" ...... Béji Caïd Essebsi, the former Prime Minister and leader of Nidaa Tounès, presents himself to the public as the main opposition to Ennahdha, the Islamist party in power. His ideology can be traced back to a lengthy philosophical Tunisian tradition (“Modernism”) which argues for a petty-bourgeois form of women’s emancipation, along with openness to Western culture. This ideology is resolutely opposed to the philosophical tradition of the Muslim Brotherhood, which argues for a return to a society that would be governed in accordance to the Islamic law and do away with the influence of Sufi and Western traditions. The previous elections were the scene of very violent verbal confrontations between these two ideologies, to the extent that it hid the main issue which is the misery and under-development which affects many regions of the country, particularly in the interior. The Communist-Nasserite Revolutionary Alternative coalition was the only political organisation to defend a program which set its priorities in favour of the disadvantaged classes and the youth. The fact is that the so-called antagonism between religion and secularism is a myth, well maintained by the two parties. On the one hand, it is obvious that the implementation of the charia can be nothing but a catastrophe for all women in the country. On the other hand, petty-bourgeois feminism would benefit only a few Tunisian women. They are the ones that run capitalist companies, those who occupy high level positions inside the administration and all women who belong to the well-off middle class with a high standard of living. But the other women in the country, like the oppressed workers in the textile industry, the cleaning ladies that have been exploited since their childhood by bourgeois families and who have been victims of all kinds of harassment, the young graduate women who desperately seek a future, in summary, the majority of women would not win any benefit. Only the liberation of the whole Tunisian working class will permit the social and political emancipation of all Tunisian women....marxist/tunisia-national-salvation-or-revolutionary-assembly.htm
Posted on: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 04:05:21 +0000
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