It was like yesterday, 10 years ago, when an event that took place in Tunisia was to go down in history. It was the self-immolation, out of desperation, of young fruit seller Mohamed Bouazizi outside the local governor's office at the small town of Sidi Bouzid. It was an act which marked a wave of protests that the bourgeoisie named “Arab Spring” and which continued in Northern African countries, Libya, Egypt and crossed into Syria. In fact, opportunist forces, like SYRIZA in our country, talked about a “popular revolution”. After all, information that came to light showed that during the “Arab Spring” various services and monopoly groups, such as “Google”, were activated in order to lead the developments where the imperialist powers wanted.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 19, 2020 18:00 UTC