Thirty thousand police officers, at least, are in Algiers for the purpose of aborting the demonstration planned for Saturday. The agents control access to the capital and have set up checkpoints in the center. Last Saturday the opposition only managed to gather two thousand people. It will not be easy to overcome this figure.
The state of emergency bans demonstrations and more in Algiers. The opposition also split and young people walking the neighborhoods, which themselves have faced police forces in recent weeks, seem disconnected from the political protest. They want jobs, housing and wages, while the National Coordinator for Change and Democracy, the umbrella for several parties and independent trade unions, the emphasis on political reform.
If tomorrow's demonstration fails the call last week it is likely that the police force dissolved. The more people on the street, however, the harder it will get. The controls on the access roads have prevented demonstrators from reaching Algiers, in Kabylia and other marginalized regions where discontent with the regime is very high and the cost of living and lack of housing and opportunities.
The government tries to buy social peace with commodity subsidies and tolerance for illegal activities of young people. Yesterday allow street vendors, did not interfere with the squatters and turned a blind eye to the cliffs that rise in the neediest neighborhoods in the outskirts of Algiers that are already known as bidonvilles.
The only protests that have so far succeeded in Algiers and elsewhere in the Arab world are the spontaneous, without leaders or political parties that promote them, and tomorrow in Algiers is not of this sign. 
The state of emergency bans demonstrations and more in Algiers. The opposition also split and young people walking the neighborhoods, which themselves have faced police forces in recent weeks, seem disconnected from the political protest. They want jobs, housing and wages, while the National Coordinator for Change and Democracy, the umbrella for several parties and independent trade unions, the emphasis on political reform.
If tomorrow's demonstration fails the call last week it is likely that the police force dissolved. The more people on the street, however, the harder it will get. The controls on the access roads have prevented demonstrators from reaching Algiers, in Kabylia and other marginalized regions where discontent with the regime is very high and the cost of living and lack of housing and opportunities.
The government tries to buy social peace with commodity subsidies and tolerance for illegal activities of young people. Yesterday allow street vendors, did not interfere with the squatters and turned a blind eye to the cliffs that rise in the neediest neighborhoods in the outskirts of Algiers that are already known as bidonvilles.
The only protests that have so far succeeded in Algiers and elsewhere in the Arab world are the spontaneous, without leaders or political parties that promote them, and tomorrow in Algiers is not of this sign.
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