Press Review [Archives:2000/38/Press Review]

Al-Raie Al-Aam
weekly of September 12
Al-Raie Al-Aam has published an article on the economic crisis. The article has said that our country is undoubtedly going through a serious financial crisis threatening the future of the country unless proper solutions are introduced to rescue the national economy from the danger.
The economic suffering necessitates that the government should reconsider things by finding possible solutions and opportunities to straighten the flaws. The government has made the reforms in the form of doses each citizen has to bear under certain special circumstances. That has been under directives and recommendations of the government in response to demands of the International Monetary Fund, as if the latter offers a magical solution to Yemens problems.
All are demanded to contribute to leading the country from the crisis and it is necessary to adhere to integration of the internal front by all the Yemenis cooperation to develop the national economy. The article maintains that we have Yemen, with its regional weight and role represents a huge factor and thus we have to begin with reform and rectification. Our leadership has to get rid of the corrupt and effect comprehensive changes. It should put into consideration that reforming the national economic course would not come from outside the Republic of Yemen.
ATTAGAMMU
weekly organ of Hizb Attagammu Al-Wahdawi Al-Yemeni
Attagammu has tackled in its editorial in its issue of September 11, 2000 the theme of the Yemeni national movement.
It has said that the Yemeni national movement began with the group of enlightenment in Sanaa and Aden, Group of Al-Hikma Al-Yamania, and the revolutionaries of 1948, the schools of Aden and press. The beginning of its maturity came with the emergence of the trade unionist movement in Aden and its extension to Taiz and the rest of Yemeni cities. The trade unionist movement had constituted the essence and foundation for development of the national awareness and its dissemination in Yemen. Political parties and organisations had depended much on the trade unionist movement on fighting the colonization and the Immamate. But the regimes in former both parts of Yemen did not really comprehend the role of trade unions and thus rendered them to merely satellite to the authority. The unity came to make things worse. For instead of opening opportunity for the trade unions to play their role, the two parties sharing the rule had each taken its share of those unions until the war of 1994. The Peoples General Congress party had its sway on the unions and impoverished what remained of their elements till the trade unionist movement has lost its physical existence and become a body without soul and then it perished.
As national forces seeking for democracy would we muster our efforts to breathe life into the trade unionist movement, as a first step towards the road of democracy and progress?

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