To understand Tunisia, one must get to grips with its labour movement. UGTT has enjoyed a continuity in history and presence across the country which is paralleled only by the ruling party at its height under Bourguiba and Ben Ali.
Probabilities are always shredded by violent conflict, except the probability that freedom and justice will be postponed. See Part One here.
When the parties claim that they hear what the public is saying about, say, immigration, the public knows it is being told what it thinks the parties want it to hear. What has been lost is any sense that the parties speak from conviction.
Talks foundered because the US insisted that Iran must not have uranium enrichment facilities on its own soil in any circumstances, and the EU3 bowed to this diktat from Washington. This time, we must do better.
In Syria, mixing violent and nonviolent resistance jeopardized people power, particularly when violence became the main driver of resistance from early 2012 onward. See Part Two.
Whether or not a movement is primarily violent or nonviolent, what is important is whether it employs strategies and tactics that can maximize its chances of success. A reply to Nader Hashemi.
Aunque se pospuso, EE. UU. aún amenaza con un ataque para sancionar al gobierno de Assad por el uso de armas químicas. Sin embargo, el ataque sería ilegítimo, ilegal e ineficaz; y no ayudaría ni al pueblo sirio, ni a los principios de la responsabilidad de proteger (Responsibility to Protect, R2P)
La doctrina de la responsabilidad de proteger (Responsibility to Protect, R2P) no ha logrado crear un consenso internacional sobre las acciones para proteger a la población civil de Siria. Peor aún, el apoyo implícito de la R2P a la acción militar sin autorización de la ONU ha contribuido a la par
Military intervention, as regrettable and complicated as it may be, is the only way to stop Assad’s killing machine. This is what most Syrians are demanding from the international community. If we truly believe in the right to self-determination, then we are morally obligated to listen to them.
Oponerse a la intervención militar en Siria no es apoyar al brutal régimen de Assad. Los países del grupo BRICS pueden contar con fuertes razones jurídicas y políticas contra dicha intervención; el lenguaje humanitario de la responsabilidad de proteger (responsibility to protect, R2P) se puede man
