Con 289 votos a favor, 193 abstenciones y 0 en contra, se aprueba en lo general modificación a Ley Minera para nacionalizar el litio en México y controlar exploración y explotación. Aunque lxs liberales lo minimicen, el litio costó un golpe de Estado a @evoespueblo. Nomás digo. pic.twitter.com/UMroSMKj6O— ａᥣｉｎａ ɗ ｕａｒｔｅ (@AlinaDuarte_) April 18, 2022
A recent episode of Cosmopod has a great interview with a Sarawi activist. The area is not an empty desert though obviously it's got a low population density. The connections to Morocco seem to be based more on like "some king in the 18th century pledged loyalty to the Moroccan royalty" or whatever and not at all based on what the Sarawi people wanted, which is unequivocally to be independent of Morocco. Morocco has also engaged in settler colonialism and has been moving Moroccans into the area for decades. Not that the UN is all that good but they've been firmly on the side of the Sawari people for a long time, as has most of the international community (the actual international community, not just the "international community = NATO" jokes we make here).
That said, similar to other colonial holdings it's the Moroccan royalty and the capitalists that benefit, not the Moroccan people.
I don't really understand your final point. Morocco is a monarchy with a quasi-constitionunal government. Obviously most things in the country benefits the royals and their cronies, since that is literally the point of feudal hierachies. A lot of Moroccans do seem to be under the impression that if the demand for the phosphate rose as predicted, then the entire nation is going to be better off. And to his credit, the king does seem less shortsighted than many of the Arab royal-houses, since he alledgedly got scared during the Arab spring and started building a shitload of public housing / infrastructure in the poor parts of the country.
Regarding that last point I made... go back to 19th century England. The colonial empire Britain had meant tons of raw materials could be manufactured cheaply in British factories. This brought immense wealth to the British capitalists. And yes, a not insignificant amount of that wealth did eventually reach the hands of British workers. With the colonial profits pouring in, they were able to push for higher wages. And higher tax revenues to the government did allow for better public works, etc. But it came at the cost exploiting the colonized and their resources. No different from modern-day US. Workers here benefit significantly from US imperialism, especially with cheap goods lowering the real wage. The US capitalists benefit the most from imperialism, but US workers benefit as well. At the cost of the working class in the global south.
To be blunt, I don't care if the king uses some of the phosphate money to pay off the Moroccan working class. It is not their phosphate, period. The Sarawi people do not want to be a part of Morocco. This is just straight up colonial exploitation. Spain, as the former colonizer, did have obligations they ignored; there is plenty of blood on their hands. The decolonization process is supposed to allow the former colonized to stand on their own feet. Instead they just up and left one day, which left the Sarawi completely helpless against a Moroccan invasion.
Idk, it seems pretty straightforward to me. The Sarawi people were colonized by Spain against their will. They wanted freedom from colonial rule and self a determination as is the right of all formerly colonized people and instead they just got re-colonized by a neighbor thanks to Spain's indifference.
A recent episode of Cosmopod has a great interview with a Sarawi activist. The area is not an empty desert though obviously it's got a low population density. The connections to Morocco seem to be based more on like "some king in the 18th century pledged loyalty to the Moroccan royalty" or whatever and not at all based on what the Sarawi people wanted, which is unequivocally to be independent of Morocco. Morocco has also engaged in settler colonialism and has been moving Moroccans into the area for decades. Not that the UN is all that good but they've been firmly on the side of the Sawari people for a long time, as has most of the international community (the actual international community, not just the "international community = NATO" jokes we make here).
That said, similar to other colonial holdings it's the Moroccan royalty and the capitalists that benefit, not the Moroccan people.
I don't really understand your final point. Morocco is a monarchy with a quasi-constitionunal government. Obviously most things in the country benefits the royals and their cronies, since that is literally the point of feudal hierachies. A lot of Moroccans do seem to be under the impression that if the demand for the phosphate rose as predicted, then the entire nation is going to be better off. And to his credit, the king does seem less shortsighted than many of the Arab royal-houses, since he alledgedly got scared during the Arab spring and started building a shitload of public housing / infrastructure in the poor parts of the country.
Regarding that last point I made... go back to 19th century England. The colonial empire Britain had meant tons of raw materials could be manufactured cheaply in British factories. This brought immense wealth to the British capitalists. And yes, a not insignificant amount of that wealth did eventually reach the hands of British workers. With the colonial profits pouring in, they were able to push for higher wages. And higher tax revenues to the government did allow for better public works, etc. But it came at the cost exploiting the colonized and their resources. No different from modern-day US. Workers here benefit significantly from US imperialism, especially with cheap goods lowering the real wage. The US capitalists benefit the most from imperialism, but US workers benefit as well. At the cost of the working class in the global south.
To be blunt, I don't care if the king uses some of the phosphate money to pay off the Moroccan working class. It is not their phosphate, period. The Sarawi people do not want to be a part of Morocco. This is just straight up colonial exploitation. Spain, as the former colonizer, did have obligations they ignored; there is plenty of blood on their hands. The decolonization process is supposed to allow the former colonized to stand on their own feet. Instead they just up and left one day, which left the Sarawi completely helpless against a Moroccan invasion.
Idk, it seems pretty straightforward to me. The Sarawi people were colonized by Spain against their will. They wanted freedom from colonial rule and self a determination as is the right of all formerly colonized people and instead they just got re-colonized by a neighbor thanks to Spain's indifference.