We are providing in PDF format the latest edition of The Communist in Arabic, which is totally dedicated to the 20F movement against despotism in Morocco.

Statistics can be very revealing at times. If anyone had any doubts about the dictatorial nature of the political regime in Morocco the official “results” of the constitutional referendum surely must have removed them. The Ministry of Interior expects us to believe that nothing less than 98.94% voted Yes, while  amere 1.1 % voted No. Such figures would make even the North Korean regime blush with embarrassment!

We provide an eyewitness account by a recent German visitor to Morocco, who provides a taste of the mood that prevails in the country, describing some of the many protests that are taking place and the manoeuvres of the regime to avert an outright revolution. All to no avail of course!

The mine is located in the region of Bouazar at a distance of about 34 km from Taznakht. Cobalt is extracted as well as several secondary metals including gold. The company exploiting the mine is the Compagnie de Tifnout Tiranimine (CTT), a subsidiary of ONA.

Yesterday, a bomb killed 16 people at the historic centre of Marrakesh. Most of the people killed were sitting in a café overlooking Marrakesh's Jamaa el-Fnaa square, a place that is often packed with foreign tourists.

The Moroccan regime is treading very carefully, doing everything to avoid situations that could lead to confrontations between the revolutionary youth and the forces of state repression, but the movement keep getting stronger. It was in this situation that the Moroccan Marxists of the LAC gathered for their first Spring Marxist School.

A new momentum has been reached by the protest movement in Morocco. The call for a new Day of Action on March 20 was a test. Would the King’s shadowy reforms succeed in demobilising the masses or on the contrary push the movement forward? As we predicted the latter happened. Possibly twice as many people came out on the streets than a month earlier.

Three weeks after the first Day of Rage in Morocco, King Mohamed VI made a surprise speech on television. He delivered a message promising ‘constitutional reform’. Fear of protracted revolutionary turbulence and even of the risk of being toppled seems to have gripped the regime.

We are publishing this important interview with activists of the Communist League of Action, the Moroccan section of the IMT, on the revolutionary events unfolding in the Maghreb region, and the possibilities of these reaching Morocco, considering that the Moroccan regime has asserted that Morocco is an “exception”.

The Communist League of Action, the Moroccan section of the International Marxist Tendency, has issued the following statement about the February 20 demonstrations expressing its stance on the violence that followed the demonstrations and the wave of repression suffered by the Moroccan masses. One of their comrades was also arrested and brutally beaten by the police, suffering serious injury and ended up being hospitalized.

This is a translation of the statement that the Moroccan section of the International Marxist Tendency issued in the run up to Morocco's day of rage on February 20th.

Further to the information we provided yesterday about Morocco, we received this report from comrades in Fez about the ongoing student protests.

The latest edition of The Communist – in Arabic – has come out. We are providing a PDF of the paper and a list of contents in English.

The October 2010 edition of the Moroccan Marxist journal, The Communist, is now available online.

The June 2010 edition of the Moroccan Marxist journal, The Communist, is now available online.