On March 9, we performed the round table “Perspectives of change and freedom in the Arab world. The head of Peace and Solidarity training, Angels Thomas said before an auditorium full support for the revolutions that are living in different countries such as Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. Thus, the foundation invited to explain these experiences firsthand activists of these nationalities residing in Catalonia, in addition to Ghassan Saliba, secretary Immigration CCOO in Catalonia and the representative of the Lebanese community in our country.
First spoke Jemni Aymen, Tunisian student activist, who emphasized the role of youth in revolt in his country and explained that currently the youth, who had no previous education policy is discussed through the network which system then they would have made Ben Ali. According to a survey quoted by Jemni, 61% of the population is optimistic about the future states of Tunisia and stressed that public pressure has been determined that the transitional government there are no collaborators of the former regime. The young Tunisian student recalled that on 24 July will be held the first free elections to choose new cabinet and also approved a new constitution.
The next speaker, vice president of the Egyptian House in Barcelona, Alaa Hamed Amir, stood the reasons for the revolution in their country dating back to 2004, when half of the government of Hosni Mubarak were businessmen and half the young population under 25. The representatives of secular organizations were in prison and oal’exili Islamists had “heard but not nails,” he said Hamed. Regarding the first outburst of protest on 25 January, the Egyptian wanted to make clear that young people came to express their political demands and social after mass communicating through Facebook and Twitter and that “nobody was behind her. There were deaths and injuries, which increased in the following demonstration of 18 February -600 deaths and nearly 5,000 injured, according to Hamed. The demands were also increasing and has already demanded the resignation of Mubarak.
In the case of Libya, the population is suffering the wrath of the dictator Muamar Qaddafi uprisings in demand for freedom and democracy. The exiled Fairies Faiz told the harshness of the situation: the army and the mercenaries hired by the regime and provoke bloodshed after collected the corpses and burn. The cities are closed, no water or electricity, without entry of food or medicine. It gets people to hit the streets. So they controlled Tripoli in a week, according Fairies, adding that this is not a civil war if not to defend people who do not kill. I ended up highlighting that the Libyans want democracy, not an Islamic regime.
The last speech was given by the Lebanese Ghassan Saliba, who made a general analysis of the Arab world by placing input that these revolutions are not spontaneous or sporadic, “the Arabs have not surprised, but the conditions are ripe with rotten regimes, “he said. By Saliba, there are few factors. First, the failure of national sovereignty in terms of defending the unity of Arab countries and control their natural wealth. “Many have gone from being unable to accomplices” and referred to the support of some occupation of Iraq and “betraying the Palestinian cause.” Secondly, popular revolutions attributed to the lack of political economic and social development of democratic freedoms and denounced the repressive apparatus that have kept the regimes of these countries.
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Saliba pointed out that Islam has been used against Arabism since the Nasser era and the struggles that have led to revolutions accumulated current, which in his opinion had a decisive role leftist political parties and trade unions “were the fights that have created the conditions for following up and talking to people who have been on the streets,” he said.
As Lebanese union based in Barcelona, this is a complex process with different results depending on who wins the people in each country and what is needed if Europe is to define the left because “the relations between Europe and the Arab world must change, before the expired, the Arab countries want to conquer their national sovereignty, “he said Saliba.
