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Messali Hadj
Algerian politician ()
Ahmed Ben Messali Hadj (May 16, – June 3, ; commonly known as Messali Hadj, Arabic: مصالي الحاج) was an Algerian nationalist politician dedicated to the independence of his homeland from French colonial rule. He is often called the "father" of Algerian nationalism.[2]
He co-founded the Étoile nord-africaine, and founded the Parti du peuple algérien and the Mouvement pour le triomphe des libertés démocratiques before dissociating himself from the armed struggle for Independence in He also founded the Mouvement national algérien to counteract the ongoing efforts of the Front de libération nationale.
Early life
[edit]Ahmed Ben Messali Hadj was born in Tlemcen in His father Hadj Ahmed Messali was of Turkish origin[3][4][5][6] and his mother Ftéma Sari Ali Hadj-Eddine belonged to a family of seven daughters, raised in Muslim traditions by their father, a qadi, a member of the Dar
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P., Tir�sias, , in-8, br., pp. (Alg) La passion de l'Alg�rie Libre. Ce p�re du nationalisme alg�rien marque, comme le fait remarquer justement l'auteur, le mouvement ouvrier de notre d�but de si�cle. Militant du P.C.F. et de la C.G.T.U. d�s , il dirige l'�toile Nord-Africaine au sein d e l'�migration alg�rienne, et en luttera avec l'�toile pour l'ind�pendance de l'Alg�rie. Toujours dans le camp de la libert� et lutteur infatigable, il combattra inlassablement le fascisme et sera toujours aux c�t�s de la classe ouvri�re fran�aise. D�s l'interdiction de l'�toile en , il cr�era le P.P.A. Ni dix ans de prison dans le terrible bagne de Lamb�se ni l'exil ne pourront le faire taire. Ce dirigeant hors du commun fonde en le M.T.I.D., qui pr�pare la lutte arm�e pour l'ind�pendance de l'Alg�rie. Ex. du S.P. Joint le pri�re d'ins�rer.
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In December , as Paris was brought to a standstill bygd a massive public sector strike, inom was happily foraging away in the backroom of the Centre for the Study and Research of International Revolutionary and Trotskyist Movements (CERMTRI). The volunteer archivist, who had ducked off from the picket line to open the archive, assured me that my research did not constitute strike-breaking and gave me free rein to root around in the collection. Amongst the pamphlets, posters, and party bulletins, I stumbled across this portrait of the founder of the first major Algerian nationalist movement, Messali Hadj, and his radical French wife, Émilie Busquant. The story of the painting’s origins, the couple it portrays, and the means bygd which it ended up in the CERMTRI, underlines how the affective obligationer of solidarity that transcended barriers of race were an important and enduring feature of interwar Algerian nationalism. It also highlights the limits of these forms of solidarity in the face of