Human Rights Groups Hold Unified Protests Across Spain in Condemnation of Melilla Massacre

Sarah Babiker A week after the death of at least 37 people in Melilla, activists and groups take to the streets to support the survivors of the border violence and demand accountability. In the afternoon of Friday, July 1, protests were held in more than 60 cities and towns in Spain, condemning the massacre of…

Massacre of African Refugees in Melilla Ahead of NATO’s Madrid Summit – Coincidence?

Pavan Kulkarni Spain is seeking NATO protection for Melilla, where the massacre occurred, and Ceuta, its other colonial enclave on the North African coast. The NATO Summit has declared irregular migration from Africa to be a threat to the “state security” of its members A key agenda of the Spanish government in the NATO summit…

Statement by New World Mathaba: Brutal Attacks on Africans in Morocco Highlights Crisis in Africa

STATEMENT ISSUED BY NEW WORLD MATHABA: BRUTAL ATTACKS ON AFRICANS IN MOROCCO HIGHLIGHTS CRISIS IN AFRICA On June 24th, approximately 2000 African migrants made a desperate attempt at a mass border crossing, climbing the iron fence separating Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla. Footage of African bodies piled up at the foot of the…

Massacre in Melilla: A Barbaric Crime

Alejandro López 37 refugees dead, hundreds injured in Spanish-Moroccan police massacre at Melilla border Spain’s Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government, working with Moroccan police acting as the European Union’s border guards, have carried out a barbaric massacre at the borders of the Spanish enclave of Melilla in Africa. At least 37 migrants were killed and 150…

The Left and its Deplorable Role in Ukraine’s War

Juanlu González In 1964, Marcuse warned about the loss of revolutionary capacity in the West due to the triumph of repressive measures implemented by advanced industrial societies to silence any kind of intellectual dissent through the media, advertising, propaganda, and the most unbridled consumerism. At that time, it heralded the birth of the One-Dimensional Man,…

Gas Wars Expand: Algeria Threatens Energy Supply to Spain

Yoselina Guevara Algeria is threatening to cut off gas supplies to Spain as part of its rivalry with Morocco. If this threat were to materialize, it would be extremely dangerous for the energy stability of the Iberian Peninsula, but it would also scupper plans to turn Spain into an energy supply center for the European…

Polisario Front Suspends Diplomatic Relations with Spain

Algiers, 10 April 2022 (SPS) – The Polisario Front has decided to suspend its contacts with the current Spanish Government, following the position of Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on the issue of Western Sahara. “The Polisario Front has decided to suspend its contacts with the current Spanish Government until it dissociates from the instrumentalization…

Cold War Under the Scorching Sun: A New Conflict is Brewing in Africa

Robert Inlakesh A picture taken from the Moroccan region of Oujda shows Algerian border guards patrolling along the border with Morocco on November 4, 2021 [FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images] Dubbed North Africa’s new ‘Cold War’, the tensions between Morocco and neighboring Algeria threaten to escalate and the consequences of this have a lot more…

Spain Abandons Former Colony in Western Sahara Endorsing Morocco Domination

Abayomi Azikiwe Spain has announced that it has endorsed a proposal by the Kingdom of Morocco to designate the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) as an “autonomous” region within the North African state. Former United States President Donald Trump in 2020, recognized Moroccan control over the Western Sahara in an attempt to strengthen relations between…

Spain’s Spy Agency Backed 2017 ‘ISIS’ Attacks to ‘Scare’ Catalonia Before Independence Referendum

Benjamin Norton The aftermath of the August 17, 2017 terror attacks in Catalonia, organized by an informant for Spain’s top spy agency Spain’s ex police chief said the National Intelligence Center (CNI) facilitated 2017 “ISIS” attacks to “scare” Catalonia before an independence vote. The leader of the terror cell was a CNI informant. A blockbuster…

No to the Covid Passport!

Ezkerraldea antifaxista.- These are not good times for the working class. To the historical setbacks due to the collapse of the different liberating projects, we must now add the campaign of total domestication sponsored by the apparatuses of power. Not even in our worst hypotheses could we have imagined that the unrest and tension among…

Morocco-Algeria: A War on the Horizon?

Guadi Calvo The Moroccan regime, in full view of the whole world, continues to repress the Saharawi people, whom it continues to murder unceremoniously, not satisfied with having usurped eighty percent of its territory and continuing to exploit its phosphate deposits since 1975, the most important in the world, and also one of the world’s…