Secret trials, disappearances and threats to activists are increasing. Special powers introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic are being misused against regime opponents.
Human rights activists have accused Algeria of exploiting the coronavirus outbreak to crack down on opponents who have been (...)
The virus’s rapid spread in the North African country is threatening the momentum of the year-long demonstrations.
Month after month, protesters in Algeria have braved cold weather, the threat of force and arrests to demand an end to decades of kleptocratic rule - only to now be confronted by (...)
13 December, 2019, 43rd Friday of mobilisation: during the presidential election, dozens of demonstrators parade through the streets of Algiers, noses covered with flour – an allusion to the trafficking of cocaine and money laundering alleged against the son of the new president Abdeldmadjid (...)
Independent trade unionists in Algeria face escalating repression for their role in the ongoing democracy movement.
For the past two decades, workers in Algeria have been fighting for the right to form trade unions independent of the government and the official trade union organization UGTA. (...)
Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s former prime minister has been declared the winner of Algeria’s presidential election. Abdelmadjid Tebboune obtained 58% of votes in the first round. The abstention rate was close to 60%. Following the poll, the Hirak protest movement, which removed Bouteflika from the (...)
Protests in Algeria have been building since the start of the year. The protests, that have already forced former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to step down after 20 years, have lately been facing increasingly hostile repression from police and security services. In this interview with (...)
In Algeria, the slogan Yatnahaw ga’, “that they all blow off”, sums up the widely shared popular will to put an end to the “Bouteflika system”. It is a question of setting in motion a process of transition to a Second Republic.
In homage to Ramzi Yettou, a victim of repression who died at the age (...)
Eight years after the Arab Spring caused little stir in Algeria, a new generation has since come of age and is taking on the old guard — but the problems run deep.
When in early February Algeria’s ailing octogenarian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his intention to run for the (...)
In 2011, a wave of revolutionary struggle swept the Middle East and North Africa, often bringing down dictatorships that had governed for decades. Millions protested on the streets, occupied public spaces and demanded “bread, freedom and social justice”. Having broken through the fear produced by (...)
After having taken note of the invitation of the PST on 21 April by the “Presidency of the Republic” to “a consultation meeting on the preparation of the presidential” and which takes place on Monday 22 April 2019 at Club des Pins, the National Secretariat of the party has decided the following: (...)
It is the political question that is now structuring the actions and debates in the popular protest movement known as “Hirak”. Since 22 February 2019, the date of the emergence of the movement that occupies the street and Algerian public space, the demand has quickly passed from its ethical (...)
Workers, young people, women and the popular masses as a whole have just snatched, after more than 40 days of strikes and unprecedented mass demonstrations, a precious and historic first victory by forcing the departure on 2 April 2019 of Bouteflika – the embodiment of an oligarchic, (...)
Surprise after surprise in Algeria: President Bouteflika appointed the general who wanted to remove him as minister, before announcing his own resignation on 2 April 2019. Kamel Aïssat, an activist in the Parti socialiste des travailleurs (Socialist Workers’ Party, Algerian section of the Fourth (...)
Statement adopted by the Executive Bureau of the Fourth International.
Algeria is experiencing a popular uprising that is unprecedented since the proclamation of national independence. Since 22 February 2019, following calls launched on the Internet, large rallies, with a massive presence of (...)
PST s Wednesday The popular movement has just registered a first moral victory by forcing the regime to abandon the 5th term and to cancel the elections of April 18, so much denounced by the people.
In fact, after being categorically refused the granting of a fifth term by the people, (...)
Many citizens object to the ailing president’s attempt to serve a fifth term in office
Algerians have begun five days of general strike as protests against the rule of the ailing president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, entered a new phase.
Shops across the country were closed and groups of workers (...)
The gigantic popular mobilizations of these last ten days that have shaken the authoritarian power of Bouteflika, have not been enough to make him give up a 5th mandate.
His long-awaited response on Sunday 3 March turned out to be a joke in bad taste. Not only is Bouteflika seeking a new (...)
After the social explosion in opposition to the government’s draft finance law followed by conflicts with the security forces in early January 2017 in a number of Algeria’s wilayats – in Bejaïa, Bouira, Boumerdes, Blida and Tiaret – and the social discontent in others, the question is: are they the (...)
A former dignitary of the Algerian regime argues that, since the death of Boumediene, the government has tried to create a social base by developing “corruption and widespread consumption”
A populist rentier regime
There is, he said, “a division of the economic system, by a logic of corruption (...)
François Hollande’s “wisecrack” about the « safe and sound » return of his Minister of the Interior following the latter’s visit to Algeria, the broadcast on the French TV channel Canal Plus showing a montage of images that illustrated the bizarre nature of the discussion between the president and his (...)
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