70 years ago, on November 1, 1954, the Revolutionary Committee for Unity and Action, the future National Liberation Front (FLN), voted in favor of armed struggle. What we will long call, in mainland France, the “events,” is the beginning of an eight-year war of independence. But to understand the twist in history, we must delve deeper into what life was like for the “subjects” of the French Republic during colonization, a varied indigenous population that had nationality, but not citizenship.
How did people live in colonial Algeria? In this three-minute video, we look at the discrimination we suffered for 130 years, before it culminated in ‘Red All Saints’ Day’.
If you want to understand how the Algerian war remains central to the French political debate 70 years after its outbreak, we invite you to read the survey below.
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