Prison, Poetry, Martyrdom

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).