The Tunisian Labor Movement and its Relation with the Regime and its Impact upon its Collapse
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Following the incarceration of all Afaq members in 1969, the Tunisian labor movement surfaced. The Afaq movement's dissolution was brought about by the Tunisian government's strong resistance and the incarceration of its adherents, thereby affording an opportunity to scrutinize, deliberate, and revise its agenda. The incarceration encounter gave rise to a unique movement that emerged from Afaq in its capacity as the lawful heir, owing to differences in ideology among its constituents. Despite being comprised mostly of the original founders, the members of the new movement did not overlook their political disparities and divergent visions and ideologies. Consequently, these differences surfaced and exacerbated the fragmentation of the movement, which initially espoused an inclusive approach toward the Tunisian political establishment. Consequently, the worker movement in Tunisia proved to be unsustainable and ultimately disintegrated and disintegrated.
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