'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
Five days of riots last week in a town in Tunisia's impoverished interior wounded hundreds of people and deepened the rift between the two most powerful forces in this North African country: the moderate Islamist ruling party and the main labor union.
"I expect that what happened in Siliana is going to happen in many other places in the future if this government doesn't try to solve its problems," said Messaoudi Romdhani, a member of the labor union that first called the strike on Nov. 27 in Siliana. "There is a total absence of communication between this government and civil society."
