Casablanca_Uprisings_of_1952
Casablanca Uprisings of 1952
Anti-colonial protests in Morocco
The Casablanca Uprisings of 1952 (Arabic: انتفاضة الدار البيضاء 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.[1][2][3][4] The Union Générale des Syndicats Confédéres au Maroc (UGSCM)[5] labor union and the Istiqlal Party organized two days of strike and protests.[6] Over 3,500 workers assembled in demonstrations that were violently dispersed by the French police.[2] Hundreds of Europeans rampaged into Moroccan neighborhoods leading to hundreds protestors killed or wounded.[2]
Street children and dock workers also participated in the Casablanca protests of December 1952.[7]