The French Communist Party and the Algerian War

Abstract

Part 1 French colonization in Algeria: political and administrative status of Algeria economic aspects of Algeria's relationship with France settlers and indigenes the Algerian national liberation movement. Part 2 The PCF and the colonial question - an historical perspective: anti-colonialism and the socialist movement before 1920 the PCF and colonialism the tours congress the Sidi-Bel-Abbes scandal the Rif war the popular front the French Union the war in Indochina. Part 3 The PCF, the international situation, and the Algerian war from 1954-1959. Part 4 The French nation: the PCF and the grandeur of the French historical law and the the proletariat becomes the the oppositionnels and the the French - a bourgeois the PCF nourishes nationalism. Part 5 The PCF and the Algerian nation: the PCF and the national liberation movements in the colonies the theory of the PCF the French and Algeria Algeria - nation in formation settlers belong to the Algerian analysis of the settlers' situation an alternative definition of the Algerian demystification of Algerian history Arab-Berber population and colonialism the PCF under criticism, the oppositionnels, the FLN, the PCA. Part 6 France' military involvement in Algeria - the PCf and the oppositionnels: the PCF and the army the professional army the contingent the special powers action against the war the Mouvement des Rappeles refus, insoumission the Union des Etudiants Communistes working in committees. Part 7 Synthesis on the opposition: the oppositionnel reviews whence the opposition?.