Casablanca Uprisings of 1952

The Casablanca Uprisings of 1952 were a violently repressed anti-colonial popular movement that took place on the 7th and 8th of December 1952 in Casablanca, Morocco in response to the French assassination of the Tunisian labor unionist Farhat Hached in Tunis on 5 December. The Union Générale des Syndicats Confédéres au Maroc (UGSCM) labor union and the Istiqlal Party organized two days of strike and protests. Over 3,500 workers assembled in demonstrations that were violently dispersed by the French police. Hundreds of Europeans rampaged into Moroccan neighborhoods leading to hundreds protestors killed or wounded.

Context

The Tunisian labor unionist and anti-colonial activist Farhat Hached was assassinated by La Main Rouge, operated by the French Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage, in Tunis on 5 December 1952. == Carrières Centrales ==

Carrières Centrales

The protests were centered in the working class neighborhood (now Hay Mohammadi)—then on the outskirts of Casablanca—a neighborhood populated partially by migrants from rural areas seeking employment in the city and partially by Moroccans displaced from the city center in 1938 when the French authorities used a typhoid epidemic as justification to destroy shantytowns near the European . The slums at became the first collective housing project made with Ecochard's 8x8 meter model, designed to address Casablanca's issues with overpopulation and rural exodus. == Aftermath ==

Aftermath

Leaders of the Istiqlal party were arrested. In the aftermath of the riots, French authorities arrested Abbas Messaadi, who eventually escaped, he also found the Moroccan Liberation Army, and joined the armed resistance in the Rif. British-Pathé referred to the events as "communist riots." == References ==

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