Anarchism in Algeria
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Anarchism in Algeria mainly concerns the history of the libertarian movement during and after French colonization in Algeria.
The colonial period
According to the French historian Gilbert Meynier: "The anticolonialist antecedents of French anarchism do not really make it possible to distinguish it, from the rest of the workers' movement in the colonies. It would be wrong to think that the anarchist tradition was quite anticolonialist. If activists claiming in any way the libertarian / anarchist current could have anti-colonialist positions, it was mainly through antimilitarism or defense, general and global, the oppressed."[1]
As early as the end of the 19th century, numerous groups of political activists (emigrants or exiles of European origin) claimed to be anarchist. Despite their desire to promote anarchism to the entire population of Algeria, the anarchist movement was predominantly European. Article writers, as well as subscribers of the libertarian press, were in their vast majority Europeans from Algeria. It was not until the 1920s that activists of Algerian Arab and Berber origin joined the movement.[2]
The libertarian press
The first anarchist newspaper, Revolutionary Action, was published in Algiers in
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In 1923, the "Libertarian Federation of North Africa" and its newspaper, Le Flambeau, was established by Algerian anarchists to coordinate
References
- ^ French Anarchists and the Algerian War
- ^ a b c Philippe Bouba, Le mouvement anarchiste en Algérie de 1887 à 1926 : presse de propagande et de combat, activités militantes et positions politiques face au fait colonial], Université d'Oran Es-Sénia, CRASC, Université de Perpignan, CRHiSM, 2011
- OCLC 473029141.
- OCLC 835144391.
Further reading
- Desnivic, Michael; Dhirem-Kasper., Habiba (2 November 2017). "Echoes of the Free Commune of Barbacha [Original title is "Échos de la commune libre de Barbacha" in Article 11, 2014.]". The Anarchist Library. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
- Wolfi Landstreicher (1 December 2002). "Insurrection in Algeria, Willful Disobedience , Vol. 4, No. 1 December 2002". The Anarchist Library. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
- Porter, David (2011). Eyes to the South : French Anarchists and Algeria. Oakland, CA: OCLC 886581899.
