Morocco

Morocco: For the suspension of the payment of micro-finance loans for a period of 6 months, renewable with exemption of all interest

5 April 2020 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc

The country has taken the measures announced by the Economic Vigilance Committee to address the impact of the Corona virus pandemic. However, these measures have not yet included micro-finance victims. The professional group of Moroccan banks has announced that those who have lost their jobs (...)
Morocco: Immediate freedom for Omar Radi (Activist & Journalist)

30 December 2019 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc

Immediate freedom for Omar Radi (Activist & Journalist) 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 (...)
For food sovereignty in Morocco

24 November 2019 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc

The ATTAC/CADTM Morocco organization has recently published its study in Arabic on agricultural policy in Morocco and its multiple impacts on small farmers, on agricultural workers, on economy and on environment. The title is: ’For food sovereignty in Morocco, a field study on agricultural (...)
Extractivism and resistance in North Africa

23 November 2019 - by Hamza Hamouchene

Northern African countries are key suppliers of natural resources to the global economy, from large- scale oil and gas extraction in Algeria and Tunisia, to phosphate mining in Tunisia and Morocco, to water-intensive agribusiness paired with tourism in Morocco and Tunisia. The commodification (...)
Appeal: Let’s make March 8^th, 2019 a women’s strike, a day of solidarity among women

3 March 2019 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc

Appeal Let’s make March 8th, 2019 a women’s strike, a day of solidarity among women. In defense of our economic, social and legal demands. Our rejection to all forms of violence in private and public places. Let’s make our voice heard against all forms of discrimination, inequity and (...)
Final statement of the first assembly of the North African Network for Food Sovereignty

7 January 2019 - by North African Network for Food Sovereignty

The first assembly of the North African Network for Food Sovereignty took place on 7-9 December 2018 in Agadir, Morocco. It gathered delegations from Egyptian, Tunisian, Algerian and Moroccan trade unions, cooperatives and associations that are active in the fields of food sovereignty, the (...)
Solidarity & support Call - Toward international organizations and activists advocating for freedom and people’s rights

20 July 2018 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc

“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 (...)
Protest Movements in Morocco and the Role of the Political Left in Mobilization against Neoliberal Policies

12 June 2018 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc, Aznague Ali

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 (...)
Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline: Not in Our Interest

23 March 2018 - by Collective

In December 2016, an announcement was made of a nearly 5000 km Nigeria-Morocco offshore gas pipeline which at today’s prices will cost an estimated 20 billion US dollars. In reality, the actual costs will likely be much higher. This pipeline would be a continuation of the existing 678 km long (...)
Morocco – Petition: Free the Hirak political prisoners

6 November 2017 - by Collective

The death of Mohcine Fikri - a fish vendor crushed in a garbage truck on October, 28th, 2016 while trying to retrieve his confiscated merchandise in Al Hoceima - has paved the way for the rise of ‘Hirak’, a popular movement of the Rif that fights for social justice and the right to equal (...)
Hirak: The new name of the Rif rebellion by Soraya El Kahlaoui

13 October 2017 - by Soraya El Kahlaui

This article was commissioned and paid by The Funambulist for its 13th issue (Sept-Oct. 2017) “Queers, Feminists & Interiors” as part of its guest columns section. We invite you to consider ordering the full issue in its digital or print+digital version. On October 28, 2016, fishmonger (...)
The Moroccan State will be held fully responsible for any physical or psychological harm to the Rif and Hirak detainees or those that are close to them

27 September 2017 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc

The Moroccan State will be held fully responsible for any physical or psychological harm to the Rif and Hirak detainees or those that are close to them. ATTAC CADTM Morocco is following with great concern health condition of Rif Hirak’s detainees due to their hunger strike which has been going (...)
Despotism, neoliberalism and climate change: Morocco’s catastrophic convergence

26 July 2017 - by Jawad Moustakbal

Claims of Morocco’s exceptionalism during the Arab Spring now ring hollow as protests spread in the face of elite policies that deny dignity to the majority. On Friday, 28 October 2016, a tragic fatal incident happened in Al Hoceima city in northeastern Morocco when a state official seized (...)
When France Used the Public Debt to Colonise Morocco

17 February 2017 - by Adam Barbe

It is now widely recognised that the French protectorate over Morocco was acquired thanks to that country’s public debt. Guy de Maupassant in Bel Ami (1885) alludes to this possibility twenty years before the event! Yet still today many historians fantasise about secret financial and diplomatic (...)
We can’t tackle environmental and social justice in Morocco if we don’t talk about Western Sahara

8 December 2016 - by Hamza Hamouchene

In the last two weeks, the touristic town of Marrakech in Morocco hosted the 22nd edition of the climate talks under the auspices of the United Nations. Marrakech was therefore the destination of many politicians, journalists, corporate lobbyists, climate and environmental activists as well (...)
Big business in Marrakech: fertiliser industry and finance dominate COP22

9 November 2016 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc, GRAIN

Africa will be centre-stage at this year’s Conference of Parties on climate change (COP 22) in Marrakech. According to the Moroccan steering committee, this is the “African COP”. The event will feature an “Africa Pavilion”, with activities supported by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the New (...)
Powering the Plunder: What Morocco and Siemens are hiding at COP22, Marrakech

7 November 2016 - by Western Sahara Ressource Watch

At COP22, beware of what you read about Morocco’s renewable energy efforts. An increasing part of the projects take place in the occupied territory of Western Sahara and is used for mineral plunder, new WSRW report documents. An increasing part of the renewable energy programmes that Morocco (...)
“System change, not climate change” International conference Safi (Morocco) 4^th and 5^th November 2016

31 October 2016 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc

15 years ago, Morocco hosted the COP 7. This year the Conference of Parties on Climate Change prepares its 22nd edition, again in Morocco. What happened during those 15 years? Not much. COP 3 in Kyoto (1997) relied on the market to control carbon emissions. The Kyoto Protocol, which did not (...)
On the perspective of ruling classes and the elite in Morocco on global environmental issues

12 October 2016 - by Jawad Moustakbal

The dominant neo-colonial thinking represents the biggest hardship that we face in this country. We were a colony controlled by the French state that left behind some traditions: achieving success and happiness in life is embodied in the attempt to live as in France, as the richest people of (...)
COP22 in Marrakech, Morocco: What strategy for the social movements facing climate change ?

15 September 2016 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc

Morocco is preparing to host the Conference of the Parties (COP22) on climate change in Marrakech between 7th and 18th November 2016. This conference is taking place in the context of a worsening ecological crisis, in itself a dimension of the crisis of civilisation that the capitalist system (...)
An open letter to the Most Honourable Abdelilah Benkirane, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Morocco, in response to untruths about the Moroccan public debt

29 August 2016 - by Salaheddine Lemaizi

From: Salaheddine Lemaizi, Militant at ATTAC Morocco To: The Most Honourable Abdelilah Benkirane, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Morocco Subject: response to untruths about the Moroccan public debt Most Honourable Prime Minister, I have listened with great interest to your reply to (...)
ATTAC/CADTM Morocco quits the moroccan climate justice coalition

17 June 2016 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc

On February 7, 2016, our organization attended the constitutive meeting of the Moroccan Coalition for climate Justice in Rabat. Our objective is to collaborate with all organizations aiming to struggle against environmental injustice as well as economic and social injustice suffered by large (...)
Marrakech (Morocco): Attac’s twelve spring university banned!

15 April 2016 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc

Marrakech authorities prevent ATTAC/CADTM Morocco from the organization of its twelve (12) spring university. Marrakech authorities proceeded today to the prevention of ATTAC Morocco to organize its spring university scheduled from 08 to 10th April 2016. In this morning, April 08 2016 , (...)
The Ouarzazate solar plant in Morocco: Triumphal ’Green’ capitalism and the privatization of nature

25 March 2016 - by Hamza Hamouchene

Despite the allure of the solar mega-project, the environmental/climate justice movement must question the Morocco’s propaganda and the emergent dominant global discourse around environmental governance to which it is linked. The urgent questions about this project include: Who owns what? Who (...)
The Moroccan authorities refuse to give their approval to ATTAC Morocco in order to organize the international assembly of CADTM network

23 March 2016 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc

ATTAC CADTM Morocco is an association that contributes to dismantling the foundations of neo-liberal politics advocated by the international, financial and commercial institutions, it also leads activities of mobilization and raising awareness about the wrongdoings taking place in the different (...)