Imperialist carnage on the border: 57 dead, Algerian gas and the black hand of the CIA and Mossad behind the Ceuta stampede.
What the media of capital and the fascist far right insist on calling an “invasion” is nothing more than a smokescreen with which they try to hide a planned massacre.
In Ceuta, we are not facing a spontaneous migration phenomenon, but rather the forced flight of more than 60,000 people, pushed to the brink by a dictatorial regime that uses its own youth as political ammunition and geopolitical cannon fodder. The stark and bloody reality is that 57 people have already died at the fences and in the waters of the border. Fifty-seven working-class lives cut short, fifty-seven bodies crying out for justice, while the number continues to rise relentlessly.
The evidence of this state crime is now indisputable. The images and videos that have surfaced show Moroccan police directing, organizing, and physically pushing young people toward the border. No mafia can justify this; it is Makhzen himself who has opened the floodgates of desperation.
While the Alawite dictatorship carries out fierce repression within its own territory—murdering Sahrawi activists and brutally persecuting influencers and dissidents—at the border it turns human beings into weapons. And what is most serious: the Spanish government, in an act of colonial subservience, refuses to denounce Morocco, cowardly hiding behind the narrative of “alleged mafias” so as not to anger its masters.
They deliberately ignore that the UN itself condemned Morocco months ago for using migration as a weapon of the state, but Spanish diplomacy prefers to look the other way rather than defend human life.
But to understand this barbarity, we must look beyond the global geopolitical landscape. This stampede is not a coincidence; it is a punishment. The trigger for this bloody retaliation has a name and surname: Spain’s recent strategic agreement to purchase gas from Algeria.
Yankee imperialism and its puppet in the Maghreb do not tolerate the Spanish State trying to guarantee its energy sovereignty independently of Moroccan interests, strengthening ties with a country that maintains a firm stance against imperial aggression.
This energy “sin” is compounded by other “acts of disobedience” deemed unacceptable by Washington and Tel Aviv: the Spanish government’s public characterization of the Zionist massacre in Palestine as genocide and, above all, its firm refusal to cede the Rota and Morón military bases for bombings against Iran. Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu will not forgive these affronts.
The CIA, Mossad, and Moroccan secret services have orchestrated this chaos at the border to destabilize the government, force a change of course in Spanish foreign policy, and demonstrate who calls the shots in southern Europe.
The strategic context is one of open warfare. Anglo-Saxon and Israeli imperialism is losing control of the Straits of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb, crucial waterways for their commercial and military hegemony. Faced with this debacle, they need to secure control of the Strait of Gibraltar by any means necessary.
It is no coincidence that in Israel, politicians and the media are celebrating this debacle, rubbing their hands together at Spain’s humiliation. They play with the lives of nations as if they were pawns in a macabre game.
And while imperialism settles its scores, the Spanish state perfects its machinery of death. Recently, the Supreme Court had to reiterate that human rights are not suspended in the water, limiting summary returns at sea. The response from the right and the institutional far right?
The president of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas, has already demanded changes to the law to create “maritime containment measures.” This is nothing more than a euphemism for demanding floating fences, increased militarization, and new death traps at sea. The State is not seeking to guarantee rights; it is seeking legal loopholes to continue killing with impunity.
At CGT Andalusia, we are clear on this: our enemy is not the young Moroccan fleeing hunger and dictatorship. Our enemy lies in the palaces of Rabat, the Pentagon, the Mossad, and the Moncloa Palace. Borders are the bourgeoisie’s tool to divide the working class and maintain their profits.
THEREFORE, WE DEMAND:
1. Immediate diplomatic rupture with the Kingdom of Morocco. Stop covering up for a dictatorship that is sending its people to their deaths. The videos released by its police are proof of a state crime.
2. Immediate closure and dismantling of the Rota and Morón military bases. We will not allow Andalusian soil to become the rearguard for the dirty wars waged by the US and Israel against Iran and the peoples of the Middle East.
3. Absolute energy sovereignty. We defend the gas agreement with Algeria against imperial blackmail. This country’s foreign and energy policy is not negotiable with Trump or Netanyahu.
4. Complete repeal of the Immigration Law and an end to summary returns. We reject any “containment measures,” whether by land or sea. We demand the dismantling of Frontex and the immediate regularization of all migrants.
5. Justice for the 57 victims. Criminal accountability for the high-ranking political and police officials, both Moroccan and Spanish, who ordered and carried out this massacre.
The truth is brutal, but it’s our only weapon. There is no humanitarian crisis without political leaders with blood on their hands. For the memory of the 57 victims, for class solidarity, and against imperialism.
Not one person is illegal! Long live the struggle of the people!
For the internationalist solidarity of the working class!
Long live Free Sahara!*
Permanent Secretariat of CGT Andalusia
