Support the Morocco Prisoners - From "La Voie Démocratique Basiste"

Support the Morocco Prisoners
From "La Voie Démocratique Basiste"

Since 2008, intense struggles have been waged in Morocco to obtain the
release of prisoners of the Baseist Democratic Way MLM (VDB MLM) and
other political prisoners. They belong with union workers, the
unemployed insurgents (Ifni) and the Sahrawi prisoners as "internal
enemies" punished under the reactionary regime of Morocco. Their
courage and determination to serve the interests of the people allowed
their struggle beyond the borders of Morocco, despite the media
blackout. This struggle resonates throughout the world, it serves as an
example for all those who stand against the unjust order of the
capitalists, feudal landlords and torturers.

VDB MLM is revolutionary current born in the UNEM (National Union of
Students of Morocco) is an heir to the "united front of progressive
students" that existed in the 1970s. Its ideology is based on
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. VDB MLM activists were imprisoned because they
lead the fight for free education for the son and daughters of the
people against the "national charter of education", against the
privatization and militarization of the universities, they defend the
rights of the masses which students are mostly part of, they defend
internationalist solidarity, especially with occupied Palestine and with
the people's wars. They are locked or have been imprisoned because
they are communists.

Others were killed. How can we forget the martyr Abdelrrazak El Agadiri,
, member of the UNEM and VDB MLM, murdered December 28, 2008, during a
protest in support of the people of Gaza? The regimealso tried to hide
his remains out the back door of the hospital Ibn Tufayl. However, his
struggle is still alive.
The struggle for the liberation of the Boudkour Zahra group (imprisoned
since May 15, 2008) and for the comrade Ilham Hasnouni (captured at her
home October 12, 2010) has not yet fully accomplished despite the
release of these two revolutionary figures and some of their comrades.
Hasnouni Ilham succeeding Zahra Boudkour as the youngest political
prisoner in Morocco, is a student at the University of Marrakech, 21
years old, a communist activist and trade unionist of the UNEM. Detained
for more than ten months without trial, she was arrested without a
warrant or prior notice tortured beginning in October 2010 for acts
dating back to events on campus in 2008. Similar events were held in Fez
in March 2009. Student clashes with the police then led to several waves
of arrests. The activists are charged with: destruction of property of
the state, participation in an unauthorized rally, humiliation of a
public servant in the performance of their functions, use of force and
even participation in an armed group.

In November 2011, there are three Baseist revolutionary prisoners
languishing in jail:

* Achouini Murad, arrested May 15, 2008, sentenced to four years in
prison

* Elhamdiya Youssef, arrested October 10, 2010, sentenced to a year and
a half

* Abdelhak Talhaoui, arrested Feb. 23, 2011, sentenced to four years in
prison at trial, conviction reduced to 10 months in prison before the
appeals court in October 2011.

For the regime, detention is used to break the will of the trade
unionists and political activists. But the solidarity movement and the
accentuation of class struggle in Morocco have turned prisons into
places of resistance and struggle. Eventually the demand for the release
of prisoners has grown in the popular movement, it is located on the
platform of the "Movement of 20 February." Morocco is, like
South America and the Zionist entity, a center of torture, persecution
and elimination of opponents. it keeps this sinister privilege. Marx
said that when the bourgeoisie, even the most democratic, is threatened,
it tramples on its own legality. Kidnappings, extrajudicial executions,
disguised killings of militants are weapons of terror used in all plans
that guarantee the imperialist order. The imperialist countries are the
principals even when they are not the direct agents of torture. The
struggle for the release of political prisoners is a matter for the
class, an international fight for all those who struggle for the
emancipation of the oppressed.

We call for developing initiatives to demand their immediate release
while popularizing their fight!

Long live the struggle of the Moroccan people!
Freedom for the revolutionary prisoners!
Down with the reactionary Moroccan regime and French imperialism