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Algeria: Preparing for the long struggle ahead

4 January 2021 - by Hamza Hamouchene, Selma Oumari

COVID-19 has been a blessing to the ruling classes in Algeria. However, the popular Hirak movement has not said its last word yet. In 2020, the Algerian uprising embarked on its second year and despite the immense difficulties and challenges (...)
The Algerian revolution: the struggle for decolonization continues

25 March 2020 - by Hamza Hamouchene

After more than one year of weekly protests, the Algerian uprising continues unabated. It has booked historical victories, but there is a long road ahead still. Algeria is going through a revolutionary phase. The mass-scale uprising that (...)
Feminists on the front lines of the Algerian uprising

10 September 2019 - by Leïla Ouitis

Since the start of the uprising, women have taken up an increasingly prominent role, demanding gender equality and the abolition of the patriarchal Family Code. When in early February Algeria’s ailing octogenarian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika (...)
Post-Bouteflika Algeria: For a Democratic Transition

6 July 2019 - by Jérôme Duval

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 (...)
Welcome to the new Algerian revolution: an interview with Hamza Hamouchene

22 April 2019 - by Hamza Hamouchene

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 (...)
Algeria in revolt: “We woke up and you will pay!”

9 April 2019 - by Hamza Hamouchene

The abdication of President Bouteflika is a historic victory for the Algerian people — but the struggle for a true democratic transition is far from over. What is happening in Algeria is truly historic. The people won the first battle in their (...)
The “Hirak” Movement in Algeria Against Bouteflika’s “Mandate of Shame”

8 March 2019 - by Jérôme Duval

Announced as a candidate for a fifth term, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who celebrated his 82nd birthday on Saturday, 2nd March has been hospitalised in a clinic in Switzerland since Sunday, 24th February. The Algerian head of state, (...)
Remembering Ahmed Ben Bella, first President of independent Algeria who passed away on the 11^th April, 2012 at 96

14 April 2012 - by Eric Toussaint

Ahmed Ben Bella had spent more than 21 years of his life in jail: 6 years in French prisons (1956-1962) and 15 years after he was overthrown in Algeria on 19 June 1965 by a military coup led by Colonel Houari Boumedienne. I will straightaway (...)