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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 constitution (...)
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 and (...)
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 prison (...)
13 December, 2019, 43rd Friday of mobilisation: during the presidential election, dozens of demonstrators parade through the streets of Algiers, noses covered with flour – an allusion to the trafficking of cocaine and money laundering alleged against the son of the new president Abdeldmadjid (...)
Independent trade unionists in Algeria face escalating repression for their role in the ongoing democracy movement.
For the past two decades, workers in Algeria have been fighting for the right to form trade unions independent of the government and the official trade union organization UGTA. (...)
Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s former prime minister has been declared the winner of Algeria’s presidential election. Abdelmadjid Tebboune obtained 58% of votes in the first round. The abstention rate was close to 60%. Following the poll, the Hirak protest movement, which removed Bouteflika from the (...)
Protests in Algeria have been building since the start of the year. The protests, that have already forced former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to step down after 20 years, have lately been facing increasingly hostile repression from police and security services. In this interview with (...)
In Algeria, the slogan Yatnahaw ga’, “that they all blow off”, sums up the widely shared popular will to put an end to the “Bouteflika system”. It is a question of setting in motion a process of transition to a Second Republic.
In homage to Ramzi Yettou, a victim of repression who died at the age (...)
Eight years after the Arab Spring caused little stir in Algeria, a new generation has since come of age and is taking on the old guard — but the problems run deep.
When in early February Algeria’s ailing octogenarian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his intention to run for the (...)
In 2011, a wave of revolutionary struggle swept the Middle East and North Africa, often bringing down dictatorships that had governed for decades. Millions protested on the streets, occupied public spaces and demanded “bread, freedom and social justice”. Having broken through the fear produced by (...)
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