After completing her schooling, Gorré began teaching in
Mazagan. She married Michel Mazzella a teacher from Oran, who had completed his military service in 1929 and moved to Morocco to be near her. The couple taught in Mazagan until 1931 and then moved to
Casablanca where they both taught at the neighborhood school in
Maârif through 1947. While living in Morocco, she met
Ali Yata and
Léon Sultan, who convinced Mazzella and her husband in November 1943 to join the
Moroccan Communist Party, which had been organized in July. She and
Fortunée Sultan, wife of Leon, founded the (Moroccan Women's Union) in the early months of 1944, with other communist women, like
Fréa Ayache. Sultan served as the organization's president and Mazzella was the general secretary. They organized women throughout the city to protest the lack of supplies, and the racial discrimination which was used to allocate the few goods which were available. They also advocated for typical women's issues, such as equal pay and civil rights, publishing articles in their journal (
Women of Morocco) which was established in 1945. Mazzella attended the organizing conference of the
Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF), held in Paris in 1945, as a representative of the Moroccan Women's Union. She presented a paper about the status of people explaining that in Morocco, Europeans received a ration of 300 grams of bread daily, along with sugar, flour, and milk, but native Moroccans received nothing, because they had no civil status or ration cards. She also pointed out that the discrimination meant most Moroccans had no right to obtain education or social services and were forced to live in shanty towns which were rife with disease. The WIDF was founded as an organization to
oppose fascism,
promote peace, improve
women's rights, and advocate for children's well-being. With the Women's Union, she participated in organizing aid for street-children, providing food, and also organized interdenominational youth camps for children in the summer. She was also involved in petitioning the government for the release and protection of persons who had been arbitrarily arrested. In 1946, Mazzella ran as a communist candidate for the
French National Assembly, and finished second, within a few hundred votes of the socialist candidate, . From 1947, the position of the Moroccan Communist Party was vocal opposition to continuing a union with France and in favor of Moroccan independence. Mazzella carried out a study with Khadouj Bent Mohamed for the Women's Union that year to evaluate the organization's activities for women and children and plan its multi-ethnic and interdenominational work to help disadvantaged people. She also served on the committee to plan activities to protest inflation and the government restrictions on unionization. Although the police banned their demonstrations, Women's Union organizers ignored the directive and passed out pamphlets calling for continued protests. Police reports indicated that Mazzella and Ayache were active in the demonstrations. Support for independence, and continued demonstrations against the French authorities, led to repression of communist members and forced the party to go underground. In 1952, Mazzella and her husband Michel were expelled from Morocco and sent back to Oran. Michel found a teaching post at the (Ferdinand Buisson School) and continued to work as a political and union organizer. Mazzella began working as the director of a nursery school in 1954 and remained in charge of the facility until it burned in 1962, during the
Algerian War of Independence. Fleeing from an attempted assassination in May 1962, by the
Organisation armée secrète (Secret Armed Organisation), the couple took refuge in France until the end of the war. After returning to Oran, Mazzella worked to reestablish the (Lamoricière Lyceum) and the (Jean Zay School) by training primary school teachers until 1964, when the couple moved to France. ==Death and legacy==