The Socialist Movement of Ghana (SMG) stands in full and unconditional solidarity with Comrade Hamma Hammami, Secretary-General of the Workers’ Party of Tunisia, against the campaign of incitement against him and threats of assassination. On Monday, 13 July 2026, a video circulated on social media showing a man openly with his face uncovered calling on the Tunisian authorities to arrest Comrade Hammami over his party’s political positions.
He did not stop there. He went on to call for the assassination of Comrade Hammami and other opposition figures, declaring his own personal readiness to carry out the killings. He accused Comrade Hammami of apostasy and treason in the most degrading terms. Tunisia’s Public Prosecutor’s Office has taken no action. Silence in the face of an open call to murder is not neutrality. It is complicity. It manufactures the very climate of impunity in which such threats are converted into action. Let us be clear about what this recalls. Tunisia has lived through this before.
During the rule of the Ennahda Movement in 2012 and 2013, an atmosphere of religious denunciation and sanctioned violence against the left produced the assassinations of Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi, two socialist leaders murdered for the crime of organising the working class against reaction and capital.
What is happening to Comrade Hammami today is not an isolated provocation. It is a continuation of that same pattern: the branding of the left as apostate and traitorous, followed by a state that looks away while its opponents are marked for death. This is what reaction looks like when it cannot defeat the left in the realm of argument, it turns to the language of elimination. On 16 July 2026, fifteen socialist, communist, and progressive parties and organisations across the Arab world and North Africa from Morocco to Sudan, from Lebanon to Palestine, from Kuwait to Tunisia itself, issued a joint statement condemning this incitement and holding the Tunisian regime responsible for Comrade Hammami’s physical safety.
The SMG adds its voice to theirs. This is not a Tunisian matter alone. It is a matter for every organisation, on every continent, that has ever built a movement against capital and its enforcers because the criminalisation of the left in Tunis today is a rehearsal for the criminalisation of the left everywhere tomorrow. SMG therefore demands:
That the Tunisian state guarantee the immediate physical safety of Comrade Hamma Hammami and all opposition figures named in this and related campaigns of incitement.
2. That the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Tunisia open an immediate criminal investigation into the individual who threatened assassination on camera, and prosecute him.
3. That the Tunisian authorities publicly and unambiguously repudiate the campaign of denunciation against the Workers’ Party, and cease any conduct that lends it cover or legitimacy.
4. That revolutionary and progressive forces internationally remain vigilant, publicise this case, and press their own governments and international bodies to demand accountability from Tunis. The murders of Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi were not accidents of history.
They were the price the Tunisian left paid for a state that would not act until it was too late. We will not pay that price twice. The SMG stands with Comrade Hamma Hammami, with the Workers’ Party of Tunisia, and with the Tunisian people in their unbroken struggle for freedom, democracy, and justice.
Long live Comrade Hamma Hammami!
The workers united will never be defeated.
Signed.
Blaise Tulo for General Secretary