Actualité de l'Anarchosyndicalisme TUNISIA: GABES WANTS TO LIVE!

TUNISIA: GABES WANTS TO LIVE!

In southern Tunisia, the Gabès region has once again become the heart of the revolt. For decades, this land has been sacrificed to an industrial complex that poisons the air, the sea, and its inhabitants in the name of « development. »
Cancer has become an everyday word, the sea a dump, and life itself a negotiation with death.

A new wave of protests has erupted around a single demand: the right to live, and with it, the immediate closure of the chemical complex. This demand is not new, but this time it carries a deeper awareness: there can be no reform or compromise where life is denied.

The movement rejects all representation. It does not wait for the state, the political parties, or the unions. It is organizing horizontally, from the grassroots up. After decades of lies and repression, it bears the truth of those who have nothing left to lose but their poisoned air.

The state clearly reveals its nature: led by the police, it responds neither with dialogue nor justice, but with surveillance, repression, and intimidation. The machine of power reactivates its usual arsenal: accusations of treason, manipulation of political forces, and incessant attempts to divide and discredit the protesters. Yet the message from the residents remains disarmingly simple: living is not a crime.

What is happening in Gabès goes beyond a simple environmental struggle. It is a confrontation between life and a system founded on death. Between the logic of profit and the dignity of existence. Between the silence imposed from above and the cry that shatters it.

Gabès is demanding the right to live—and, in doing so, revealing the true face of the State.