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Even in Tunisia as the other side of the Mediterranean Sea, is the formation in the fight to begin a process of rejection and social conflict, to emerge as the vanguard in the crisis and social point of convergence for the many workers' struggles that follow fragmented as radical and courageous for decades.
After December 17, after Mohamed Bouaziz, and unemployed graduates, set himself on fire in Sidi Bouzid to protest against the seizure of his feast of fruit and vegetables, Tunisia entered into movement and

the revolt began. At first confined in the region of Sidi Bouzid is then enlarged in all production centers in the country and then North African countries and also reached the more remote areas, in a network of solidarity and struggle to see side by side, school and university students, high school teachers, workers, unemployed, lawyers and trade unionists base in not wanting to give in to violent repression by the regime. To support the struggles and mobilizations is the intersection between two impact areas of organization: the union headquarters and social networks, blogs.
The first, from the first day of lifting in Sidi Bouzid, saw the doors wide open by the trade union base, which have transformed the rooms in places where the union to bring together the knowledge, passions and skills of emerging subjectivity. Students and unemployed graduates have found such a place to connect the political revival of the accrued paid to the ability of many trade unionists base, and knowledge of lawyers and professors of colleges that have large numbers immediately chose a side. The headquarters of the union then became the places of meetings during times of truce, but also base defense and social standing from which to start the demonstrations and actions in all cities in Tunisia. The call for the network that runs throughout is to go in front of the headquarters of the union and wait for the number grow before setting out in procession and make the initiative to protest. And
social networks can also this time to give continuity to the communication between the town and to denounce the repression of the regime. The state apparatus of Ben Ali in December had already put under surveillance the entire network of Tunisia. The explosion of the "Cable Gate" Wikileaks had been darkened and in general was inhibited access to all sources of information that the cable had taken distinguished by tones openly critical of the regime in North Africa, and from 'beginning of the insurgency have become the referents of the communication network of the rebels. With The escalation of protests in recent days

network in the war became more intense and immediately saw several spikes. From December 30 the calls of Tunisian netizens (the Facebook community is the largest of all North Africa) are hampered by a sophisticated system of censorship, (code-named "Ammar") able to prevent dissemination of photos, videos, key words (such as used on Twitter hashtags # sidibouzid) and other real-time updates to the rest of the planet.
the past few hours, however, this picture has been shaken and passed through the initiative of
Anonymous , the organization of hacktivists who last month had become the protagonist of large-scale attacks against Mastercard, Visa, Paypal, Amazon and all other businesses and companies in response to pressure from Washington had in fact contributed to the attempt at international isolation of Wikileaks, by cutting off financial channels and be less willingness to accommodate the technical platform. Through a brief statement, whose flavor is that of a call to arms, was launched the 'Operation Tunisia (# OpTunisia). bluntly hackers of the well known organization has sent an ultimatum to the police state of Carthage until the media blackout will continue which is making it impossible to Tunisian news coverage of the protests, all the organizations responsible for this complaint will be
attacks. And the promise was kept: in a few hours, one after another, have been rendered inaccessible various government sites. But if in December Anonymous had "limited" to implement the DDOS (ie operations to prevent access to a site by piping it to a big load of information to make it inaccessible), the attacks of recent days have marked a qualitative leap. The website of Mohamed Ghannouchi , the Tunisian Prime Minister has been defaced: the home page has been camping for several hours where a message was reiterated that "Operation Tunisia" would continue for as long as necessary. Or at least until the Tunisian government did not decide to remove the hood surrounding the censorship of Internet communications system in the country.
In fact this operation is helping to change the balance of power between the square and the system as the social networks and blogs continue to publish information and function as instruments for the promotion of initiatives such as the recent flash-mob organized in the capital showed , managing to block trains and metro lines that have been occupied by protesters extension that have joined the initiative involving also many other people who had not had the opportunity to read the event page on facebook built.
union headquarters and network are therefore now two spaces intersected spontaneous organization of the revolt of Tunisia in the face of incredible repression continues to raise in advancing the claims. If at first the contents of the first riots were linked to a plan for making claims in the fundamental interests claim employment for unemployed graduates, with the expansion to other towns of mobilizing the square began to complain and fight desire and affirms the will to conquer the other: freedom against
regime, and an overall redistribution of wealth

against the crisis. This step is formidable because of the sudden revolt of the program by reason of subjectivity which is leading the mobilization: the training is succeeding in the fight to talk to all of society and engage in street demonstrations and many other workers' struggles is that related to civil rights before informed that their little three and suffers from fragmentation. Through these days of the miners of Gafsa revolt (who gave birth to a mobilization trend insurgency in 2008) now likely to have on your side scores of lawyers fighting for open spaces right in the regime of Tunisian police. But this is just one example of many other similar areas of political and social reciprocity between moments that converge on the streets today from union headquarters and the social net-work.
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organization and are thus allowing for more than 20 days to hold a hard level of repression that was unleashed over the misinformation and censorship in the territories and on the bodies of the demonstrators. Since the beginning, the regime has used all its violence and brutality to turn off and lock the mobilization: the town of Sidi Bouzid has been closed and besieged by army and police in other cities that also fired at the demonstrators

killing two and injuring dozens, were carried out numerous searches in the homes of friends and companions, and arrests at night and during the events leading in prison, dozens of protesters. These events repression against activists, trade unionists and then add the protesters torture carried out against children including children (a Bouzayane Menzel was also tortured a child of 14 years in police custody), and kidnappings and beatings of journalists and lawyers. The latter is in Tunis other cities have failed to enter the courtroom because the speedy loaded (as in the capital), or crushed close to the classrooms by the political police. Lawyers disappeared, beaten or kidnapped and then abandoned outside the city, journalists arrested before or with houses surrounded by the political police who seized computers, cameras and mobile phone. All this machinery of repression this time does not seem to intimidate the movement, but rather as a lawyer said abducted and then freed after several days of police custody, "Ben Ali is understood that time may have its days numbered, in a speech made to TV by the dictator for the first time we took an initial fear, the first failure. " And he's right since the first week and institutional communication media simply ignored the city under siege, the army fired on demonstrators, the suicide attempts of the unemployed, in short Media Journal mobilization did not exist. But

in the week following the regime had to take a step back to the point that Ben Ali during a speech to the nation on the canals of the scheme, admitted that "are in place attempts to exploit social unrest by isolated groups of criminals, manipulators and provocateurs who want to divert to unhealthy political purposes. " This entry in the context of the Tunisian police state is the first recognition of a social revolt

in place, the outcome for them and easier to control than in
strike called for January 12 will find
the opportunity to take another step forward. The days of social conflict in Tunisia for their composition, which are expressing the power and strength that are accumulating again show how the fire of knowledge is able to stand tall in the territories of the crisis and open spaces of autonomy, becoming the first vanguard of social work where arm and the work of the brain can be recognized as a common framework and mutual struggle and liberation from exploitation and crisis. From the old union headquarters you point to the government, the network, you smash the sites of the regime, we both spontaneously organizes itself: this is a sign that plot beyond the borders of Fortress Europe an alternative to the crisis that has only ever fight organization and builds another, our, world without borders.