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In a context of increasing repression and against all odds, the Council of State yesterday, Thursday 20 January 2022, ordered the temporary suspension of our party’s activities and the closure of our premises. This is a serious precedent against multipartyism and an intolerable additional attack (...)
Dr. Rachid Ouaissa is a professor at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) at the University of Marburg in Germany and, since 2020, director of the Merian Center for Advanced Studies for the Maghreb (MECAM) in Tunis. We spoke with him about the current political, economic, and (...)
We learn that the Algerian Ministry of the Interior has filed an application with the Council of State for the provisional suspension of the Socialist Workers’ Party (PST) from its activities, including the closure of its premises. This move is part of a context marked by increasing repression (...)
The mass arrests of demonstrators on Friday 14 May, as well as those of dozens of journalists and well-known political leaders such as Wahid Ben Halla (MDS leader), Mohcen Belabbes (RCD President), Ali Laskri (FFS leader), etc., constitute a serious escalation in the repression that must stop (...)
Two years ago, one week after the great demonstration of Kherrata, the Algerian people adhered over the weeks, in a large majority from 22 February 2019, to the national uprising against the 5th mandate of the autocrat Bouteflika, and to impose respect for democratic freedoms and the (...)
This collection of texts in English, Arabic and French is a first attempt to gather secondary sources discussing the revolutionary mobilization that started in Algeria in February 2019. Since then, the four-term President Bouteflika has been forced to resign and the longstanding Chief of Staff (...)
The citizens’ movement of February 22, 2019 marked a turning point in the history of our country. Thanks to this historic mobilization, our collective dignity has been regained. Our word is free again. We got back into motion. To dream and hope for better days for our children. This new popular (...)
The following analysis, written soon after Algeria’s 12 December presidential election, is amongst the most sustained of the country’s Hirak (‘Movement’), and hence needs no elaborate introduction. It was written in French by Hocine Belalloufi, a leading figure of the Algerian Parti socialiste des (...)
For the defence of democratic and trade-union freedoms! No to the referendum and the Tebboune constitution! For the election of a sovereign Constituent Assembly!
This statement was issued by the Socialist Workers Party (PST) Algeria on 19 September 2020.
Regime continuity
Contrary to the (...)
On 12 December 2019 a new president was declared elected in Algeria, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, despite the fact that millions of Algerians boycotted the election, which they saw as illegitimate. Since February 2019 millions have protested peacefully, every Tuesday and Friday, against a corrupt (...)
Algerian workers had their first experiences of trade unions during the colonial period, under the aegis of the French unions established in Algeria, and amongst émigré workers in France.
The first General Confederation of Labour (CGT) trade union sections in Algeria were created from 1898, (...)
The Kabyle people are one of several Berber or Amazigh groups indigenous to North Africa, and comprise about 7 million of the 12 million Amazighspeaking people in Algeria. They have their own language and specific identity which they are fiercely proud of.
Kabylia (Tizi Ouzou, Bejaia, Bouira (...)
Could you briefly describe the school system in Algeria for our audience in the United Kingdom?
To answer this question, firstly I must place myself in my role as a trade unionist, that is to say to inform, and at the same time challenge the Algerian education system. The Algerian (...)
Since 2012/2013, there has been growing discontent and mobilisation from the unemployed movement represented by the CNDDC (National Committee for the Defence of Unemployed Rights), especially in the oil-rich Sahara, a region that provides the bulk of Algeria’s resources and state income but that (...)
Since February 22, 2019, Algeria has been living to the rhythm of a huge popular movement unprecedented since the country’s independence in 1962, a movement that can be described as a real revolutionary process.
The current popular movement has accentuated the regime’s crisis and is (...)
Women played — and still play — a crucial role in the uprising, as can be seen in their strong presence in marches and protests all over the country, including very conservative areas. They are actively involved in the students’ movement that managed to maintain its Tuesday marches for more than a (...)
Since the start of the revolutionary process in February 2019, the student movement has played an important role in the popular mobilisations that have shaken the Algerian regime. Admittedly, student mobilisations were initiated via social networks, but quickly a surge of self-organisation took (...)
BP signed its first joint venture in Algeria in 1995, only three years after the military coup that cancelled the first multi-party legislative elections in Algeria since independence from French colonial rule.
The contract was signed while a brutal civil war was raging, with systematic (...)
The Algerian uprising embarked on its second year and despite the immense difficulties and challenges encountered in the first year, the movement has not disappeared. We are in a situation of relative equilibrium in the balance of forces on the ground.
The Hirak could not topple the regime (...)
Since the Hirak movement began, the regime has tried various repressive strategies to combat the protests.
It has used the police and the courts to keep activists, opposition politicians and journalists in prison for months pending trial, and to hand out increasingly draconian fines and (...)
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