PARIS - 24 JANVIER 2015 : MARXISME ET LA LUTTE ANTICOLONIALE EN ALGÉRIE

Allison DREW
(Professeur de Sciences politiques, Univ. York)

Samedi 24 janvier,
à 14h

Sorbonne
amphi Lefebvre

Amphithéâtre Lefebvre (escalier C, 1er étage)

17, rue de la Sorbonne,

75005 – PARIS

Entrée conseillée : 14, rue Cujas

RER : Luxembourg

We are no longer in France
Communists in colonial Algeria

Studies in Imperialism

HB 978-0-7190-9024-0

£75.00

234x156mm 336pp

September 2014

Allison Drew

Manchester University Press
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL
+44 (0) 161 275 2310
www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

This book recovers the lost history
of colonial Algeria’s communist
movement.
Meticulously researched
– and the only English-language
book on the Parti Communiste
Algérien – it explores communism’s
complex relationship with Algerian
nationalism.
During international
crises, such as the Popular Front
and Second World War years, the
PCA remained close to its French
counterpart, but as the national
liberation struggle intensified, the
PCA’s concern with political and
social justice attracted growing
numbers of Muslims.
When the Front
de Libération Nationale launched
armed struggle in November 1954,
the PCA maintained its organisational
autonomy – despite FLN pressure.

They participated fully in the national
liberation war, facing the French
state’s wrath. Independence saw
two conflicting socialist visions, with
the PCA’s incorporated political
pluralism and class struggle on the
one hand, and the FLN demand for
a one-party socialist state on the
other. The PCA’s pluralist vision was
shattered when it was banned by the
one-party state in November 1962.
This book is of particular interest to
students and scholars of Algerian
history, French colonial history and
communist history.