Algeria: contested & embattled

Abstract

A decade of violence and news of bloody massacres have replaced the positive images of Algeria ‐ the FLN's successful fight to liberate the country from French colonialism, which was captured for many of us in Pontecorvo's film, The Battle of Algiers; the pioneering writings of Frantz Fanon based on his Algerian experience; and Algeria's leadership (with Cuba) of the Group of 77, which launched the New International Economic Order in 1974 and called for self‐reliant national development grounded in a strategy of collective Third World action.