Parti du peuple algérien
The Parti du Peuple Algérien (Arabic: Hisb asch-scha'b al-dschasa'iri , translated: Party of the Algerian People ; abbreviated: PPA ) was a party in French Algeria . It was founded in 1937 by Messali Hadj and committed itself to the country's independence from France. After it was banned in 1939, it continued to exist underground and with the Mouvement pour le triomphe des libértes démocratiques (MTLD) was a legal party to represent the natives in the colonial state.
history
The party was founded by Messali Hadj after the ban on the Étoile Nord-Africaine (ENA). It publicly committed itself to the emancipation of Algerians and anti-colonialism , but initially less advocated open independence. In July of the founding year 1937, the party organized a demonstration in Algiers with around 3,000 participants, where a modification of the current national flag was shown. Hadj and five party leaders were sentenced to two years in prison for sedition. The party was banned by colonial authorities at the beginning of World War II in September 1939.
However, the party managed to maintain and expand its organization covertly within the country. The party was increasingly recruiting urban workers and members of the small Muslim middle class, particularly those of a younger age. PPA members were among the organizers of the nationalist demonstrations at the end of the war in 1945, which ultimately ended in violent clashes. In the post-war period, the Mouvement pour le triomphe des libértes démocratiques (MTLD) functioned as the legal arm of the PPA. At a party congress in 1946, Hadj tried to get participation in elections within the political system of colonialism. In 1950 the PPA had around 20,000 active members. From 1947 the PPA built up a paramilitary arm with the organization Spéciale (OS) , which was supposed to prepare an anti-colonial uprising. The structures of the OS were largely smashed by the French security authorities in 1951/1952.
Many of their cadres of the PPA and the OS later found themselves among the leadership and founding cadres of the FLN , which began the Algerian War in 1954 , which ultimately resulted in the country's independence.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c John Ruedy: Modern Algeria - The Origins and Development of a Nation , 2nd edition. Bloomington, 2005, pp. 143, pp. 145-147, p. 153, p. 157f
- ↑ Ouanassa Siari-Tengour: 1945 - 1962 vers l'indépendance in Abderrahmane Bouchene, Jean-Pierre Peyroulou, Ounassa Sari Tengour, Sylvie Thénault: Histoire de l'Algérie à la Coloniale period 1830-1962. Paris 2014, p. 474f
- ^ Gilbert Meynier: Histoire intérieure du FLN 1954 - 1962 , Paris, 2004, pp. 70f