Introduction – Imagining socialism and communism in Algeria
1. The land and its conquest
2. Grappling for a communist foothold
3. ‘The mountain “was going communist”’: peasant struggles on the
Mitidja
4. ‘This land is not for sale’: communists, nationalists and the
popular front
5. The nation in formation: communists and nationalists during the
Second World War
6. For an Algerian national front: unity and division in the
liberation struggle
7. Sparking an insurrection: pressure from the countryside
8. ‘Our people will overcome’: to the cities and the prisons
9. ‘We need a country that talks’: imagining the future Algeria
Conclusion: Algerian communists and the new Algeria
Bibliography
Index
Honorary Professor, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town and Professor Emerita, University of York
‘Neville Alexander and Henri Alleg would be pleased and proud to
read this superbly researched, carefully documented, absolutely
fair-minded and accurate account. It is well structured, with a
useful list of abbreviations, tables and maps. If there is an
archive Professor Drew has not consulted, a surviving participant
whom she did not interview, a relevant book or article and memoir
she did not consult, I am unaware of it.’
David L. Schalk, Science and society Vol. 80, No. 3, July 2016
‘Drew has told the story of communist political action in Algeria
in great detail, with attention to numerous individuals. At times,
the number of names in play becomes overwhelming and the
description of congress after congress seems excessive. But the
tale is worth telling, and this kind of careful narrative is an
essential building block for any analysis of the range of
possibilities that opened and shut during the years of struggle
over what kind of polity in what kind of wider political
configuration ? whether communist or imperial, national or federal
– Algeria could be. In the end, Drew doesn’t explicitly answer the
question of what the relationship of communism and nationalism
actually was. But that question has no single answer, and she has
given us a rich narrative of a struggle whose complexity is well
worth pondering.’
Frederick Cooper, Department of History, New York University,
Canadian Journal Of African Studies/La Revue Canadienne Des Études
Africaines, July 2016
‘We Are No Longer in France is a concisely written, empirically
dense, and thought-provoking case study which illuminates the
profound impact of the conflict between nationalism and
internationalism on global anti-colonial communism in the twentieth
century. […] Its language is precise, its citations are meticulous,
and its bibliography is extensive, ensuring its place as a key
reference work that will be useful to a wide range of scholars, as
well as to advanced undergraduate and graduate students of
colonial, imperial, and European political history.’
Michelle Rose Mann, Washington State University, H-France, Vol. 18
(2018)
'In sum, Allison Drew [...] present important studies on a whole
constellation of subjects: the impossibility of colonial reform,
the rhythms of politics, the blindness or clear-sightedness of
social actors, the experiences of activists and colonial subjects,
the construction of political spaces and the only partially
successful encounter between leftists and Algerian society.’
Notes de lecture - Le Mouvement social
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