Nearly six decades after Algeria's independence, the War of Liberation (1954-1962) remains of interest to historians and researchers, at a time when the official authorities in France and Secret Algeria have not removed all documents related to that historical stage.

To find out the facts of what happened during that stormy period, the work of researchers and historians seeking to unveil the accounts of events seems more important, and some historical readings seek to highlight new episodes or unknown aspects of the Algerian war.

Some French works have recently been issued to shed new light on some aspects of that war before, during and after the war operations carried out by the French colonial authorities, and these literature issued last April reviews the course of those Algerians who did not accept without reservation, or did not accept at all, The leadership of the National Liberation Front during the war, then it is the story of the losers.

The other novel

In the book “Algeria, Another Story of Independence… Revolutionary Paths for the Supporters of Masali Al-Hajj”, sociologist and politician Naguib Sidi Moussa explores the journey of the Algerian independence movement that he led since the mid-twenties of the fighter Masali Al-Hajj, who was one of the first to resist French colonialism until The outbreak of the liberation war in 1954, and he was dubbed "the father of the national movement in Algeria".

Algerian researcher Najib Sidi Moussa explains in his book "Algeria, Another Look at Independence," his reading of the path of the Masali movement (Al-Jazeera).

This movement was called the "Movement for the Victory of Democratic Freedoms" and was the political front for the Algerian People's Party, which succeeded the "North African Star" organization, which was founded in France in 1926 by Algerian migrant workers, and was banned by the French authorities.

The movement was banned by the occupation authorities in late 1954, but its activity resumed under another name throughout the liberation war before it regained the name "Algerian People's Party" after 1962.

Although the movement was involved in the liberation movement, it was marginalized in bloody confrontations (at least four thousand dead) by the National Liberation Front, which was seeking to dominate the path of independence and seize power later, according to the book.

Algerian memory

Although the Algerian authorities tried to place the "Movement for the Victory of Democratic Liberties" in the traitor's camp and erase it from history books, the path of the Masalid movement (relative to Masali al-Hajj) and the episodes of civil war between the movement and the front became known, especially thanks to the work of the Algerian historian Mohamed Harbi and the French Benjamin Stora, who re-published six major books under one headline “An Algerian Memory” (Robert Laveau, 1088 pages).

The authors Mohamed Harbi and Benjamin Storia track the memory of the course of the Algerian revolution and the post-independence period in the book "An Algerian Memory" (Al-Jazeera)

The Naguib Sidi Moussa book is the first author to deal with the story of patriotic militants who remained loyal to Masali al-Hajj, and presents the program and ideology of their party. The importance of the work lies in exploring a large amount of unpublished archives, starting from the incomplete diaries of Moulay Merbah, who was a senior aide to Masali Al-Hajj, and a large number of meeting reports, sometimes noisy, to the followers of Masali.

The book also shows that the Algerian liberation movement was always pluralistic even if the "National Liberation Front" managed to lead the liberation scene and seize power after independence, according to the book.

Thus, what the book carries is not easy at a time when the Algerian regime, which is directly derived from that historical era, is facing widespread social and political mobility that erupted more than a year ago, and its final chapters have not been written yet.

The Communists split

Among the other losers in the Algerian war is the Algerian Communist Party, which, according to the author of the French article, needs to rebuild documented to monitor its controversial activities and positions before and during the liberation war.

The book "The Communists and Algeria 1920-1962" looks at the history of communism and the treatment of its French and Algerian parties with the colonial cause in Algeria (the island)

In his monumental work under the title "Communists and Algeria 1920-1962 ″", historical researcher Alain Rocio performed this mission with high accuracy and objectivity, showing that the Algerian Communists and their French counterparts differed since the early beginnings of the liberation movement in Algeria in the 1920s, where the first concern of the Algerians was to get rid Of colonialism, while the eyes of the French Communists were focused on the global struggle and the global revolution.

The fate of the Jews

In the book “The Year of the Fools, Algeria, 1943 ″, well-known French thinker Jacques Attaly traces the fate of the Jews who inhabited the country long before the French colonization of Algeria (1830).

The Year of the Fools, Algeria, 1943 by Jacques Attaly (Al Jazeera)

The decree of the French Minister of Justice, Isaac Cremayo, in 1870 granted French citizenship to the Jews of Algeria, which gave many of them great influence under the colonial powers, but they suffered again during the time of World War II under the law of the pro-Nazi Vichy government and subsequently lost their French citizenship granted under Crimeo Decree.

Nevertheless, French Jews did not join the camp of the struggle for Algerian independence from French colonialism, which would later lead them to share the fate of those known as the "black feet", the European settlers who inhabited or were born in Algeria during the French occupation of Algeria (1830-1962). , And who had to flee massively to France after Algeria's independence.