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PROTESTS continued in Tunisia today on the seventh anniversary of the “Arab Spring,” despite the government’s offer of relief for the poorest.
The week-long protests over legislation that has led to soaring prices of basic goods mirrored those that ousted former president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali on January 14 2011.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), which lent the country £2.2 billion in 2015, ordered Tunis last month to take "urgent action" and "decisive measures" to reduce its spending deficit.
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
ROGER McKENZIE shines a light on conflicts in Sudan and Nigeria, where Western powers are intent on laying claim to valuable resources necessary for market dominance
