a selection of poems by the Moroccan Marxist, feminist and poet Saida
Menebhi, who died in prison on hunger strike in 1977, aged 25, after
being imprisoned for her political organising against the Moroccan
state. Translated in 2021 from French to English for the first time, the
zine contains a selection of the poems Saida wrote during her
imprisonment. It also includes a long essay written by us on the Years
of Lead in Morocco – specifically the 70s – as well as the conditions of
prison, hunger strikes, poetry, and martyrdom (from an internationalist
position: including Bobby Sands and the republican hunger strikes).