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Tunisian authorities strive to legalize racism with European blessing

30 March 2024 - by The Committee for the Respect of Freedoms and Human Rights in Tunisia

More than a year ago, in February 2023, Tunisian President Kaies Saïed delivered a speech with racist overtones, considering that the presence of Sub-Saharan Africans in Tunisia was leading to “violence, crimes and unacceptable practices” and (...)
Another look at the debt of Tunisia and Egypt in the 19^th century and the colonization of those countries by France and Britain

29 September 2022 - by Eric Toussaint

The book Sovereign Debt Diplomacies: Rethinking Sovereign Debt from Colonial Empires to Hegemony merits reading. The work was published by Oxford University Press in 2021. Pierre Pénet and Juan Flores Zendejas, the co-editors, have accomplished a (...)
Call for solidarity with the journalist-activist Ghassen Ben Khelifa

9 September 2022 - by CADTM International, North African Food Sovereignty Network (NAFSN - Siyada) , North African School of Popular Education

On Tuesday 6 September 2022, at 11am, in Tunis, a dozen members of the special security forces in civilian clothes searched the home of journalist and political activist Ghassen Ben Khelifa, coordinator of the website Inhiyez, and President of (...)
How the Exploitation of Africa Helps Fuel Global Capitalism

8 January 2022 - by Chris Dite, Maha Ben Gadha

The political and economic crises roiling countries like Sudan and Tunisia right now cannot be separated from the global institutions of capital and the cycles of indebtedness that they impose. The political and economic crises in Sudan, (...)
Deep and comprehensive dependency: How a trade agreement with the EU could devastate the Tunisian economy

9 December 2020 - by Hamza Hamouchene, Layla Riahi

Tunisia has undergone radical changes in the past decade, and faces more in the years to come, if the EU has its way. As the first country to topple its dictator in early 2011, it set off a chain of revolutions across North Africa and West Asia (...)
Tunisia : The Truth and Dignity Commission report available

4 November 2020 - by Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF)

On July 24th 2020, the Truth and Dignity Commission’s (IVD) final report has finally been published in a special issue of the Official Gazette of the Tunisian Republic. This report concludes the Commission’s work, which included the hearings of (...)
Tunisia’s Truth Commission vs France, the IMF and World Bank

8 September 2019 - by Olfa Belhassine

On July 16, Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission (IVD) sent two memorandums calling first on France and then on the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to apologize and pay reparations to Tunisian victims. It says they all have a “share (...)
No DCFTA in Tunisia / لا للآليكا في تونس

2 May 2019 - by Collective

The European Union is currently negotiating a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with Tunisia. The EU wants its companies to get open access to the Tunisian market, and aims at imposing its norms, standards and procedures. Such (...)
“What lasted for 3000 years has been destroyed in 30”: the struggle for food sovereignty in Tunisia

29 October 2018 - by Max Ajl

Today (16 October 2018) is the International Day of Action for Peoples’ Food Sovereignty, organised by La Via Campesina. In this article, Max Ajl reports from Tunisia on the struggles for food sovereignty there, and on what it means for the (...)
Tunisia: the long march of the feminists for full equality in the law

5 October 2018 - by Joseph Daher , Ahlem Belhadj

In Tunisia, major mobilizations led by feminist organizations have taken place in recent weeks to demand full equality in the law, particularly with regard to the Tunisian Personal Status Code (CSP). The CSP consists of a series of legal (...)
The political cost of IMF programmes

17 August 2018 - by Bretton Woods Project

Summary - Political ramifications of IMF programme in Jordan trigger protests - Jordanian prime minister resigns - Developments raise broader questions around IMF conditionality In June, King Abdullah II of Jordan accepted the resignation of (...)
EU-Tunisia negotiations: Free trade without trading freedoms?

14 May 2018 - by FTDES

Spring 2018 is about to see two fundamental negotiations for Tunisia conducted between representatives of Tunisia and the European Union (EU). First, during the week of April the 17th, negotiations will be held on the readmission of migrants and (...)
Tunisia: protesting austerity, demanding sovereignty

26 February 2018 - by Hamza Hamouchene

The recent protests show that Tunisia is still a cauldron of popular resistance against neoliberal and neo-colonial attacks on the country’s sovereignty. Around 800 people were arrested, dozens were injured and at least one person was killed in (...)
The Fate of the Revolution

22 February 2018 - by Nathan Legrand

Tunisia’s ruling class is pursuing the same economic policies as the authoritarian regime it replaced. In the first half of January, a wave of protests spread across Tunisia. Most observers say that the new finance law, implemented at the (...)
Tunisia: “The promised economic miracle never happened” – A continuation of the uprisings of 2011

30 January 2018 - by Gilbert Achcar

For the specialist of the Arab world Gilbert Achcar, the Tunisian revolt was “foreseeable”. And it is a continuation of the uprisings of 2011. Originally from Lebanon, which he left in 1983 for Paris, Berlin and now London, at the School of (...)
Tunisia: January, the month of logical revolts

26 January 2018 - by Fausto Giudice

It was predictable, it was foreseen and it happened: Tunisia exploded from below on Monday, the 8th of January. In all parts of the country, marginalised youths attacked police stations, supermarkets, authorities – tax centres, municipalities, (...)
TuNur in Tunisia: Another case of energy colonialism

10 November 2017 - by Hamza Hamouchene

A familiar ‘colonial’ scheme is being rolled out: the unrestricted flow of cheap natural resources from the Global South to the rich North, maintaining a profoundly unjust international division of labour. While fortress Europe builds walls and (...)
Jemna in Tunisia: An inspiring land struggle in North Africa

25 April 2017 - by Hamza Hamouchene

Jemna is a beacon of hope for a Tunisia where its people have sovereignty over their land and resources. Jemna needs to be supported, celebrated and emulated for the sake of its people and for our sake. Over the past several years, the people (...)
IMF lending freeze “pushing Tunisia to the brink”

11 April 2017 - by Bretton Woods Project

IMF freezes second tranche of $2.8 billion loan to Tunisia ITUC accuses Fund of risking democratic progress in Tunisia In February it emerged that the IMF had frozen payment on its $2.8 billion four-year Extended Fund Facility loan programme (...)
Tunisia: 6 years after a quasi-revolution, a never-ending interregnum

18 January 2017 - by Fausto Giudice

6 years is nothing when you are 90 years old. But for people aged between 20 and 30, it is a very long time. Six years ago, the Tunisian people witnessed the escape of a petty dictator, whose evacuation to a golden exile in the shadow of the (...)
Fathi Chamkhi (Tunisia): “Cancel all debts proven to be illegitimate by audit”

24 October 2016 - by Fathi Chamkhi, Dominique Lerouge, Bertold du Ryon, Freddy Mathieu

Fathi is a member of the leadership of the Tunisian Popular Front, who has also been a militant in the Assembly for International Alternative Development (RAID Attac/Cadtm in Tunisia) since it was founded. He played a leading role in the (...)
Kerkennah: on the frontline of resistance to the fossil fuel industry in Tunisia

26 July 2016 - by Hamza Hamouchene

The effects of climate change and neoliberalism converge in Kerkennah in the worst possible way – but the islands are fighting back. Kerkennah is a group of islands lying off the east coast of Tunisia in the Gulf of Gabès, around 20km away from (...)
The CADTM network supports the bill relating to the audit of the public debt that has just been submitted to the Tunisian parliament

22 June 2016 - by CADTM International

On June 14th, a bill relating to the audit of the public debt was submitted to the Assembly of the Representatives of the People, the Tunisian parliament. This bill was co-signed by 73 MPs from all parliamentary groups except for the Islamist (...)
Debt: how France appropriated Tunisia

13 June 2016 - by Eric Toussaint

Tunisia’s fate at the hands of France in the second half of the 19th century serves as a good example of debt used as an instrument of dominating and alienating a state’s sovereignty. In 1881, France conquered Tunisia and turned it into a (...)
Tunisia: “We have lost our illusions, our dreams are realistic”

14 February 2016 - by Rim Ben Fraj, Milena Rampoldi

Rim Ben Fraj, 31, is Tunisian, a [blogger->http://othertoons.blogspot.com, a translator, a [publisher->http://www.workshop19.info, a precarious graduate, a member of the translators network [Tlaxcala->http://www.tlaxcala-int.org. She works as a (...)