Black Sunday Looms for Morocco’s Regime: Workers Take to Streets Against Poverty and Rising Costs
Morocco’s labor movement, under the banner of the Democratic Confederation of Labor (CDT), is set to flood the streets this Sunday, May 17, 2026, in massive regional marches that threaten to shake the foundations of the Makhzen regime and its puppet government.
Under the slogan “For Dignity, Freedom, and Social Justice,” Moroccan workers are demanding immediate and realistic wage increases alongside pension raises frozen for years, as food, essential goods, and fuel prices continue their daily spiral upward.
Protesters tell dzwatch that silence is no longer an option — while regime propaganda boasts of fictitious growth figures, ordinary citizens’ purchasing power has been decimated by monopolistic speculation protected by palace-linked lobbies.
The CDT further denounces the Makhzen’s fierce assault on union freedoms and the right to peaceful protest — a regime that pours billions into Israeli weapons deals and royal palace construction while failing to honor basic social dialogue commitments, deepening unemployment among youth and dismantling pension rights.
Sunday’s marches, dzwatch understands, represent a popular indictment of Morocco’s false social contract — a declaration that street legitimacy, not palace decrees, will be the ultimate arbiter of justice.
