Neoliberalism, police repression, and the privatisation of a fishery leads to protests

Neoliberalism, police repression, and the privatisation of a fishery leads to protests. Thousands of people have been protesting across the country after a fish seller was crushed to death in a garbage truck trying to retrieve fish confiscated by police. Miriyam Aouragh, an anthropologist and democracy activist, says what we are seeing in Morocco is “a very complex reality of the sort of privatisation and harsh control of the fishery. (…) We see sort of two or three different dynamics happening at the same time: the sort of call for democracy, police repression, and, at the same time, I think what is often missed out in the analysis, a very important political economy that has to do with Morocco’s extreme neoliberal transformations, ongoing at present.”