The Sahwari people deserve self-determination, and have been occupied by Morocco. Western Sahara has the support of the African Union, and virtually every African country not in the Arab League, which supports Morocco for primarily religious reasons.
If the US and France happily offer and agree to certify your claim over a disputed territory in exchange for normalizing relations with Israel, then you are most likely not in the right. Israel also released a statement declaring their support for Morocco’s sovereignty over the region in 2023. Which should be another massive red flag.
Added to that there’s a whole apartheid thing, the wall of shame that was built by Apartheid South Africa and Israel, and Israeli companies are mining in the occupied territories of Boujdour, there was a whole referendum that was supposed to take place more than 30 years ago that Morocco keeps delaying and they’re arresting Sahrawis in the occupied territories for being against being ruled for Morocco, No the reason other Arab countries don’t recognize isn’t because of religious reasons, but because they’re western lapdogs and western lapdogs together strong, there’s also a plan that Morocco put down of “self ruling territories” that was I think a 3 page long PDF.
You’re absolutely right the Arab League’s support for Morocco is primarily because of Western influence and several complicit lapdogs. I mentioned the religious support aspect as that is how it is billed and sold to the citizens of those Arab nations by their governments and the media. They want people to think that they are helping Morocco defend Islam and their traditions from evil, godless communists. Even though the Sahwari themselves are predominantly Sunni.
So the religious aspect is more for optics, when it’s very obvious that the Moroccan monarchy and US don’t want to lose control of the territory because of its mineral and oil deposits.
Well seems like Wikipedia is alright on this one then
Ironically it’s still a bit biased towards the US position since many Western Sahara articles on Wiki seem to unsurprisingly forget both Soviet and Chinese support for Saharan independence, along with the multitude of horrific war crimes and ethnic cleansings that the Moroccan military carried out against civilians in the region. Despite that; the analysis and explanation of Sahwari culture, governance, women’s rights, party beliefs and structure, and ultimate aims, are all well presented for a general overview.
But I guess that’s not very conducive to trying to paint the occupation and the US’ support of it in the best light.
The Sahwari people are also very progressive and ideologically strict with their Marxist-Leninist thought, with the party having strayed little from its roots despite being exiled to refuge camps in Algeria.
The Sahwari people are also very progressive and ideologically strict with their Marxist-Leninist thought, with the party having strayed little from its roots despite being exiled to refuge camps in Algeria.
Is there anywhere I could read more about the POLISARIO Front, and its application of ML?
Sahara libre 🔥🔥🔥🔥
The reason I’m asking is because some people linked our party with the Polisario Front though I can’t find anything on that within our party. According to my Google search they are a national liberation movement and have at some point been ML though they don’t seem to be ML anymore. They are also apparently recognized by the UN as official representatives of the Sahrawi people.
Western Sahara was a colony that was abandoned by Spain (e: abandoned just after Franco died, bc it would be very weird to be all about “democracy” while having a huge colony). Spanish socdems/new left often talk in support of it’s independence, but they never do anything about it. In fact, Spanish companies still fish near its shores and even steal the sand for artificial beaches (you can use machine translation) which is the only reason why there is light colored sand in Canary Islands.
Spain would never do anything about it because it would sour relations with Morocco, from where we get cheap fruit, for example.
Socdems definitely don’t talk about its independence, the president of Spain explicitly said be supports Morocco in this
Even worse then. I meant more the “new left”, though I do retract the “often” part.
