Allison Drew

We are no longer in France (eBook, ePUB)

Communists in colonial Algeria

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847799203
• Artikelnr.: 44477717

Autorenporträt

Born in New York City, Allison Drew divides her time between New York and York, England. She has a PhD from UCLA and is professor emerita at the University of York and honorary professor at the University of Cape Town. She has published five scholarly books on anti-apartheid and anti-colonial movements in South Africa and Algeria. She loves animals, rambling in the countryside and singing. Find out more at https://allisondrew.org/.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Imagining socialism and communism in Algeria 1. The land and
its conquest 2. Grappling for a communist foothold 3. 'The mountain "was
going communist"': peasant struggles on the Mitidja 4. 'This land is not
for sale': communists, nationalists and the popular front 5. The nation in
formation: communists and nationalists during the Second World War 6. For
an Algerian national front: unity and division in the liberation struggle
7. Sparking an insurrection: pressure from the countryside 8. 'Our people
will overcome': to the cities and the prisons 9. 'We need a country that
talks': imagining the future Algeria Conclusion: Algerian communists and
the new Algeria Bibliography Index