To understand what effects WW2 had on the nature of the fight against colonialism and imperialism in Africa we need to look at the climate just before WW2. Roger Quilliot et Louis Faucon, Paris: Bibliothéque Pléiade, 1962, 1194. 6 0 obj This caution must not lead to renouncing the struggle for democracy and the hegemony of the oppressed masses. endobj 24 0 obj Camus survived his illness and in the early 1940s left Algiers for metropolitan France and Paris. It takes it.”14 The Algerian nationalists could have made these words theirs, but Camus consistently refused to equate Algerian nationalism with the patriotism of the French Resistance. /Rotate 0 %PDF-1.4 /Parent 2 0 R /OpenAction [3 0 R /Fit] Having said that, Algeria has not yet become a simple valet to imperialism like the petro-monarchies of the Gulf, the Egypt of Hosni Mubarak, or the Jordanian monarchy, but it renounced the logic of resistance. Anyone who does not live to serve an immortal Creator must become a creator himself. /Parent 2 0 R In the late 1950s, Camus said that he could no longer take part in the debate: “I will not, under any circumstances, allow any statement of mine to be used to give a clear conscience to a reckless fanatic who shoots into a crowd in Algiers, where my mother and all my nearest and dearest live.”17 In January 1956, he made his last public appearance at a conference in Algiers, which, despite receiving death threats, he had helped to organize. /Rotate 0 Algeria nowadays, and especially after 9/11, closely cooperates with NATO, an organization that not only supported the French military against the Algerian people in the war of liberation (1954-1962), but recently invaded Afghanistan and intervened in Libya. /Rotate 0 /Resources 63 0 R 24 0 R 25 0 R 26 0 R 27 0 R 28 0 R 29 0 R 30 0 R 31 0 R 32 0 R 33 0 R Early May 1945 saw the first steps towards open warfare. It was a major step toward supporting Western military strikes but short of the explicit endorsement that the United States and some Gulf allies had hoped for. /CropBox [0.0 0.0 595.28 841.89] The new pathology of power (to borrow Eqbal Ahmad’s words) observed in the authoritarian and coercive practices of the nationalist bourgeoisie, the demobilization, and de-politicization of the rural and urban masses, was at the heart of the subsequent dismantling of the national development project and replacing it with an anti-national one. It does not happen only to others, so how can we avoid re-colonization, the direct management of our energy resources, the control of our territory, as well as the subordination of the country to interests that are not ours? /MediaBox [0.0 0.0 595.28 841.89] Therefore, dictatorship and authoritarianism are real existential threats and objective allies to imperialism.” Fifty years after its independence, Algeria has to reconnect with its past revolutionary ideals through the instigation of a democratic revolution to end tyranny and injustice, as well as dismantling the comprador state and installing an audacious anti-imperialist regime that will truly liberate the people and also strive to build an equitable multi-polar world order. We lived, he says, cheek by jowl with this “so close and yet so foreign people”. How are we to understand this mother figure that recurs throughout his writings? 38 0 obj Such behaviour is utterly inconsistent with a coherent anti-imperialist line and it can hardly be qualified as resistance to Western hegemony. /CropBox [0.0 0.0 595.28 841.89] /Filter /FlateDecode The Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC), irritated by the “neutralist” position of the Algerian authorities and their refusal to recognize it as an interlocutor, claimed--without any documented evidence--that Algeria gave support to the Gaddafi regime and provided him with mercenaries to curb the revolution.
