Youth protest campaigns: Shifting stakes, ambiguous party relations

Over the past month, Tunisia’s streets have provided the setting for a number of social movements marked by the new campaign slogan Basta (enough). The emergence of this campaign has raised a number of questions around the effectiveness of this form of struggle in achieving its demands and independence from political parties, especially in terms of its ability to preserve a horizontalist organization. Questions frequently raised in the context of youth protest campaigns that have been carried out in Tunisia over the past several years (Fech Nestannew, Manich Msameh, Tamarrod).