The Masks Have Finally Come Off

The masks have finally come off

Interview with French decolonial activist Houria Bouteldja.

“The masks have finally come off”

Hello Houria. Thank you for talking to us. Could you briefly introduce yourself? I am a decolonial activist. I co-founded the Parti des Indigènes de la République in 2005. It is a decolonial political party which broke with the French Left, which we criticised for having abandoned people with a colonial history and, more broadly, for collaborating with what I call the “total racial state”. I develop this concept in my book Beaufs et Barbares, le…