Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by LARABI Samir, SMITH Shelagh
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, (…)
, by BIRCHALL Ian
The relations between Muslims and revolutionary socialists have often been problematic. A few years ago in France there was bitter controversy in the Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste when a Muslim woman who wears the hijab was selected as a candidate for the regional elections. Yet in the early (…)
, by PRASHAD Vijay
As Frantz Fanon, who was born in 1925 today wrote, the media of the people has to give them the confidence to act in the world
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain In the flurry of events that led to the NATO war on Libya in 2011, a question (…)
, by BENNOUNE Karima
In honour of the determination of people like Algerian TV producer, Aziz Smati, who was shot exactly twenty years ago today, we must support all those who wield song against suicide belt, and wage art against fundamentalism, writes Karima Bennoune.
Group of four men smiling at camera Aziz (…)
, par RYAN Yasmine
Twenty-two years ago on January 11, Algeria’s brief flirtation with democracy came to a screaming halt, opening the gate to a bloody civil war.
Today, that conflict tends to be viewed through an Islamist-versus-secularist lens, but there were many caught in the crossfire who were opposed to (…)
, by BENNOUNE Karima
For all its problems, Algeria never became an Islamic state. Like Algerian progressives in the 1990s, Egyptian progressives now have to carve out the space to construct a credible alternative under the shield of the new transitional process, and simultaneously challenge the military’s human (…)
, by BENNOUNE Karima
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the Algerian jihadists war on culture. Those who waged the intellectual struggle against fundamentalism in Algeria throughout the 1990s received little support internationally. Karima Bennoune pays tribute to those who fell in the culturicide, and (…)
, by BENFODIL Mustapha
Fundamentalist mass murder of Algerian people of letters in the 1990s was an intellectocide, in the tradition of totalitarian culture wars. Today, official limits on expression benefit fundamentalist ideas. This is the second death of Algerian intellectuals, says Mustapha Benfodil
The massive (…)
, by BENNOUNE Karima
Twenty years ago today Algeria’s military-backed government stopped the country’s electoral process, preventing the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) from coming to power and dismantling the Algerian republic – something it had openly promised to do. In context, this was the better of the two bad (…)
, by LEMA Luis
ICRC delegates had access to Algerian detainees from 1955 onwards and noted the occurrence of torture. They were not allowed to talk about it but Le Monde published a summary of their report - press article published in Le Temps (Switzerland) on 19 August 2005.
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All other (…)
, by AIT-HAMOU Louisa
Introduction
Since 11 September 2001, the world, and particularly the United States, seem to have suddenly realised that Muslim fundamentalism, in its extreme form of terrorism, is a real threat. It is only now that the US and many European countries recognise that they have to build (…)
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