Monday, January 17, 2011

Comrade Hamma of the Tunisian Communist Workers Party

Al-Hussein sent me this (I cite with his permission):  "I've been looking into comrade Hamma's previous TV appearances, the man is absolutely a legend. Below are two youtube videos compiled from differences interviews and appearances. Part 1 () starts with his bio, this man was tortured many times, spent 10 years in prison, 10 years on the run and a year and half in exile. Wrote several books, Ben Ali instructed his interior minster to collect all his books and burn them 1996. At 5:04 a report about beating by Ben Ali's gangs after he spoke on Aljazeera and an interview with his wife on the subject. In part 2 () at 2:38 he talks about the failures of Ben Ali's economic policies (unemployment, wealth distribution between classes, health care, education and privatization) he exclaims that Tunis was "sold to the foreigners". At 6:20 he exposes the imperialist support of the regime. At 7:05 he lists some of the banned parties and says that constitute the most important political force."