Algerian Communist Party
The Algerian Communist Party ( French Parti Communiste Algérien , abbreviation PCA ) was a communist party in Algeria .
The general secretary of the PCA was Bachir Hadj Ali .
The PCA emerged as an extension of the French Communist Party (PCF) in 1920 and became its own party in 1936.
The PCA, under the influence of the French Communist Party , opposed the colonial oppression of Algeria, but was also aloof from the Algerian national liberation struggle. The PCF also viewed Algeria as too immature for national independence.
In 1955 the party was banned in French North Africa by the French authorities . The party oriented itself in the direction of the National Liberation Movement.
The PCA was granted legal status in 1962, but was banned and disbanded two years later, in 1964. The Algerian communists later regrouped under the Socialist Avant-garde Party (PAGS).
Individual evidence
- ^ Trond Gilberg (Ed.): Coalition Strategies of Marxist Parties . Duke University Press, 1988, ISBN 0-8223-0849-5 , p. 242.