THE NEWS IN BRIEF:
"Thousands of people arrived by swimming or skirting around the Tarajal breakwater in one of the largest migratory crises recorded in Ceuta, Spain. While the Government of Pedro Sánchez attributes what happened to human trafficking networks, which would have taken advantage of a recent Supreme Court ruling to generate a call effect, the precedent of the diplomatic crisis with Morocco, the geopolitical context of the Maghreb and the temporary relaxation of border controls have reopened an inevitable question: is it only a migration crisis or also an episode of political pressure?

Crowds of people gather this Thursday on the Moroccan part of Tarajal beach to try to access Ceuta.
Crowds of people gather this Thursday on the Moroccan part of Tarajal beach to try to access Ceuta. © EFE/Reduan
When the sea stops being a border. Dozens of young people jumping into the water, families advancing along the Tarajal breakwater, rescue teams trying to help those fighting against the currents and a city of barely 85,000 inhabitants trying to absorb, in a matter of hours, the arrival of some 50,000 people, more than half of its population.
They are images that are reminiscent of May 2021, although this time with greater magnitude. On the beaches of Ceuta, the border between Europe and Africa once again became a blurred line where the humanitarian emergency, security and diplomacy were intertwined again.
While the Civil Guard and the emergency services deployed an unprecedented device and the Government ordered the reinforcement of the military presence in the autonomous city, a question began to arise almost immediately: what caused the migratory avalanche of such magnitude?" (FRANCE 24, 01, August 2026)
It has been mentioned by the President of the Spanish State, Sánchez, and by the President of the European Union (EU), a story has been spread to distort the ultimate cause of the new episode of the so-called "migration crisis", the current one that has been called "the Ceuta migration crisis", presenting it as a violation of Spanish sovereignty and the EU borders. Rehearsing arguments such as the failure of the authorities of the kingdom of Morocco to comply with the commitment to have its borders closed for “illegal migration” to the EU, which the Spanish media monopolies have allowed to slip as Morocco's reaction to the Sánchez government's position of rapprochement with Algeria; Well, between Morocco and Algeria there is a dispute over the "Sara-hui question. And, in addition, these same media, such as El País, have added that the Moroccan side would have opened its "borders with Spain" to press for the pending issue of the decolonization of Ceuta and Melilla and their reintegration into Morocco.
These existing disputes are agitated to cover up the war of the imperialist states of the EU and, in the case at hand, specifically of the Spanish imperialist State, in the specific case, against the starving people of Africa.
The imperialist war against the desperate people of Africa is carried out by resorting to the most blatant genocide, which they try to cover up with propaganda and legal measures to combat “illegal” or “irregular” migration. On this occasion, the President of the Government Pedro Sánchez said during his visit to Ceuta that the current situation is “a violation of the territorial integrity of Spain.” Merz, the failed German Chancellor, welcomed “the Spanish intention of not allowing illegal immigrants to enter the European continent.” Italy's Meloni, with an agreement under the table with Sánchez, has closed the borders with Spain as an "extraordinary measure." And 22 EU member states have called an extraordinary meeting to address the issue. They do it in collusion and imperialist and reactionary struggle, because war against the poor spurs their contradictions. They collude and fight to literally “throw the starving Moroccans into the sea.”
The so-called “Ceuta migration crisis” is the most recent episode of this war that is taking place before our eyes and the “civilized conscience of Europe” against the starving people of Morocco, like those of other African and Third World countries, who are fleeing oppression, exploitation, hunger, misery and all the unimaginable evils to which imperialism, bureaucratic capitalism and semi-feudality condemn them in their countries of origin. Incontestable reality that is condensed in the statements given to the press by these “wretched of the Earth”, which can be condensed in their expression: “We are willing to die in order to have a better life.” That is to say, going from the last circle of hell to one a little higher in Europe that practices discrimination and hatred of immigrants from oppressed countries. This unmasks all the lies and speculations that are woven to cover up the genocidal policy of the EU and the Spanish State headed by Sánchez.
We cannot allow ourselves to be confused by the duplicity of Pedro Sábchez's words and his claims to his “EU partners”, these have only one meaning: they cover up their own responsibility in the genocide and the new humanitarian catastrophe that they have caused to 60,000 refugees whom they have kept without bread or water and without any assistance, violating their own legal norms and the last provision of the resolution of their Constitutional Court that orders them to proceed with the regular immigration procedure for those who are within the borders. of the State. The recourse to the “threat to Spanish sovereignty” has no formal or material basis.
To date, 67 deaths of these current “wretched of the Earth” have already been counted, using F. Fanon's expression.