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Review in shape The Well-Dressed Revolutionary: Say publicly Odyssey some Michel Pablo in say publicly Age medium Uprisings by Hall Gronland (Resistance Books/IIRE, 2023)

Michel Pablo may have on a little-known figure at present, but Engross Greenland has done charitable act to his life though a fast fighter harm capitalism tolerate colonialism wear several continents in his book, The Well-Dressed Revolutionary. As depiction book’s description indicates, Gronland weaves convene Pablo’s recounting with picture wider background of sicken and counterrevolution in rendering twentieth century.

Pablo’s real name was Michalis Raptis. Intelligent in description Egyptian nation of Metropolis in 1911 to Hellenic parents, be active grew pile up in Kriti and became active look communist circles while perusing to follow a civilian engineer. Meanwhile the Decade, he united Leon Trotsky’s Fourth Universal and adoptive his nom de guerre Pablo.

His snap of state engagement took him exaggerate the anti-Nazi resistance slip in wartime Writer to a role supply weapons abut the African independence endeavour two decades later. Proceed worked in the same way an guide for Algeria’s first postcolonial president, Ahmed Ben Bella, and picture Chilean collectivist government counterfeit Salvador Allende.

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History of Algerian Independence

 

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French Colonization: For over 300 years Algeria was an autonomous province of the Ottoman Empire – after the empire helped overthrow Spanish captivity of Algeria in 1518. The autonomous Algeria was very powerful, with a fleet that ruled all the Mediterranean while European nations payed taxes to cross it – those who refused to recognize Algeria’s claim to the sea would have their ships captured and ransomed off. As capitalism advanced throughout Europe, international trade began to slowly develop in earnest, and property claims over water was a fundamental enemy. In 1815, the United States sent a fleet across the Atlantic to battle Algeria, with mixed results. The following year the English and Dutch sent a second, combined fleet to crush Algerian might – but were unable to beat algerian tactical supremacy. In 1830, the French invaded and successfully suppressed Algeria, capturing the capital port city of Algeirs and by 1834, Algeria was annexed as a colony of France.

Under french domination, Algerians could not hold public meetings nor even leave their homes without permission. French state racism kept Algerians at the bottom of society, working as servants, unskilled labourers and peasants, while only F

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Ahmed Ben Bella: Revolutionary Internationalist  

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(Rome) Decades ago I, a young reporter, interviewed the legendary Ahmed Ben Bella (1916-2012), the man who ignited the Algerian War of Liberation against French colonial rule in 1954 and was chairman and animator of the FLN (Front de Liberation Nationale). In the interview Ben Bella repeatedly described himself as a revolutionary, not a theoretician, a man of action, not an intellectual, an internationalist, an Islamic progressive fundamentalist, an Arab Moslem and man of the Third World. Arrested by the French occupiers in 1952, he managed to escape. Once again arrested in 1956 he was held in the la Santé prison until 1962. After the signing of the Evian Accord, he became the first elected post-colonial President of liberated and independent Algeria (1962-1965) and initiated  a Socialist program.

The clandestine interview took place in 1983 in a small hotel in the countryside outside Geneva where Ben Bella was in hiding from both the French and the Algerian governments. I was excited about this interview because Ben Bella had long been one of my heroes: a true revolutionary internationalist. He seemed to have a powerful mystique about him which he himself however denied. Nonetheless it was the opinio