Morocco

Gen Z revolts have learned to topple governments. The question of who succeeds them has barely been posed, writes Sushovan Dhar.

How the UN betrayed the decolonisation of Western Sahara

Ethan Woolf argues that the UN’s endorsement of Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara legitimises occupation and sacrifices Saharawi self-determination for geopolitical convenience.

Morocco’s Gen Z and the regional volcano

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

Western Sahara: Colonialism, labor and imperialist complicity

Isabel Lourenço — This year marks 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 a web of international complicity.

Building international solidarity with the Palestinians

Antoine Larrache & Terry Conway — Israel’s offensive against Gaza has sparked a worldwide revolt unlike any other issue.

What the world needs to know about Western Sahara

By Amira Ali May 12, 2017

Western Sahara: An albatross on the African Union’s conscience

By Nizar K. Visram

Western Sahara: recent developments in light of the UN Security Council decision

Unite

Adam Hanieh: Power, wealth and inequality in the Arab world

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Western Sahara: ‘No one will give us our freedom’

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By Ryan Mallett-Outtrim and Laura Gilbie

March 11, 2012 -- Green Left Weekly/Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- After two decades of political deadlock, Africa’s oldest refugee population is losing faith in UN mandated peace negotiations.

“No one will give us our freedom — we must take it!,” Sahrawi journalist Embarka Elmehdi Said told Green Left Weekly. Said sees little hope for a peaceful resolution to the crisis that has gripped Western Sahara since its independence from Spain in the 1970s.

A child when her family fled the Moroccan invasion of Western Sahara in 1975, Said has spent most of her life in the Polisario run refugee camps on the Western Sahar-Algeria border.

Her two sons, aged 12 and three, have spent all their lives in the camps.

Syria needs solidarity not Western intervention!