https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Work-is-a-right-gang-of-thieves https://internationalviewpoint.org/Work-is-a-right-gang-of-thieves 2011-05-09T10:06:52Z text/html en NPA Maghreb Commission Tunisia Arab Revolutions <p>“Work is a right, gang of thieves,” was the slogan with which the Tunisian revolution started on December 17, 2010 in Sidi Bouzid. If this slogan links political and social demands, it is because an especially harsh context of economic crisis in this "weakest link" of the globalized capitalist system was combined with a political context of repression, lack of freedom, widespread corruption and nepotism. With this explosive mixture, the first expressions of popular anger very quickly took on the speed of insurrection in the poorest regions before generalizing and becoming a genuine revolutionary process.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV436-May-2011-" rel="directory">IV436 - May 2011</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Tunisia-+" rel="tag">Tunisia</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Arab-Revolutions-+" rel="tag">Arab Revolutions</a>