Mainstreaming Revolutionary Violence in Tunisia

The Tunisian left still sees the dictatorship of the proletariat, and revolutionary violence as mainstream concepts. As recently as 2015 Haythem Al Mekki popular Mosaique Radio DJ defended violence against state property as a revolutionary act when commenting on some violent occurrences that followed demonstrations that members of the leftist Popular Front were involved and interestingly enough saw the Committees for the Protection of the Revolution as 'militias' and quasi 'terrorists'. There is a noticeable narrative of violence and autocratic tendencies being permissible if the perpetrators are of a certain cultural agenda. The focus has been on Islamist politics and whether they will lead to violence or dictatorship. If the focus doesn't shift to other actors which are supported by western funds and where some receive the bulk of civil society funding from the EU and EU member states, the lack of accountability may result in retarding the democratic transition of