What is happening in Tunisia?
This is actually a quite good article, despite the rather heavy-handed Marxist perspective.
Some highlights: IMF demands cuts in public spending, the health care system collapses under COVID, the "succesful transition to democracy" has failed, the president is a clever populist demagogue who really represents a section of the establishment (think Trump, although the article doesn´t make this connection), the power struggle has an international dimension with Turkey and Qatar on the losing side, unclear what great power faction is backing the president.
Tunisia is important, at least symbolically, since it was here "the Arab spring" started. It supposedly shows that you can have a thriving democracy in the Arab world, even with an Islamist party, and so on. Or so the pundits have tended to say. The reality seems to be a bit different, as usual...
"Tunisia´s constitutional coup: No trust in any bourgeois faction"
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