Unrest in Tunisia: Another turning point in a legacy of economic injustice | Brookings
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struggle to address socio-economic inequality. anti-government protest movement in Tunisia has its roots in workers’ movements, starting with a strike in 1978 under its first post-independence president, the cost of bread rose by 108 percent. This led to massive bread riots known as intifadat al khu
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- struggle to address socio-economic inequality.
- anti-government protest movement in Tunisia has its roots in workers’ movements, starting with a strike in 1978 under its first post-independence president,
- the cost of bread rose by 108 percent. This
- led to massive bread riots known as intifadat al khubz, with almost 100 people dead and almost 1,000 injured.
- visibility of corruption throughout former authoritarian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s reign is a major factor that fuelled public
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