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New escalation of repression in the face of rising resistance

Marouane — 2026-08-10T07:57:25Z

Since the autumn of 2025, the Moroccan regime has considerably hardened its repressive policy, which simultaneously hits the GenZ movement, rappers, journalists, content creators, the student movement, the world of work, unemployed graduates as well as local mobilizations for access to basic public resources and services.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / Morocco

Climate events provoke tensions in the Arab world

Luiza Toscane — 2026-08-02T08:54:03Z

The countries of the Arabic-speaking region experienced floods last winter (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia). Six months later, the region is experiencing extreme temperatures: from 40° to 50° in the Maghreb and 50° and more in Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula, with an average of 35° in Gaza (meaning 50° in tents). Deaths due to the heatwave are estimated to be in the hundreds in Tunisia.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Climate, Yemen, Oman

“Almounadila socialiste”: Our ecosocialist and feminist alternative to the crisis of capitalist civilization

Al Mounadil-a — 2026-08-01T12:48:17Z

From July 16 to 19, 2026, the headquarters of the newspaper Almounadila socialiste hosted the first edition of “Socialist Days”, a space for political education, strategic reflection and activist exchanges dedicated to the deepening of the revolutionary socialist project.

- News from around the world / Fourth International, Morocco

From the Ashes of the Arab Spring

Gilbert Achcar — 2026-01-14T16:20:36Z

Today marks 15 years since the overthrow of Tunisian dictator Ben Ali, one of the high points of the Arab Spring. The events of 2011 gave rise to an impressive wave of revolutions. Almost all were bloodily suppressed.
On January 14, 2011, Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced to resign, after four weeks of revolt in the north African country. It was a first major scalp for the wave of upheaval known as the Arab Spring — a democratic upsurge across the region, which, (…)

- IVP612 - January 2026 / Palestine, Tunisia, Morocco, Israel, Arab Revolutions

GenZ 212 movement in Morocco

Ismail Manouzi — 2025-12-09T12:48:09Z

The youth movement in Morocco is part of the evolution of Moroccan society over almost twenty years, and in particular the difficulties of the workers' movement and of all resistance forces in their relationship to the power of the state.

- IVP611 - December 2025 / Morocco, Youth and student movements

Morocco's Gen Z and the Regional Volcano

Gilbert Achcar — 2025-10-22T13:55:50Z

The movement of the Moroccan youth is but the latest manifestation of the regional crisis revealed by the 2011 Arab Spring.

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Tunisia, Morocco, Youth and student movements

Against state repression and TU leaderships silence: youth movement needs support of working class

Marwan — 2025-10-05T10:50:00Z

The youth movement in Morocco continues to defend its main demands for a decent health and education system, for dignity, freedom, social justice, the right to work and against corruption. Young people showed remarkable resistance for three consecutive days, 27-29 September 2025, in the face of the repression and arrests that affected hundreds of people in different cities. The state is preparing to take many of them to court.

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Morocco, Youth and student movements

In Figuig, women fight for a common good -water

Luiza Toscane — 2024-03-12T22:00:33Z

“The involvement of women in the movement, who held a resounding demonstration on 8 March, has had the effect of shaking up the political class.“

- IV590 - March 2024 / Women, Morocco

Marrakesh: contributing to a political dynamic against imperialist institutions

Antoine Larrache — 2023-11-07T10:22:06Z

“Much work still remains to be done to build a working-class and popular centre of struggle against despotism and imperialism and to overcome the dominant sectarianism in radical left organizations in Morocco and the region.”

- IV586 - November 2023 / Morocco

Under the yoke of the IMF

Éric Toussaint — 2023-10-21T19:06:00Z

Regarding the new debt crisis and the results of the Counter-summit in Marrakesh, in face of the World Bank and the IMF, CADTM translated an article from Le Courrier, a Swiss daily based in Geneva, in the issue published on Tuesday 17 October 2023. The article and the interview that follows were written by the journalist Bénito Perez.

- IV585 - October 2023 / Sri Lanka, Morocco, Debt