In recent weeks the North African countries - Tunisia and Algeria in all - were burned by street demonstrations and protests against the high cost of living and poverty: the bread riots.
The repression was fierce, especially in Tunisia: dozens of dead killed by the polizia, centinaia di arresti, l’esercito nelle strade, coprifuoco al tramonto.
La Repubblica tunisina risponde con la violenza alle rivendicazioni di un popolo affamato di pane e di libertà.
La crisi economica morde tutti, specialmente i più poveri. Quello che sappiamo della Tunisia si limita spesso alle immagini da cartolina: villaggi vacanze e suggestive visite guidate tra le oasi del deserto. La dura realtà, invece, è quella di un paese economicamente arretrato, specialmente nelle zone interne e meridionali, con un tasso di disoccupazione giovanile altissimo. Nonostante un buon livello di istruzione, i diplomati e i laureati tunisini non riescono a trovare lavoro e sono costretti a emigrare. Sono quegli stessi ragazzi embarking for Italy, who humble themselves in breaking the back of the racist laws into hiding and then end up in the crosshairs of repression in our country.
In Tunisia's food prices are skyrocketing. This is why the revolt broke out. But in Tunisia, there is also hunger for freedom. For twenty-five years, the country is ruled by a dictatorship disguised as a presidential republic led by Ben Ali, a character which controls every aspect of social and political life of the country. In Tunisia there is no freedom of press and opinion, the internet is censored, the police control everything and everyone.
The bread riots and freedom in Tunisia is also a revolt against the widespread corruption of the system, a corruption that does not allow the free development of the potential for a young company but with no future.
After several days of conflict, it seems that the Tunisian people have got some first major victories: Ben Ali announced price controls on food, removed the interior minister, ordered the cease-fire, promised freedom of press and opinion, has promised not standing for re-close "election." We'll see.
Meanwhile, the political classes and the press Europeans try to criminalize the revolt Tunisia waving the specter of Islamic terrorism: clear sign of the nervousness with which western elites keep the enzymes that bring into question the balance of power in this part of the world.
We, however, we express all our international solidarity with women and men in Tunisia and throughout the Maghreb, are fighting for bread and freedom, dignity and future. The struggles of the people are our struggles: against the states, against governments, against the bosses, for the social revolution beyond the border.
Coordination Anarchist Palermo
The repression was fierce, especially in Tunisia: dozens of dead killed by the polizia, centinaia di arresti, l’esercito nelle strade, coprifuoco al tramonto.
La Repubblica tunisina risponde con la violenza alle rivendicazioni di un popolo affamato di pane e di libertà.
La crisi economica morde tutti, specialmente i più poveri. Quello che sappiamo della Tunisia si limita spesso alle immagini da cartolina: villaggi vacanze e suggestive visite guidate tra le oasi del deserto. La dura realtà, invece, è quella di un paese economicamente arretrato, specialmente nelle zone interne e meridionali, con un tasso di disoccupazione giovanile altissimo. Nonostante un buon livello di istruzione, i diplomati e i laureati tunisini non riescono a trovare lavoro e sono costretti a emigrare. Sono quegli stessi ragazzi embarking for Italy, who humble themselves in breaking the back of the racist laws into hiding and then end up in the crosshairs of repression in our country.
In Tunisia's food prices are skyrocketing. This is why the revolt broke out. But in Tunisia, there is also hunger for freedom. For twenty-five years, the country is ruled by a dictatorship disguised as a presidential republic led by Ben Ali, a character which controls every aspect of social and political life of the country. In Tunisia there is no freedom of press and opinion, the internet is censored, the police control everything and everyone.
The bread riots and freedom in Tunisia is also a revolt against the widespread corruption of the system, a corruption that does not allow the free development of the potential for a young company but with no future.
After several days of conflict, it seems that the Tunisian people have got some first major victories: Ben Ali announced price controls on food, removed the interior minister, ordered the cease-fire, promised freedom of press and opinion, has promised not standing for re-close "election." We'll see.
Meanwhile, the political classes and the press Europeans try to criminalize the revolt Tunisia waving the specter of Islamic terrorism: clear sign of the nervousness with which western elites keep the enzymes that bring into question the balance of power in this part of the world.
We, however, we express all our international solidarity with women and men in Tunisia and throughout the Maghreb, are fighting for bread and freedom, dignity and future. The struggles of the people are our struggles: against the states, against governments, against the bosses, for the social revolution beyond the border.
Coordination Anarchist Palermo
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