grows-over-kings-response-to-humanitarian-crisis/feed/ 0