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Ken Olende: Ahmed Ben Bella: 1918-2012
Socialist Worker nr. 2298, apr 12 
Note: Ahmed Ben Bella became the first president of independent Algeria, after leading the struggle against the brutal rule of French colonialism.
 

Leo Zeilig: Pitfalls and radical mutations: Frantz Fanon’s revolutionary life
International Socialism Journal nr. 134, apr 12 – side 141
Note: Since his death Frantz Fanon has been appropriated for almost every cause. Five years after his death in 1961 he emerged as the preferred theorist of the emergent Black Power movement in the US, influencing Bobby Seale and Huey P Newton in the Black Panther Party.
 

17 October 1961: Massacre in Paris
Socialist Worker nr. 2273, okt 11 – side 8
Note: Fifty years ago police in Paris killed over 200 Algerian protesters and threw their bodies into the River Seine. Historian Jean-Luc Einaudi exposed the murders in his book The Battle of Paris. He spoke to Sellouma from France’s New Anticapitalist Party.
 

17 October 1961: Eyewitnesses to the 1961 Paris massacre
Socialist Worker nr. 2273, okt 11 – side 8
Note: A senior steward hurried to give me a green armband as I arrived. I effectively became a traffic warden, except that I was directing Algerians—women and men, old people and children.
 

Mark Thomas: Film: Outside the Law
Socialist Worker nr. 2252, maj 11 – side 11
Note: French-Algerian film director Rachid Bouchareb challenges the myths of French colonialism in his new film Outside the Law. In Days of Glory he recalled the central but forgotten role of soldiers from France’s North African colonies in the liberation of Europe from the Nazis. His new film is an uncompromising defence of the struggle for Algerian independence against French rule.
 

Siân Ruddick: Middle East round-up: ‘The gates to our freedom have been opened’
Socialist Worker nr. 2239, feb 11 – side 6
Note: Since Tunisia’s revolution began in December, people across North Africa and the Middle East have risen up against their regimes. They are inspired by Tunisia and Egypt, where two dictators were toppled in the last few weeks.
Algeria – Bahrain – Yemen – Palestine
 

Spreading revolt
Socialist Worker nr. 2238, feb 11 – side 2
Note: Tunisia – Egypt – Jordan – Yemen – Algeria – Saudi Arabia – Palestine – Morocco
 

Tunesien, Egypten ..: Protesterne spreder sig
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 306, feb 11 – side 10
Note: For første gang i årtier er det lykkedes et folkeligt oprør at vælte en diktator i den arabiske del af verdenen. Eksemplet fra Tunesien og senere fra Ægypten har spredt sig ud over Mellemøsten og Nordafrika. Det har givet mange en tro på at det er muligt at kæmpe imod undertrykkelsen.
 

Diktatorer overalt lever i frygt for det tunesiske eksempel
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 305, jan 11 
Note: Den tunesiske revolution har givet selvtillid til mennesker overalt til at gå til modstand.
 

Siân Ruddick: Oprør ryster nordafrikanske regimer
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 305, jan 11 
Note: Opstande ryster de autoritære regimer i Tunesien og Algeriet i Nordafrika. Demonstrationer har hærget Tunesien i mere end tre uger. Høj ungdomsarbejdsløshed, fattigdom og stigende leveomkostninger kombineret med elitens uanstændige rigdom og korruption har dette ført til raseri.
 

Jacqui Freeman: Film: "Intimate Enemies": A distant portrayal that ultimately fails the test
Socialist Worker nr. 2086, feb 08 – side 11
Note: Two million French soldiers fought in Algeria between 1954 and 1962 in a vain attempt to stop Algerian independence. An estimated 300,000 to 600,000 Algerians died compared to 27,000 French people.
 

Ian Birchall: Algeria: Torture last time
Socialist Review nr. 322, feb 08 – side 22
Note: When Algerian journalist Henri Alleg published his account of being tortured at the hands of the French colonial regime it became an instant bestseller. Ian Birchall tells us why the book is still as relevant today as it was 50 years ago during the Algerian War of Independence.
 

Sheila McGregor: The legacy of Frantz Fanon
Socialist Worker nr. 2052, maj 07 – side 13
Note: Sheila McGregor looks back at the life and work of the radical psychiatrist
 

Anne Alexander: Mujahideen on mopeds (A review of Hugh Roberts: "The Battlefield: Algeria 1988-2002" (Verso, 2003), £17, and Luis Martinez, The Algerian Civil War (Hurst, 2000), £16.50)
International Socialism Journal nr. 108, sep 05 – side 194
 

Ian Birchall: Resistance: Path of Greatest Resistance
Socialist Review nr. 290, nov 04 – side 16
Note: Bush and Blair's denunciation of Iraqi insurgents as 'criminals' and 'terrorists' recalls the experience of the French Resistance and the Algerian war of independence.
 

Jean-Paul Sartre: Resistance: The Rebel's Weapon
Socialist Review nr. 290, nov 04 – side 19
Note: In 1961 Frantz Fanon, a leader of the Algerian National Liberation Front, wrote the inspirational book 'The Wretched of the Earth'. French socialist, philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre wrote an extended introduction to Fanon's important work. Here we reprint extracts from Sartre's essay calling on the French left to support the Algerian struggle and see it as their own.
 

Frank Antonsen: Algeriet: Massakre for land og olie
Socialistisk Revy nr. 1, feb 98 – side 5
Note: I de sidste ti dage af 1997 blev 428 mennesker dræbt i Algeriet. I januar 1998 er der på blot en uge blevet dræbt mindst 600. Disse sidste mord er blot toppen af isbjerget af den borgerkrig, der har hærget Algeriet siden militærkuppet i 1992, og som anslået har kostet 80.000 menneskeliv.
 

Anders Schou: Islam: Vestens skræmmebillede
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 107, sep 94 – side 11
Note: Den muslimske tro er efterhånden etableret som den vestlige verdens nye skræmmebillede. Men fundamentalisme udspringer af andre forhold end religionen.
 

Rune Jakobsen: Vestens stille bifald til kuppet i Algeriet: Folket stemte – hæren bestemmer
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 78, feb 92 – side 2
 

Ian Birchall: Review: Revolution Against the Revolution
International Socialism Journal (1st series) nr. 34, sep 68 – side 37
Note: The Algerian Insurrection 1954-1962, Edgar O’Ballance,Faber, 36s. --- Major O’Ballance, an expert on revolutionary war whose sympathies lie firmly with the forces of ‘order,’ has written a military history of the Algerian war of national liberation. As such, it may serve to illuminate the complex relationship of political and military factors.
 

Theo Melville: 144 Exciteable Persons (Algeria)
International Socialism Journal (1st series) nr. 4, mar 61 – side 17
 

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