Algeria: Colonisation and racism - International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Algeria: Colonisation and racism - International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Jean-Michel Apathie, a well-known French mainstream columnist, was suspended from the RTL television channel on 5 March after pointing out that France had committed massacres during the colonisation of Algeria. IVP602 - March 2025 / France, Algeria, Imperialism

By Ali Farid Belkadi – The history of French colonization in Algeria (1830-1962) is marked by systemic violence, going far beyond the purely military framework. This violence was not only a matter of armed clashes, but was part of an organized system of terror, dispossession, and repression, designed to annihilate all resistance and establish colonial domination. Countless accounts, including key ones from French soldiers involved in the repress…

Beyond the relations between the two governments, there continues to be a strong link, mixing hostility and attraction, between the Algerian and French populations.