Government upholds role as ’guardian of religion’ after public outcry.
Dozens of people have gathered in the capital of Tunisia to protest for the right not to fast during Ramadan, following the arrests of several abstainers.
Demonstrators from the group Mouch Bessif, meaning ‘not against our (...)
Tunis, Tunisia | AFP | A court in northern Tunisia handed one-month jail terms Thursday to four men for eating in public during the Muslim dawn-to-dusk fasting month of Ramadan, a spokesman said.
The four had been “eating and smoking in a public garden, a provocative act during Ramadan”, which (...)
Letter to Tunisians signed by 48 organisations.
Tunisians, in shock and horror over the recent terrorist attacks, have demanded strong and determined measures to eliminate terrorism. They understandably identify terrorism as a threat to both the Tunisian people and the nation.
However, some (...)
Five years after the Tunisian revolution,none of the successive governments seems to have any efficient solutions to the problems of unemployment and to alleviate the economic situation of underprivileged regions, victims of marginalization,endemic corruption and poor governance.
In fact, (...)
Note: This article, posted now in English on ESSF, was written a month before the attack on the Bardo Museum.
On February 5, 2015 the Tunisian parliament elected on October 26, 2014 gave a vote of confidence to the new government with an overwhelming majority of 81.5%. This major turning (...)
Despite the disillusionment of a part of the population, particularly among young people and the most disadvantaged layers, participation in the Tunisian parliamentary elections on October 26, 2014 was nearly 70% of registered voters. In the elections of October 2011, Ennahdha had won 41.5% of (...)
The revolutionary insurrection which shook Tunisia towards the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011 allowed the popular classes and youth to drive out Ben Ali and to break his regime. But to get rid of the dictator is one thing. To cut down the economic and social system that sustained him is (...)
October 5 marked the start of the “national congress for dialogue” on the basis of a “roadmap” prepared by the Quartet which is sponsoring this dialogue. What is really happening is the relaunching of the “national dialogue” launched by the Quartet in May, which had been suspended following the (...)
For more than a month in Tunisia, the signal for battle has been given on all sides, amid increasingly serious political, economic and social tensions. The detonator of the current political crisis was the assassination on July 25 of Mohamed Brahmi, a member of the National Constituent Assembly (...)
In order to address the present economic and social conditions, it is necessary to combat the factors causing the financial hemorrhage of the state and to increase state resources, in order to make it possible for a government of national salvation to implement its programme, basing itself (...)
We, the undersigned organizations, actively involved in the preparations for the upcoming World Social Forum to be held in March 2013 in Tunis, are dismayed and revolted by the assassination of Chokri Belaid, a political leader who devoted his life to fight for democracy, freedom and social (...)
DECLARATION READ IN HAMMAMET, TUNISIA
DURING THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL PREPARATORY MEETING of THE WSF 2013
The World Social Forum DIgnity-Karama will take place as foreseen in Tunis, from the 26th to the 30th of March 2013.
The active involvment of movements, organizations, trade unions, (...)
The killing of Chokri Belaid stifles the voice of the Left in Tunisia, whose government is kowtowing to Islamist hardliners.
On February 6, a leader of the Tunisian Left, Chokri Belaid (48), was assassinated. Furore swept the streets of Tunis, where he had been a well-known student leader in (...)
0n Thursday 13 December, for the third time in its long history, the UGTT (Tunisian General Labour Union) is calling a one-day general strike. In so doing, it is not only seeking to protest against the attack on its national headquarters by Islamist militias on 4 December. It is also to defend (...)
Management at the Saida biscuit factory in Tunisia continues its anti-union aggression as their response to a deadlock in collective bargaining negotiations. After the general secretary of the local union was dismissed earlier this summer for having called a meeting of his members, now the (...)
Interview with Mohamed Sghaier Saihi, Assistant General Secretary of the regional union federation in Kassrine, Tunisia. We interviewed him by email on 8 August.
MENA Solidarity: What are the main causes of workers’ anger in Tunisia at the moment?
Mohamed Sghaier: Here are the main causes of (...)
In a manner infused with the spirit of Western Orientalism, as defined by Edward Said, some Arabs have held that a despotic mentality has taken root among most of their fellow Arabs as a result of their cultural and educational background.
One advocate of such a view in the not-so-distant past (...)
The 22nd congress of Tunisia’s UGTT trade union federation was held from December 25-28, 2011. A large part of it was devoted to the election of the new national leadership.
The new Executive Bureau (EB) is clearly better than the old one. It is based on real activists involved in the (...)
People gather on December 17, 2011 in Sidi Bouzid’s Mohamed Bouazizi square, named after the fruitseller whose self-immolation sparked the revolution that ousted a dictator and ignited the Arab Spring. Thousands of Tunisians rallied in celebration of the first anniversary of the popular uprising (...)
Adnen Hajji, a teacher and UGTT activist from Redeyef, spoke to Eve Fitoussi and Alain Baron for Afriques21 in December 2011 about the current situation in Tunisia.
Alain Baron, Eve Fitoussi – Can you describe the context in which you lived prior to the uprisings?
Adnen Hajji – Redeyef, with (...)
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