{"id":32702,"date":"2021-10-09T18:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T18:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/?p=32702"},"modified":"2021-10-06T23:34:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T23:34:41","slug":"the-algerian-revolution-changed-the-world-for-the-better-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/en\/the-algerian-revolution-changed-the-world-for-the-better-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Algerian Revolution Changed the World for the Better – PART 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY ROBERT MAISEY<\/a>\u00a0In https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/<\/h4>\n

A War on Two Fronts<\/h1>\n

The Algerian\u00a0Front de Lib\u00e9ration Nationale<\/em>\u00a0(FLN) that then emerged was an organization that valued action over theoretical nuance, and unity over distinctiveness. On November 1, 1954, the FLN unilaterally declared war on France. The war began before the FLN had even taken concrete political shape, and the core leadership gambled on attracting immediate popular support for the struggle. It was a wager based on the desires of the FLN leadership, mostly soldiers rather than scholars, to turn ineffectual rhetoric into decisive action \u2014 and it worked.<\/p>\n

The French reacted to the challenge as they had always done in the past: with swift, brutal repression. However, in the new international context, the old methods produced diametrically opposite results. Sensing the winds of change blowing across the colonized world, Algerians flocked to the banner of the FLN, first in their thousands, and then in their millions. The French responded with an intensified anti-insurgency campaign in which the use of torture, concentration camps, and the murder of civilians became nothing short of official policy.<\/p>\n