The right-wing attack on Algerian boxer Imane Khelif
The media lynching, fueled by right-wing attacks on the boxer, was a particularly foul expression of the cultural rot afflicting capitalism.
•Nick Barrickman
Algeria
Wildfires raging across southern Europe and north Africa kill more than 40 people
Greece has been at the epicentre of the fires, with the Greek Fire Brigade fighting a losing battle against more than 500 blazes for almost two weeks.
•Robert Stevens
Macron visits Algeria amid escalating NATO war on Russia
While seeking to secure Algerian gas and whitewash the history of French crimes in Algeria, Macron hypocritically denounced Russia and China as "imperialist" powers.
•Kumaran Ira
Spain deports whistle-blower Mohamed Benhalima to Algeria to face execution
Benhalima’s deportation is a damning indictment of Spain’s nominally “progressive” PSOE-Podemos government, and a blatant violation of international law
•Alice Summers
French presidential candidate Le Pen threatens Germany and Algeria
The aggressive international policy of the two presidential candidates, Le Pen and Macron, vindicates the SEP’s call to build a movement to boycott the elections.
•Alex Lantier
Who benefits from the official silence?
Maurice Papon and the October 1961 massacre of Paris
In April 1998, Maurice Papon, then aged 88 years old, was sentenced to prison by a French court for having organised, the deportation of 1,690 Jews from France during the wartime Vichy regime, while he was the general secretary of the police prefecture in the Gironde.
•Françoise Thull, Marianne Arens
Sixty years since the massacre of Algerians in Paris on October 17, 1961
Sixty years ago, shortly before the end of the Algerian war and Algeria’s independence from France in 1962, French police perpetrated a horrific racist massacre in Paris.
•Alex Lantier
French President Emmanuel Macron insults Algeria, provoking diplomatic crisis
Macron’s comments are aimed at legitimizing French colonialism and inciting neo-fascist chauvinism.
•Anthony Torres
Sixty nine dead in Algeria as forest fires devastate the Mediterranean region
Dozens have died in Algeria as forest fires and record temperatures ravage the north of the country and the entire Mediterranean region.
•Alex Lantier
Whitewashing the crimes of French imperialism in Africa
President Macron admits French assassination of Ali Boumendjel in the Algerian war
Macron’s recognition of the French state’s crime in Algeria is a cynical and empty political manoeuvre. In January, Macron refused to apologise for French crimes in Algeria.
•Kumaran Ira
Five candidates contest December 12 Algerian election amid mass opposition
The field of candidates, who are all tools of the regime, vindicates the overwhelming opposition of workers and youth in Algeria to the elections.
•Kumaran Ira
Algerian junta to slash energy subsidies amid mass protests
Ahmed Gaid Salah’s military regime has approved a bill to pay off global oil and gas firms by slashing billions of dollars in subsidies for Algerian workers.
•Kumaran Ira
Algerian regime jails top generals, Workers Party leader Louisa Hanoune
The trial covered up the historic crimes of the military defendants and sets a precedent for cracking down on workers in struggle against the bloody Algerian military regime.
•Kumaran Ira, Alex Lantier
Mass protests erupt against Algerian army’s call for December elections
Protesters demanded no election take place as long as stooges of the ousted President Abdelaziz Bouteflika remain in power.
•Kumaran Ira
Algerian army suspends July 4 presidential elections
The decision came amid continuing mass weekly protests of workers and youth in cities across Algeria, opposing the elections, Interim President Bensalah and the military dictatorship.
•Will Morrow
As protests grow, Algerian army arrests Workers Party leader
The army is imprisoning Louisa Hanoune on baseless charges to send a signal that it will deal ruthlessly with anyone, even figures with close ties to the regime.
•Will Morrow
Mass protests intensify against Algerian regime
Anger erupted after 13 workers protesting the lack of water near Tebessa were shot by security guards at the Youkous bottled water factory.
•Will Morrow
Algerian regime escalates police violence against growing protests
Four days after police assaulted demonstrators with tear gas and rubber bullets, General Gaed Salah gave a nationally-televised address threatening protesters.
•Will Morrow
Which way forward for the struggle against Algeria’s military dictatorship?
After the 2011 uprising and the 2013 military coup in Egypt, there is a broad sense that mass militant protests by themselves cannot overthrow an entrenched ruling class.
•Alex Lantier
Algerian army purges intelligence agencies as anti-regime protests grow
Amid growing popular distrust of the army, the army is firing top intelligence officials implicated in the regime’s crimes during Algeria’s bloody 1992-2002 civil war.
•Alex Lantier