https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Unrest-In-Algeria-The-Window-is-Closing-Fast https://internationalviewpoint.org/Unrest-In-Algeria-The-Window-is-Closing-Fast 2011-04-24T04:46:27Z text/html en Lakhdar Ghettas <p>“Algeria is ‘sitting on a volcano'.” We will continue to sift for opportunities to support reform, and should be prepared to offer our frank but private opinion of Algeria's progress along the way”. This was how David Pearce, the former U.S. ambassador to Algiers, concluded his report to the Department of State four days after the April 2009 presidential elections. An election which paved the way for a third term for Mr. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, following an amendment of the constitution, in November 2008, which removed the restriction on only two consecutive mandates. Algerians and close observers of Algerian affairs did not of course need Wikileaks cables to know that Algeria has been sitting on a volcano.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV435-April-2011-" rel="directory">IV435 - April 2011</a>