Abbane Ramdane News Today

This 5th of July marks 61 years since Algeria won its independence from French colonial rule. The victory must be marked as that of the people’s amidst all attempts by the regime to co-opt the revolutionary history, argues Abdelkader Cheref.

The Algerian Insurrection Quevedo said of the Spaniards: "they havent been able to be historians but they deserved to be". This is still true of the 1936 Spanish Revolution: others have written the history. Its too early to write the history of the insurrection that started in Algeria during spring 2001, but its not too late to defend it; and to fight the deep indifference as we see it in France. From Black Flag #222 (2002). To illustrate the significance of this uprising, we need to look at ...