Editing Ahmed Ben Bella

{{Infobox revolutionary|name=Ahmed Ben Bella|native_name=أحمد بن بلّة|image_size=200|birth_date=26 December 1916|birth_place=Maghnia, [[French Republic (1870–1940)|French]]-occupied Algeria|death_date=11 April 2012|death_place=Algiers, [[Algeria]]|political_orientation=[[Left-wing]] [[nationalism]]|political_party=[[National Liberation Front (Algeria)|NLF]]|image=Ahmed Ben Bella.jpg}}

'''Ahmed Ben Bella''' (26 December 1916 – 11 April 2012) was an Algerian revolutionary and the first leader of independent Algeria.<ref name=":12222">{{Citation|author=[[Vijay Prashad]]|year=2008|title=The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World|chapter=Algiers|page=|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzaceascnzh26r5d6uitjjs2z7rflhaxlt7rboz5whzdf76qg6xxvecqq?filename=%28A%20New%20Press%20People%27s%20history%29%20Vijay%20Prashad%20-%20The%20darker%20nations_%20a%20people%27s%20history%20of%20the%20third%20world-The%20New%20Press%20%282008%29.pdf|publisher=The New Press|isbn=9781595583420|lg=https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=9B40B96E830128A7FE0E0E887C06829F}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Ben Bella was born on a small farm near the [[Kingdom of Morocco|Moroccan]] border. He fought in the [[Second World War]], where he was commended by [[Charles de Gaulle]].<ref name=":12222" /><sup>:119</sup>

== Independence struggle ==
Ben Bella joined the [[national liberation]] movement in 1945 after the [[French Republic (1946–1958)|French]] massacred peaceful protestors in Sétif. He joined [[Messali Hadj]]'s [[Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties]] and created an armed wing, which led to his imprisonment. After being released, he and eight other revolutionaries created the FLN. They began an open armed struggle on 1 November 1958 after the French defeat at Điện Biên Phủ.<ref name=":12222" /><sup>:119–20</sup>

== Presidency ==
In March 1963, under [[Trotskyism|Trotskyist]] influence, Ben Bella passed a series of laws that would let workers take over vacant property and manage it themselves. He appointed [[Ali Mahsas]], a former member of the MTLD, to oversee agrarian reform.<ref name=":12222" /><sup>:125</sup> [[Hocine Ahmad Aït|Ahmad Aït]]'s forces tried to assassinate Ben Bella on 31 March 1964. Following a series of [[Strike action|strikes]], Ben Bella democratized the state and improved relations with the [[Algerian Communist Party|ACP]]. He received the Lenin Prize on 19 June 1965. On the same day, his former ally [[Houari Boumédiène]] overthrew him.<ref name=":12222" /><sup>:130</sup>

== References ==
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 '''Ahmed Ben Bella''' (26 December 1916 – 11 April 2012) was an Algerian revolutionary and the first leader of independent Algeria.<ref name=":12222">{{Citation|author=[[Vijay Prashad]]|year=2008|title=The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World|chapter=Algiers|page=|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzaceascnzh26r5d6uitjjs2z7rflhaxlt7rboz5whzdf76qg6xxvecqq?filename=%28A%20New%20Press%20People%27s%20history%29%20Vijay%20Prashad%20-%20The%20darker%20nations_%20a%20people%27s%20history%20of%20the%20third%20world-The%20New%20Press%20%282008%29.pdf|publisher=The New Press|isbn=9781595583420|lg=https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=9B40B96E830128A7FE0E0E887C06829F}}</ref>
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 [[Category:Anti-imperialists]]
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