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Lyes Touati released, a victory for popular solidarity

Mhand Ouchene — 2026-03-04T22:07:06Z

Imprisoned for 59 days on unfounded charges, Algerian socialist activist Lyes Touati has been released after a broad mobilization, turning his case into a symbol of attacks on democratic freedoms.

- IVP614 - March 2026 / Algeria

The Algerian Regime: Incompetence, Inconsistency, Arrogance and Repression!

Nasser U Haddad — 2026-02-21T07:30:00Z

Early 2026 has been turbulent for the Algerian regime, marked by an accumulation of improvisations and tensions creating a state of alert. A series of social and political events have highlighted structural and latent contradictions in governmental affairs management that contradict the president's triumphalist rhetoric.

- IVP613 - February 2026 / Algeria

Lyes is freed!

Collective — 2026-02-12T10:52:17Z

After 59 days of unjust imprisonment, Lyes Touati has finally been acquitted - 59 days of waiting, mobilization, solidarity and determination.

- News from around the world / Algeria

Mohammed Harbi (1933-2026): Participant in and Historian of the Algerian Revolution

Alex de Jong — 2026-01-15T14:24:01Z

“[Harbi's] death on the first day of 2026 means the passing of one of the last eyewitnesses of one of the great anticolonial struggles and the loss of an incisive historian.”

- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / France, Obituary, Algeria

Against arbitrariness and repression: Freedom for our comrade Lyes Touati!

Mahmoud Rechedi — 2025-12-23T09:05:58Z

“Although he is outraged and indignant at his arbitrary imprisonment, he has not lost his legendary smile despite the deep sense of injustice [hogra in Arabic].”

- News from around the world / Algeria

Freedom for Lyes Touati and all political prisoners

NPA-l'Anticapitaliste (NPA-A) — 2025-12-16T20:10:31Z

Lyes Touati, a member of the Parti Socialiste des Travailleurs (PST), was arrested yesterday in Aokas (Algeria) and remanded in custody. We do not know the reasons for his arrest or the charges against him.

- News from around the world / Algeria

Petition to lift the block on the defence of Samir Larabi's doctoral thesis

Collective — 2025-12-08T17:15:19Z

Samir LARABI, a doctoral student in the Sociology Department of Abderahmane Mira University in Béjaia (Algeria), has been subjected to repeated obstructions for 29 months, following abusive refusals by the rectoral administration to allow him to defend his doctoral thesis. Validated by his research supervisor, the validity of his thesis has been confirmed three times by the scientific bodies of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Despite validation by the faculty's Scientific Committee of the changes imposed by the rectoral administration, the latter persists in refusing to allow him to defend his thesis.

- News from around the world / Algeria

Algerian feminists at the frontiers of solidarity

Amel Hadjadj — 2025-10-24T05:55:18Z

“On that day, in the midst of repression, we learned that international feminist solidarity is a bulwark against barbarism, a source of hope and a weapon against oppression.”

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Palestine, Women, Algeria

Lyes sentenced to six months in prison in Algeria

Collective — 2025-10-09T10:48:36Z

“Algeria is experiencing a situation where the regime has entered, since the Hirak, a repressive and authoritarian spiral that is intended to be “transitional”, hence the “suspension” of the parties that are considered as trouble-makers (notably the PST) and not the banning of them. But the regime does not emerge from its internal contractions: each negation opens onto another negation. It reacts with intermittent repression, like a sword of Damocles.”

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Algeria

Michel Raptis, the struggle for Algeria and the risks of solidarity

Alex de Jong — 2025-08-20T12:09:24Z

The June 1960 arrests of Michel ‘Pablo' Raptis and his Dutch comrade Sal Santen in Amsterdam triggered a series of revelations regarding the Algeria-solidarity of Fourth International members. Together with a small number of comrades Raptis and Santen organised material support for the Algerian struggle against French colonialism. One aspect of this work was especially controversial: the plan to counterfeit money. The ‘Raptis and Santen case' led to fierce conflicts within the leadership of (…)

- Features / Fourth International, Algeria, Historical events and figures