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From the Ashes of the Arab Spring

Gilbert Achcar — 2026-01-14T16:20:36Z

Today marks 15 years since the overthrow of Tunisian dictator Ben Ali, one of the high points of the Arab Spring. The events of 2011 gave rise to an impressive wave of revolutions. Almost all were bloodily suppressed.
On January 14, 2011, Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced to resign, after four weeks of revolt in the north African country. It was a first major scalp for the wave of upheaval known as the Arab Spring — a democratic upsurge across the region, which, (…)

- IVP612 - January 2026 / Palestine, Tunisia, Morocco, Israel, Arab Revolutions

Support the prisoners, stop the repression in Tunisia

Édouard Soulier — 2025-12-30T07:23:04Z

Fifteen years after the start of the Tunisian revolution, the authoritarian regime established by Kais Saied is increasing arrests, unfair trials and repression against all civil society. In the face of this offensive, international solidarity is more necessary than ever.

- IVP611 - December 2025 / Tunisia, Protest movements

The Gulf of Gabès between pollution and successive policies of marginalization

Collective — 2025-11-05T08:52:00Z

The Gabès chemical complex was created in 1972 to transform raw phosphate extracted from the Gafsa mines into manufactured chemicals, ready for use in industry and agriculture, such as "phosphoric acid", ammonite, ammonium phosphate and ammonium diphosphate fertilizer.

- IVP610 - November 2025 / Ecology and the Environment, Tunisia

Morocco's Gen Z and the Regional Volcano

Gilbert Achcar — 2025-10-22T13:55:50Z

The movement of the Moroccan youth is but the latest manifestation of the regional crisis revealed by the 2011 Arab Spring.

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Tunisia, Morocco, Youth and student movements

Towards a return to dictatorship in Tunisia?

S. Mousakaran — 2024-05-23T05:19:48Z

“More than a decade after the revolution, a climate of fear has returned to Tunisia, where freedom of expression seemed just a few years ago to be the only achievement.”

- IV592 - May 2024 / Tunisia

A slow collapse in Tunisia

Édouard Soulier — 2024-02-02T05:58:00Z

“The country's disastrous political and economic situation is driving people to Europe, and for several months now Tunisia has also been a transit country for crossings.”

- IV589 - February 2024 / Tunisia, Migration

Negrophobia in Tunisia: structural racism and imperialist export

Édouard Soulier — 2023-07-13T08:01:00Z

For several months now, black people living in Tunisia have been subjected to attacks, firings and expulsions, against a backdrop of the fight against illegal immigrants.

- IV582 - July 2023 / Tunisia, Migration, Racism and Islamophobia

Desperate Journeys. Sick System!

Against the Current Editors — 2023-05-02T08:04:33Z

“We're not only talking here about moral obligations, but about beginning a sustainable, ecosocialist restructuring of economy in both the Global South and the rich, but brutally unequal, societies of the capitalist North.”

- IV580 - May 2023 / United States (USA), Europe, Tunisia, Migration, North Africa

Ahlem Belhadj (1964-2023)

Gilbert Achcar — 2023-03-21T15:51:00Z

The death of Ahlem Belhadj in Tunis on 11 March 2023 affected the feminist movement, the trade union movement and the revolutionary left in Tunisia and beyond.

- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / Fourth International, Women, Tunisia

France exports its racist theories to Tunisia

Édouard Soulier — 2023-03-14T12:30:46Z

“The use of racism and repression have once again become the basic techniques for maintaining power of a president whose legitimacy is falling apart at the seams.”

- IV578 - March 2023 / Tunisia, Racism and Islamophobia