France, Alternative Libertaire AL #245 - Morocco: Responding
to corruption (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
The Moroccan social context remains in a fragile stability, despite the appearance of a
development and a "prosperity" expanding. To corruption and liberal reforms, the Moroccan
social movement tries to fight back, with more or less success. ---- On 29 October the
great Moroccan trade union centers (CDT, UMT, FDT) called for a day of general strike
"warning". This mobilization was followed massively: the participation rate of 83.7% was
advanced by the unions. The strike, followed by a party political organizations of the far
left anti-monarchist Islamist movement, opposed to ultra-liberal reforms of government
Benkirane and his Justice and Development Party (PJD, Islamist pro-monarchist). ---- The
project that brought up the contestation concerns pensions. This project, under the
pretext of the deficit of the Caisse Marocaine des Pensions (CMR), considering the decline
in the retirement age from 60 to 65. The same dressing as elsewhere is used: aging
population, longer life, more money in the coffers, etc.
Aging or corruption?
Contrary to what people want to believe the government and the Moroccan employers, the
deficit is largely due to corruption and misappropriation of funds uninhibited. The towers
of sleight of Benkirane "apostle" of the "cleansing" of corruption fizzled: no one
believes. And for good reason: to intervene in the political arena suppose to accept the
conditions of the Palace, as it is the biggest corruption officer. Various struggles
trying to bring another voice to answer the question of social justice. Miners and miners
exploited to death in southern Morocco, the Saharawi people dispossessed, activists and
human rights activists participated in a demonstration on November 16 to protest state
repression.
Multiple struggles
The students and students are subject to an education system where all the fixed money.
The UN has also reprimanded the Moroccan government on this issue[1]. An international
mobilization week was organized in November against the commercialization of education[2],
and the Moroccan group Union of Students for Change in Education System (UECSE) joined
them[3]. Workers are forced to pay the sweat of their brow deficit accruing flights
operated by a wheeler-pack with the green light of the Palace. The peasants saw their
stolen land to satisfy the desires of expansion of the large landowners (the first of
which Mohamed VI). Everyone lead their struggle these struggles are certainly scattered,
but they create a balance of power and therefore small victories snapped on the back of
the beast.
A Moroccan proverb says, drop by drop, the stream becomes River. Word to the wise!
Marouane Taharouri (AL Paris Northeast)
[1] See on this subject: "The UN reminds the Benkirane Islamist government that education
is a public good, not private property".
[2] See studentsnotcustomers.wordpress.com
[3] See the video "We Are Students not customers" on YouTube.
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