Did Someone Say Workers? (Part 1 of 2) | The Public Source
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The conspicuous absence of Lebanon’s labor movement is critical at this juncture; we know that labor mobilization played a crucial role in Egypt and Tunisia’s 2011 revolutions, and that it is a key feature of Sudan’s ongoing uprising. To understand the absence of labor in Lebanon’s revolutionary moment, we must turn to three factors: the assault of post-civil war neoliberal economic policies on Lebanese labor, an inhospitable legal environment, and organizational problems within the labor movement itself.