The Party of the European Left (EL) rigorously condemns the terrorist attack of the Islamic State perpetrated today in Tunis, in the headquarters of the Parliament, the maximum representation of democracy, and shares the pain of the victims and with all Tunisian people.

This attack, which has left more than a dozen people dead, occurs just less than a week from the beginning of the World Social Forum in Tunis, a unique space for discussion, sharing and convergence of social movements around the world.

Maite Mola, vice President of the EL, who will participate next week in the World Social Forum, along with other members of the Party of the European Left (EL), appealed to strengthen the participation, which is a way to respond to this attack of the Islamic State "because nobody is going to threaten this opportunity of convergence of global civil society".

“No terrorism will be able to silence the voice of the peoples when they are articulated across the world to reinforce their struggles against neoliberalism and capitalist globalization.

Nobody will be able to break the will of convergence, that helps to modify the balance of forces on a global scale, especially in times in which democracy becomes gets poorer every day, both in Europe and in the countries attacked by the fundamentalist terrorists and the imperialist interests”.

Today more than ever, the EL is with the Tunisian people and calls to strengthen the participation in this World Social Forum that will be inaugurated next Tuesday, March 24. The success of this Forum will depend, once again, on the active participation of the social movements, the organizations in struggle, the peasants and workpeople, the students, the unemployed people, the young people, the women, and the excluded ones”, explained Maite Mola, adding: "The terrorism has never immobilized us and it will not do it now neither.”.

European Left, March, 18th of 2015