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Another policy is possible!

Chawki Salhi — 2011-04-24T04:47:11Z

Bouteflika has announced a small step backwards on his authoritarian course. The formidable mobilizations of students and youth, the massive strikes, the revolts of those in precarious employment and the unemployed, our struggles have forced Bouteflika to promise to reconsider his undemocratic policy and perhaps reverse the monarchical drift of state institutions.

- IV435 - April 2011 / Algeria, Arab Revolutions

Youth revolt shakes authoritarian order

Chawki Salhi — 2011-02-16T19:46:47Z

After a week, the riotous fires burnt out, leaving a feeling of bitterness, a taste of ashes. But the national scope of the revolts and the virtually total paralysis that resulted shook the existing authoritarian order and opened the possibility of qualitative changes in the political situation.

- IV433 - February 2011 / Algeria, Youth and student movements, Arab Revolutions

No to neoliberalism! No to the free market! For a politics that serves the needs of the people!

Chawki Salhi — 2011-01-19T11:51:57Z

Tipaza, Algiers, Oran, Djelfa, Batna, BéjaÃ¯a, Chlef, Bordj… the riots which spread throughout the country underline the failure of the policy followed for several decades and confirm that the choice of neoliberalism contradicts the meeting of the elementary needs of the popular masses.

- IV432 - January 2011 / Algeria, Arab Revolutions

Kabylia's unarmed insurrection

Chawki Salhi — 2001-07-16T00:00:00Z

For two months now the Kabylia area has been in a state of insurrection and recently revolts have broken out in ten cities in the east of the country, in particular Annaba and Constantine.

- IV333 - July 2001 / Algeria