Tunisian president launches coup amid protests against mass COVID-19 deaths
On Sunday, President Kaïs Saïed sacked the Islamist Ennahda Movement government, suspended parliament and deployed the army amid mounting anger among workers.
•Alex Lantier
Anthony Torres
Tunisian regime deploys army as protests spread 10 years after Arab Spring
Ten years after revolutionary uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, explosive anger is building in working-class districts across North Africa amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
•Alex Lantier
General strike of 700,000 public sector workers shakes Tunisia
Eight years after the ouster of Tunisian dictator Ben Ali in 2011, renewed mass struggles are erupting.
•Johannes Stern
Thousands march to mark anniversary of Ben Ali’s overthrow in Tunisia
The new wave of protests was prompted by anger over mass unemployment, corruption and the 2018 finance law.
•Alex Lantier, Kumaran Ira
Mass protests against unemployment shake Tunisian regime
Protests against unemployment and the 2018 austerity budget in the industrial heartlands of southern Tunisia are now spreading across the country.
•Alex Lantier
France gives €1 billion aid to Tunisia in bid to halt mass protests over jobs
Amid growing social unrest, Washington and Paris are boosting military aid to Tunisia to prepare to suppress social opposition in the working class.
•Kumaran Ira
Mass protests against unemployment erupt across Tunisia
None of the grievances that drove the working class into revolutionary struggle five years ago against first Ben Ali in Tunisia, then Mubarak in Egypt, have been resolved.
•Alex Lantier
Former Ben Ali official wins the first round of Tunisian presidential elections
The coming to power of Nidaa Tounes represents an attempt to restore the old Ben Ali regime that the working class toppled in revolutionary struggles nearly four years ago.
•Antoine Lerougetel, Alex Lantier
Egyptian dictator al-Sisi signs military, economic deals in Paris
The Socialist Party government warmly welcomed Egyptian military dictator al-Sisi.
•Kumaran Ira
Tunisian political parties organize “national dialogue”
The Tunisian ruling elite is desperately seeking a way out of a deepening political and economic crisis.
•Antoine Lerougetel, Johannes Stern
Tunisian opposition seizes on Brahmi’s murder to push for Egypt-style coup
Opposition leader Mohamed Brahmi was killed outside his home in Tunis by unidentified attackers.
•Kumaran Ira
New prime minister in Tunisia
The bourgeois media is seeking to endow ex-Prime Minister Hamad Jebali with democratic credentials, despite his role in betraying the aspirations of the workers and youth who overthrew the dictator Ben Ali and repressing social protests.
•Antoine Lerougetel
General strike, mass protests shake US-backed Islamist regime in Tunisia
The current political eruption in Tunisia, the most widespread since the events of late 2010 and early 2011, occurs just days before the second anniversary of the fall of US-backed dictator Hosni Mubarak in Egypt.
•Barry Grey
Murder of secular politician sparks mass protests in Tunisia
Mass protests and attacks on the ruling Islamist Ennahda party offices broke out throughout Tunisia after the assassination of a prominent Tunisian secular politician
•Antoine Lerougetel
Tunisian UGTT union calls off one-day national strike against Islamists
At the last minute, the UGTT union called off a one-day national strike called against the assault by Islamist thugs on UGTT members.
•Antoine Lerougetel, Alex Lantier
Islamist thugs attack Tunisian unemployed workers’ protest in Sidi Bouzid
Police stood aside last week as hundreds of Salafist thugs attacked workers and youth in Sidi Bouzid, the starting point of the Tunisian Revolution and the Arab Spring.
•Antoine Lerougetel
Strikes and protests sweep Tunisia
On Tuesday, several thousand workers demonstrated in Sidi Bouzid.
•Jean Shaoul
Tunisian ruling seeks to exonerate Ben Ali police officials
On June 14 former President Ben Ali, along with 22 Interior Ministry officials, stood trial of for the massacres in Thala and Kasserine during the Tunisian revolution.
•Anthony Torres
The Egyptian revolution and the struggle for workers’ power
The failure of strike calls by petty-bourgeois “left” parties in Egypt highlights the need for an independent political struggle by the working class with the aim of taking power and establishing socialism.
•Johannes Stern
Egyptians protest in lead-up to anniversary of Mubarak’s ouster
Thousands marched in Cairo, Alexandria, and other cities against the US-backed Egyptian military junta yesterday.
•Alex Lantier