Stamping their feet and huddling in leather jackets to keep warm, the few dozen people clustered outside the national trade union in Tunis breathe clouds of mist into the winter air and hold forth on deeply held grudges.
"We have both political and economic grievances," said Amine Ben Ammar, who works in a call centre. "The ordinary people went to the streets because they cannot buy milk...and politically, some people are being arrested with no reason, it was the same as under Ben Ali."
He and the other men and women here in the chilly shade belong to a union that has been a thorn in the side of successive Tunisian regimes and have all participated in marches of thousands of people in recent weeks.
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