Editing People's Democratic Republic of Algeria

{{Infobox country|name=People's Democratic Republic of Algeria|native_name=الجمهورية الجزائرية الديمقراطية الشعبية<br>ⵜⴰⴳⴷⵓⴷⴰ ⵜⴰⵎⴳⴷⴰⵢⵜ ⵜⴰⵖⵔⴼⴰⵏⵜ ⵜⴰⴷⵣⴰⵢⵔⵉⵢⵜ<br>République algérienne démocratique et populaire|image_flag=Flag of Algeria.png|image_coat=Emblem of Algeria.svg|capital=Algiers|mode_of_production=[[Capitalism]]|government_type=Unitary bourgeois republic|national_motto="By the people and for the people"|image_map=Algeria map.svg|image_map_size=250|common_languages=Arabic<br>Berber<br>French|religion=99% Sunni [[Islam]]<br>1% other|demonym=Algerian|area_km2=2,381,741|population_estimate=45,400,000|population_estimate_year=2022}}

'''Algeria''', officially the '''People's Democratic Republic of Algeria''', is a country located in North Africa. It is the largest country on the Mediterranean sea, the second largest on the African continent and the eleventh-largest country in the world in terms of land area. It is bordered by [[Tunisia]] in the northeast, [[Libya]] in the east, [[Niger]] in the southeast, [[Mali]] and [[Mauritania]] in the southwest, a few kilometers of the [[Kingdom of Morocco|Moroccan]]-occupied [[Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic|Western Sahara]] in the southwest, Morocco in the west and northwest, and the Mediterranean Sea in the north. Its size is almost 2,400,000 km<sup>2</sup> with an estimated population of 35,000,000. The capital of Algeria is Algiers. 

Algeria is a member of the [[United Nations]], [[African Union]], [[Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries|OPEC]] and the [[Arab League]]. It also contributed towards the creation of the [[Arab Maghreb Union|Maghreb Union]]. It was the home of [[Frantz Fanon]], the famous [[Anti-colonialism|anti-colonial]] writer.

==History==

=== French colonization ===
[[Kingdom of France (1814–1848)|France]] seized Algiers from the [[Ottoman Empire (1299–1922)|Ottoman Empire]] in 1830 and over the next four decades established its control over the rest of Algeria, making it a French [[Colonialism|colony]]. [[Slavery]] greatly expanded under the French occupation until its abolition in 1848.<ref name=":122">{{Citation|author=[[Domenico Losurdo]]|year=2011|title=Liberalism: A Counter-History|chapter=Crisis of the English and American Models|page=157|publisher=Verso|isbn=9781844676934|lg=https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=5BB3406BC2E64972831A1C00D5D4BFE4|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacebhsj2yxuoudkhkjp6lzgr5jvgyhu76zxe4gw3d65gpg32a6nded4?filename=Domenico%20Losurdo%2C%20Gregory%20Elliott%20-%20Liberalism_%20A%20Counter-History-Verso%20%282011%29.pdf}}</ref> The French locked two million Algerians in concentration camps.<ref name=":122223" /><sup>:125</sup>

=== Independence struggle ===
In 1945, French paratroopers violently disbanded the [[Friends of Liberty and the Manifesto]] and killed tens of thousands of Algerians. The [[National Liberation Front (Algeria)|National Liberation Front]] (FLN) formed in 1954 following a counterattack on the French.<ref>{{Citation|author=[[Vijay Prashad]]|year=2008|title=The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World|chapter=Paris|page=4–5|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>

Within three months, the population supported the independence movement. All Algerian political groups supported the FLN against the French, including [[Liberalism|liberals]] and [[Algerian Communist Party|communists]]. Between 300,000 and one million people died in the liberation war.<ref name=":122223">{{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><sup>:119–20</sup>

=== FLN government ===
Algeria achieved independence in 1962 under its first president, FLN leader [[Ahmed Ben Bella]]. From July to September 1962, factions of the FLN fought against each other until Colonel [[Houari Boumédiène]] entered Algiers to back Ben Bella. The government imprisoned the leadership of the Communist Party and the [[Party of the Socialist Revolution]]. In 1963, Algeria adopted a constitution that banned all political parties except the FLN. [[Hocine Aït Ahmed]] began an insurrection against the government.<ref name=":122223" /><sup>:123–24</sup> 

In March 1963, Ben Bella's government passed a set of laws allowing [[Proletariat|workers]] to take any vacant property and [[Workers' self-management|manage it themselves]]. The [[Peasantry|peasants]] took over three million hectares of land abandoned by French farmers. He also banned speculation. However, he soon required farms to take credit from the state. The bureaucracy relied on the [[petty bourgeoisie]] and grew to 100,000 members by 1964.<ref name=":122223" /><sup>:125–27</sup>

In 1964, after an assassination attempt against Ben Bella, the [[General Union of Algerian Workers|UGTA]] and [[National Union of Algerian Women|UNFA]] began a series of [[Strike action|strikes]] that led him to improve his relations with the Communist Party and [[Trade union|trade unionists]]. Soon after Boumédiène broke into Ben Bella's house and arrested him. He continued the [[nationalization]] of industry (especially oil) but gave much more power to the military and [[national bourgeoisie]] and suppressed the UGTA and ACP. After Boumédiène died, [[Chadli Bendjedid]] ruled another military government until 1992.<ref name=":122223" /><sup>:130–32</sup>

== References ==
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